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← Older postsThe Galas Nomination
October 13, 2017It was very nice to have I’m Roger Casement included in the long-list for the Film and TV Award in The Galas. The Galas honour LGBT+ people and organisations for their contributions to Irish society. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentMapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound Symposium
August 31, 2017Here’s a video of my talk at the Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound Symposium last October about The Casement Project as a choreography of visibility. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentCommunications, Reach and Impact Report: The Casement Project
August 2, 2017Thanks to the brilliant Annette Nugent and Kate O’Sullivan, we’ve been able to put together this report that tracks some of the way that communications worked for The Casement Project, how we did it and who we reached. I’m hoping that there’s useful information in this for many artists, funders, commissioners and programmers, regardless of what scale we’re working on. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentComing full circle
May 14, 2017I’ve been trying to track down the actor who voiced the roll call of death that we used in the sound design for Butterflies and Bones and for I’m Roger Casement. The script is no help since it lists all of the actors without allocating their roles. David Rudkin couldn’t recall either which of the actors it might have been. But I remembered that the script from the recording was in Rudkin’s archive at the British Library and I hoped it might have some clues about who voiced which part read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentCreative Bodies: Next Moves – my speech for 2023:Future Retrospectives
April 28, 2017So in the spirit of Future Retrospection, I want to imagine a 2023 in which we will have commemorated the independence of the Irish national body by celebrating the confident freedom of a diversity of Irish bodies, autonomous but interdependent, recognising that individual flourishing depends on the flourishing of many others. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentA response from Quarto Collective to Butterflies and Bones at The Mac
March 26, 2017“Fearghus spoke eloquently about the role of empathy in Butterflies and Bones. It is work that aims to fragment our assumptions of who belongs and who does not, who is inside and who is outside. The dancers’ bodies are interactive and interdependent throughout, even when in seeming conflict. Amid public arguments about who belongs in the United Kingdom and who does not, it is a timely message.” read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentI’m Roger Casement, Television Premiere, RTÉ One, January 17
December 18, 2016The Casement Project has crossed a lot of borders, so it’s no surprise that it continues beyond 2016 with the broadcast of I’m Roger Casement, a dance film directed by Dearbhla Walsh and produced for The Casement Project by COCO Television. The film will be shown on RTÉ One on 17 January at 23:10. It will also be available on RTÉ Player after that. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentForgetting and Remembering: finding the future in the past
December 16, 2016In placing The Casement Project in the frame of the ART:2016 and 1418NOW commemoration programmes , I wanted to show how dance helps us understand ourselves, our history and what we might do together in the future. It was encouraging to have the … read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentButterflies and Bones review: blood and thunder
October 22, 2016As each of the six lithe performers, four men and two women, quietly declares “I am Roger Casement” we are at the heart of Fearghus O’Conchúir’s choreographic intent: to create a highly physical and visual performance where dance embodies and explores the multiple meanings of that life. This incorporates the symbolic, the gendered and the social aspects, then and now. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentAfter Butterflies and Bones in Belfast
October 17, 2016I hope audiences recognise the performers on stage as fellow humans exploring their capacities and frailties in ways that remind us of what strange potential is available to all of us. read more…
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