I will start a new subcategory here, Butoh Festival Dublin 2012 that is. Preparations are going strong, gathering an international team of experts and learning to be experts (me) to launch the first edition of a butoh themed festival in Ireland.
on the extra page you will find all information regarding the festival until I built a separate blog for it. Enjoy reading!
The idea starts blooming into real things to happen. Space, workshop proposal, funding applications, timetable, dreams of audiences… I very much hope this to become reality and am working hard to make it happen in the second half of 2012.
The last day of Louise Costelloes DanceResidency for South Dublin City Council! We filmed some of the material (and took pictures) around the Rua Red and again, with a try at the Luas stop for 3 minutes. You would think, that it’s a public space, but apparently (or in the minds of the security men sitting in their little watch-box) it isn’t. You’re not allowed to dance and film there, which they make clear through a loudspeaker announcement, using “you are on cctv” as a threat, just in case you will fire out some pirouettes and infect more people with your un.heard.of. behaviour. Beware of the Dancers! Considering the amount of drug dealing on several luas stops between Tallaght and Heuston Station (here, I said in in public. Let’s see if the Gardai or security men do something about it now. Oh, this is well known and they usually just turn around and walk the other way? hmmmm…) this is hilarious. Or scary. Or both. Especially when you know that you are allowed to film in a public space… well. Just don’t give people uniforms, they make them so… powerseeking. Out of a box, not coming out to tell us, because they could be filmed doing so.. Need to investigate that further.
We’re so close to the end of the year, but still some things are happening. First I have to recommend Deirdre Murphy’s Yoga Nidra Workshop, which I took on Saturday in the beautiful Fumbally Court Studio! If you get the chance, give yourself 2 hours of me-time, after which you will float through the rest of the day with ease. I went shopping for presents in the most relaxed state you could think of (yes, shopping in Dublin City on a Saturday being relaxed!!)
My films try and wait/await, which I worked on in collaboration with Karen Gleeson / Carsten Christmann and Timothy Schmele respectively, are shown at the Lady Windemer’s Salon in Back Loft / Le Cathedral Studios, Dublin as part of their silent film cinema.
Also, Louise Costelloes residency as Dancer in Reidence for the South Dublin City Council comes to an end, after showings in Tallaght / Rua Red and performance of Fragments of home at the Mamuska Night in Birr / Offaly and before Jessica Kennedy will be the new and next Dancer in Residence at Rua Red. I’ll work on some filming with Louise just before Christmas.
There are lots of plans for 2012, the Butoh Festival being the priority, but also getting back to teaching again (more soon), work on a new piece, knit loads of cardigans ;) …
I hope everyone will have an exciting challenging new year and a peaceful christmas break before the work starts again.
Troika Ranch are giving a workshop in Dance House this week. A workshop on composition: both the live body and a digital component hopefully fuse by the end of the week (or came a bit closer at least) to form an idea of a work, that gives both technology and human body an equal weight within the process of creating. A set of rules, that lead us to manipulate the way we use our body and become aware of possiblities, whether we like them or not, which require making choices and decisions. Different tasks to compose and intervene, about failure and exact replication that will never happen, but is the goal we aim at.
Mark and Dawn are the absolut cracks (if I’m allowed to say so) and wonderful teachers, who open our perception of what is possible with software like Isadora (which Mark wrote and is constantly improving) and more importantly, remind us that it’s not about gimmicks but indepth research (and a lot of fiddeling around with parameters) to choreograph, whether we work digitally or in the analog world.
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