The wondrous Christmas show is taking a sabbatical this year, it’s been a wild five years, magic things happened, tickets sold out, audiences were loving it, performers were having a great time…but sometimes energy runs out, money definitely runs out, and what was new and exciting gets a little safe. Maybe it was one of […]
Permalink•••Have a plethora of performances coming up… Quickfire Comedy – July 1st at 3pm in Black Box Belfast Comedy Lab: Quickfire Comedy Maevefest – July 1st at 9pm. Ramelton Town Hall, Donegal. MCing this brill night at the end of a brill day for a brill cause in honour of a brill woman! Say no […]
Permalink•••Earagail Arts Festival are delighted to commission the international, award-winning ponydance to produce a new work inspired by the stories, anecdotes and fabulous tales of the people of Inishowen, culminating in a performance in Malin Village on July 8th and 9th. Come join Leoniepony in a two hour intensive workshop exploring ways of devising theatre, sharing stories […]
Permalink•••Well, how the time flies! It’s a quarter way into 2017 already and beavering away at projects happening this year, but let’s have a quick recap of 2016. ‘Ponies Don’t Play Football’ filled a transformed St Martin’s Church for a magical Tuesday night in March. We did two shows, packed each one and it was […]
Permalink•••We’ve been invited to perform at British Dance Edition! Brilliant news, chuffed, the only company from Northern Ireland performing and one of the minority of female choreographers…more about that again. www.britishdanceedition.com So we are gonna perform it in Belfast, two shows on one night, Tuesday 15th March at 7pm and 9pm. Email me to reserve […]
Permalink•••Another interesting year in ponyland. I can’t remember what happened in January, recovering from panto no doubt and February was quiet too. There was definitely a week spent in Cork working with Croi Glan, in fact there were many weeks over the year, spent in Cork with Croi Glan, praise be. March, April, May were […]
Permalink•••I remember seeing Croi Glan for the first time in 2010, in the Dance House Theatre Studio performing ‘This Is’. And I remember thinking ‘by heck, this is marvellous, why would you want to look at boring regular bodies when you could be looking at these, weird, wonky bodies!’ Now I realise that the use […]
Permalink•••Well we are home again and in one piece. All 16 of us! Six musicians, four dancers, a floating performer, a technician, an apprentice and three hot girlfriends. The difference between the first show and last was remarkable. A leap from dismal to dazzling. This show biz is a right ol’ rollercoaster. I still haven’t […]
Permalink•••It’s back for the third year in a row and already selling like hot cakes. We have our biggest and most stellar cast of dancers to date. Great Special Guests lined up this year including Sara Ski, Star Man, Paul Currie, Brian O’Connell, Rachael Lindsay and moooooooorrrrrrre.And almost more exciting than all our special guests […]
Permalink•••It’s been busy in ponyland, but here are the highlights: Janurary, we represented at the British Dance Edition in Scotland. April, we had a week’s workshop with legend Ira Seidenstein and then we went to Zimbabwe, performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts wah! Yea we did and it rocked. May, we brought […]
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The ever industrious ponydance, champions of comedy dance theatre, have performed to less than ten people in parish halls and over ten thousand people in the Aviva Stadium. Based in Ireland and Northern Ireland, touring the world and drinking tea, ponydance are good looking, funny, charming and now, award winning. What’s not to like? If you want to know more, feel free to message us…