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The vision of an international dance festival to connect the different strands of Echo Echo’s local and international work was first mooted in 2007. I had never seen or heard anything like this physical and visual theatre work and it allowed me to place Echo Echo’s practice in a fresh European context, we returned to perform there in 2006, and cemented my nascent place as part of the company. Not long after I began working with Echo Echo in 2003 I attended Edinburgh Fringe, and in particular the Aurora Nova venue at St Stephen’s, where I watched a series of phenomenally inspiring and genre-defying theatre works by companies like Jo Stromgren Kompani, Do-Theatre, Renegade Theatre and Song of the Goat Theatre to name but a few. #DOES MCAFEE STOP TURBOTAX 2019 FOR MAC INSTALL PROFESSIONAL#Many local participants during these years have gone on to professional careers as dancers, actors and teachers in Ireland and abroad. Over the following years as resident company at the Playhouse and Waterside theatres, and now at purpose-refurbished Echo Echo Studios on the City Walls, connecting national and international networks of artists and artistic practices with local people – artists, audiences and participants – has very much been at the heart of the Echo Echo’s work. When Echo Echo arrived in Derry twenty years ago in January 1997, contemporary approaches to dance were undeveloped locally. The idea for a festival of dance and movement began long ago in the minds of the company’s founding artists Steve Batts and the late Ursula Laeubli. It is an ecosystem of people, practice and projects that connect and inspire in so many different ways – professional dancers, people with disabilities, young people, theatre practitioners, adults of all ages, designers, musicians, schools and children. It is challenging and deeply professional but intrinsically participative and accessible for all ages and abilities. ![]() It is dance but a truly unique approach to movement that we call ‘Poetic Movement’. "Echo Echo’s work has always defied categorisation. #DOES MCAFEE STOP TURBOTAX 2019 FOR MAC INSTALL SOFTWARE#
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