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July 2, 2016Roger Casement was denied his full identity. In Glasnevin he is still in exile from his beloved Antrim, which he wanted to be his last resting place. These successive internments, the posthumous exiling’s from his own place and from his own self, are addressed beautifully in Butterflies and Bones. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentJeffrey Dudgeon’s lecture for Hospitable Bodies: The Casement Symposium
June 17, 2016HOSPITABLE BODIES: THE CASEMENT SYMPOSIUM Roger Casement in 1916 Friday 3 June 2016 British Library Jeffrey Dudgeon I am opening today’s session and have therefore to give you a crash course in the Casement diary controversy, and indicate where … read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentGerard Howlin in The Irish Examiner on The Casement Project and the Arts in Ireland
June 13, 2016Butterflies and Bones is the deposition of Casement’s natural body, from the body politic, first one state and then another created for him. Through dance, in sweat and sinew, a sense of the true man will be recomposed. There is a limit to words and dance as an art form powerfully surpasses it
The enactment of art, the nurture of artists, the years of trial and experiment by a man from the Ring Gaeltacht like Ó Conchúir and the talented dancers who perform his work, is a synthesis of many talents and arts forms besides their own. It is a cultural ecosystem which in Ireland is parched to the point of exhaustion. The recent diminution of the arts portfolio in government, is further demoralisation, yet again. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentOur new trailer for Butterflies and Bones: The Casement Project
June 7, 2016We have a new trailer. Butterflies and Bones: The Casement Project has its world premiere this weekend at The Place, London. I’ve invited lots of people to see the work as it develops but I also want to save some … read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentColm Tóibín on Roger Casement
May 25, 2016I’ve been thinking about people who might be interested in the biography of Roger Casement. As I’ve tried to make clear, Butterflies and Bones which we premiere next week in London is an imaginative response to the life and after-life of … read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentButterflies and Bones: After rehearsals in Dancehouse
May 17, 2016Each phase of rehearsal has been important, but I knew that this past two weeks would be especially significant. I was confident that we had the material of the piece but I needed to find out its shape, to let … read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentLiv O’Donoghue on doing workshops as part of Due Process
May 8, 2016Due Process was a two day programme of workshops, performance and food, bringing together local community groups, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as members of the arts community….I taught two movement workshops across the two days, both with an emphasis on sharing, creating, and most importantly having fun. The age diversity of the groups meant really having to throw out the normal dance class rule book, but it was a pleasure to get everybody moving, working and creating together. read more…
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