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‘Authenticity’
This project is at the incubation stage and will grow into a performance piece. At present the work investigates the notion of dance and her immediate performance space. Deirdre Grant, Myriad Dance Artistic Director, explores the emotional, psychological, cellular and cultural space conflicts between reality and fantasy. Is a theatrical space real anyway? What happens when our dance is outdoors or in the street? How does your immediate environment shape you, inhibit you, awaken you, nourish you and make you adapt your movement language. Can this transcend cultural boundaries? What is being real in theatre in the moment (in our moment) and how does an audience perceive this? Deirdre tries being in your own space for a change, in a stripped down solo work which challenges the authentic state of movement. |
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Origination Julie Rothschild (Zen Monkey Project, Athens, Georgia) met and workshopped with Deirdre Grant last October at the Myriad studios in Wexford Ireland, where they initiated the following ideas for a collaborative project and posed the following questions: 1. What happens when 2 dancers receive parcels full of dance stimuli from their counterpart in another country? 2. What do they do with them, improvise and develop work from them. 3. What decisions do the artists make to include, edit, ignore, or to place their stimuli in what context; in a forest, on a beach, in the sea? (Imagination) 4. Does it transcend cultural boundaries and our perception of what dance is in the 21st century for both countries. (Ireland and the USA) Setting /Venue Would be ideal performed in an alternative venue piece, in a gallery or older historical building, or agaianst an interesting façade or brickwork. |
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