DEEP END DANCE, a short dance film written and choreographed by CoisCéim Artistic Director David Bolger, is one of four dance films chosen for production for the Arts Council / RTÉ Dance On The Box 2010 scheme. The film is 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. DEEP END DANCE premiered on RTÉ 2 in May 2010.
DEEP END DANCE was awarded BEST SHORT FILM at the Irish Film Festival, Boston 2011 and was nominated for an Ifta for Short Film. It is the winner of the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE at Idill 2011 and BEST SHORT FILM at both The Celtic Media Festival 2011 and the FastNet Film Festival 2011. It shared the audience award for BEST SHORT at the Capital Irish Film Festival 2011 and was shortlisted for PRIX ITALIA 2011.
Mother and son, above and under water, the dance of their lives.
Watch Deep End Dance on RTÉ.ie.
Watch The Making of Deep End Dance.
upcoming screenings
SottoDiciotto Film Festival - TORINO SCHERMI GIOVANI
Turin, Italy | Cinema Massimo
Thursday 15 December, , 6pm | Free
recent screenings
*Winner, Audience award for Best Short shared with Mo Mhórchoir Féin
Part of the Shorts: Dirty Dancing programme
Goethe Institut, 812 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001
Dingle Film Festival
Shorts Programme Presented by Maurice Galway
Franciscan Friary, 4 Merchants' Quay, Dublin 8 | Phone 01 6771128
Wednesday 30 November 2011
The Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People
Part of the Secondary Schools : Jury's Out! programme | Belfast
Wednesday 30th November
IDILL 2011 an international competition for short films of movement and dance
Dingle Film Festival
Shorts Programme Presented by Maurice Galway
Franciscan Friary, 4 Merchants' Quay, Dublin 8 | Phone 01 6771128
Wednesday 26 October 2011 | 7pm Tea & Coffee
Philadelphia Dance Projects: Motion Pictures Dance on Film & Video Festival
6 October 2011 | Part of the ShortsFest Program
The Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street, Phila PA 19130
16th Ourense International Film Festival
October 2011 | Ourense, Spain | www.ouff.org
Saturday 24 September | DanceHouse, Foley Street | Dublin
Friday 23 September | 8.00pm | Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray | Dublin
part of an evening of performances from Fishamble, CoisCéim Dance Theatre and The Crash Ensemble
Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series
Thursday 21 July | Henry Miller Library | Big Sur, California, USA
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
6 July 2011 | Part of the Clermont Ferrand Short Films International screening | Long Island City, NY
9th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival
June 2011 | Balchik, Bulgaria
Short Films Screenings - Filmbase 25th Anniversary
24/25 June 2011 | Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin
Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, Cork
*Winner, Best Dance Film
Friday 27th May 2011 | Part of Junior Programme 4
@ Your Leisure, Main Street Schull and in the Car Park Venues: All day during the festival
The 2011 access>CINEMA / IFI Bealtaine film tour
May 2011, Nationwide
Central Library, Ilac Centre, Henry St , Dublin | 4 May @ 1.00pm
Cloughjordan Cine Club, Co.Tipperary | 7 May @ 3.00pm
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda | 10 May @ 1.30pm
First Friday Film Club Rathmines | 13 May @ 10.30am
Irish Film Institute, Dublin | 13 May- @ 11.00am
Linnehall Arts Centre, Co.Mayo | 16 May @ 1.10pm
Cabra Library, Dublin | 18 May @ 3.00pm
Charleville Mall Library | 25 May @ 2.30pm
Wed 4 May | Draíocht, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15
Fri 6 May | Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise
Tue 10 May | Roscommon Arts Centre
Thurs 12 May | Backstage Theatre, Longford
Sat 14 May | Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
NOISEmoves Youth Dance Festival: Dance Film Screenings
RUA RED Arts Centre, Tallaght | Saturday 16th April
13-15 April 2011 | Western Isles, Scotland
*Winner, Best Short Film
Shebeen Flick: Loved and Unseen Irish Films
Shebeen Chic | Georges Street, Dublin 2, Ireland | 5th April 2011
Double Bill with Conor Horgan's The Beholder
Irish Film Festival, Boston
Stuart Screen Playhouse, Boston | 24th March 2011 | 7pm
*Winner of Stella Artois Best Short
Phoenix Cinema, Dingle | 18th March 2011 | 1pm
33rd International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand, France
February 2011 part of the 'Enfants' programme
Dublin Dance Festival - Dance on Film
Light House Cinema, Smithfield | Sunday 30 January 2011 | 3pm
the Irish Film Institute - Dublin
26 and 28 January 2011 as part of the Wild Strawberries Film Club
Dance Camera Festival, Istanbul
November 2010
san francisco irish film festival
24 September 2010 | 7pm
Part of Magners n' Shorts night and followed by a Q & A with Director Conor Horgan.
canadian premiere - 3 October 2010
At the 13th ROMP! Festival at Independent Dance in Victoria, Canada as part of the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH - which features dance on film mixed with live performance.
New Irish Shorts: Programme One | Galway Town Hall | Friday 9 July 2010
Municipal Hall | Tuesday 13 July 2010 | 4:00 PM
as part of Screen Dance Double Bill
Panel Discussion with David Bolger - Moving Forward: British Screen Dance and the Future of Dance on Film in Ireland
Municipal Hall | Tuesday 13 July 2010 | 7:30 PM
DUBLIN DANCE FESTIVAL, 2010
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin
Friday, 21 May & Saturday, 22 May 2010
"It is the light that attracts us in the mellifluous film Deep End Dance, captured in the camera eye of director Conor Horgan. The incongruous becomes surprisingly normal as a suited but goggled dance-maker/swimmer/dancer David Bolger dives into the pool. The dappled turquoise and pale green surface riven only by the gravitational pull of his dance, he turns and nonchalantly rests his elbow on his chin as he floats. When he is joined by his mother, Madge Bolger, their ensuing duet of somersaults and pirouettes, plunging and soaring by turn, create a joyful mood. It’s a reflection on beauty too, the difference of their bodies leveled by this aquamarine universe. Michael Fleming’s playful score for clarinet and piano at times invokes a merry-go-round, perfect for these magical, life-affirming six minutes."
Seona Mac Réamoinn, Irish Theatre Magazine
