This is a double-bill show with Dances Like a Bomb
Performance presented as a stage of the creative process.
Replicas is a dance work that pushes back against a world that often feels increasingly confined. It offers a visceral, immediate response, one that escapes the bounds of logic and structure. This is dance that resists neat categorisation: it is physical, raw, spontaneous, sensitive and inconsistent. It invites dialogue rather than delivering answers. It doesn’t aim for perfection, but instead opens space for dreaming, unpredictability and freedom of thought.
The performance leaves room for the audience’s imagination to wander, welcoming ambiguity and even imperfection as valid and vital experiences.
Double-bill tickets:
€12 (adults) / €8 (under 18, dancers)
Under 12s free
WHAT THE PROTAGONISTS SAY
"The dance I love is my way of answering a narrowing world. It’s not about symbols or concepts, but sensitivity, physicality, liveliness and connection. In its own way, it pushes back to keep open spaces for dreaming, for being unproductive, and not always making sense." - Alexandre Iseli
"We practice with the risk of fullness, we practice with the risk of emptiness, we practice the risk of falling in and out of attention and ourselves. We practice moving, being moved, moving through and with... We practice witnessing and being witnessed and the danger of being seen and heard. Replicas is shaped by a radical practice of listening" - Murielle Elizéon
"This work is about the endless possibilities we can have, choosing between body states, mind states, sounds, time, space. It is about the decision of making that choice instead of the other. It is about how we relate to each other, to our own self, to the space that surrounds us, to the people that are looking. About holding time, playing with it." - Eleni Roberts Kazouri
"A tragedy blending dance and music, conjuring up elements conducive to dialogue. It's an exploration of the limits of what is almost no longer dance and almost no longer music; with this mad goal in the background: to be oneself among others, without forcing it. This piece is a great breath of air, taking its inspiration from the shadow and exhaling long after it has been performed." - Thomas Belhom
Project by Alexandre Iseli, co-created by Alexandre Iseli, Murielle Elizéon, Eleni Roberts Kazouri, Thomas Belhom
Artistic direction: Alexandre Iseli, Murielle Elizéon
Dance: Eleni Roberts Kazouri
Music and sound design: Thomas Belhom
Costumes and visuals: Sarah Marguier
Creative Producer: Greta Bourke
A Tipperary Dance production Funded by the Arts Council and Tipperary County Council
Created in residencies at Tanztendenz, Compagnie Marie Lenfant, South Tipperary Arts Centre.
Thanks to: Marie Lenfant, Thierry Mabon, La Fonderie, Ingrid Kalka
Tipperary Dance © 2024