BRENDAN O'CONNOR DANCE

BIG BIOGRAPHY 

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Brendan O’Connor – Dancer/performer

Brendan graduated at the College of Dance, Monks town, and accepted to the Laban Centre London

and the Fontys Dance Academy in the Netherlands. Brendan continued with his own unique work, which linked him to opportunities various dance companies in The Netherlands, as well as some of the leading dance companies in Ireland such as Dance Theatre of Ireland and Modern Irish Dance Theatre. His past works include Exodus, and Grand Junction, Dance Theatre Ireland.  In 2006 he danced in a film for Irish television in apiece called Buail choreographed by John Scott founder of the Modern Irish Dance Theatre.

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In 2006 Brendan New Delhi experience began where he taught and also choreographed a piece called Life Is A Dance with the young people of the  Kathputili Colony in shadipur. the following year after been so inspired he  choreographed a second piece for the Kathputli Colony  called 'Life Goes On'. Brendan danced in 'Chain Of Collaboration' for Festival Mundial and performed in Netherlands and the National Theatre of Dance in Ghana, Africa.

Since arriving in Melbourne  Brendan has performed as a soloist and as member of the TYC dance company numerous pieces; In 2009- 2018 at Melaka Arts and Performance (MAP) Festival, Malaysia. and In The Arts Island Festival; At the mining exchange Ballarat in the Eulogy for the living; and Winter Filament, Federation square. Working with Cherl Stock in an international collaboration called Naik Naik in Malaysia. Brendan has per- formed in a series of duets with Tony Yap including 'Metanoia Illuminations', Bendigo; 'Little Con', Dancehouse Melbourne; and 'mascuLINES', Critical Path, Sydney, ‘Stillness’ in New Delhi India. In April 2014 Brendan was in a trio performance called the Butcher Boys with Tony yap and Jessie Lewis at the last ever events in the Patterson building, Melbourne. In September 2015 Brendan just finished and performed a three-stage major creative development, 'Dionysus Molecule' in collaboration with and under the mentorship of Tony Yap, Rob Meldrum, with visual media and sound artist, Khaled Sabsabi and Tim Humphrey. He has worked with musician Ruben Lewis in the federation square project called Amber June 2015. Following the piece "Amber" Tony,Reuben and Brendan have worked continued to collaborate and created more  pieces over  the last years  such as "stillness" "A Gaze" and  now "love Fall".

These  pieces have been performed in both in Austraila and overseas in Europe and in Malyasia at the Malacca arts and performance festival and in New Dehli at Manger arts and performance festival.

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