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March 20, 2025Déinim iarracht tabhairt faoi deara an gcóraghrafaíocht atá ar siúl cheana féin is mé ag tabhairt faoi an tionscnamh nua seo, Dúiche. If the choreography is a set of relationships and contexts that unfold within a particular frame, though it’s … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentResearch with Luail: Dúiche agus múirín aiteach rince
March 6, 2025It’s been a while since I stepped into a studio to work with a group of dancers that I didn’t already know. Much as I was looking forward to the opportunity to work with the dance artists of Luail (six … read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Duiche | Leave a commentTús le Dúiche
December 31, 2024Táim tosnaithe I mbliana ar thionscnamh nua rince dár teideal Dúiche. Dúiche means Hinterland in English. As someone whose creative work has been sensitive to context as material, I’ve always been fond of the phrase an dúiche máguaird and its … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentWhat people said about Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary
November 13, 2024Because Isabella and I have allowed instinct and the queer resonance between us to guide the development of Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary, we’ve had to trust that sharing the work could be of value to others. We’ve had some reassurance … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentTearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary Trailer
November 6, 2024Thanks to Patricio Cassinoni for this production trailer
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentMicro Rainbow Dance Your Freedom Exhibition
July 9, 2024As a celebration of the past four years of Micro Rainbow’s Body and Movement Programme for LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers, we’ve made an exhibition called Dance Your Freedom. The programme’s history is longer than those four years: I connected … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentCeist Residency Dance Cork Firkin Crane: Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary
April 29, 2024Isabella and I are happy to be able to draw on the resources of an Arts Council Project Award to continue the work of Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary and the investment of time, energy, imagination and relationships that have already … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentDance and Drawing at the CCI
March 15, 2024As part of the Centre Culturel Irlandais’ programming for the Paris Olympic year, its director Nora Hickey M’Sichili has assembled an exhibition on Gaelic Sports in the centre. It’s the third in a series of art and sport exhibitions … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentHeaney dancing
January 28, 2024What a poet can establish in the act of writing a poem is something a reader can get from the completed work, that is a realisation that as persons and as peoples we can get further into our selves and farther out of ourselves than we might have expected; and this is one of the ways that poetry helps things forward. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentArt of Sport – Artists’ Talk at the Butler Gallery
September 10, 2023It’s an honour and frankly a buzz to have Abú be presented in the Art of Sport exhibition, curated by Anna O’Sullivan, at the Butler Gallery as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival this year. To have our dance work there, presented with impact on specially constructed screens and with Murli’s music filling the gallery, is testimony to the ability of dance to resonate with a wide range of audiences and in the most refined of artistic contexts. read more…
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