CHOREOGRAPHY
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CLOUDBURST learn more
Created on the Baltic Opera Ballet.
Produced as part of 'Wiecz“Wieczór młodej choreografii” co-funded by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.
8 dancers
Duration: 18'
Music: Kai Engel, John Adams & Johan Johannsson
Lighting design: Michal Stenzel
Sound design: Amelia Clarkson
Premiere: 29 Nov 2021, Opera Baltycka
AFTER/BEFORE
Commissioned by John Scott for Dancer from the Dance Festival 2022.
Pas de deux in 3 movements
Duration: 10'
Created on Danila Marzilli and Ruaidhri Maguire.
Music: Szymon Brzodska
Premiere: 13 July 2022, Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography, Dublin, Ireland
BEATING STREETS IN CITY HEARTS learn more
Created on the Baltic Opera Ballet.
Produced as part of 'Wiecz“Wieczór młodej choreografii 2022” co-funded by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.
10 dancers
Duration: 8'
Music: Leonard Bernstein's 'Preludes, Fugues and Riffs'
Premiere: 27 Oct 2022, Opera Baltycka
GIGUE 1
Solo
Duration: 2.5'
Created on Rei Yamamoto.
Music:
Premiere: July 2022, Osaka, Japan
ELEGIA
Commissioned by the Baltic Opera Ballet. Created on Milena Crameri and Bartosz Kondracki
Duet
Duration: 5'
Music: Szymon Brzodska
Premiere: 19 Oct 2022, Opera Baltycka
DEAR FRANCES. learn more
One act narrative ballet
Duration: 36'
Music: Amelia Clarkson
Conductor: Jonathan Mann
Created on Gwenllian Davies, Daniel Morrison and Ruaidhri Maguire.
Premiere: 4 June 2019, Blackheath Halls, London
DANCE
Ruaidhrí is passionate about exploring self-portraiture and the issues that surround it through his practice as a choreographer.
2023
White Doves (ballet)
Original score by Amelia Clarkson
Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, PRS Foundation Women Make Music, Vaughan Williams Foundation and Hinrichsen Foundation.
The MAC, Belfast, NI
Corners
Original score by Amelia Clarkson
Immersive app for London Sinfonietta
2022
Beating Streets in City Hearts (10 dancers)
Opera Baltycka, Gdansk, Poland
After/Before (duet)
Premiere: Dancer from the Dance Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Further performances: Baltic Opera Ballet
Gigue 1 (solo)
Tanaka Ballet Art, Osaka, Japan
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2021
Cloudburst (8 dancers) LEARN MORE
Opera Baltycka, Gdansk, Poland
Elegia (2 dancers)
Wtorki an Fali, Opera Baltycka, Gdansk, Poland
The Estate
A film by Conan McIvor
2019
Dear Frances (one-act ballet) LEARN MORE
Blackheath Halls, London, UK
2018
Nowhere (duet)
World of Dance Polska, Polsat, Warsaw, Poland
Mirror in the Mirror (duet)
World of Dance Polska, Polsat, Warsaw, Poland
WORKS LIST
IN DEVELOPMENT
2022-
Where Two Paths Meet (4 dancers) [in development}
July 2022 R&D space provided by Galway Dance Project
2022-
PRISM (8 dancers) [in development}
September 2022 Dance Ireland Residency.
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MUSICAL THEATRE
Ruaidhrí has worked in many aspects of theatre and television, and specializes in using dance to bring a driving narrative and fresh perspective to classical and contemporary musical theatre works.
2019
Oklahoma!
Flax Trust Arts, MAC Belfast, NI
The Sound of Music (movement director)
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, NI
2018
Oliver!
Flax Trust Arts, MAC Belfast, NI
2017
Carousel (assistant choreographer)
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, NI
2016
The Phantom of the Opera (ballet master & assistant choreographer)
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, NI
