FIRKIN CRANE PRESENTS

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 9th November 8pm

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 26th October)

Special offers:
€55 for 5 tickets (if ordering more than 5, order 5 for special offer and then add extra tickets)
€95 for 10 tickets(if ordering more than 10, order 10 for special offer and then add extra tickets)

Booking fee: online €1.50 / telephone €2
Booking (021) 450 7487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Helica is a fusion of movement and music exploring the cyclical nature of life. A flowing, graceful performance that brings us on the emotional journey of the coming and going of the seasons, the constant flux of growth and decay, awakening thriving and returning to rest. Highlighting the need to create centres, within ourselves, between each other and our surroundings to maintain balance and harmony, Helica, meaning spiral, is a colourful, meditative and vibrant dance performance.

Helga Deasy is a choreographer and dance artist based in Cork. She has performed and presented her work nationally and internationally, including Dance Umbrella Festival (UK), Bonnie Bird Theatre (UK), Theater an der Universität Regensburg (Germany), Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement (Northern Ireland) and in Ireland at Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork Opera House, the Firkin Crane and Dublin Dance Festival.

Supported by a Culture Ireland Award Helica toured to New York in June of this year for a performance at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Laban Institute of Movement Studies.

“Helica is such an engaging performance, the combination of the dance and music is intense and emotional.” – Aifric McMahon, audience member (Laban Institute of Movement Studies 40^th anniversary celebration, New York, June 2018).

“Helica really is a ‘total work of art’ (…) with this particular piece of Contemporary Dance, the Choreographer and Director Helga Deasy, had brought together the three things that elude so many performances; movement, sound and sight into a cohesive and unified whole. Each element in the work had been thought through and balanced against the other, leaving the audience immersed in a controlled and engaged experience” – Dermot Browne, audience member, artist & curator (Helica performance at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, October 2017).

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 30th November 2018 7pm 

Price
€15 (includes performance and dinner)
Bookings need to be made by Wednesday 28th November

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

Butter Nights, a shared performance platform is an evening designed to exchange ideas, movement and food between artists based in Cork and adjoining counties. This is a unique opportunity to see new movement works or re-designed performance pieces from the five artists: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, Natasha Bourke, Gracie Marshall, Rachel Ní Bhraonáin and Lisa Cahill. The night will be an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and meet with other artists and members of the public over dinner.

Butter nights is made possible by the support of Firkin Crane providing 70 hours of free studio time to create the works as well as technical and design support from the Firkin Crane Dance Team of specialists.

This inaugural event is supported by the Per Cent for Arts Scheme in connection with the publicly funded refurbishment project Re-Imagining Firkin Crane.