Children enjoy creativity month

Over the course of this week the innovative Derry based dance company are running a series of four workshops in their studios on Magazine Street to which they have invited around two hundred children from eight different primary schools. For each session a class from a local primary school will join with a class from a different primary school to watch a special improvised performance by the professional Echo Echo ensemble of dancers. The two classes will then take part in a workshop especially devised by the Echo Echo team in which the children are encouraged to be creative in their movement and improvise in dance together. Each workshop will be accompanied with live guitar and improvised percussion from Mark O’Doherty from the up and coming band Little Bear. The schools taking part are Model, Rosemount, Steelstown, Gailscoil, Fountain, Longtower,

Nazareth House and St Eugenes. This project forms one of the many exciting events, workshops and conferences which have taken place in the month of March as part of DCAL’s creativity week. Their varied programme has been devised especially to stimulate new thinking and collaborations and to tackle economic and social challenges in Northern Ireland.

Echo Echo’s Development Officer, Anna Nolan, said: “We are so pleased to be further developing our relationship with the surrounding primary schools.

This project offers the perfect opportunity for children to build confidence through dance and movement and also make new friends in other schools.”

Echo Echo is supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland. If you would like to get involved in Echo Echo’s wide and varied programme or want further information please do not hesitate to contact us on 028 71308883