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← Older posts Newer posts →Residency in Paris
February 5, 2018I was in Paris at the beginning of December thanks to a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais and at La Briqueterie, the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique du Val de Marne. Every year, the CCI supports Irish artists with residency time (and in the case of visual artists, studio space) in its beautiful premises in the centre of Paris, behind the Panthéon and in the heart of the Sorbonne University quarter. For me, after The Casement Project and the submission of my PhD, I knew I would value some time to begin the process of discovering what route to follow next in my work. So I was delighted to have been awarded a CCI residency to start that process. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentA gift: Tanztendenz’s 5th International Choreographers’ Atelier
December 2, 2017One of Tanztendenz’s projects is a workshop for choreographers from Germany and abroad. The artists are hosted for a week and stimulated with a ‘mix of practical exercises, shared excursions and public lectures’. Most daringly, there is no pressure for any particular outcome from this gathering and stimulation of choreographers. It’s a gift. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentBrave Interdependence/Idirspleáchas Cróga – a talk for Aonarach le Chéile Festival, Dingle
November 9, 2017I want to propose an alternative way of thinking about artists as part of the wider public. The model I have in mind is the brilliant sean nós singer in a community. Everyone has a song, and in group gatherings it’s great to hear everyone’s song, but we know there are some people with a particular ability and gift in singing. And when they sing, they sing for the whole group. Their distinctiveness does not put them outside the group. Nor do they need to diminish their distinctiveness to be connected. If any of you have seen the people ag windáil (literally ‘winding’ the singer by holding their hand and rotating the lower arm from the elbow), connecting physically and encouragingly with the singer, it’s clear that the exceptional gift can be linked and channelled viscerally into, and supported by, a community. That’s the kind of artist I’d like to be in relation to communities that welcome me read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentA response from Quarto Collective to Butterflies and Bones at The Mac
March 26, 2017From Quarto Collective Blog: Recently I went to Butterflies and Bones, performed at the MAC as part of The Casement Project, and the Belfast International Arts Festival. The piece was choreographed by Fearghus Ó Conchúir, together with his team of … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentRehearsals 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…
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