Maiden Voyage Dance
Maiden Voyage is an artist-led commissioning company offering discoveries in dance with, by, and for, artists, audiences and participants.
Tell us a bit about what your company does.
We commission and produce distinctive dance performances across three strands; Maiden Belfast theatre venue-based performances; Dance Exposed short new works for public space; and Off Spring new work for young and family audiences.
We offer professional development and specialist training for the dance sector including regular prodance classes, intensives and mentoring.
Our learning and participation programme is closely aligned to the company’s artistic output and also currently includes the Belfast Movement Choir programme funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Move Fit a physical and mental health & well-being programme for primary schools funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.
Maiden Voyage is funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council.
When did you become part of The Crescent's Creative Hub?
May 2019.
Do you have a special relationship to The Crescent? / What is your story with The Crescent?
Maiden Voyage have a long history with The Crescent with the majority of company rehearsals and professional classes taking place there over the past 20 years.
Maiden Voyage production 'Quartet for 15 Chairs' by Enrique Cabrera - Image by Luca Truffarelli
Maiden Voyage production 'Each For Other' by Jack Webb - Image by Joe Fox Photography
Maiden Voyage production 'BRINK' by Eileen McClory - Image by Luca Truffarelli
