Investigate

We INVESTIGATE artistic methodologies and practices, assemble knowledge through company research, shared networks, archiving, and examine deep-rooted societal constructs through universal movement and artistic expression.

IntraSpaces

IntraSpaces is a creative partnership with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick (IWAMD) and is an experimental space for collaboration on research, performance and pedagogy.

Liz Roche Company is Company- in -Residence at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and spends up to one month per year developing new work on campus. This partnership model between the university and professional dance organisation supports the development and dissemination of dance knowledges across the Irish and international arts and research landscape.

Interdisciplinarity is key, with a view to creating opportunities for shared projects to intersect with a range of Academy faculty, students and courses.

Liz Roche Company offers open access to students into its working practices supported by the expertise of the company dancers, associated dance artists and creative collaborators in sound, light, set, costume and dramaturgy.

Particular alignments for shared performance projects are envisioned with the MA Contemporary Dance Performance and the new MA Composition and Creative Music Practice.

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Modes of Capture Symposium

The Modes of Capture Symposium came into being in 2019 as a result of Liz Roche Company's creative partnership with the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Curated that year by Dr. Jenny Roche, Dr. Roisin Gorman and Liz Roche the symposium invited scholars and performers to present their work on campus and at our partner venues, the Lime Tree Theatre and Dance Limerick. Dublin Dance Festival also hosted an introductory event during their May festival that saw Jenny Roche in conversation with Linda Murray, curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library, choreographer and dancer Finola Cronin and ex-director of Dance Umbrella Val Bourne OBE at Project Arts Centre.

In 2020 the symposium was presented online at Dublin Dance Festival's Digital Capsule. MOCS commissioned 24 Presentations and movement responses from renowned dance specialists, choreographer/dancers and academics including Rebecca Hilton Professor of Choreography, University of Stockholm, Siobhan Davies, London, Susan Sentler La Salle Singapore, Carol Brown Head of VCA Dance at the University of Melbourne and dancer/choreographers Theo Clinkard, Luke Murphy, Kévin Coquelard, Anne-Laure Dogot, Lucia Kickham, Ryan O'Neill, Stephanie Dufresne and Jazmin Chiodi/Alex Iseli.

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Experience Together

Liz Roche Company partners in a newly formed research network headed up by researchers from the University of Limerick, University College Cork, Coventry University and Goldsmiths, University of London.

This research network funded by the Irish Research Council and UK Arts and Humanities Research Council enables us to investigate the potential seismic shifts in how dance is created and presented as well as providing a platform for innovative thinking and development of possible solutions. This network will help us to utilise new and innovative technologies, stimulate new audiences, and collaborate with artists and international partners to be at the forefront of new thinking for live performance both virtually and in live settings.

List of network Participants, guests and organisers.

Ruth Gibson - Coventry University, Co-Principal Investigator

Jenny Roche - University of Limerick, Co-Principal Investigator

Ben Kyneswood - Coventry University, (City of Culture Digital Archive)

Jools Gilson - University College Cork

Marco Gillies - Goldsmiths Computing

Jonathan Freeman - Goldsmiths University i2 Media

Steve Jelley - Dimension

Bruno Martelli - Gibson/Martelli Studio + igloo artists lto

Liz Roche Company

Crash Ensemble - Crash Records

Maitreyi Maheshwari - FACT

Una McCarthy - Limerick City Gallery of Art

We are proud of our partners.

Liz Roche Company is strategically funded by the Arts Council and supported by Dublin City Council