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← Older posts Newer posts →Only you: Teatr magazine
January 1, 2012After my residency in Poznan last year, I was invited to write an article for the Polish journal Teatr. I’ve just received a copy: Only you Fearghus Ó Conchúir Last January, as part of a research opportunity at The Arts … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle: David Lotric’s photos of the technical rehearsal at Kino Siska
December 28, 2011Though the technical rehearsal went on late into the evening, David Lotric stayed with us and what his photos show me is that even when the dancers are not ‘performing’ they communicate simply and honestly the kind of humanity that … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle: After Ljubljana and London
December 18, 2011My not having posted so much about the Ljublljana and London legs of the Tabernacle tour has causes that are prosaic and instructive. On the prosaic side, I started to get tired as we progressed, particularly after the travel delay … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentMo Mhórchoir Féin wins audience award at the Capital Irish Film Festival
December 12, 2011Mo Mhórchoir Féin shared the audience award for best short with David Bolger’s Deep End Dance at the Capital Irish Film Festival, organised by Solas Nua in Washington. Fearghus was there to accept the award on behalf the whole team … read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 Comment‘Catch me’: Mary Kate Connolly’s essay on text in Irish contemporary dance
December 7, 2011What catches my attention in this article is the notion of the redistribution of mind, so that thinking is no longer the sole province of a mind imagined as residing in, but irreducible to, the physical mass of the brain. Instead the whole body becomes an agent of thought. And so dancing becomes a way of thinking.
So while Tabernacle might frustrate people who wish only to apply a rationalist thinking to their encounter with the work, it invites instead a thinking through the body. Not anti-thought but asking for a more whole-bodied approach to thinking. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle in Barcelona: The performance
November 15, 2011I’m writing this post after midnight in the A&E of Barcelona’s Hospital Clinic where Mikel is having his ankle checked having twisted it at the start of tonight’s performance of Tabernacle. Watching the show I knew he was more physically … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle in Barcelona
November 12, 2011For the past week, Tabernacle has been in residency at El Graner in Barcelona, a brand new space run by Mercat de les Flors where we perform this week. El Graner is in a refurbished Phillips lightbulb factory and we’ve … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentDancing at Tove Hirth’s sculpture exhibition
September 18, 2011Tove Hirth and I have been friends since we met at Pearson College in Canada in 1987. I think we both discovered our art forms at Pearson, me dancing in the Theo Dombrowski’s Ukrainian Dance Group (and as I write … read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 CommentRua Red: Bodies and Buildings film exhibition
September 12, 2011The facilities of Rua Red arts centre in Tallaght have been a discovery for me. I’ve spent a week there mentoring the Dancer in Residence for South Dublin County Council, Louise Costelloe and also installing an exhibition of my films … read more…
Posted in Blog | 2 CommentsTabernacle at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
August 10, 2011Performing in the Kilkenny Arts Festival has been the start of working out how Tabernacle continues beyond its initial performances in Dublin last May. It was my first visit to the Festival and it’s wonderful to see how a beautiful city welcomes a wide range of art forms. It’s been a very positive experience to have been programmed to present the work again and I’m very grateful to Tom Creed for having been willing to take that programming decision before Tabernacle was was even made. His confidence has ensured that the work can build a momentum of interest in the audience and hopefully ensure a longer life for Tabernacle. read more…
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