At Home With Irish Arts Center | CoisCéim Dance Theatre: The Wolf and Peter

CoisCéim Dance Theatre is one of Ireland’s leading dance companies. Led by David Bolger, they aim to be at the forefront of the evolution of dance as an artform—in world class performance work, in unique access and participation initiatives, as an advocate for dance—to provoke, inspire, entertain, and bring contemporary dance theatre to new audiences of all ages. 
 
Integrated, original and comprehensive, CoisCéim’s artform awareness and participation initiatives are run by CoisCéim BROADREACH. Founded on the principle that dance is a performing art, its activities are pioneering, targeting all sections of the population in an exciting and innovative manner to create a genuine curiosity in dance and to positively influence health, wellbeing, and social responsibility. Central to their ethos is to facilitate and enable people to work inventively and imaginatively together—to take creative risks and explore the unknown—and to challenge and enjoy themselves.
 
CoisCéim BROADREACH is proud to be funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and supported by Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland. 

Philippa Donnellan is a professional dance artist, choreographer, and arts facilitator based in Dublin. As the director of CoisCéim BROADREACH from 2006-2020, she developed a range of creative and educational residencies and partnerships with leading Irish institutions, and devised and delivered many inspiring projects with different communities in Dublin and across Ireland—including an annual performance project for people aged 50+ for the Bealtaine festival that brought together three different departments in Dublin City Council (2007 -2015) and leading the youth dance theatre group Creative Steps. Other key BROADREACH projects included Creative Dance Tales, 38 Women, and more recently, Off the Walls, Emily, Shoreline, Alight!, and the EXIT15 commission.