Studio Songs by Daughter Of A Drum – Music | Dance | Artist Talk
Studio Songs by Daughter Of A Drum – Music | Dance | Artist Talk
October 17 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm IST
A workshop and performance by multidisciplinary artist Aoife Ó Tiompánaigh, presented as part of the inaugural Smashing Times Artist Residency Programme.
The residency provides time, space and support for research, experimentation and development of artistic practice, with the public event forming part of the artist’s creative exploration. Aoife is a multidisciplinary artist working in contemporary dance, choreography, filmmaking, music and education.
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Aoife Ó Tiompánaigh, dancer/choreographer, musician, and teacher
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Join us for a special afternoon performance with our local Artist In Residence Aoife Ó Tiompánaigh as she shares songs from her debut album ‘Pink Breath’ plus a sneak peak of new music for her upcoming project ‘The Batter’. The focus of the residency programme is to support new mothers continuing a creative practice. Since the summer, Aoife has been working in the Smashing Times studio over several weeks – songwriting, learning Sean Nós dance and exchanging with other artists. This event promises to be a rich and rare opportunity to experience songs, dances and inspiring conversion.
Smashing Times Artist Residency Programme 2026
Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to implement the inaugural Smashing Times Artist Residency Programme in 2026. Aoife McAtamney is currently doing an Artist Residency with the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights at 30 Sandycove Road, Dublin from April to October 2026. The aim of the Artist Residency is to provide time, space and support to develop, research, experiment, and advance artistic practice. As part of the artist residency, Aoife is taking time and space to support her artistic practice, to start writing and to present a public performance of her work.
Smashing Times Arts & Human Rights Radio Show on Dublin South FM
Features reflection by Mary Moynihan on war and peace followed by a Guest Artist Interview with
multidisciplinary artist Aoife McAtamney
For an in-depth interview with Aoife McAtamney on her artistic work and creative practice, listen to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show broadcast
The Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio show (first broadcast on Wednesday 10 and 16 June 6-7pm and now available as a podcast) features a reflection by Mary Moynihan on war and peace. Global military spending now exceeds €3 trillion every year. Who benefits and where is the equivalent investment in peace? Instead of spending 1.7 billion on defence, should the Irish government spend this money on housing, job creation and peace? Why can billions be found for war spending while poverty homelessness, wealth inequality and climate breakdown continue to worsen? These are the debates we need to have in Irish society and the media. Artist Mary Moynihan says ‘Ireland can be a leading voice for peace. Defend our neutrality, defend the Triple lock and challenge the growing influence of military and corporate interests on public policy and governments. As our former president Michael D. Higgins said, we need to ‘make space for peace.’
This is followed by a guest artist interview with Aoife McAtamney, a multidisciplinary artist working with contemporary dance, choreography, filmmaking, music and education. Aoife is Artistic Director of Daughter Of A Drum, and a part of Choreography Connects, a CoisCéim artist-led residency project. Aoife is currently doing an Artist Residency with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at 30 Sandycove Road, Dublin.
The Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio show is broadcast every Wednesday 6-7pm with Dublin South FM with each episode available as a podcast. Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie. All past episodes can be listened to here.
Artist Biographies:
Aoife Ó Tiompánaigh is a choreographer, dancer, musician and teacher based in Dublin. Aoife trained in London Contemporary Dance School and on the D.A.N.C.E Across programme as an apprentice to choreographers William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Angelin Preljocaj and Frederic Flamand.
As a choreographer, she has been the recipient of numerous prizes and bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, Kildare County Council, DLR Arts Office and Culture Ireland. Including residencies at Cultural Centre Irlandais, DanceIreland as Associate Artist and Dance Artist in Residency at Mermaid Arts Centre. Aoife was Ireland’s first female Aerowaves artist as part of the 2014 cohort with her solo Softer Swells that subsequently toured internationally for nine years including 92Y in New York to La Briqueterie in Vitrysur-Seine and the Instances festival in Chalon-sur-Saône.
From 2022 – 2024, Aoife was one of six artists in the transnational residency programme CHOREOGRAPHY CONNECTS that brought together CoisCéim Dance Theatre in Ireland, Operaestate in Italy and Le Gymnase CDCN in France, supporting her latest work Pink Breath The Visual Sister commission by Project Arts Centre for Project Portal premiering at Dublin International Film Festival 2026.
Aoife graduated with an MA (1st) in Songwriting from the University Of Limerick in 2020 and regularly shares her sound and movement practice through workshops at Solstice Arts Centre, University of Limerick, DanceIreland and with coaching casts including LUAIL, United Fall and OD Works. In 2024 Aoife launched Daughter Of A Drum, a coral structure for all of her creative offerings. She released the record Pink Breath in 2024 to critical acclaim featuring on RTÉ Radio One Recommendation list, BBC Sounds and performed at Ireland Music Week.
As a dancer, Aoife has most recently danced SHEELA with Fabrice Malziah, and Emma Martin’s Night Dances. Other credits include OneOneOne by Ioannis Mandafounis and works by Oona Doherty, Laura Murphy, OneTwoOneTwo and Mary Wycherley. Aoife featured in Paula Keho’s The Devils In Her alongside Olwen Fouéré for BBCNI and TG4. Also Woman In The Wall for BBCNI & Showtime.
Aoife has cultivated a strong socially engaged community arts practice. She was the first lead movement artist for Dublin City Council Culture Company (2020-22) and other credits include CoisCéim Broadreach and Macushla Dance Club 50+.
Currently Aoife is creating AUTHORS, a new site specific solo for the the Lexicon Library, supported by DLR Arts Office and Music Network for 2026 and is commissioned by Hamburgs Tanztriennale to research the work in Leipzig.
SELECTED PERFORMANCE CREDITS
The Last Moth Choreography at The Ark Theatre in collaboration with Jesse Jones and Naomi Moonveld Nkosi 2026
Simple Love Dublin International Film Festival 2026
Pink Breath’s Visual Sister Short film commissioned by Project Arts Centre for Project Portal, 2025.
Sparking Debate Choreography for Sphere 17 and SEDA collage for St Patrick’s Day Festival, 2024.
Heal Me Short dance film for Macushla Dance Club, 2024.
It’s All The Same Movement Direction for OneTwoOneTwo, Dublin Fringe Festival & Abbey Theatre 2022.
Slumber Dublin Dance Festival for Dance Umbrella UK curated by Oona Doherty, 2021.
Winter Lights DCCC Participation Project Performance Samuel Beckett Bridge Dublin, 2020.
Softer Swells Aerowaves selected solo 2014 – 2019.
Recovery Movement Direction for OneTwoOneTwo, 2019.
Age Of Transition Dublin Fringe Festival & Firkin Crane, 2016.
The Fourteenth Visit Dublin Fringe Festival @ RHA, 2014.
Egg Charade (in collaboration with Nina Vallon) Dublin Dance Festival and Rough Cuts Festival, Frankfurt, 2013.
HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS
Softer Swells pass performances & press Re-Presenting Ireland, Dublin Dance Festival, 2012.
Dublin Fringe Festival, 2012.
Operaestate Festival, Bassano Del Grappa, 2012.
Made in Dublin, 2013. The Place Theatre for Spring Forward, 2013.
Galway Dance Days, 2013.
Firkin Crane Theatre, 2013.
Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival in Umea, 2014.
La Briqueterie for Les Plateaux Paris, 2014.
IF Only Festival Mermaid Theatre Wicklow, 2014. Lublin International Festival, 2014.
Tanztage Berlin, 2015. B-Motion Festival, Bassano Del Grappa, 2015.
RomaEuropa Festival, 2015. Instances Festival, Espace Des Arts France, 2015.
Impressions; Irish Arts Centre & 92Y, 2019.
Softer Swells @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival Review https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/unholy-trinity/27564
PINK BREATH past performances & press
CoisCéim Dance Theatre, 2025.
Whale Theatre Greystones, support for Niamh Regan, 2024.
Marrowbone Book Store with guests Robyn Byrne and Zoe Ní Riordain, 2024.
Pink Breath Across Festival Berlin, 2024. Ireland Music Week, 2024.
Dublin Fringe Festival Support for Justin Vivian Bond, 2015.
Spicebag, 2016.
Irish Times Review https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2024/08/29/ daughter-of-a-drum-pink-breath-a-complex-nuanced-and-personaldebut-album/
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