WHY I DANCE IN the air and IN WATER?
Perhaps it’s the fact that it feels very much like one is practising contact improvisation dance with a harness and the same feeling applies to the sensation of dancing in water, it feels like she, ( the water), is pushing you, with her weight, into new places.
Or that they both feel like flying...but on different planets.
These are also both practices that are very conducive to interacting with projections and with light.
Using projections of my underwater dance and whales doing the same. These can be thrown onto the walls, bodies and giant mirrors of both UIllinn and the IACC, (making it seems like the whole room is underwater), where we as dancers carry out harness dance explorations.
Collaborators
Perhaps it’s the fact that it feels very much like one is practising contact improvisation dance with a harness and the same feeling applies to the sensation of dancing in water, it feels like she, ( the water), is pushing you, with her weight, into new places.
Or that they both feel like flying...but on different planets.
These are also both practices that are very conducive to interacting with projections and with light.
Using projections of my underwater dance and whales doing the same. These can be thrown onto the walls, bodies and giant mirrors of both UIllinn and the IACC, (making it seems like the whole room is underwater), where we as dancers carry out harness dance explorations.
Collaborators
Hugh Stanier + Lucia Smyth
Artists chosen to work with us are hybrid makers, who work as circus AND dance artists and even in water.
They crucially have very organic dancey acrobatic fluid styles and even more so a lifelong and ongoing practice of contact improvisation.
Sometimes even in water. This applies to Hugh Stanier and Lucia Smyth.
Lucia even has also taught freediving in the past herself and has worked with myself and Tomasz before in experimentations.
Tomasz Madajczak
Film artist and multimedia maker. I have worked with him last year in our residencies at Uillinn West Cork Arts centre. In those many weeks we created so many artistic seedlings of ideas that we wish to develop on now. As part of our forward trajectory in our work.
Tomasz Madajczak has begun explaining how light and lenses and cameras can be a creative expression of dynamic choreography or sorts. In my dance film mentorships and courses, I learned that editing is a from of choreography in itself and cinematography, of course is in a sense like scenography.
We will play and explore our collective creative practice. As you can see even in mere moments of work together, we create wonderful things.
Film artist and multimedia maker. I have worked with him last year in our residencies at Uillinn West Cork Arts centre. In those many weeks we created so many artistic seedlings of ideas that we wish to develop on now. As part of our forward trajectory in our work.
Tomasz Madajczak has begun explaining how light and lenses and cameras can be a creative expression of dynamic choreography or sorts. In my dance film mentorships and courses, I learned that editing is a from of choreography in itself and cinematography, of course is in a sense like scenography.
We will play and explore our collective creative practice. As you can see even in mere moments of work together, we create wonderful things.
Partnerships
Funding in kind with multiple supports from:
ACCOMMODATION
DANCES IN WATER and AIR is part of a larger series of research residencies:
Some include mentorships and some include further physical practice underwater in the actual sea.
If all goes to plan with bursaries and residencies, there will be:
- 2 weeks research at IACC (Funded by my circus Bursary.)
- 2 weeks underwater in the sea filming further dance (Funded by my circus Bursary.)
- 3 weeks research in UIllinn West Cork arts centre (Funded by the Dancer in residency scheme)
- 2 weeks research at the IACC (Funded by the Dancer in residency scheme)
Funding in kind with multiple supports from:
- Uillinn - West Cork Arts centre with 3 weeks dance residency, technical and promo support
- The Irish Aerial creation centre in Limerick with hugely discounted creation space, rigging and promo support.
- Offering through Uillinn: workshops for local artists, for residents of the Direct provision centre in Clonakilty, whom I have long standing working relationship with; all in very unique bungee dance harnesses.
- Plus 2 showings of the discoveries made by myself and Tomasz Madajczak during the residencies.
- Talks, screenings and Q&As.
ACCOMMODATION
- Limerick near the IACC, is further funded in kind by friends giving us their spare cottage for two weeks. Lucky us.
- In West Cork it is free as we all have accommodation here.
DANCES IN WATER and AIR is part of a larger series of research residencies:
Some include mentorships and some include further physical practice underwater in the actual sea.
If all goes to plan with bursaries and residencies, there will be:
- 2 weeks research at IACC (Funded by my circus Bursary.)
- 2 weeks underwater in the sea filming further dance (Funded by my circus Bursary.)
- 3 weeks research in UIllinn West Cork arts centre (Funded by the Dancer in residency scheme)
- 2 weeks research at the IACC (Funded by the Dancer in residency scheme)