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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…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Ireland 2016, National Archives, The Casement Project | Leave a commentDo not yet fold your wings: Liverpool Irish Festival:
November 1, 2015The performance seems to have been a success. I did feel that it took the audience a while to know how to see me in this music context but gradually, as I fed from the music and the musicians, and unravelled the movement material and ideas I’d brought, I felt part of the bigger sonic, kinetic and visual energy we created together. I’m grateful for all of these opportunities to be dancing with and for people. And I hope that I will be as brave, curious and creative as Bisakha Sarker. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged Aoife Mc Atamney, Bluecoat, Immix, Liverpool Irish Festival, Stealing Sheep | Leave a commentwww.godisinthetvzine.co.uk review of Liverpool Irish Festival’s commission: Stealing Sheep, Immix Ensemble, Fearghus Ó Conchúir
October 31, 2015– Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25th October 2015 By Andy Vine · On October 27, 2015 LMW_Stealing SheepThe stage is set, in an inverted T-shape with a low catwalk in the middle, so the widest part is closest to the audience. Stealing … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentChoreodrome Rehearsals Week 2 – The Casement Project
September 29, 2015After our first two weeks of rehearsal on The Casement Project, there are some things I know and many more questions yet to be answered. It’s not a bad place to be in. After the confidence required to make a good proposal, this more humbling uncertainty feels like a better place from which to be creative. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentChoreodrome Week One – The Casement Project
September 7, 2015It was a relief to get in to the studio this week with some of The Casement Project dancers and to begin to explore in such articulate and creative bodies some of the ideas that I’ve been storing over the past two years. read more…
Posted in Blog | Tagged British Library, Choreodrome, Microrainbow, The Casement Project | Leave a commentIreland 2016 – The Casement Project
August 6, 2015Today, at the RHA in Dublin, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys announced that The Casement Project is one the successful proposals in the Arts Council’s 2016 Open Call for National Projects. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentCosán Dearg at the Agnès b. Librairie Galerie, Hong Kong
July 26, 2015I’d thought I’d given up dancing on concrete floors. A commitment to presenting dance beyond the theatre, where different people might meet it and where it could resonate differently, had led me to performing on hard floors. But after tearing … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentMind Your Step: After the performances
March 10, 2015This robust permeability of Niche depends to a great extent on the qualities of the gifted, creative performers and also to the history of our working together and clarifying the intention and ethics of our way of performing. read more…
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