Aoife McGrath
@aoifepea
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Professor of Dance at Queen’s University Belfast. Mom. Choreographer.
Louth, Ireland
Joined November 2013
Milo and I would like to share some hair-raising news from a windy beach in Louth… I’ve been promoted to full Professor @qub_ael from August 1st💃I am so incredibly grateful to all the stellar mentors, research collaborators & students who helped get me here ❤️ what an honour 🥹
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💃🕺 Dance teachers across Ireland working with children—your voice matters! Share your views in our survey on inclusive dance for young people with disabilities. 👉 https://t.co/ov1dbUTxDt
@McConnellPhysio @CKerrPhysio @aoifepea @theatredanceni @DanceIreland @IADMS
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Delighted to have the Dance Connects and Dance Conversations projects featured by @comartspartner for the July dance edition. Wonderful to see local dance communities celebrated 🥳 thanks to Dr Argyro Tsampazi and Tina McGurren ❤️@QUBelfast @cavanarts @DanceIreland @ucddublin
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2025 is well underway for Belfast Boys who closed last Friday's AHRC Critical Dance Pedagogy Network event @QUBelfast. With an energetic & fun-filled performance from the boys, there was no better way to showcase the power and joy of dance! 🙏@aoifepea for inviting us along.
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Sutemos had a ball in Limerick this weekend with partner organisation @DanceLimerick working with @VDurrer & @aoifepea. The group is part of the Youth Dance Matters research, a collaboration between @QUBelfast & @ucddublin. 🙏all for the experience & treating us so wonderfully.
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Open Call reminder: Closing this Friday December 6th!
🌟 Dance Ireland Residencies – Spring/Summer 2025 Open Call! 🌟 🕺 Fully subsidised studio space 💶 €750 stipend 🎭 Optional studio showing 🔹 Extra support for artists 75km+ from Dublin & Disabled Dance Artists. ⏳ Apply by 12pm, 6 Dec 2024 👉 Details: https://t.co/t1RhH0EBiP
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Looking forward to being in conversation @TheMACBelfast tomorrow with the wonderful Joanna Banks about her incredible dance career🤩 Some tickets left for the talk, but the masterclass is sold out 🌟 https://t.co/yjMDcnGkKK
theatreanddanceni.org
Creative Company darach9 will next weekend present’ A Day with Joanna’ as the legendary Joanna Banks ballet master joins the company on a visit to Belfast on Sunday 1 December 2024. Dublin based...
darach9 presents Live In Conversation with Joanna Banks! Join us tomorrow as ballet legend Joanna Banks takes us on a journey in her conversation with Professor Aoife McGrath. 1 December | 1pm | Tickets: https://t.co/Xb6OoSWwp1 (please note the ballet class is sold out!)
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Panel 1 is underway, led by Professor Sinéad Ryan Dean of Research @tcddublin, exploring the power of research collaboration across a shared island. @DeptofFHed #SharedIsland #NSRP
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Delighted to speak at the inaugural @hea_irl #NSRP conference tomorrow, sharing experiences that @VDurrer and I have had co-leading the Youth Dance Matters project in collaboration w/ our wonderful youth dance partners. Excited to hear about other N/S projects @QUBResearchAHSS
The North South Research Programme Conference is almost here! Taking place 28 November at Croke Park, it will showcase cross-border research partnerships funded by the NSRP across the island of Ireland and the nurturing of talent of early career researchers. #SharedIsland #NSRP
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.@luaildance - Ireland’s National Company announces foundational partnership with Belfast’s @MaidenVoyageNI. The launch will take place on 6th November at @TheMACBelfast marking a momentous occasion for dance for artists and audiences in #NorthernIreland. Read more 👇
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huge thx to the @IrishHumanities conf organisers for allowing @aoifepea, Argyro Tsampazi & I to share our @creativeirl / @cavanarts funded Sites of Significance research on the scope & exps of dance facilitation in @cavancoco @fermanaghomagh. Full report:
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Registration is open for our final seminar for the @ahrcpress International Parenting and Dance Network at @TexasTech 🥳 you can join us in-person or online 🙌 Booking here 👇
Are you a dance researcher? Are you a practitioner? Do you care about progress being made for parents who dance? Then come and join us! BOOK NOW for our final seminar of three is FREE and being held hybrid @TexasTech (whoot!) https://t.co/pRmeAU8yXv
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This looks fantastic 🤩 congrats @VDurrer and colleagues 🥳
Exploring the experiences and value of researcher-practitioner collaborations for Cultural Policy Actions towards Urban Sustainability, delighted to share this City, Culture & Society co-edited Special issue w/ @rikesitas, Nancy Duxbury @ces_uc, & me https://t.co/eryTLh0F0T
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#jobfairy Digital Media Artist Part-time position with @DramaQub as part of #SharedIsland @creativeirl #DanceConnects collaborative project - join a creative research team led by @aoifepea @VDurrer closing date 15th July #creativecommunities
Job! Part-time project post @DramaQub for a Digital Media Artist to join our @creativeirl Dance Connects creative team. Working w/ @cavanarts & @VDurrer & designing an interactive movement installation @qub_ael with me! Closing: 15th July. Please share 🙏 https://t.co/H7OaTMXIn8
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I’m working on this project as sound designer and they are now looking for a Digital Media Artist to come on board to design an interactive movement installation ✨ Job application details below. They are such a gorgeous creative team to be working with ❤️
Job! Part-time project post @DramaQub for a Digital Media Artist to join our @creativeirl Dance Connects creative team. Working w/ @cavanarts & @VDurrer & designing an interactive movement installation @qub_ael with me! Closing: 15th July. Please share 🙏 https://t.co/H7OaTMXIn8
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Amazing opportunity! Check this out…
Job! Part-time project post @DramaQub for a Digital Media Artist to join our @creativeirl Dance Connects creative team. Working w/ @cavanarts & @VDurrer & designing an interactive movement installation @qub_ael with me! Closing: 15th July. Please share 🙏 https://t.co/H7OaTMXIn8
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Job! Part-time project post @DramaQub for a Digital Media Artist to join our @creativeirl Dance Connects creative team. Working w/ @cavanarts & @VDurrer & designing an interactive movement installation @qub_ael with me! Closing: 15th July. Please share 🙏 https://t.co/H7OaTMXIn8
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✨ Celebrated the launch of "The ‘Female’ Dancer: A soma-scientific approach" @claireLfarmer @helenkindred @routledgebooks Proud to co-author 'Sustaining a dance career as a parent' with @dancepedagogy 📚 (🔗 in bio) Essential read for all dancers! #DanceMama #DanceResearch
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Theatre academic friends - reminder that the full-time post in Applied Theatre @qub_ael is closing soon! We’re really looking forward to having a new colleague to join us @DramaQub and yes- the campus really is that beautiful 😍 https://t.co/lkU2mosJee
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Searching for a researcher to support us and our partners. Barriers to Progression & Employment for disabled people in dance Closing date Today 5pm https://t.co/rvblEqwfeG
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