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← Older posts Newer posts →Rehearsals at The Place – The Casement Project
April 22, 2016I hadn’t planned initially to have this phase of rehearsals in London but after the sense of connection to people who were supporting the project that I felt when we rehearsed there in September during Choreodrome, it was clear to me that we couldn’t disappear for half a year and then come back with a premiere. Maintaining and building on connections and networks of support felt like a necessity. And so, thanks to the help of The Place, we were able to rehearse for a week. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged 1418now, ART:2016, Microrainbow, Rehearsals, The Place | Leave a commentAfter the Bodies Politic Symposium: The Casement Project
March 14, 2016There is still much to process from the Bodies Politic Symposium. What was fascinating, as the day progressed, was to see a common energy and sense of shared cause in what might have been disorientatingly diverse material. By the end of the day, we could sense the potential of what Jesse Jones called, a radical solidarity between queers, feminists, people with disabilities, travellers, and other bodies long marginalised for their deviance (this true even of that ‘deviant’ majority – women – whose embodiment has long been stigmatised and consequently policed and disciplined.) read more…
Posted in Blog | 2 CommentsThe skeleton of Dublin – Filming Allagóirí Chumhachta (and The Casement Project)
February 8, 2016The quarry where we’re filming has provided, in the words of one of the four brothers whose family has run it for generations, the skeleton of Dublin. Granite from this quarry near Blessington has been used in state buildings and … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Megs Morley, The Casement Project, Tom Flanagan | Leave a commentTheatre of Change Symposium – Choreographing a new state/State – The Casement Project
January 22, 2016Below is the text I wrote to prepare for my presentation for the stimulating Theatre of Change Symposium organised by The Abbey Theatre and curated by Fiach MacConghail and Dominic Campbell. I didn’t read it so the video documentation will … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentDevelopment Rehearsals in Dublin – The Casement Project
December 29, 2015Despite now having a very supportive and highly skilled team to help with production, communication and administration ( Project Arts Centre, Lian Bell, Annette Nugent), for the past two years of its creative and practical development I’ve held The Casement … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentResearch at the National Archives – The Casement Project
December 17, 2015I’ve gotten closer to Casement’s diaries. Having read them first a few years ago in an edition by Roger Sawyer, and more recently in Jeffrey Dudgeon‘s gay-friendly edition, I’ve been approaching them and Casement through archive material in the British … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Ireland 2016, National Archives, The Casement Project | Leave a commentDo not yet fold your wings: Liverpool Irish Festival:
November 1, 2015The performance seems to have been a success. I did feel that it took the audience a while to know how to see me in this music context but gradually, as I fed from the music and the musicians, and unravelled the movement material and ideas I’d brought, I felt part of the bigger sonic, kinetic and visual energy we created together. I’m grateful for all of these opportunities to be dancing with and for people. And I hope that I will be as brave, curious and creative as Bisakha Sarker. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Aoife Mc Atamney, Bluecoat, Immix, Liverpool Irish Festival, Stealing Sheep | Leave a commentwww.godisinthetvzine.co.uk review of Liverpool Irish Festival’s commission: Stealing Sheep, Immix Ensemble, Fearghus Ó Conchúir
October 31, 2015– Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25th October 2015 By Andy Vine · On October 27, 2015 LMW_Stealing SheepThe stage is set, in an inverted T-shape with a low catwalk in the middle, so the widest part is closest to the audience. Stealing … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentChoreodrome Rehearsals Week 2 – The Casement Project
September 29, 2015After our first two weeks of rehearsal on The Casement Project, there are some things I know and many more questions yet to be answered. It’s not a bad place to be in. After the confidence required to make a good proposal, this more humbling uncertainty feels like a better place from which to be creative. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentChoreodrome Week One – The Casement Project
September 7, 2015It was a relief to get in to the studio this week with some of The Casement Project dancers and to begin to explore in such articulate and creative bodies some of the ideas that I’ve been storing over the past two years. read more…
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