Nóra Ní Anluain Fay

Nóra Ní Anluain Fay is a performer, choreographer and the director of NAF Dance. She graduated from Fontys University in the Netherlands and her work lies in the bridge between dance and theatre fusing music, text and film. Resulting in theatrical explosions that highlight the magic in the mundane and marry sincerity and slapstick.

Her first piece, ‘Let Them Eat Cake,’ was selected to represent the Netherlands in Szoloduo Festival 2022, Budapest. This cemented the tone and movement language of the work she makes and produces through NAF Dance.

Her debut production which she choreographed and co-starred in, ‘Ham Sandwiches and Discipline,’ toured festivals nationally and internationally in 2024 and was nominated for 3 Dublin Fringe Awards. It had a summer Fit-Up Festival tour and a National Tour in autumn 2025.

Her film work includes starring in and choreographing Cléa van der Grijn’s ‘The Disembodied Adventures of Alice,’ and ‘Elisa in Wonderland,’ which have travelled to and been awarded at international film festivals.

She is currently developing her next pieces, an Irish language work in collaboration with an Taibhdhearc theatre and ‘Please Break my Heart,’ with Uillinn Arts Centre which she’ll create and perform in.

Her camp disco productions have toured across Europe unleashing infectious joy and welcoming whole new audiences to dance.