Dance Ireland Residency: Julie Lockett

Date:

Mon 24 Mar 2025 - Fri 28 Mar 2025

Time:

10:21 - 10:21

Venue:

DanceHouse

Julie Lockett is a receipient of a Dance Ireland Residency in 2025. 

About Julie Lockett's Residency Plans

Julie will work with her long-standing collaborator theatre director and filmmaker Jason Byrne to lay the foundation for a new solo work for Julie around the theme of ‘Questions That Need Geographical Answers/Landgut’. 

Over the last year, Julie has been gathering ideas from the land and the people in Cloughjordan Ecovillage where she lives as well as from the national and international visitors delivering talks and projects in Cloughjordan on themes around ecology, food production, activism and building community as a response to the global polycrisis, as well as land genocide and the deliberate destruction of people's relationship to the land.  She has been working interchangeably with the ecovillage land and in the studio when she needs shelter.  Her work is supported in Cloughjordan by Instant Dissidence via the Eco Dance Space Residency. 

Julie has been creating movement material, writing as she makes and constructing questions and tasks to build a choreographic score.  She has been working with this quote from John Berger from ‘A Fortunate Man’ as a frame, “Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place.  For those who, with the inhabitants, are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographical but also biographical and personal.” 

Julie is also looking forward to connecting with the Dublin dance community during her Residency. 

About Julie Lockett

Julie Lockett is an independent dance artist based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary - a lived response to the climate crisis. She works interchangeably with the ecovillage land and in the studio as Artist-in-Residence at Instant Dissidence’s Eco Dance Space in the ecovillage when she needs shelter. 

Julie has a certificate in Permaculture Design and uses permaculture as a lens to create her work.  She creates written scores for her choreographies as well as presenting performances of her writings on the land. 

Julie has performed, presented work, directed projects and taught nationally and internationally over the last 25 years. Her recent solo dance work ‘Her-acre’ was performed as part of the Eadrainn/Between Us Residency hosted by Dance Ireland and Dance Base/Edinburgh. 

Julie trained at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, Cork and got a BA (Hons) in Dance Performance from Middlesex University, UK. She also holds a BA in Modern Languages & International Relations. 

Header image credit: 'Her-acre', St Patrick's Cathedal image by Ella Clarke

Find out about other Dance Ireland Residency Recipients here.