
ABOUT
Croíate
(pronounced create),
from the Irish
croí meaning heart
Aifric was born and raised in Dublin, before moving to Luxembourg at the age of 16. She began studying for a BSc Environmental Science degree before realising that her passion for movement was calling her to explore dance as a career choice. This lead her to firstly earn a Professional Dance Diploma in Dublin from The College of Dance, following on to graduate with a First Class BA Hons. Degree in Contemporary Dance, from The Place/LCDS - London Contemporary Dance School in 2013. During her degree she also studied at SUNY Purchase College, New York, USA as a semester exchange student.
In the UK she worked with, amongst others, Itamar Serussi, Igor & Moreno, Imogen Knight, Ponciano Almeida and Alex Howard. In 2013 she took part in the Step Up dance project in Ireland, under the guidance of Michael Keegan Dolan/Fabulous Beast.
Since then Aifric have been exploring a varied world of dance performance, choreography, film and pedagogy.
She has collaborated with dance artists Daniel Jeremiah Persson (Se), Stefano Spinelli (IT/LU), and musicians/singers Gemma Dunleavy (Ire), Eric G.Foy and Damiano Picci (LU). She has performed for choreographers such as Elisabeth Schilling, Jean-Guillaume Weis, Hannah Ma, Simone Mousset and Rhiannon Morgan (Lu). She is also an active member of Lucoda - the Luxembourg Collective of Dance, working in performance, choreography, film and pedagogy.
Social outreach in dance is an important aspect of her work and she has facilitated a number of social projects for marginalised people in society and created inclusive dance practices.
She hopes to inspire others, bringing joy, kinesthetic discovery and inquiry to their lives.