Oona Doherty is a Northern Irish artist who works in dance, performance, and film. She studied contemporary dance at the London School of Contemporary Dance, University of Ulster and Laban, where she holds bachelor and postgraduate degrees from. Oona has performed for companies such as T.R.A.S.H (N.L) Abbattoir Ferme (B.E) United Fall (I.E) Enda Walsh (I.E). She has collaborated in the performance and direction of videos for Rubber Bandits – Sonny, Divis - BBC 2, Girl Band- shoulder blades, Jamie XX – I don’t know and Welcome to a bright white Limbo Cara Holmes – Jury mention at Tribeca NYC.
Her Choreographies include Hope hunt & the ascension into Lazarus, 2016 (winning of the Dublin fringe best performer award, Edinburgh fringe total theatre award, Reconnaissance audience 1st place, judges 1st place); Hard to be Soft a Belfast prayer, 2017 (winner of the Best dance show of 2019 by the Guardian newspaper); and Lady Magma the birth of a cult, 2019. Meanwhile, her visual art exhibitions include 'Death of the hunter Installation', shown at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast, LOTHRINGER13 HALLE in Munich, ADC Gallery in Geneva and Centre Pompidou kanal in Brussels.