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← Older posts Newer posts →Noticing the infrastructure: Walthamstow Wetlands
June 9, 2018It’s easy to focus on the wildlife in the Wetlands but there is a built infrastructure of varying vintages that has made the Wetlands the place it is and continues to shape how human and non-human, organic and inorganic meets … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Walthamstow Wetlands Residency | Leave a commentQuiet dances: Walthamstow Wetlands
May 16, 2018I’ve be trying out quiet dancing – dances in the open space that don’t make undue noise – a dancing that I feel is co-choreographed by the requirements of the environment and its non-human inhabitants. Of course I bring my own movement history and habits to this environment, but I’m enjoying the sense that there are other choreographers in this process too. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Walthamstow Wetlands Residency | Leave a commentRefuge: Finding my place on Walthamstow Wetlands
May 16, 2018One of the themes of my residency is refuge and I’ve been wondering where my refuge is on the site. I want people to feel that my work there is as natural and/or surprising as the Thames Water workers or the flora and fauna outside. And it’s also important to acknowledge that as a human I need a place to shelter, to rest, to prepare, to process. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Walthamstow Wetlands Residency | Leave a commentBeginning my Residency at Walthamstow Wetlands
May 16, 2018The notion of hospitality already implies that the host has territory, property and resources to be able to offer hospitably to others. Therefore, the borders that separate self and other, familiar and stranger are also a necessity to the ethical relationship of hospitality. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Walthamstow Wetlands Residency | Leave a commentA new adventure: ‘Fleadership’ and National Dance Company Wales
April 13, 2018Joining NDCWales allows me to work with an experienced team and to realise transformative projects over a longer period. And it will challenge me to learn. Not just Welsh. There’s lots for me to learn in that changed rhythm. I will want to listen to the company, to listen to all kinds of people in Wales – people who know dance and those that don’t. And I’ll want to stay connected with that network of inspiring friends and colleagues who have sustained me over the years. I wouldn’t be able for this opportunity without them. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentSweat
March 30, 2018During the second stage of my residency at CCI and at La Briqueterie, I’ve been ill and so I’ve not had the energy to sweat. I haven’t loved being sick. I’ve had to be patient, slower. And that has brought me in directions I might not have otherwise found. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentAg cleachtadh don Táin/Rehearsing An Táin
February 5, 2018My first dance outing of 2018 was a weekend rehearsal in Dublin for An Táin. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentResidency 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…
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