It’s a man’s world for dancer Oona Doherty

Ellie O’Byrne meets contemporary dancer Oona Doherty to discuss her tour of Ireland with the show Maria Maria Maria.

"THERE’S a lot of trauma and a lot of neglect in Ireland. It’s too easy just to make a lovely dance show about dancing, when there’s people sleeping outside on the streets outside the theatre.”

Contemporary dancer Oona Doherty doesn’t make “lovely dance shows about dancing.” She makes gritty, raw work, channelling the delinquent masculinity of some of the denizens of her native Belfast.