Colin Dunne: Out of Time Dance Company

Out of Time is Colin Dunne 's first full-length solo production. In this multi-disciplinary show, he seamlessly integrates movement, text, film and sound design with the step dance tradition for which he is known to offer a contemporary perspective of the art form.

Collaborating with sound engineer Fionan de Barra, Dunne's percussive footwork is digitally processed live then looped, remixed and layered to create a hauntingly evocative soundscore. He is joined onstage by projected archival images of dancers from the 1930's onwards - including himself as a ten-year-old boy. Movement, sound and image come together to create a provocative dialogue between past and present.

Intimate and playful, Out of Time is both an unsentimental homage to Irish step dance, and a bold investigation of Dunne's personal and artistic relationship with a tradition that has shaped his life. It has been presented at the da:ns festival in Singapore, the Dublin Dance Festival, the Barbican in London, and Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, among others.

Internationally acclaimed in the world of traditional Irish step dance (he was a nine-time world champion and principal dancer in Riverdance from 1995-1998), Dunne has been forging a new creative path since earning an MA in Contemporary Dance at the University of Limerick in 2002. In 2007 Dunne was nominated for a UK Critics Circle National Dance Award (best male: modern dance) for performances in Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre's The Bull at The Barbican, London. Dunne was also nominated for a 2010 Olivier award for his March 2009 performance in Out of Time at the Barbican Pit.

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