MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE HOUR

MC: Louisa Ní Éadeáin

Venue: Astra Hall, UCD Student Centre

2:00pm - 3:00pm

A beautiful hour of performances with some of our neurodivergent community’s most prominent movers-and-shakers! This hour will feature performances from Tobi Omoteso, Ali Clarke & Trudie Gorman, Sil Cleary and Quilombo Terra.

Ali Clarke (She/Her)

Ali Clarke is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores how power, identity and embodied knowledge shapes our world. Grounded in the practices of dance, expanded through circus, theatre, and design, Ali’s practice is deeply informed by her commitment to equality and social justice. Her collaborations investigate how art can become a site of resistance, collective memory and social transformation, values that inform her ongoing interest in decolonising artistic practice and creating structures that decentralise dominant cultural narratives. Ali is currently artist in residence at Art House Athy having received the Connect and Gather award from Creative Places Athy and is engaged with Creative Places Bagenalstown as the Community Connector. She has previously received a Next Generation Award, multiple Arts and Disability Awards, the Chassé Theater Culture Award and the Café Theater Festival Jury Award among others.

Trudie Gorman (She/Her)

Trudie Gorman is a writer, activist and youth worker based in Dublin. Her debut poetry collection Trust the Damage was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2023. In 2022 she was awarded a residency with Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and in 2023 she was a Dublin Fringe Festival Artist in Residence. Trudie was selected for Poetry Ireland Versify Series in 2019 and was also shortlisted for the Creative Future Writing Award 2019.

Her writing has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Poetry NI, Two Metre Review, Unapologetic Magazine, The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices and Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975-2025. She has performed her work across Ireland and the UK. She wrote the script for the interdisciplinary show Chronically Hopeful, which premiered at the Philarmonie, Luxembourg in November 2025.

Sil Cleary (They/Them)

Sil Cleary moved to Ireland from Barcelona in 2016, following their passion for Irish dancing. 

Since then, they've been the first trans or non-binary person to win a title at a major dancing competition (WIDA All Irelands 2023), and placed 4th in the WIDA World Championships last year. After a life of wondering, they got diagnosed with ASD a couple of years ago. Sil believes dancing is for everyone, and advocates for dancers to show up as their true selves, no matter their disabilities.

Tobi Omoteso (He/Him)

Tobi Omoteso is an internationally acclaimed Nigerian/Irish B-boy (Breakin’ /Breakdancer) and Hip- Hop Freestyle dancer, training at Broadway Dance Centre, West Bronx, New York and Breakbeat Dance Studios, Waterford, Ireland. Tobi has been dancing for over 20 years and supports the foundations of this dynamic and Influential dance form with his B-boy crew – RECESSION SQUAD NINJAS. Tobi is a board member of Dublin Dance Festival, part of Dance Sport Federation of Ireland/Breakin Ireland Head of Athlete Commission and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. As a dance facilitator, has designed and delivered youth programmes teaching in schools, youth groups and established dance organizations, he has brought his knowledge of Hip-Hop and Street Dance culture into a wide variety of youth and academic contexts.

As a choreographer and performer, Tobi’s work has been presented across Ireland, at the

Commission of “To this I Belong” part of the launch of LUAIL Ireland National Dance Company

(Limerick), Dublin Dance Festival (Dublin), WHAT NEXT dance festival (Limerick), Cork Midsummer Festival (Cork), Glor Dance Platform (Co. Clare), Sproi Festival (Waterford), Irish Arts Center (New York), Commission Award Cork Midsummer Festival (Cork), Commission Award Firstforth Night, Eva Biannual International Contemporary Arts Festival, SODEA Festival, 1916 Easter Rising Commemorations in Croke Park (TG4 & Tyrone Production LAOCHRA), Dancers from the Dancer Irish and International Festival & Bloodlines, RTE’s Commissioned “I am Ireland” & “Come together”, “WHEN I” Visual (Carlow), Fidget Feet & Irish Aerial Creation Centre (Co. Clare), “WAKE” Thisispopbaby, The Abbey Theatre, (Dublin) and Loud Base Hip-hop induction Africa (Nigeria).

Quilombo Terra - Alessandra Azeviche & Lino Bento

Quilombo Terra is an Ireland-based Afro-Brazilian artist collective driven by ancestral wisdom and counter-colonial resistance. Through art and community engagement, they challenge prevailing norms and reclaim human stories to inspire social change. 

Performers: Alessandra Azeviche & Lino Bento