Contemporary with Laura Murphy

Date:

from Mon 24 Mar 2025 - Mon 24 Mar 2025

Time:

10:00 - 11:30

Please Note:

Please be advised it's strictly no shoes in the studios.

Venue:

DanceHouse

Admission:

€7 Pre-Professionals / €9 DI Members / €12 Non-members / Member 10 Class Card €70

Level:

Professional/Advanced

Teacher:

Laura Murphy

This is a contemporary dance based class that draws on yoga, a shaking practice and improvisation.The class builds energy and warmth in our bodies, and it will include both improvisation and set phrases.

The class can be taken at different paces inviting participants to enter wherever they are within their own training/work.

Artists Bio

Laura is an award winning choreographer, a performer and a teacher. Taking an expansive approach to dance, she has developed a multi-disciplinary dance practice, working in stage performance, film, installation and socially engaged projects. With her trademark all female casts, her work has been described as gentle and eccentric.

Laura Murphy Dance has been widely presented to include Tanzmesse (DE), Fira Tàrrega (ES), Edinburgh Fringe (UK), Judson Church (US), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO), Dublin Dance Festival and Cork Midsummer Festival (IRL).

Laura has been a recipient of numerous National Arts Council awards, several prestigious national and international residencies. She was awarded Best Movement Director, The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017.

Laura currently teaches on the BA Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.

Most recently, Laura premiered her new multi-media work 'This is it | 8 dance portraits' at Dublin Dance Festival and Cork Midsummer festival, and toured her large scale outdoor work 'Abacus' to festivals in Colombia.

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