Join Galway Dance on Thursday 5th June 2025 at Nuns Island Theatre for a showcase of three dance performances and work in progress showings. Momentum will showcase some of the dance talent in Galway city and county and the west coast. The showcase begins at 7pm and will run until approximately 8:30pm, including a Q&A session after the performances.

This event is for anyone who would like to find out a bit more about dance in Galway. Featuring different genres of dance styles and practices, this event promises to be a fun and accessible way to enjoy dance.

Momentum will feature three separate, short showings of dance work.

About the duet:

Stephanie and Sophie’s collaboration began in East Clare in 2021. Their ever-evolving duet explores dance as a physical

language, with each meeting leaving them changed. Moving between the verbal and nonverbal, along with rhythm, dissonance, and electronic sound, their practices meet at a creative crossroads, converging in a rich, sometimes wordless dialogue. The duet serves as a testing ground for how movement can express the unspoken, mapping their shared emotional and physical journey. Recently, they began working with musician Roís, whose soundscape deepens the evolving conversation between the two dancers.

Choreographed and performed by:

Stephanie Keane is an Irish dance artist, from Limerick, Ireland. She is a dance performer, choreographer, filmmaker and theatre maker. Immersed in Irish dance for over 40 years, she continues to evolve as a dancer and creator of dance, through exploring and developing contemporary dance practices, music production techniques and sound & visual design tools. Sound exploration and the musicality of traditional Irish dance is at the root of her dance practice.

Sophie Hutchinson is a dance artist from Waterford who moved west in 2021. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and has created and performed with dance theatre companies across Europe, as well as independently with musicians, visual artists, and poets.
Passionate about learning, sharing, and connection, Sophie’s body-centred practice explores the intersection of the natural and digital through film and live performance—continually asking how dance can nurture presence, agency, and creative belonging in an ever-shifting world.

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This showcase is supported by the Arts Council, Galway City Council, Galway County Council and the Town Hall Theatre in collaboration with the Galway Arts Centre/Nuns Island Theatre. 

More information and booking here