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Thursday, 8 July, 19:30 IST

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As part of this year’s Dancer from the Dance Festival. Fearghus will be showing Cliabh, a short dance film that draws on and sends out lines of connection to a community around the world.  The Dancer from the Dance Festival by John Scott Dance Company/IMDT is a programme of performances, talks, workshops and classes from a diverse group of international artists connected to Ireland.

I’m Roger Casement

Pride Screenings

Butler Gallery Limerick Onsite and Online

Monday 21 June – Friday 2 July

FREE

For Pride in Kilkenny 2021, the Butler Gallery is screening an array of recently acclaimed and award winning short films representing a cross section of LGBTQ life and creativity from Ireland and overseas. Among the films is I’m Roger Casement, created with award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh for broadcast on RTÉ as part of the The Casement Project in 2016.

Wednesday, 16 June 2021. 10am – 12pm (GMT) ONLINE

Clwstwr and MFG Baden-Württemberg explore the opportunities that digital innovation presents to dance and hear from dancers about their experiences of making work during COVID-19.

Alongside other artists, Fearghus and collaborator Rob Eagle will present their experience of working on their queer-led Augmented Reality and Dance research, supported by NDCWales and Clwstwr.

Register for the online event here

Dance Limerick

June to October 2021

Ten dance and digital artists, including Fearghus and collaborator Rob Eagle, have been selected to take part in a new initiative of the Light Moves Festival, aimed at investing in and nurturing creative process and enquiry in dance, technology and screen-based dance practices. It is a partnership between the Light Moves Festival, Dance Limerick and The Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC) at the University of Limerick.  The residencies encompass choreographic approaches, machine learning, liveness, augmented reality, smart textiles, performance and real-time processes.

The Open Futures 2021 Artists are (in their groups): Georgia Tegou and Kristina Pulejkova, Eva Baumann and Michael Tuttle, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Rob Eagle, and Ruairí Ó Donnabháin, Róisín Berg, Julie Phelps and Sorcha Hassett. Scroll down to meet the Artists.

25 March 10:30am

Chaired by Dr Maureen Gaffney, with guest speakers choreographer and dance artist Fearghus Ó Conchúir, choreographer and dance artist Catherine Young and choreographer David Bolger.

From Waterford Healing Arts Trust in partnership with the Arts Council.

Part of an online series of panel discussions, workshops and resources seeking to strengthen resilience, restore confidence and promote connectedness across the arts sector.

Adm free but booking essential. Book your place for the Dance Strand here.

Live captions are available for this event.

Click here for info about the entire Surviving or Thriving? programme.

Fearghus is part of the Creative Team working with Micro Rainbow International to run Body and Movement Sessions with LGBT refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.  A new phase of the project begins in January 2021 with the support of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to embed and make sustainable the valuable work.  The Creative Team of dance artists, teachers and choreographers comprises Stephanie Schober, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Takeshi Matsumoto and Jamieson Dryburgh.  The project is part of Micro Rainbow’s Social Inclusion programme and is an enduring legacy of The Casement Project  under whose auspices Fearghus initiated the work.

As we aim for 2021, the idea of describing what’s next doesn’t seem entirely helpful.  It’s hard to know what’s next, but I know that with restrictions on movement set to continue into the New Year, what I will do is reflect, to practice dancing and to connect to others doing that.

In October, Fearghus takes up a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris where he will reconnect with his solo practice and with a network of dispersed collaborators to inform the next phase of his creative development.

On 1 October he will also chair a roundtable on new approaches for the pandemic era organised by FICEP, a network of international cultural centres and institutes based in Paris.

And on 2 October, he will take part in the Irish element of the IETM Multi-location 2020 event, where he will be in conversation with performance makers, Gary Keegan and Maeve Stone.

Fearghus is one of the eight recipients of this year’s Hatch award by Dance Ireland.  The award offers dance artists space and time to think, to reimagine and to rebuild.  It comes at an important moment in Fearghus’ development as he draws on his diverse experience as a dance artist to respond to the new context we’re all facing.  He’ll be documenting his research on his blog.

In January 2019, The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, T.D appointed Fearghus Deputy Chair of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.