July 18, 2020
GROUNDED by Aoife Dempsey
In response to the lock down this exciting 3-month audience engagement programme from Liz Roche Company and Dublin Dance Festival moved online.
In response to the lock down this exciting 3-month audience engagement programme from Liz Roche Company and Dublin Dance Festival moved online.
In response to the lock down this exciting 3-month audience engagement programme from Liz Roche Company and Dublin Dance Festival moved online.
In response to the lock down this exciting 3-month audience engagement programme from Liz Roche Company and Dublin Dance Festival moved online.
In response to the lock down this exciting 3-month audience engagement programme from Liz Roche Company and Dublin Dance Festival moved online.
As we start to move again I’m reflecting on how things were before, what I’ve learnt and can take forward from this pause and how I imagine the world progressing. It feels strange to begin again. There is a sense of freshness and of hope. I am simultaneously hesitant, nervous and excited.
This piece comes from a scattered mind and a gathered body. The former, pushed and pulled in many directions, tries to hold on to some idea which could eventually become a statement, feeling under the pressure of delivering a universal truth. The latter is…
For the last part of the ‘Remembering The Here Trio’ project, I decided to put myself in a ‘visualisation’ exercise. This is a way I frequently use toward the premiere in order to print in my memory the ‘perfect’ version of the movements, as I…
Over this period of lockdown I have become aware of simple routines that have emerged. I aim to be in bed at the same time every night and wake up at the same time each day. I start the day with a hot water…
Without being able to truly and fully embody ‘my metronome’ at the moment, I am asking myself from which senses does it come back to my memory? Working on the same part of The Here Trio I chose to explore previously, I realized the…
I remember watching scary movies as a kid. Scary for a young audience, not horror movies. I hated being scared by things. I had been told that I was brave and didn’t want to not be. I developed a trick; as the anticipation built…
PARTS OF A TRIO takes extracts from The Here Trio, a piece which explores themes of boundaries and belonging. In the midst of a pandemic, the prescribed boundaries of social distancing and self isolation have left me questioning how long these boundaries will be…