COISCEIM DANCE THEATRE PRESENTS
swimming with my mother
Swimming with my Mother is a stage duet embodying the relationship between a mother and son and their mutual love for swimming and dancing. In this intimate dance, shared pasts intertwine and build gently like a rising tide. Life stories are told with humour to the sultry tones of Nat King Cole.
WINNER - Best Production, Limerick Unfringed
Wonderfully, gentle, perfectly formed duet Irish Theatre Magazine
Deep End Dance is a short dance film, featuring a fully dressed man as he is pushed into a swimming pool by his mother. He brushes himself off and begins dancing underwater, always aware that she's watching. After a while she joins him in the turquoise dappled waters and they perform a playful underwater dance.
WINNER - Best Short Drama, Celtic Media Awards
An astonishing display of dance Irish Times
Swimming with my Mother performers : Madge & David Bolger
Concept/Choreography : David Bolger
Lighting : Eamon Fox
Proejction : Jym Daly
Sound : Ivan Birthistle and Vincent Doherty
Deep End Dance : produced by Martha O'Neill WildFire Films and
directed by Conor Horgan. Original music : Michael Fleming, Director of Photography : Richard Kendrick, Editor : Roisin O'Donnell.
tour venues
Wed 4 May | DRAÍOCHT, BLANCHARDSTOWN CENTRE, Dublin 15 | 8.15 pm
Booking Tel 01-885 2622 | www.draiocht.ie
Fri 6 May | DUNAMAISE ARTS CENTRE, Portlaoise | 8.00 pm
Booking Tel 057-8663355 | www.dunamaise.ie
Tue 10 May | ROSCOMMON ARTS CENTRE | 8.00 pm
Booking Tel 090-6625 824 | www.roscommonartscentre.ie
Thurs 12 May | BACKSTAGE THEATRE, Longford | 1.30 pm
Booking Tel 043-3347888 | www.backstage.ie
Sat 14 May | PAVILION THEATRE, Dun Laoghaire | 8.00 pm
Booking Tel 01-2312929 | www.paviliontheatre.ie
open classes for people aged 50+
David Bolger will lead an open class for people aged 50+ at each venue on the day of the show. The class will begin with gentle warm-up exercises. Participants will have the opportunity to learn some of the choreographic techniques used in creating new movement and a background into how the film Deep End Dance was created and filmed in a swimming pool. The class finishes with a short series of relaxation exercises, to leave participants feeling loose limbed and refreshed.
No previous dance experience necessary
Participants should wear loose, comfortable clothing, light rubber soled shoes. Exercises can be done seated or standing
Class duration: 1 Hour
FREE to people who have a ticket for the show
In this light and humane dance work you could almost smell the sea and feel the grainy sand between your toes
Seona Mac RÉamoinn, Irish Theatre Magazine
