A Tipperary Dance commission for young audiences about friendship, trust and building resilience together.

Hello!
How are you?
Do you want to play with me?

An energetic dance piece where two strangers meet, connect and celebrate their new friendship. Together they look to the future with hope, optimism and an appetite for life.
Up-close is about trusting each other, building resilience together, and letting go of the past.
Commissioned by Tipperary Dance. This performance is not a public event but part of our Connecting Communities Programme. Find out more here [link to TD Connects Communities Programme]

A Tipperary Dance Commission. A site-specific exploration through dance, movement and film responding to a selection of County Tipperary’s unique and natural environments.

The commission invited a site-specific exploration through dance and movement responding to a selection of natural environments. The work emerged in close relationship with these sites, all of which have been allowed to restore to their native growth and ecologies. A sense of time, place and relationship unfolds as the dancers, environment and filmmaking find their balance together on site. The work negotiates time, scale and terrain while reflecting on ways of seeing, belonging and connecting to our natural world.

The work unfolds in a series of 5 screendance episodes or visual poems, each with their own identity yet all intrinsically linked. The environments and locations in Co. Tipperary remain unnamed and uncredited for now but will be identified as part of the festival’s public workshops for Tipperary communities during the commission’s presentation.

Far-flung Dance has been screened internationally at festivals in the US, Scotland and England since the premier at Tipperary Dance International Festival last year.

Turnstile is 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. Decontextualizing each component from the original narratives. Weaving them into a new scene, a new plot that does not carry the trauma in its heart.

A cycle of dances, large and small, created for our times, since the beginning of the Pandemic. It is a coming together of eight vastly different and individual dancers in a large space, searching for safe space and trying to be together. They are celebrating life and searching for joy,
despite the limitations of our current reality. Dances for Inside and Outside was made with a consciousness of the situation of social distancing and the limits of bodies being together in an interior space. The work is embodying what we have all been going through and what our reality is now. There is a vital physicality and necessity in how the dancers interact together, mixing joy and fear and trying to be safe. The work continues, we will not be stopped by a Pandemic. This is our response to the current situation.

Independent artistic endeavours can be solitary, taxing and even overwhelming, and that's before getting into the studio to start the creation. What happens when we share the challenges of such a creative process? A shared space, physical and otherwise, can become a place of connection, of support, of motivation, allowing our vulnerabilities to flow and doubts to subside.

SOLO-ing explores how different sensibilities can sit beside each other, intersect, overlap, contradict or hold each other up. Intertwining these explorations, SOLO-ing presents tales of embodied imagination and personal storytelling in dance.

A Tipperary Dance commission. Exploring Personal Insight to a state that examines what it means to exercise self-government and sovereignty over one’s territory: Body, Soul and Environment. We use this opportunity to dive into the known unknown, asking questions hoping not for an answer but for a response - using Street dance, Voice and Music to aid proposing these questions.

Dancing to connect so that solitary isn't lonely. Out of isolation, Fearghus dances a solo to connect, to show the connections that we're made from, that sustain us, and to welcome the connections that will help us grow. He's dancing so that solitary isn't lonely.