Selected PErformances

AN CHuach

The cuckoo’s arrival in May is greeted with joy signalling the start of summer and yet; the cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds nest, destroying its hosts offspring. Perhaps, the cuckoo serves as a reminder of the delicate intertwining of light and dark.

This solo, An Chuach (the cuckoo) explore’s sensations of connection and disconnection that shift and evolve in relation to place and personal histories. This work includes elements of improvisation, text and recorded voice, it features live music by drummer Solamh Kelly. Included in the solo is a poem about the arrival of the cuckoo by Pádraig Mac Suibhne - An Suibhneach Méan read by his daughter Betsy Ní Shuibhne.

This work has kindly been supported by the Arts Council Dance Artist in Residence Scheme, Cork County Council, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne.

Performed at What Next 2020, Dance Limerick & Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne

Choreographer/Performer: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín

Musician: Solamh Kelly

Poem: Teacht na Cuaiche by Pádraig Mac Suibhne - An Suibhneach Méan

Read by Betsy Ní Shuibhne

Spoken Text: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín including an excerpt from Liam Ó Muirthile’s poem Ballinacarriga.

Surge

Go, go, go... keep going...

Engaging with extended meditative states to excavate the inner workings of exhaustion, a scale between transformation and surrender is revealed in an endless cycle. Surge is a first draft of an ongoing collaboration between the three artists and their inquiry into movement, sound and states. This was made possible through an Open Futures commission as part of the Dance Artist in Residence Scheme at Dance Limerick.

Performances: Dance Limerick, Tipperary Dance Platform ’17 & Echo Echo Festival of Movement and Dance '17

Choreographers/Performers: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, Isabella Oberländer

Composer: Neil Quigley

You Make Me…

First performed at Firkin Crane under the name Steady Tread this piece was created out a need to explore the violence inherent in showing others when you are vulnerable. Explored through a series of vignettes laid out in an order that can shift according to the performers sense of what is needed in the moment. You Make Me... reveals the layered and sometimes mad inner landscape of the performer.

Performed: Firkin Crane, December 2014, Engage, Bandon, September 2015

Choreographer/Performer: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín