Drawing inspiration from the surrounding landscape, these creative dance workshops encourage children to explore movement, imagination and a sense of place through guided activities in dance and creative expression. These sessions aim to nurture curiosity, embodiment and connection to the environment, offering a fun artistic experience at the intersection of education, dance and ecology.
Dance artist Linda Schirmer will first facilitate a movement workshop with the students in their school. On the second day they will travel to Interface, Inagh Valley to explore the landscape together.
This project proposes a series of nature-inspired creative dance workshops for children developed in collaboration with Interface, an artist residency centre in the heart of Connemara’s Inagh Valley.
Linda Schirmer is a dance artist and facilitator based in the west of Ireland, working across Ireland and Germany. She holds an MA in Theatre from the University of Leipzig and has completed training in Laban’s Choreutic Studies and the Laban Dance Leader Course.
Linda teaches creative dance in schools and community settings, aiming to spark curiosity and a lasting love for nature and movement in her students. Her practice is rooted in the landscape, often exploring place, folklore and ecology through site-specific work. Her work has been presented nationally at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Galway Arts Centre, Clifden Arts Festival, Druid Theatre, Nun’s Island Theatre, and Dublin Dance Festival, and internationally in Spain, Italy, and the UK among others.
She has taken part in residencies such as the Woodland Symposium at Interface, Inagh Valley in Connemara—an artist-led space where art, science, and landscape meet—both of which continue to inform her exploration of the relationship between body, environment and creative process. Linda is a past participant in Baboró's GROW Artist Support Programme.