dance

During the ‘Body and Camera’ workshop in the Dance Ireland studios at Foley Street in Dublin, we began developping a new installation, Hyacinth, working with a constant dialogue between the movements and formations of the dancers on the stage and the symmetric abstactions derived from them on screen. We explored simple double play with the dancers - one in the present, the other in variable delay - and later worked with the dancers inventing bodily formations that conjure an almost abstact onscreen image evolving somewhere between a rorschach test and a flower pattern.

SLIDESHOW

With

Natalie Grand

Emma Fitzgerald

Cindy Cummings

Ailish Claffey

Mary Keane

Deirdre Murphy

Workshop. Clip 01’43”

Collaboration has long been central to our work. We were commissioned in July 2006 by the Kinsale Arts Week (KAW) to develop an interactive work with dancers Murphy and Hurley, both originally from Kinsale, and currently based in London. Thanks to the help Chris Hurley of the Cork Film Centre and of Daghdha Dance Company, Limerick, we were able to bring the performance to LCGA and eventually to The Place in London.