LOOP

LOOP, choreographed by Mónica Muñoz (Fall & Float, 2025 Belfast Children’s Festival), is a vibrant dance performance where three dancers create a shared world through movement, trust, and play.

Audiences are invited into a space that becomes a playground of imagination, celebrating teamwork, curiosity, and the joy of moving together. The dancers build a world of belonging and connection, revealing the magic of playing together and moving as one. As the performance unfolds, patterns emerge, dissolve, and reform, reflecting how relationships shift and strengthen through rhythm, repetition, and shared intention.

LOOP is commissioned through our Dance Exposed strand, which creates new dance works for public and non-traditional spaces, bringing contemporary performance into everyday environments. This strand champions accessibility and spontaneity, encouraging people of all ages to encounter dance in unexpected places and experience its energy up close.haiku will be shown free at The Ulster Museum on Sat 4 March 11:30am, 2pm and Sun 5 March 11:30am, 2pm.

ARTIST PROFILES

Mónica Munoz
Mónica is a dancer, choreographer and educator originally from Barcelona and based in Dublin. She has worked for over 25 years with numerous international companies, choreographers and directors. Since 2018 she produces bold, visceral, contemporary dance works for audiences 3+.

Her productions have been touring nationally (in national venues and festivals: Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children and Young at Art, Belfast Children’s Festival) and internationally widely across Europe (Germany, Norway, Malta, Spain, UK, Cyprus, Poland and Turkey) supported by Culture Ireland.

Monica was one of the Irish artists who participated in the Creative Europe project PUSH+ to initiate new artistic ideas and performances for young audiences. Monica was The Ark’s John Coolahan Early Years Artist in Residence in 2021-22 and selected to the Pilot Project Arts in Early Learning from the Arts Council in 2023. She was a participant of Meitheal: A Branar Initiative from 2022-2024.

Mónica is currently she is Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Technological University. She has been recently elected to the committee of TYAI (Theatre for Young Audiences Ireland) and she is a member of the Young Dance Network from ASSITEJ.

Patrick Connolly
Patrick is a Belfast-born dance artist. Since graduating with a First-Class BA (Hons) Dance from the University of Roehampton, he has been performing professionally with Royal Caribbean, travelling the world and gaining extensive stage experience.

A versatile dancer with a strong foundation across commercial, contemporary, and hip-hop styles, Patrick has worked on a variety of projects, including TV and film, live performances, and commercial opportunities, with companies such as Disney, Cococoala, Netflix and Tayto.

Sarah Flavelle

Sarah is a dance artist from Belfast. She graduated from The Institute of the Arts Barcelona with a First Class BA (Hons.) in Dance. She continued her training at DART Studios Professional Training Intensive in Berlin.

Recently, Sarah performed in Everynothing choreographed by Salma Ataya as part of Belfast International Arts Festival's international exchange project Our Voices Together Now.

Sarah has collaborated with various companies including The National Gallery, The Playhouse, Maiden Voyage Dance, Off the Rails Dance Company, Fidget Feet Aerial Dance and Róisín Whelan Dance. She has performed in music videos for Jamie Duffy and And So I Watch You From Afar.

Through her work Sarah enjoys exploring authentic and expressive movement. She has presented her work at Creative Holywood and with Six Dance Collective. Sarah is currently taking part in a pilot programme with the Maiden Voyage Dance/Luail partnership to build a sustainable participatory dance practice.

Eva McGeown
Eva is a Belfast-born dance artist and recent First-Class BA (Hons.) graduate in Contemporary Dance from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

She has worked as a dancer for Fidget Feet Aerial Dance and gained invaluable experience dancing at events such as Dublin Youth Festival, Laois Dance Platform, and the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science.

Through teaching in dance schools and the University of Limerick Dance Society, where she choreographed for the Irish Intervarsity competition, Eva has developed her skills in competition-focused choreography. With a passion for performance and working with children, Eva dances with TaylorMadeEntertainment and Encore Entertainment, while also performing at W5 Belfast and teaching dance with MR Sports.

Maiden Voyage Dance is principally funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and funded by Belfast City Council.