Dance Ireland Residency: Emily Aoibheann

Date:: Mon 30 Sep 2024 - Fri 4 Oct 2024
Time:: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue:: DanceHouse

Emily Aoibheann is the recipient of a Dance Ireland residency.

How can pure symbiosis between interior and exterior worlds be achieved? What conflict will inevitably ensue? Drawing inspiration from the work of Daphne Du Maurier, Emily Aoibheann explores performance design and the creative personality combining dance with objects. Rolls of 1960s vintage wallpaper; a deck of tarot cards; 20 yards of baby-pink aerial fabric; peach ribbon; a wall with holes in it; two microphones and a series of pedestrian and highly stylised dances feature in this humorous, richly visual, material experiment.

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Emily Aoibheann is an Irish artist, dancer and director. Her varied background leads to collaborative and original integration of multiple art forms crossing cultural contexts. Realised with a broad artistic and technical team, her expertise in aerial dance and contemporary circus acts as a lens through which to explore ideas and disciplines of all kinds. Her work incorporates significant aspects of mixed media visual arts, dance, design, music and writing. Through exploratory artistic collaboration, Emily creates sensorial performance, media and mentorship, merging forms in experimental ways through circus-inspired and musical dramaturgies.

Notable activities include: Director of the Experimental Circus Award (2021); Director of Creation Aerial Research & Ideas Studio (2013 - 2020); Co-Director of PaperDolls Performance Company (2010 - 2013); Performances and residencies in Berlin, Lithuania and Poland, Prague, Macedonia, Barcelona, Ghent, France, UK and Mexico. Emily's work has recently been supported through Arts Council Arts Grant Fund and Circus Bursary Awards, Markievicz Award (2022), Animation Ireland Immersive Innovation Award (2022/2023), Fingal County Council Artists' Support Scheme (2022), Dance Ireland Hatch Award (2021).

Emily has been a visiting artist at the National Gallery of Ireland; Project Arts Centre in Dublin; Courthouse Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre, co. Wicklow. She holds academic qualifications in Philosophy, Literature and Drama (2005); Women's Studies, Equality and Social Justice (2008) and as Circus Arts Instructor with École Nationale de Cirque, Montreal (2018).