Dance Ireland Residency: Laura Murphy

Date:: Tue 25 Feb 2025 - Wed 19 Mar 2025
Time:: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue:: DanceHouse

Laura Murphy is a receipient of a Dance Ireland Residency in 2025.

About Laura Murphy's Residency Plans

In recent times, Laura is working on her daily practice, building and questioning its evolution so it feels sustainable and necessary to her life in dance. In this residency, Laura will begin to explore how her practice is informing her choreographic decisions. Does her practice inform ideas that are emerging? Does practice inform the devising of creative tasks? Are they exclusive from one another? To answer some questions, she would like to play with physicalising some seed ideas and see if/when/where her new way of practicing is informing her creative decisions.

While Laura's practice is evolving in a very particular way, it feels important that her practice and creative work does not become an isolated entity cut off from others. During the residency she will connect with a number of emerging independent dance artists, meeting them in the studio, not as a teacher or choreographer but as a fellow dance artist to dance and converse together.

About Laura Murphy

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.

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

Headshot: Pato Cassinoni

Header Image: Koen Broos

Find out about other Dance Ireland Residency Recipients here.