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Casadh arís – structure and material

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I don’t know why I thought to make little drawings when we’ve been working on this piece. I guess it’s useful for Rachel and me to have another medium to meet in that’s separate from our dance and music home-arts. … read more…

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Casadh arís – architecture of sound

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Just one week until the premiere of Casadh Arís. Dan arrived with his double bass today, changing the acoustic and physical space with his presence and that of the large resonant bass. For Casadh Arís, Rachel has been working with … read more…

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Three+1 – a dance highlight of 2008

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Thanks to the Irish Times for mentioning my dance film Three+1 as one of the highlights of dance in 2008. It refers to Rebecca Walters’ Walk Don’t Run too – another film of dancers’ bodies negotiating the intersection at George … read more…

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Thank you to Ian, Bríd and Cindy

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For their letter to the Sunday Tribune today. And to everyone else who offered private support.

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Ceann trá – filming on the beach

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Dad in the distance across the flats of wet sands. The greyhounds straining on leashes to follow him or worse any random impulse or canine fancy on the wind. My anxiety that it should all happen as he’d instructed. Waiting, … read more…

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Getting over it – Casadh Arís

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I am very grateful to the people who, in the wake of the article, have been in contact to express their support of my work. I’ve tried to be rational about the article and to understand the journalistic instinct that … read more…

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Dancing at the Crossroads – The Sunday Tribune doesn’t like it

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I was expecting the article. I knew some time ago that a journalist had submitted a freedom of information request to Dublin City Council to find out the details of my residency. Of course all the information was already in … read more…

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Chris Elam – dance company and new media

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I came across Misnomer Dance Theater when I was looking at arts organisations that are working comfortably with online technology. Misnomer Dance Theater has made a name for itself as a company that exploits for dance the resources that indie … read more…

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New Media, New Audience?

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I attended the Arts Council’s New Media, New Audience? conference in Dublin Castle yesterday. Going there and particularly having been invited to be on a panel, I felt a bit of a charlatan since my engagement with online media is … read more…

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Film by Samuel Beckett

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The figure runs close along a stretch of tall buildings. Scurries. Hides. Evades. Makes it to bare room. Hides. Evades. Buster Keaton’s distinctive if older physicality makes the opening of this unusual Becekett film an interesting dance in the city, … read more…

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