Our Steps is a not-for-profit organization that redefines the way we think about the history, practice and performance of Irish dance by creating and supporting innovative archival, publishing and multidisciplinary performance programs.
The recreation and recording of previously undocumented solo steps of master teachers and style influencers for the first-ever living archive of traditional Irish dance. Explore the archive.
Interviews capturing the words and memories of the oldest members of the global Irish dance community. Listen to oral histories.
Expanding the creative potential of Irish dance through innovative multidisciplinary performance projects. Discover our work.
An ever-evolving collection of found and commissioned essays that celebrates and interrogates ideas related to Irish dance and contemporary arts practice. Browse the dialogues.
Our annual funding program supports non-conventional performance projects and innovative research that seeks to create a new space for Irish dance. For more information or to apply, please get in touch.
“Our Steps is dedicated to exploring ideas around Irish-ness and the dancing body, to provoking questions about our collective history and to initiating works that invite other dance forms and other arts forms to connect and collaborate with our culturally specific practice.”
Photo by Tony Murray