FIRKIN CRANE PRESENTS

ONLINE BOOKING

Tuesday 2nd April 2019 11am

Tickets: €7
Special Discounted Rate of €5 each for groups of 20 or more (contact Box Office)
(For school booking teachers are FREE – please mention this at the time of booking)

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Energetic, fresh and enjoyable Princesses can be Pirates, playfully questions what is “normal” behaviour for girls and for boys. We follow the hilarious escapades of two extraordinary performers as they journey into the unknown, swapping toys and activities in their quest to defy stereotypes and break the norm. Dynamic and fun – a dance piece created for children but inspiring for young and old alike.

Mónica Muñoz Marín is a dance artist based in Dublin. She graduated from the Folwang University of the Arts in Essen and completed her MA in Contemporary Dance Education at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She was a long-standing member of Stadtstheater Heidelberg and the Tanztheater Freiburg in Germany. As a freelance performer she has worked extensively throughout Europe for over 20 years. She was a recipient of the mentored Resicency Award (2016) from Dance Ireland and the Docklands Arts Fund from Business to Arts (2018). Her work has been presented at the Dublin Dance Festival, Dance Limerick, Firkin Crane, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Werkraum Theater Heidelberg and has toured nationally. Along with her choreographic practice Monica teaches dance in community and education settings.

Princesses can be Pirates is supported by a Tour and Dissemination Grant from the Arts Council. It will tour nationally to 11 venues across the country.

ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 6th April 2019 8pm

Tickets:
€14 / €12 concession
€10 early bird (for bookings before 23rd March)

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Supported by an original soundtrack, striking costumes and an outstanding international cast, MERLIN is a dark tale instilled by the protean spirit of the eponym character.

Merlin is a dance-theatre quintet with a cast of five outstanding international performers. An emotional, engaging and physical dance work. Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli, in collaboration with a group of artists, present a rigorously structured group piece, chiselled choreography colliding with intuitive impulse: a mix of individual urge, group synchronicity, chaos and order. MERLIN aims to merge animalism and finesse, in the choreography as much as in the movement vocabulary.

Jostling with rational narrative and swimming in the substance of myth, MERLIN dives into body textures to invoke tales, pagan carnivals, dark waters, Orphic themes, monsters, wild animals, a battered queen, a shamanic devil, a strong-headed child-woman, countless images that resonate in our hearts, the fading of time, and of course, Merlin himself, and his mischievous grin.

Credits:
Concept and artistic direction: Alexandre Iseli & Jazmin Chiodi
Choreography: Alexandre Iseli & Jazmin Chiodi, with the dancers
Contribution to the choreographic research: Lorenzo Dallai
Dancers: Jazmin Chiodi, Clara Protar, Kiko López, Sarah Ryan, Alexandre Iseli
Creatives: Oscar Mascareñas (Music), Pierre Canitrot (Costumes), Kevin Smith (Lighting Design)

Warnings:
The piece contains partial nudity.

Funded by:
Merlin was funded by the Arts Council under the Project Awards scheme and co-produced by Tipperary Dance Platform and commissioned by Dance East. Creation and production supported by residences at Tipperary Excel Arts Centre, EiMA Creation Centre, Compagnie Marie Lenfant, Project Arts Centre, Tig Roy. Early developments of the project were supported by Hélène Cathala, Le Grand Studio, Dublin Dance Festival, Fringe LAB, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Lorenzo Dallai and Oran Leong.

Jazmín Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli are resident artists at Tipperary Dance Platform, with the support of Tipperary County Council, Tipperary Excel Arts Centre and the Arts Council under the Dance Artist in Residency Award and have been touring internationally with the support of Culture Ireland.

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 26th April 2019 8pm

Saturday 27th April 2019 8pm

Tickets:
€14 / €12 concession
€10 (for bookings before 19th April)

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Cork Youth Ballet  in Association with Firkin Crane Proudly Presents Hanging On.

Directed by Sinead Murphy, Hanging On will feature 40 dancers who will showcase their versatility and creativity by performing specially choreographed pieces in neo classical, contemporary and jazz dance styles.

The programme will feature new and reworked choreography by Andrew Wilson, Head of Ballet and Contemporary Dance at Bird College UK and former soloist at Birmingham Royal Ballet, Alan Foley, Artistic Director Cork City Balllet, Jane Kellaghan, Course Director of CSN and Artistic Director of CRUX Dance Company, Patricia Crosbie, Ballet Mistress with Cork City Ballet and lecturer of dance in University of Limerick and Robert Foley of IAB.

Choreography of the title piece Hanging On will be by Sinead Murphy, Artistic Director of the company and Principal of Cork School of Dance. Patricia Crosbie has reproduced the piece “Cry Me a River” for the company and Robert Foley has choreographed a piece called “MOVE DANCE BE BORN”. The stage will be lit by renowned Lighting Designer Tim Feehily.

Sinead Murphy says “Cork Youth Ballet gives dancers the chance to work with new teachers and choreographers. It provides a great opportunity for the dancers to broaden their horizons and to work and train in a dance style that might be outside their original form of dance training.”

Founded by Sinead Murphy in 2015, the company provides opportunities for young Cork dancers to train as a company and produce dynamic new works. Cork Youth Ballet Company is made up of dancers from various dance schools in Cork including Coláiste Stiofán Naofa, Cork School of Dance, Lucy French  School of Dance, Montfort College of Performing Arts, Wolfe Stage School, Starstruck Studios and Maeve Kelleher.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 26th May 2019 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Natural Body Movement and Trained Body Movement

Natural Body Movement may incorporate some of the very early infant movements in the womb and later on as we learn to work with gravity and come to standing. Whatever we may call it; there are natural and spontaneous movements that we all know from very early in our lives. As we grow and learn, these early movements get overlaid or enhanced by the many movement techniques available to us now. This workshop will explore seeing where the natural and more learned dance or movement techniques meet, partially meet or even conflict with each other.

Joan Davis has been exploring the nature of creativity, particularly from a body based perspective, for over 40 years. She pioneered contemporary dance in Ireland in the 70s & 80s and has experimented with collaborative art as a professional artist and therapist.

From 1996, when she moved to Wicklow, she developed the arts practice and performance offerings of Maya Lila which was based on bringing Authentic Movement into performance. She published two books on this process in 2007.

Joan is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler, and Voice Work with Chloe Goodchild and Rajeswar Bhattacharya. She is a Hakomi Sensorimotor Trauma Psychotherapist.

She continues to study developmental processes as well as embryology and early infant trauma. Joan has undertaken trainings in Dynamic Attachment Repair Experiences (DARE) with Dr. Diane Poole Heller in Europe. She continues her studies with trainings in HANDLE an holistic approach to neuro developmental healing and repatterning.

In 2012 Joan offered a four year somatic training called ORIGINS which covered the journey from preconception to standing.

In 2013 Mary Wycherley, a dance filmmaker based in Limerick, Ireland, was funded to make a film of the work of Maya Lila. This film, called ‘In the Bell’s Shadow’ has been screened nationally and internationally since it premiered in 2015.

Joan offers ongoing one to one somatic therapy sessions as well as her group work and solo retreats. Her most recent publication (2018) is the journey of ORIGINS, a journey from preconception to standing. www.gorsehill.net