We are delighted to announce the recipients of our 2025 Síolta Residency Programme:
Genevieve Ryan
Fionnuala Doyle Wade
Nóra Ní Anluain Fay
Subhashini Goda
Síolta Residency Programme aims to seed new work and new connections. Síolta aims to build relationships with artists based across Ireland. This residency is a unique opportunity for creation and research, empowering artists of all career stages to immerse themselves fully in their artistic processes.
We ask selected artists to engage with our vibrant local dance community by sharing their work through informal showings followed by interactive Q&A sessions in our studio and/or hosting morning classes or workshops during their residency – so watch this space.
ABOUT THE RECIPIENTS
Fionnuala Doyle-Wade
Fionnuala Doyle-Wade will be spending time integrating the tools & methods of creating/collaborating learned during her participation in Luail’s Moving in Collaboration intensive & begin R & D for one of the ideas that emerged during the intensive. She is currently entitling this work ‘this is what the world feels like (to us)’, she imagines the piece will use a large wardrobe of thrifted clothes alongside sculptural & repetitive gestures & sound, & highly physical movement to explore themes of chaos, identity, & resilience in a world whose systems are in crisis. She will work alone & with a musical collaborator.
Subhashini Goda
I’ll be taking this time at my residency for the formative research and development of a new work that investigates the entanglement of personal identity, mass consumption, and cultural memory through movement and textile. Drawing on textile history particularly from South Asia, and my movement system, bharatanatyam, I am looking at developing the beginnings to a full-length work that will unfold as a post-postmodern, indo-futuristic ‘ritual’. Apart from this, I’m also looking to connect and learn from the local dance network, and make space for interdisciplinary interactions.
Genevieve Ryan
During this residency, I am exploring memory, transformation, and intergenerational care. Through movement research, I aim to develop a more defined vocabulary and structural clarity that can shape my early ideas into a shareable draft. My work investigates how personal and collective histories live in the body, and how gestures of care across generations can embody both resilience and change. This time also allows me to re-center my artistic voice and establish a sustainable practice that weaves together my roles as artist, teacher, and caregiver.
Nóra Ní Anluain Fay
I was awarded a DLR and Creative Ireland Award to create a reimagined version of my piece ‘Ham Sandwiches and Discipline,’ through film. A camp, comedy, disco duet about the world of the GAA which was first created in Galway Dance. I’ll spend this residency diving back into the language and tone of the work and explore how we can capture its essence on screen.
I’m very hungry to see what will happen to my work when I translate it to a different medium, live performance to film. I’m curious what I’ll gain from it and if it has the potential to shift how I make work.
