Galway Dance Artist in Residence presents

Galway Dance Days festivalCORP_REAL international symposium

28-30 March 2014

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Corp_Real International Symposium brings together artists, academics and researchers whose practices converge on the body, action and movement. A public forum of interviews, debates, workshops, film screenings & performances. Responding to current concerns, the 2014 symposium focuses on questions of feminism and gender in Ireland, the environment, activism and social engagement, and the contribution of body-based practices to these issues.Conveners: Dr Aoife McGrath (Queens), Dr Ríonach Ní Néill, Dr Finola Cronin (UCD)

Showcasing some of the most exciting new works coming out of Ireland, Galway Dance Dayspresents World and Galway premieres throughout the city.

BOOKING INFORMATIONTickets: €16/13. All-in Festival ticket: €39/30. Symposium €5/day.Booking at www.entertainment.ie

Full programme details at www.ciotog.ie for updates and special offers, follow us on www.Facebook/Galwaydancedays

Corp_Real is a partner symposium to 'Lifeworlds: Space, Place & Irish Culture' international conference, 28-29March, hosted by Ómós Áite and the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway. Full details onhttp://www.nuigalway.ie/centre_irish_studies

GALWAY DANCE DAYS/Corp-Real International Symposium is the public programme of Galway DanceArtist in Residence, Ríonach Ní Néill, supported by The Arts Council, Galway County Council, GalwayCity Council, Town Hall Theatre, Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Arts Centre & National University ofIreland Galway, affiliated with the Ómós Áite: Space/Place Research Network, Centre for Irish Studies,NUI Galway . Additional partners Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick, Internationelle DansprogrammetSweden.

Rachel Sweeney

Friday March 28

CORP_REAL international symposium BODY & ENVIRONMENT

2pm – 6pm Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway

Rachel Sweeney (Liverpool Hope University): Sandskin I Bloodwater; tracing topographies in flooded environsGwen McHale (movement artist/therapist): Landscape: a dance of deep ecologyKorina Biggs (Alexander Tech/somatic movement teacher): Soma in the cityEmma Meehan (Coventry University): Immersive Environments: Joan Davis, Space and Somatic Engagement

In conversation: Carola Wingren (Landscape Architecture, University of Sweden) with Ríonach Ní Néill on Vattnet Kommer/– a landscape architecture & dance project on sea-level rising

Workshops12.30 - 2pmBernadette Divilly (dance artist/therapist): Gait-ways : A Pedestrian Field trip to Woodquay 4-7pmElla Clarke (Meath Dance Artist in Residence): RIOT CHOREOGRAPHY (2-session workshop, Friday 28 & Sat 29)Workshop bookings: galwaydancedays@gmail.com

PERFORMANCEFOUNDER premierechoreographed & composed by Maria Nilsson Waller (Sweden)8pm. Fairgreen House, Fairgreen Road, Galway

We know more about the surface of the moon and Mars than we know about thebottom of the deep ocean. …Maria's choreography brings nature into the performance space, mapping vast territories in human movement and voice, transforming the raw concrete of a vacant office space into a world resonating with the wonders of the sea.

Sample works atwww.marianilssonwaller.com

Maria Nilsson Waller

Saturday March 29

CORP_REAL international symposiumPERFORMING THE BODY10am – 1pm Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway

Performances, discussions & screenings on theconvergence of dance, visual, performance art and film, on the body.Chair: Finola Cronin (School of English, Drama & FilmUCD)

Hilary Eliott (University of Huddersfield): Experienced SpaceFergus Byrne

Jacintha Murphy (independent artist): Becoming Bodily: The Subversive Presence of the Bodily Grotesque in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture

Carolyn Collier (visual artist): A figure in the landscape

Judith Bernhardt (visual & performance artist):TRACES – A Performance Drawing

Thomas Conway (Director in Residence, NUI Galway): Sem/antics of writing bodies: the collaborations of Junk Ensemble and brokentalkers

Úna Quigley (film artist): Directing the Gest

Fergus Byrne: (independent) Untitled Sculpture

workshop1 – 2pm Korina Biggs Soma in the CityHow do you relate to urban space? This session will take you on a journey outdoors. Listening and responding to a recording you'll be invited to heighten your sensual, perceptual and creative experiences. There will be a chance to further engage with those experiences indoors. workshop booking: galwaydancedays@gmail.com

Korina Biggs

MY METHYL a Corp_Real commissionMichelle Browne & Emma Martin2pm – 2.45pm, Eyre Square Shopping Centre

Award-winning choreographer Emma Martin and internationally renowned visual artist Michelle Browne come together in this short-term collaboration to explore the cross over between their two practices based in action and movement. My Methyl refers to research carried out by scientists looking at mutations in genetic material, which foundthat mothers' behaviour could alter the genetic function of their offspring, and of further generations. Martin and Browne's shared interest in their own changing roles and behaviours as mothers will inform their collaboration. www.michellebrowne.net and www.emmamartindance.com

CORP_REAL international symposium3-4pm Site-specific Galway city: location given on confirmation of ticket bookingCHOREOGRAPHING FEMINIST POLITICS IN IRELANDThis panel brings together a group of artists that have created works that tackle issues of body politics and women’s experiences in Irish society. If choreography is considered as a practice that puts problems into motion, how do choreographies that engage with feminist politics create sites that question difficult realities and suggest alternative futures?Chair: Aoife McGrath (Queens) Panellists: Emma Fitzgerald, Aoife McAtamney, Emma Martin

PERFORMANCES4.30 – 6pm, Fairgreen House, Fairgreen Road, Galway

SOFTER SWELLSchoreographed by Aoife McAtamneyDisjointed, both in structure and content, illustrating a landscape of rapidly shifting memories, incorporating Irish cultural references to gender and sexual attitudes. The first chance for Galway to see this captivating solo, chosen for the prestigious Aerowaves international tour.

“utterly spellbinding” Broadwaybaby.comsample works at www.aoifemcatamney.com

THESE MOMENTS (a Corp_Real commission), choreographed by Judith Sibley for Chrysalis DanceChrysalis Dance uncover the wonder ofthe instant, the immediate, the hiddenseconds in between the ordinary, in anew and evocative work, continuingSibley's pushing of the boundaries ofclassical dance.

Chrysalis Dance

THE SEA AND THE SHAPE OF MY HEARTchoreographed by Emma Fitzgerald Following Fitzgerald & Stapleton's sold-out performance at GDD 13,Emma Fitzgerald returns with an intimate solo. Inspired by her researchinto female biography and the social pressures which censor the telling ofwomens' lives, Fitzgerald talks about her experience of rape, createsspontaneous poetry and makes a public service announcement.

Sample works at www.fitzgerald&stapleton.com

GRACEchoreographed by Úna LittleGrace whispers a Magdalen history of rigidity, fear, vulnerability and loss.This solo locates the moral sensibilities of Magdalene Ireland beneathrough skin and brittle bones.

Emma Fitzgerald

ANTI-CAPITALISM: THE MUSICAL! World premierechoreographed & composed by Deirdre Murphy29 March 8pm, The Cube, Bailey Allen Building, NUI Galway

A fairytale of musical theatre, using circus, song, and dance to create a near-future political reality similar to our own. A large scale theatrical narrative with a cast of 15 dancers, singers, circusperformers, actors and a live band, it uses acrobatics, plot twists, assassinations, and intrigue to tell the tale of a heroic group of everyday acrobats, aided by the Greek-chorus style narrations of a powerful triumvirate of fairy godmothers.

“Social criticism wrapped in wit, glee and stunning physical &vocal performance “

Sunday March 30

CORP_REAL international symposiumBODY, ACTIVISM & ENGAGEMENT10.30am– 4pm Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway

Is it possible for humans to create a system which improves the quality of our lives and is more equal? How can we organise to make such a thing possible? What can artists do to contribute? How are we using our bodies to express resistance, hope, change?

Chair: John BissetVirginia Farman (University of Chichester) :”Everyday Hero”lecture presentation on integrated practices with VIPdancers.Michelle Cahill (independent): Tiago Gambogi's ProjectTrans-Amazonia :A Brazillan Odessey. One Road, OneForest. One Man. Lots of Encounters.

Nick Bryson (dance artist) A Model of ‘Enlightened Self-Interest’ & ‘Open Participatory Budgeting’ in ContemporaryDance Projects, subjectively placed in an Irish/UK ContextHelga Deasy (dance artist): Freedom to move, freedom tostop: A somatic approach to empowerment in community danceBeatrice Jarvis PhD candidate, University of Ulster and Kingston University): Performing Practice. The Choreography of Research. The Sociological Dimension of Choreography as framework for progression of social reconciliation.

Perform I. Agents.Siobhan Clancy (visual artist)An investigation into bodily autonomy, decision-making, stigma and social reproduction

Cindy Cummings (dance artist in residence, UCD), in conversation with Finola Cronin

Anti-Capitalism: The Panel!A panel of speakers from various backgrounds lead an open discussion on issues raised by Anti-Capitalism: the Musical!Since the financial crash of 2008 the world has entered into a new depression. While some in the top 1% have remained comfortable, the .01% of the richest in the population have become much richer. At the same time that the broad mass of the population is struggling to make ends meet. Unemployment, underemployment, emigration and the misuse of internships are serious problems. Climate change and other environmental problems which at one time seemed to be on the agenda have disappeared from public discourse. chair: Gavin Mendel-Gleason: Deirdre Murphy, Ella Clarke & others

CLOSING ROUNDTABLE

Michelle Browne

PERFORMANCEANTI-CAPITALISM: THE MUSICAL! choreographed & composed by Deirdre Murphy30 March, 7pm, The Cube, Bailey Allen building, NUI Galway