Lucia Kickham

Lucia Kickham is a Wexford based dance artist. Trained in the Netherlands she has worked with companies and artists including Liz Roche Company, Company Philip Connaughton, Junk Ensemble, Maria Nilsson Waller, Laura Murphy, TRASH(NL) and Oonagh Kearney.

Training intensively with David Zambrano in Flying Low and Passing Through techniques, Lucia has developed her interest in group dynamics within improvisation, composition and teaching environments. Lucia is a guest tutor at IWAMD at University of Limerick, a teacher on Dance Ireland's professional training programme and regularly leads workshops at dance centres across Ireland.

In recent years she has been a recipient of awards from Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick, Tipperary Dance, Grand Studio Brussels, Tanztendenz Munich and the Arts Council of Ireland, including the Next Generation and Commission Awards.

As a dance performer Lucia has toured extensively across the UK and Sweden and has presented her own work at Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, side.kicks Festival Munich, Modes of Capture Symposium, TOCHT Tralee and What's Next Festival Limerick.

Lucia was Dance Ireland HATCH Artist 2018 and Associate Artist with Liz Roche Company 2018/21. In 2022 she took up the role of rehearsal director on Step Up Dance Project and is delighted to return to this role in 2023.

www.luciakickham.com