THE CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT
A one week special!
Led by CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director David Bolger:
"The focus of this short intensive CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT will be to learn 'toolbox' skills to choreograph a dance, focusing on style, content and emotions as motivation and entry into the creative process.
Each session will culminate with an improvisation on the skills learnt. This will then be recorded, edited, rehearsed and on the final day be assembled into a dance for an informal showing. The idea of this project is to build confidence in making and viewing choreography in the future, while collaborating with fellow participants on creating movement and dance that has a unique stamp!"
The CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT begins: Tuesday 6 March 2012
Culminates in an informal studio performance: Saturday 10 March at 4pm at CoisCéim Studio
Creative sessions:
Tuesday 6 March 6 – 8.30pm
Wednesday 7 March 6 – 8.30pm
Thursday 8 March 6 – 8.30pm
Friday 9 March 6 – 8.30pm
Saturday 10 March 10am – 5pm
The CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT takes place at CoisCéim Studio, 14 Sackville Place, Dublin 1
Course Fee: €80 for 1 week course
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Places are limited and advance booking with payment is required.
Please note that participants must be available for every session, including the performance on Saturday.
Choreographer David Bolger is internationally renowned for productions that push the boundaries of contemporary dance theatre. His work draws on the every-day to articulate stories and emotions relevant to the landscapes in which we live, often combining text, sound and visuals together with his own movement vocabulary.
In this, the seventh CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT, you will have a chance to experience at first hand David's choreographic process. It will be challenging and rigorous - expect the unexpected!
THE CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT is an opportunity to work with professional choreographers, to discover and create movement, and to meet like-minded people. It is open to:
• Adults
• Professional and non-professional dancers with a minimum of one year’s experience in dance.
Past Projects:
Performance at DanceHouse - December 2011
THE DANCE
The sixth Choreography Project was led by CoisCéim Dance Artist-in-Residence, Muirne Bloomer. It explored the themes of CoisCéim Dance Theatre's latest work, TOUCH ME, Choreographed by David Bolger, which premiered at Project Arts Centre in November 2011. The starting points for THE DANCE were questions raisd in TOUCH ME - what makes us happy and what makes us sad? In response to these questions the dancers generated individual movement motifs and duets which formed the basis of the choreography. Eleven people took part in the culmination of the project - an informal performance at DanceHouse presented with the support of Dance Ireland.
Performance in Merrion Square - July 2011
THE SOLO COLLECTIVE
The fifth Choreography Project was led by CoisCéim Dancer-in-Residence EMMA O’KANE. Over 6 weeks, participants embarked on a journey of choreographic investigation and discovery. Working under Emma‘s guidance, each person created a physical self-portrait; a short dance monologue. The Choreography Project culminated in an informal performance in Merrion Square, Dublin 2 to celebrate and bring together friends, family and aficionados of dance.
WATCH AN EXCERPT FROM THE PERFORMANCE.
Performance at The Hugh Lane – 11/12 December 2010
FLESH AND BONES
Flesh and Bones was the result of collaboration between CoisCéim Broadreach and The Hugh Lane, and was the culmination of the fourth Choreography Project. Led by choreographer Philippa Donnellan and Hugh Lane Education Curator Katy Fitzpatrick, the theme of the project was the paintings and working methods of painter Francis Bacon. A selection of Bacon’s paintings and his studio - on permanent exhibition at The Hugh Lane - provided a rich source of inspiration for everyone involved.
"Seventeen people took part in The Choreography Project, which began in November 2010 with an excellent guided lecture tour by Katy of Bacon’s work. The evident physicality and visceral quality in much of his work – with its intense focus on the body – provided a distinctive focus and clear point of departure. Over the course of six weeks we discussed, debated, and worked creatively in what was a lively process of choreographic investigation and discovery. Final preparations in the gallery were fun and relatively stress free as we explored where and how to place choreography in the different spaces (helped by the kind staff at the Hugh Lane).
The group performed their work with great commitment and energy – we were all on a real high at what we felt had been achieved. For some of the participants this was the first time they had performed in a gallery – and the first time visiting The Hugh Lane. There was an excellent response from the audience with more people attending the event than anticipated. Many people mentioned that they felt the choreography captured something of the essence of Francis Bacon’s work; they particularly enjoyed seeing the performance in the gallery spaces alongside Bacon’s studio and paintings.
We only scratched the surface in delving into Bacon’s dense and complex work, but I think I can safely say that for all of us it was a rich, challenging – and enjoyable experience."
Philippa Donnellan
Watch a slideshow from the Choreography Project performance at The Hugh Lane, 2010
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