We are back! The first workshop of the term will be led by Nóra Fay! The workshop will take place on Saturday 3rd October, 11am-1pm, at 3 Great Denmark Street (Google Maps Link). 

The entrance to Great Denmark Street is pictured below! There will be a buzzer with a DYT label on it that you can ring, and we’ll buzz you in (remember to say your name!)

 

Physical Theatre

In this workshop, we’ll play with physical theatre, slapstick comedy and clowning methods to explore different ways of embodying characters. Using movement direction and humor to get comfortable in finding a new physical vocabulary.

Let us know if you will be attending the workshop HERE.

 

NAF Dance is led by performer and choreographer Nóra Ní Anluain Fay. Her work lies in the bridge between dance and theatre fusing music, text and film. Dance is always the primary driving force of the work but there is no hierarchy between the remaining mediums resulting in theatrical explosions that highlight the magic in the mundane and marry tragedy and humour. 

Her first piece, ‘Let Them Eat Cake,’ was selected to represent the Netherlands in Szoloduo Festival 2022, Budapest. This cemented the tone and movement language of the work she makes and produces through NAF Dance.

It pulses with physical theatre, slapstick comedy and a natural grooviness that marries the literal and the abstract to allow audiences in. There is a beautiful harmony between tears and laughter which is the line she strives to walk. The exterior language is sprinkled with a layer of whimsy, magic and a highly romanticised and cinematic lens.

Her debut production which she choreographed and co-starred in, ‘Ham Sandwiches and Discipline,’ toured festivals nationally and internationally in 2024 and was nominated for 3 Dublin Fringe Awards. It had a summer Fit-Up Festival tour and a National Tour in autumn 2025. In 2026 it toured festivals including Beyond the Pale and Projects as well as Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Culture Ireland Showcase.

Her latest piece ‘Please Break my Heart,’ premiered at Dublin Fringe 2026 with a sold out run and a 5 star review from For The Plot Magazine.

She is currently developing an Irish language work in collaboration with an Taibhdhearc theatre, Moulin Belle France and Culture Moves Europe. 

From shows based on reality television, party small talk politics, growing up, what royalty do when no is looking, school exams, longing for heartbreak, wanting to be Cinderella and sporting culture. NAF Dance’s camp, disco productions have toured across Europe unleashing infectious joy and welcoming whole new audiences to dance.