Newbridge Festival of Dance is an amazing one-day dance festival celebrating all styles of dance and culture, and all abilities of dancers. Now in its third year, it has quickly become one of the highlights of June Fest with huge community engagement and involvement drawing large crowds to the Town Hall.
Generously sponsored by Life Credit Union
There will be dance demonstrations and classes taking place throughout the day in the Town Hall.
The full schedule of events will be listed here once confirmed and more details will also be provided on the Newbridge Festival of Dance Facebook page.
NEWBRIDGE FESTIVAL OF DANCE SCHEDULE 30th May 2026
11:00-12:00 Pilates For Life
Eithne Hanniffy will be giving a 1 hour free pilates session. Pilates is a great way to help with core strength which is vital for any dancer.
12:00-12:30 Le Vésinet Irish Céilí Dancers
The Le Vésinet Irish Céilí Dancers are a volunteer-run traditional Irish dance group based west of Paris. Led by Jackie O’Neill, the troupe performs at various events in the Paris region, often collaborating with the Association Irlandaise de Paris, showcasing traditional ceili dancing, and they will be making the trip over from France especially to join us for June Fest to showcase their Kildare style Irish Figure Dancing.
12:30-13:00 Noeleen Kelly
If you follow Noeleen on social media or you take her classes, you will know that this is going to be a good session. Get Jiving….
13:00-13:30 KARE
The group from KARE were a big highlight for the past couple of years and are very excited to be involved again this year. They will blow you away.
13:30-14:00 Fidelma’s Stompers
Line Dancing: Fidelma has been teaching line dancing in Newbridge for many years now. She has the longest running line dancing class in the town. If you want to try it out, she will be giving a small workshop after their performance.
14:00-14:30 Mohanna NATARAJAN
Bharatanatyam : Nritya\kala\vruksha led by Mohanna.
14:30-15:00 Bubble Lock
Tamil Dance & Hip Hop: After just turning up on our first year for the freestyle section of the festival and proving very popular, he returned last year for his own session and had everyone popping. Looking forward to seeing what moves he brings this year!
15:30-16:00 Kildare Irish Figure Dancers Droichead Nua - Irish Figure Dancing Class
Irish Figure Dancing at its best - you will see Irish Dancing performed by the little beginners from Droichead Nua IFDC right up to the senior dancers in Kildare Irish figure dancers. You will get a mix of traditional and modern Irish dancing.
16:00-16:30 Zumba
Latin Style Dancing : Andrea is simply amazing, the energy she brings to this festival is unreal. You do not want to miss this one.
16:30-17:00 Leah Moran Stage School
Hip Hop: Needing no introduction, the kids from Leah Moran stage school will be bringing their moves to the festival. Delighted to have them on board again this year.
17:00-17:30 Fit Steps
Andrea will be back to bring us all alive again and put us to our paces with this fun, energetic and amazing Fit Steps.
17:30-17:45 Attami
Bharantyam performance from Jyoti and her students.
18:00-18:15 Heart and Soul
Manonmani Srinivasan
Dance is the universal language that needs no words…..
Lets come together to dance together…..
Lets support each other and encourage each other….
Lets all be as one through Dance…...
