‘People like me needed Sinéad O’Connor’: how the singer and activist inspired a new dance work (opens in new tab)

Tony-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh was ‘broken up’ when she heard about the Irish singer-songwriter’s death three years ago. Now she and a group of over-40s female dancers are paying homage: ‘People love her, people need her’Sonya Tayeh remembers watching in October 1992, at home in Detroit, when a young, shaven-headed woman behind a microphone tore a picture of Pope John Paul II into pieces, while saying: “Fight the real enemy.”“I felt like the entire world paused,” remembers Tayeh, stil...