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Colin Dunne: Out of TimeDance Company
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Colin Dunne is a leading figure in the world of traditional Irish dance, who has made the cross over into contemporary dance and theatre.
Best known internationally for his performances and choreography in Riverdance and Dancing on Dangerous Ground, he has been forging a new creative path since his time as artist-in-residence at the University of Limerick ,where he completed an MA in contemporary dance in 2002.
In 2007, he was nominated for a UK Critics Circle National Dance Award (best male: modern dance) for performances at The Barbican in Fabulous Beast's production of The Bull.
His solo show Out of Time premiered in January 2008.
Colin Dunne was born in 1968 in Birmingham, England to Irish parents.
He took his first lesson in Irish step dance at the age of three with the locally based Comerford School.
At the age of 9, he won his first World Championship title and was the first dancer to win the World, All England, and All Ireland titles in the same year.
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Colin graduated from Warwick University in 1989 with a B.Sc in Economics before going on to work as a trainee accountant at the Birmingham offices of Arthur Andersen.
At the same time he had passed his dance teachers exam (T.C.RG) and was teaching successfully with Marion Turley in Coventry and giving workshops in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
He resigned from Arthur Andersen on the day he became a qualified Chartered Accountant to go on a month-long tour of Canada with The Chieftains.
He has worked as a dancer ever since.
Between 1992 and 1995, he toured regularly with musical groups The Chieftains and DeDannan.
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Six months later, Dunne would find himself working with both Butler and Winston in Riverdance.
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Colin joined the cast and creative team of Riverdance in October 1995.
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In June 1998, Colin left Riverdance to begin work on a new project with Jean Butler.
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After living in New York, Colin returned to Ireland in 2001 to take a position as dancer-in-residence at the University of Limerick at the invitation of Micheal O'Suilleabhain.
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Since finishing his Masters in 2002, Colin has sought collaborations with contemporary choreographers in parallel with his own solo creative work.
In 2003 he worked again with Yoshiko Chuma in the Daghdha production of The Yellow Room (with dancers Mary Nunan and Olwen Grindly and actor Padraic Delaney).
In 2005 he joined Michael Keegan Dolan's Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre for its production, The Bull, which played for two weeks at The Dublin Theatre Festival, in a role which many saw as a self-parody.
His performances in The Bull at The Barbican in 2007 earned him a nomination for a UK Critics Circle National Dance Awards (best male: modern dance).
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Since 2002, Colin has been a regular guest tutor at the University of Limerick, on the MA in both Traditional and Contemporary Dance, and the BA in Traditional Dance and Music.
He has also toured his masterclass series to the USA, Europe and Russia.
In 2004 he was invited to teach in Shanghai and Beijing during a two-week residency as part of the China-Ireland festival.
Later that year, he returned to Birmingham to teach six National Express coach drivers for the Granada TV production, For One Night Only.
In 2006 and 2007 he was a regular commentator and judge on the RTE show, Celebrity Jigs and Reels.
He has also written and presented a four part radio series for Lyric FM called The Story of Tango (2003).
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