Rising Voices: The Film is a journey that emerged from the encounter between Alexandre Iseli and Derek Pedros, one of Spain's most acclaimed and influential dance filmmakers.

The work was created in collaboration with TD Associate Artist Rocío Dominguez. The film was made within the context of the rituals of the Rising Voices project and the landscape of County Tipperary, where Derek Pedros recontextualizes Rising Voices in open spaces.
Rising Voices is a contemporary dance piece featuring a rising generation of young dancers under the artistic direction of Tipperary Dance Artistic Director, Alexandre Iseli. The Rising Voices project combines creation with professionalisation in an interdisciplinary collaborative process.

A collection of restless ritual attempts, Rising Voices reflects on the place of one’s personal voice within a community, from the initial bodily vibration of the human voice to its intellectual and social expression.

This emotionally engaging work expresses the unique beauty of each individual, and their attempt to elaborate collective meaning through a ritual journey that progressively consolidates the bonds of the group.

A Tipperary Dance film led by Jazmin Chiodi with children from Gaelscoil Thiobraid Árann.

In 2021 a group of children had their first encounter with contemporary dance through Tipperary Dance Schools Programme. They were introduced to a participatory arts practice that supported equality, collaboration and creative expression.

They discovered a collaborative approach in which each participant plays an equally important role, empowering them to express their own voices.

Barriers dropped allowing for an openness where some children revealed hidden gifts, others built new relationships and the group’s overall dynamics became more fluid. On their journey of discovery, they pulled together as a community and learnt to face life together. They became a tribe.

Turnstile was realised at a complex time during the peak of a second wave of Covid-19 with restricted access to sites for the development and creation of the work. However, a new creative approach reaffirmed the collaborative nature of the company by bringing together a talented group of Ireland-based artists who made this work possible.

The Turnstile screendance recreates a cinematic experience of Turnstile, a live performance and visual arts installation, combining dance, video and original music.

Commissioned by Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, in memory of the 1920 events known as Bloody Sunday. Two dancers enclosed inside a glass cabinet. Video projections of oversized bodies falling into an empty space. The factual numbers of a bloody forensic report becoming the backbone of music composition.

Iseli-Chiodi reflects on our ability to find resilience after violence. This work considers the decay of memory and pays a poetic tribute to the illusory nature of narratives that spin inside the collective unconscious, invading its heart. Music, film, recorded voices and the flesh of the body weave threads of history, to form a new present-day image. This work enters through a door of memory and spins out through a turnstile of reinterpretation, imagination, and possibility.

Turnstile is an invitation to revisit violent facts and reconstruct a new state of play through the lens of dance. Unraveling the story, taking rudimentary constituents that define the traumatic events. Letting each one of them carry its own significance. Decontextualising each component from the original narratives. Weaving them into a new scene, a new plot that does not carry the trauma in its heart.