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April 9, 2011Independent dancers like Bernadette, Mikel, Elena, Matthew, Stéphane and Peggy are used to arriving in new environments and to having the resilience and resourcefulness necessary to build new choreographic structures that organise how they relate. This skills of resilience and resourcefulness seem particularly relevant in Ireland at the moment as people still reach for new structures to build their way out of an economic and moral crash. For many the pursuit of money replaced religion in providing an orientation in personal and national life. It’s time to work out how to orient ourselves for the next part of the journey. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTattered Outlaw: An article on Jaywick
March 29, 2011The Martello Tower where Tattered Outlaws of History opens on Friday is in Jaywick. An article in today’s Guardian describes some of challenges of that area: Jaywick, a ward of Tendring district council in north-east Essex, has earned the unhappy distinction … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTabernacle: Workshop at Irish World Academy, UL
March 21, 2011I’m keen that Tabernacle is the ultimately the kind of structure that can shelter a wide variety of people and a diversity of experiences. To create that possibility, I’ve arranged to do workshops with different groups of dancers from around Ireland during the creation process.
At the Irish World Academy at UL, I worked with current and former MA students in Contemporary Dance Performance. I was also able to invite Mikel to teach warm up but also to absorb some of the spirit and experiences of the workshop that I hope will be carried in to the creation process and the performances of Tabernacle. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTattered Outlaws: East Coast Towers March Filming visit
March 3, 2011I think we’ve worked out the name of the installation:
Tattered Outlaws of History + If the Invader comes = Tattered Outlaws read more…
Tabernacle: Stary Browar research, Poznan
February 10, 2011Starting research in the Art Stations Foundation in Poznan, I find, again, that I am alone in a studio. It’s a familiar situation but maybe too familiar: most of the best ideas come when people share their knowledge and work together. read more…
Posted in Blog | 2 CommentsTabernacle: Research in Stary Browar, Poznan
February 8, 2011I’m in Poznan because Joanna Leśnierowska who runs and curates the dance programme at Stary Browar invited me to visit as part of my Modul Dance research. It’s a great opportunity as I’ve never been to Poland and, given Tabernacle’s focus on Catholicism and the Irish body, it’s interesting to see Catholicism in action in Poland and to think about how that impacts on the greater Irish body now has a lot of Polish DNA in it. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Poznan, Stary Browar, Tabernacle | Leave a commentLeading Change: My speech to the British Council’s Forum on Cultural Leadership in Hong Kong
January 27, 2011I grew up in the green calmness the Irish countryside so waking up this morning and seeing the urban forest of Hong Kong’s skyscrapers reminds me how much things have changed in my life. This is the first millennium in … read more…
Posted in Blog | 1 CommentStarlight: photos from the Blank Canvas residency
December 16, 2010These are photographs by Andy Ferreira and feature the luminous Matthew Morris, the radiant Peggy Grelat-Dupont and me in the studio and stage of the Firkin Crane in Cork. I think Andy has managed to capture the playfulness, beauty and twinkle of these great performers. These aren’t so much images of the dancing, as images of its spirit. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Blank Canvas, Firkin Crane, Matthew Morris, Peggy Grelat Dupont, Starlight | Leave a commentStarlight: Blank Canvas Residency, Firkin Crane Cork
December 8, 2010The apparent on and off twinkling of a star’s light is not caused by the star’s failure to maintain a steady output of light and energy. It is atmospheric turbulence that momentarily re-routes that energy:
This does not mean that the star’s light is lost for that moment. It just means that it didn’t make it through your pupil to your retina – it went somewhere else in the vicinity of your pupil. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Blank Canvas, Firkin Crane, Matthew Morris, Peggy Grelat Dupont, Starlight | 1 CommentIn the moment: dance and technology
November 16, 2010I was in Dancehouse today to interview John Scott for Imeall. John is collaborating with the renowned video artist and film-maker Charles Atlas on a new production, In the moment. The studio was already like a technical rehearsal with lights, screens, cameras and banks of computers and processing equipment. Charles has worked with Merce Cunningham, with Michael Clark, with Marina Abramovic and with Antony and the Johnsons. He knows a lot, though he wasn’t giving much away when I interviewed him today. read more…
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