Moonlight Dream
2025
MAIDEN VOYAGE DANCE present MOONLIGHT DREAM, A Baby’s Cosmic Odyssey which will premiere at The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, as part of Belfast Children’s Festival 2025.
CJourney into the world of dreams and explore the mysteries of the night sky alongside a nurturing bear and a playful fox. Moonlight Dream by Georgia Tegou is a new dance production for babies aged 0-3 years and their caregivers and is suitable for the whole family. Accompanied by a music suite for piano and harp, performed live by composer Ursula Burns, little ones (and big ones!) will be mesmerised by this gentle journey inspired by a child’s transition into sleep.
This 30-minute performance takes place at 11:00am and 2:00pm each day and will be followed by a 10-minute Stay and Play session.
Moonlight Dream is co-commissioned and produced by Maiden Voyage Dance supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council Northern Ireland and is co-commissioned by Luail, the new all island dance company supported by Arts Council Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
ARTIST PROFILES
Georgia Tegou
Choreographer and stage director, Georgia Tegou’s work approaches 'Dance-as-design', intertwining choreography with design to create immersive visual environments. Drawing inspiration from architecture, sculpture, visual arts, science and philosophy, she explores the symbiotic relationship between dance and spatial arts, seeking to encapsulate nuances of the human condition. Georgia and Xenia Aidonopoulou presented work in Belfast Children’s Festival in 2022 with the critically acclaimed Underwater.
Ursula Burns
Ursula Burns created a unique style of harping which draws from elements of Paraguayan and Celtic techniques with a focus on self-expression. As “The Dangerous Harpist" she has been smashing the cultural stereotypical image of the harp by taking it on a journey through Music, Theatre, Circus, Comedy and Performance. Ursula is an artist who defies categorization. Her unique style on the harp sets her apart as an original artist who breaks new ground and explores the boundaries of the artform taking the harp where no harp has gone before. In 2025 Ursula will be composing Moonlight Dream A Baby’s Cosmic Odyssey with Maiden Voyage Dance and Grace The Story of a Pirate Queen with Circus250.
Sandy Cuthbert
Sandy is a freelance dance and somatic artist and practitioner with over 40 years of experience within the dance industry, with a background in contemporary dance and movement improvisation. She holds a BA (Hons) Creative Arts (Visual Art and Dance), PGCE, Post-graduate Certificate in Contemporary Dance & Choreography-London Contemporary Dance School and a MA in Dance and Somatic Well-Being. As a professional dancer, she has worked with companies including Diversions - The National Dance Company of Wales, In Transit Dance (Artistic Director) and Maiden Voyage Dance.
Janie Doherty
Janie Doherty is a movement artist, massage therapist, performer mother and doula. After graduating with a first-class honours in dance, Janie has been working in Northern Ireland as a community facilitator and performer. She is interested in helping people connect to an embodied state of being through movement, story-telling and performance. She has over 15 years-experience working in the community as a dance artist and is currently collaborating with women’s centres to support new mothers by reflecting on our lived experience in an embodied and artistic way.
Andrea Madore
Andrea Madore (she/her) originally from Toronto, Canada is a London-based performer, teacher and dance artist. She has trained in various styles including contemporary, ballet, modern, hip-hop and traditional Chinese dance. Andrea graduated with a BFA (Hons) from York University in Canada and an MA with mapdance from University of Chichester. Andrea has also had the pleasure of working with choreographers including Sarah Golding, Yukiko Masui, James Cousins, Robert Clark and Kiera Martin. Alongside performing, Andrea teaches and choreographs with Project Female in Brighton and throughout London and delivering classes, workshops and intensives. This is Andrea’s first time working with Maiden Voyage Dance.
Ciarán Bagnall
Ciarán is a professional Lighting and Set Designer with over 20 years experience in theatre design having trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. He is based in Belfast and is also a Creative Director of Prime Cut Productions. Ciarán and has worked with Maiden Voyage Dance on numerous productions since 2012.
Úna Hickey
Edinburgh College of Art in 2006. Since then she has worked in costume for theatre, advertising, film, museum, circus, and dance both at home and abroad. Notable productions include Prime Cut’s I am my own wife (Costume Designer), Opera NI’s Riders to the Sea (Costume Designer), Prime Cut’s The Baths (Costume Designer), The Lyric’s Fire Below (Costume Designer), HBO’s Game of Thrones (Breakdown Artist, On Set Standby), and Stuber Pictures’ Your Highness (Breakdown Artist). She has taught dressmaking and specialist breakdown effects for costume for film as part of The Nerve Centre’s Screen Academies and Into Film’s Screenworks programmes. Úna previously designed and made costumes for Maiden Voyage on Line of Life in 2023 and Call to Mind in 2024.
CREATIVE TEAM
Choreography: Georgia Tegou
Composer and live music: Ursula Burns
Dancers: Sandy Cuthbert , Janie Doherty, Andrea Madore
Set and Lighting Design: Ciaran Bagnall
Costume Design: Úna Hickey