Announcing Weft Studio Artists 2024-2025
Dublin Fringe Festival is delighted to introduce the four talented artists selected for the 2024 Weft Studio.
Weft Studio, a key initiative of Dublin Fringe Festival, is dedicated to nurturing emerging and early-career Black artists and artists of the global majority. This program is designed to support these artists in developing their projects, building their networks, and creating work that is true to their vision.
Under the guidance of acclaimed writer and creative producer Shannon Yee, with insights from international mentors, the Weft Studio will run from August 2024 to February 2025.
We are proud to present this year's Weft Studio artists:
Subhashini Goda is a dance artist and academic originally from Chennai, India, now residing in Ireland. Specialising in Bharatanatyam, she has presented her work at notable festivals including the Dancer from the Dance: Festival of Irish Choreography, Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, Cashel Arts Festival, Scene and Heard, and the Imagine Arts Festival. As the Emma O'Kane Bursary recipient for 2024, she is focused on evolving her choreographic voice to reflect her changing relationship with Indian dance traditions through cross-cultural collaborations.
David Ferreira-Alves is a theatre practitioner who discovered their love for reading long before acting and started writing at the age of eleven. Their research is an autoethnographic study based on the experience of devising, performing and evaluating a performance art work combining theatre, dance, text and music. Current research includes producing an acted and choreographed theatrical live performance to analyse stories about persons who are in the margins of society. Also, they have undertaken practice-based research projects since 2022, including collaborations with actors, autoethnographers and musicians. They hold an MPhil in Theatre and Performance from Trinity College Dublin.
Andrew Ajetunmobi (Bless), is a Nigerian-Irish musician and multi disciplinary artist from Cavan who has appeared in the Arts Council funded production of Revenger's Tragedy at Beyond The Pale Festival 2023 and Dublin Fringe Festival 2024. Passionate about music and poetry, Andrew explores themes of love and relationships in his writing. Andrew's aim of creating a creative-centric community for integration, collaboration and growth has driven him to exploring art through the mediums of dance and drama.
Tatiana Santos is a multidisciplinary artist, journalist and cultural mediator whose work explores migration, belonging, and de-colonisation. She is one of the leading artists exploring Brazilian rhythms in Irish dance spaces, and currently collaborates on The Welcoming Project (Catherine Young Dance Company), promoting social cohesion through Palestinian Dabke, Ukrainian, Irish and Afro-brazilian dance styles. Her notable works include Hot Brown Honey’s Hive City Legacy and her solo show Threads at Solo Sirens Festival 2023, which delves into everyday acts of solidarity. Tatiana is the 2024 Artist in Residence at Roscommon Arts Centre, where she will research her new theatre piece.
Weft is proudly funded by the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíonm and supported by British Council Ireland, Welsh Government Office in Ireland, Wales Arts International and Terra Nova Productions.