Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012

Time: 10:00 – 18:00

Presented by the ATRL, School of Drama, Film and Music (Trinity College Dublin) in association with Dublin Dance Festival (11 — 26 May 2012)

Call for projects, presentations and papers considering (but not limited to):

●     dance/theatre/performance and new technologies
●     augmented reality
●     site-specific projects
●     live streams & networked performances
●     dramaturgy & technology
●     politics of access
●     bio-politics

CONTEXT:

The Arts and Technology Research Lab and the Digital Arts and Humanities Programme have come together with Dublin Dance Festival to explore the vibrant confluence of ideas generated by making performing arts in a digitally enabled world.

This symposium is intended to prompt questions and to promote dialogue between artists, dance and performing arts makers and academics in the field of performance research. It is inspired, in part, by the Historical Avant-Garde, whose artists pushed the limits of collaborative processes between music, theatre, dance, poetry, visual art, and architecture. Artists of that time experimented with and adopted the newest technologies of the day thereby reconfiguring our perception of objects and environment. Current creative projects, particularly in the performing arts, continue to push the boundaries of recent advances in communications, audio visual and digital technology.

Our symposium is motivated by the desire to explore the ideas that will shape performance in the 21^st century. What aesthetic avenues can be usefully opened up in an era of digitally enabled art practices? What are the politics, ideological concerns and social conditions that shape performance-making where technologies play active partners in creation and performance? How does our ability to augment our reality using electronic means create a new dialogue between real and performed lives, between place and time?

Now, more than ever before, the collaborative nature of the performing arts demands professional cooperation from the diverse areas of science and engineering. Inspired by the power, creativity and community exemplified in projects which bring together artistic and technological invention, this symposium will provoke a multifaceted conversation aimed at increasing critical reflection on where the performing arts can take us in a technologically connected, globally engaged culture.

Submissions:

Proposals for presentations, performance demonstrations, panels and discussions should be emailed only (in .doc/.pdf/.rtf/.odt format) to dancingwithfire2012@gmail.com on or before 1 March 2012.

Proposals should be no more than 300 words (1 page) and should include (or have links to) photographs and videos of your work.

Please also enclose a short biography/biographies of the main people involved.

Event Outline:

Main Theatre Space:

Capacity: 80 persons

Stage Dimensions: 9.7m (wide) X 5.5m (deep)

Presentations & Performances:

The Main Theatre Space at the ATRL (Art and Technology Research Lab, Trinity College) will play host to a series of presentations of and about performances that seek to push the envelope of live arts in Ireland and abroad. Practitioners of an experimental nature, professionals, graduates and students — both domestic and international — will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their work in the intimate setting of the ATRL.

Presentations of work should not last more than 20 minutes allowing ample time for question and answer sessions and feedback. There is no set formula as to how work should be presented, therefore video documentation and photographic slide shows accompanied by discussion are welcomed.

Candidates should consider that talks (max duration 30mins) will take place back-to-back. Due to the tight scheduling there will be very little time for setting up and striking the work. Therefore complicated / technically difficult projects should focus on video and photo documentation.

The focus of the symposium is to generate interdisciplinary collaboration, audience feedback and discussions.

Enquiries to: dancingwithfire2012@gmail.com

www.atrl.ie
www.dublindancefestival.ie

The Digital Arts and Humanities structured PhD Programme is funded under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) Cycle 5 and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Presented in association with Dublin Dance Festival.

Creation and performance period in Dublin:
30 July – 17 September OR 13 August – 17 September

Dancers must have a minimum 2 years’ professional experience and should possess strong technical and performance skills.

Please email CV, photo and short video clip if available (vimeo/youtube) to: emmafmartin@ireland.com.

Application deadline: 18 February

Selected applicants will be invited to attend a workshop style audition at DanceHouse, Dublin.  Successful applicants will be notified by email by 20 February with exact dates, times and further details.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has a scheme of grants for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual artists, arts groups and arts organisations engaged in arts projects or events at local or county level. Grants are also available to support the professional development and arts practice of individual artists, arts groups and organisations.

Individual artists, arts groups and arts organisations working in all art-forms (architecture, circus, craft, dance, film, literature, music, opera, spectacle, street art, theatre, traditional arts and visual arts) are eligible to apply. Collaborative applications are also welcomed.

Grants are available for the arts activity taking place between 01 July 2012 and 30 June 2013.

Guidelines for making an application (pdf – 41KB)

Application form for Event/Project Support or Participation and Learning (word – 43KB)

Application form for Event/Project Support or Participation and Learning (pdf – 27KB)

Application form for Professional Development/Arts Practice Supports (word – 32KB)

Application form for Professional Development/Arts Practice Supports (pdf – 22KB)

For more details visit www.dlrcoco.ie/arts/grants_scheme_2012.htm

Facilitated in partnership with Barretstown and Helium, this programme offers artists a unique opportunity to receive training, experience the recreational activity model and develop their facilitation skills.

Founded by Paul Newman, Barretstown is a specially-designed camp that provides therapeutic recreation programmes for children with serious illnesses, and their families.

During this mentoring programme training will be provided by Helium, the arts and health organisation for children, and Barretstown. Participating artists will also gain practical experience working alongside activity leaders to facilitate a programme on two weekends during spring and autumn 2012. On conclusion of the programme artists will have opportunity to explore potential scope to develop further projects.

Deadline for applications is Wednesday 08 February 2012.

For further information and an application form visit: www.kildare.ie/artsservice.

Funding cuts and a general economic downturn has led to reduced spending in the Arts Sector but this shouldn’t mean that you should operate without insurance putting yourself at risk in the event of an accident.

With premiums starting from as little as €115 for Public Liability cover this is an offer you can’t afford to miss.

For further details call or email Stephen on 01 8820810 / sdoyle@firstireland.ie or Barry on 01 4104910 / bwatters@firstireland.ie.

Don’t forget to mention you are a member of Dance Ireland when getting in touch!

To find out more about First Ireland Insurance Brokers visit www.firstireland.ie.

First Ireland Risk Management Ltd is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

Born in Mallow Co. Cork, Joan Denise Moriarty (1912 – 1992) was a dancer, teacher, choreographer, founder of the Cork Ballet Company, of two professional companies, and of Cork’s Firkin Crane Dance Centre.

Directed by Alan Foley this Gala features a new adaptation of Miss Moriarty’s most famous ballet The Playboy of the Western World choreographed by former Irish National Ballet ballerina Patricia Crosbie.  Excerpts from her ballets including Lugh of the Golden Arm are also on the programme, as well as a show-stopping Pas de deux from the seafaring Le Corsaire and the Polovtsian Dances from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor.

In November 2012, Cork City Ballet will tour Ireland with a new production of The Sleeping Beauty, and, as a precursor to this salubrious occasion, a suite from that ballet will be presented at the gala featuring the prima ballerina of the Royal Swedish Ballet, Marie Lindqvist and international ballet star Dragos Mihalcea.

In addition, Anton Dolin’s Pas de Quatre will be reproduced for the Gala by Joanna Banks who trained at the Royal Ballet School in London, and learned the ballet from Dolin himself when he came to Cork in 1978 to stage it for INB. With a beautiful score by Pugni and stunning costumes made at the Kirov theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, this exquisite quartet promises to be one of the highlights of the show.

Speaking at the recent launch of this event, Artistic Director of Cork City Ballet Alan Foley said, I am delighted that we at Cork City Ballet are in a position to celebrate the work of the most iconic figure in ballet in Ireland – Dr. Joan Denise Moriarty. As one of only two professional ballet companies in Ireland we are very proud to continue the legacy of this remarkable woman from Cork.

“Cork City Ballet… frothing with charm and professionalism” Mary Leland, The Irish Times

www.corkcityballet.com

Sound Affairs is looking for three male performers – bodybuilders / dancers / gymnasts / athletes – for a project taking place in autumn 2012 to spring 2013.

The project is based on Michelangelo’s drawings of the male nude and features performance, film and live music. Choreography will be created with Andy Howitt.

Applicants need to be muscular and / or athletic with a willingness to explore movement within a theatrical context.

To apply send a CV, covering letter and photo with clearly marked DVD footage (if available) to:
Sound Affairs, 62 Arran Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3HT

Deadline: Friday 06 April 2012

Audition / Interview: During June – By invitation only

Please note:
Sound Affairs cannot return any DVD footage to applicants.
Applicants will only be notified if invited to audition.

For further information about the company’s work, please visit: www.soundaffairs.co.uk

Sound Affairs is committed to ensuring that equality of opportunity shall be pursued regardless of colour, creed, disability, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Applicants should have strong contemporary technique, previous performance experience and versatile performance qualities (including use of voice).

This will be an eight-week paid contract from Mid April-Mid June and based in Belfast with potential for further work in company repertoire during 2012-13.

Attendance at audition is by invitation only following submission of your full CV and DVD of your performance work (5 min max) or online video link.

Auditions will be held in Dublin at DanceHouse, Foley Street on Wednesday 22 February 2012 at 11am.

Submissions should be received by Monday 06 February and can be sent by email to:info@maidenvoyagedance.com with “Audition Submission” in subject line

or by post to:

Nicola Curry, Artistic Director, Maiden Voyage Dance, 35 Donegall Street BELFAST BT1 2FG, Northern Ireland

Time: 4.30pm to 6.30pm

Location: St Nicholas Parochial School Hall, Waterside, Galway (next to Town Hall Theatre)
from age 13+
Fee: €6/€8
Limited places and booking recommended at eolas@ciotog.ie

Participants will work with us exploring the themes of Frugal Feasts – power, care, violence, dependence – digging into our unique way of working. Physical exploration, reflection, and discussion will allow us to explore how and why we make, discover new ways of playing and creating, and uncover the distinctive physicality which characterises Frugal Feasts, and all Rachel Birch-Lawsons work (radical physical style – Die Welt) Participants will be led through the same creative processes and tasks we undertook, creating personal responses to the workshop and Frugal Feasts themes. (Attendance at the Frugal Feast performance, 7.30m 27 Jan in the Cube, NUIG is not essential for participating in this workshop, but we’d love to see you there)

Working with tasks that are:
Intense,
Playful,
Ambiguous,
Open but directed,
Specific,
Multi-layered,
Simple and clear,
Physical,
Rooted in body

Pushing our explorations to their physical, mental, and emotional limit to find what develops from boredom, frustration, tension … or fun.

Workshop includes:
Full warm-up: physical, mental, and sensorial.
Creative exploration: improvisations, tasks, games.
Opportunity to learn sections of the work, recreating these for your unique body – learning impulses and motivations rather than steps and counts.
Time for discussion and reflection.

Trained at London Contemporary Dance School and The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, we have worked with a wide range of companies and artists. We have a strong commitment to, and enjoyment, of a fluid dance scene that transcends geographical and cultural borders. To date we have worked in England, Germany,Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, USA, Wales,

South Korea, Spain, Ireland, South Africa and United Arab Emirates.

Further information at http://www.beyondthesteps.co.uk

Co-presented by Ciotóg- Galway Dancer in Residence, and Galway Dance Project

The Ciotóg Galway Dancer in Residence programme is supported by the Arts Council, Galway County Council, Galway City Council, Town Hall Theatre, Eala’in na Gaeltachta, & National Univesrity of Ireland Galway

Galway Dance Project is supported by the Arts Council

Presented by Ciotóg- Galway Dancer in Residence, and the Centre for Irish Studies, NUIG

27 January @ 7.30pm

Frugal Feasts

Two bodies: squashing, pressing, molding the other to make room for their own. Individuals slowly being erased assimilated into one entity. Where does I end and We begin?

This duet is about power, resistance and accommodation: the fine line between aggression and tenderness. Visceral and tactile movement evokes trust and care, violence and aggression, sensuality and sexuality.

Exploring:

How care can be disguised or subverted by strength and violence.
How aggression can be passive: rejection, refusal to play the game.
Interdependence bound into claustrophobic intensity.
Beyond the Steps are Rachel Birch-Lawson and Khyle Eccles

Virtuoso – Die Welt

As exciting as a thriller … technically perfect – hamburgtheater.de

This nightmarish brutal, tender, or brutal-tender duel takes your breath away – Hamburger Abendblatt

Meet Joan Dark
A work in constant progress. An alter ego scenario. Joan Dark is a woman of great courage although very afraid, who ponders upon the bigger questions in life while dancing to her favorite Patsy Cline tune.

by Maria Svensson
Music by: Joan Dark, Patsy Cline, Johny Cash & June Carter.

Approximate duration 1 hour
Donations at the door welcome
Limited places and booking recommended at eolas@ciotog.ie

The Ciotóg Galway Dancer in Residence programme is supported by the Arts Council, Galway County Council, Galway City Council, Town Hall Theatre, Eala’in na Gaeltachta, & National Univesrity of Ireland Galway