After the choreographers Hervé Chaussard, Émilie Lalande and Arthur Perole, Oona Doherty becomes an associate artist at the Pavillon Noir in 2024, presenting a creation Specky Clark and Hard to be soft – A Belfast prayer, a piece from her repertoire. She benefits from the Theatre’s rehearsal studios and stage, as well as the expertise of the Pavillon Noir’s teams, to bring her projects to fruition.

Trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance and the Laban Centre in London, Oona Doherty has been creating, collaborating and performing internationally since 2010. In 2016, she created her internationally acclaimed solo Hope hunt and The Ascension into Lazarus. Associate artist at the Maison de la danse in Lyon in 2017-2018 and at the Briqueterie in Paris in 2017-2019, her work is physical theater with a sharp eye on society. She received the Silver Lion from the Venice Biennale for her choreographic work. She will present in November a revival of her repertoire piece Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus and a new creation , The Wall, for the dancers of Ballet Preljocaj Junior.