FIRKIN CRANE PRESENTS

Thursday 2nd November to Tuesday November 28th
11am – 4pm Monday to Friday

FREE

Lenore is based on a poem of the same title written in 1774 by Gottfried Bürger. While the poem tells a Death and the Maiden tale, this dance for video work interprets that theme as the individual’s struggle against change, by looking at how expectations are associated with everyday objects. The work draws from the 17th century Dutch still life pictorial tradition of “Vanitas” – each object proposes a future by representing something Lenore longs for and feel due, however unlikely.

Lenore was created and performed by Angie Smalis and Colin Gee, with music by Jennifer Walshe. It screens throughout November and accompanies their live performance of John’s Query on November 25th

“We were gifted a moment here, in the artificial light, a chance to colour in the outlines. We were given a portrayal of something ineffable, enacted but then taken away” Theatre of Noise on Lenore, 2016

Funded by the Arts Council under the Dance Project Award.

ONLINE BOOKING 

Saturday 18th November 8pm

Plus post-show discussion

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 4th November)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Now in it’s second year, Firkin Crane on Tour presents exciting and new independent dance to audiences across Ireland.

In TOST, Eniskillen-based choreographer Dylan Quinn collaborates with German dance artist Jenny Ecke, renowned Irish artist Paddy McCann, and UK composer and vocal artist Andy Garbi, to explore the space between the two noises, two happenings, two places, two people. With hundreds and thousands of people trapped in the space of nothingness, having been forced from one place to another, TOST is a piece of its time. TOST, which means silence, questions of the empty void between, where the screams of anguish are as deafening as the silence of action.

In You and Me, and You, Laura Murphy and Rob Heaslip rekindle the fire in their performance through a series of misfires and misadventures, eventually discovering that persistence is the only inspiration they need. In an intimate setting, they invite you to become a witness as they search to redefine their existing relationship by opening up to everything that can be right or wrong. The duet unfolds – sometimes playful, sometimes pushing beyond into moments of aggression – but maintaining a closeness of contact throughout.

Dx2 is a Firkin Crane on Tour production, performing in Project Arts Centre, Ballina Arts Centre, Town Hall Theatre, Firkin Crane and Siamsa Tíre.

John’s Query: ONLINE BOOKING 

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with “L’infime” et “Création 2018 : Première Impression ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 25th November 7.30pm

Prices:
€10 full
€8 unwaged
€6 early bird 

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with “L’infime” et “Creation 2018 – Première Impression”
€20 full / €18 unwaged / €16 early bird (for bookings before 11th November)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Angie Smalis, Mark Carberry, and Colin Gee perform personae based on historical figures, all of whom inhabited St. John’s Square Limerick, between 1700 and 1950. This anachronistic framing of communal life seeks a new understanding of what public life means in the context of twenty-first century connectivity and interdependence. As the lives of the characters intertwine in a farcical narrative, the question is posed: Will people always betray others for the sake of their own interests?

Ultimately, John’s Query is about pursuit of (and sympathy for) the perspective from which the other can be understood, through humour, grace, longing, and melancholy. It also proposes a path for a return to narrative in dance, and addresses an opportunity to engage with a new kind of storytelling within dance.

Limerick-based Greek dance artist Angie Smalis (Daghdha Dance Company, Volk Oper Wien), and American Colin Gee (Cirque de Soleil, 2012 Rome Prize recipient, founding Whitney Live artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum), have collaborated on performance and film since 2007. John’s Query brings them together with Irish community dance artist and improviser, Mark Carberry.

Funded by the Arts Council under the Dance Project Award.

Lenore: a dance for video

“L’infime” et “Création 2018: première impression”

“L’infime” et “Création 2018: première impression” ONLINE BOOKING

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with John’s Query ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 25th November 8pm

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 11th November)

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with John’s Query:
€20 full / €18 unwaged / €16 early bird (for bookings before 11th November)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Nacera Belaza’s singular vision, an approach to choreography as an acute sensibility of movement originating in emptiness, has brought the self-taught Algerian dance artist global recognition. She was awarded the title of Chevalier des Ordes des Arts et Lettres for her services to dance in 2015, and in 2017 her company was recognised as a French Ministry of Culture ‘national company with international reach’.

In this international co-production with Ríonach Ní Néill/Galway Dance Days and Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Irish dancers join Nacera’s company in a new ensemble work – a dialogue between rituals, sacred dances and writing, in search of a sacred memory in the body.

“How to be anchored in the most singular being and open infinitely to the other, to the world?” In her new solo, “L’infime” et Création 2018: première impression, also an Irish premiere, Nacera Belaza explores a new and perilous space – the individual, alone on the stage.

John’s Query _ Angie Smalis