WORKSHOPS –  Roscommon Arts Centre – Wednesdays 14th & 21st May

We’re inviting the community to be part of our very special Bealtaine dance programme as part of Miss Mary, to share your stories and be part of the creative process.
Come join us in dance workshops to celebrate the tradition of dancing at crossroads. These workshops will inform this new show, Miss Mary, which you are invited to on Saturday May 24th at The Square, Roscommon Town.

If you would like Kristyn to come directly to your group to provide a workshop between May 12th- 23rd please contact the arts centre directly on artscentre@roscommoncoco.ie or call the arts centre on 090 662 5824

Workshops are free – registration required

PERFORMANCE – The Square, Roscommon Town – Saturday May 24th

For a very special outdoor dance performance, join Miss Mary, as she traces the footsteps of the traveling dance masters of Ireland, to meet at the crossroads and dance. Miss Mary asks where did you come from, how do you move, and will you dance with me? Come share your story and join Miss Mary.
She is migratory, as the masters before her. To her, the land is a journey. She arrives at a gathering of people to exchange, listen, and learn stories and steps of the past, intimately connecting with the audience and land. Memories inhabit people, traditional music inhabits the land.

Miss Mary is co-produced by Roscommon Arts Centre with support from the Bealtaine touring award, additional support from Roscommon Arts Office & County Council, Backstage Theatre, Longford, and An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk.

As a choreographer/dance artist Kristyn Fontanella focuses her past knowledge of Irish step dancing and presents it in a contemporary context. Having toured for over 12 years with Riverdance, Lord of the Dance and as lead soloist in Gaelforce Dance, her current mission is to show another side of the complex world of Irish Step dancing to future generations.