Welcome to DYDC
Dublin Youth Dance Company, Ireland’s premiere contemporary youth-dance group that strives for excellence and high standards. The main aims of the DYDC are to offer talented young dancers an opportunity to participate in the creation, production and performance of contemporary dance works at the highest-level of expertise.
DYDC was initiated by DTI Artistic Directors Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick who approached then Company Member/dancer JJ Formento to lead a Youth Dance Company to be based at Dance Theatre of Ireland’s Centre for Dance. The Dublin Youth Dance Company was founded to give young people the opportunity to engage in training, creating and performing dance on an ongoing basis. In the year 2000, JJ Formento formed a group and set up the foundations of DYDC.
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9th Irish Youth Dance Festival
The Irish Youth Dance Festival celebrates its 9th edition the next 4th and 5th of July.
A meeting among the finest young dancers from a broad range of dance styles including, contemporary, ballet and aerial dance.
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Mariam Ribón
Mariam has been the Artistic Director of the DYDC and the Irish Youth Dance Festival since 2003. She has choreographed for The Dublin Dance Festival, The College of Dance, Sallynoggin VEC and Inchicore Core Dance Company.
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Irish Youth Dance Festival
Find out more about the Irish Youth Dance Festival at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire.
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