Uillinn Dance Season 2023 Glisten
Glisten: Isabella Oberländer (25mins)
Part 1 of a Split Bill Performance
Wednesday 1 November | 8.00pm - 9.30pm
Tickets €15, booking essential on Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/719289533357
Isabella Oberländer first brought Glisten to Uillinn Dance Season in 2020 in film form during lockdown. Uillinn is pleased to bring to you the highly acclaimed live performance to UDS23.
Alienation, otherness and sweaty dancing. Let’s imagine a realm beyond the binary. Let’s be intimate and vulnerable together and imagine what the future could be. Don’t worry, I’ll be dancing, you’ll be engaging.
Dripping from the dancing body, as if we were in an endless game of tetris, provoking feminism and energising my newly gained tentacles.
Let’s be intimate and vulnerable together and imaging what the future could be.
You can feel it stir under the skin, waiting to break a sweat, to surface, to move the body and let it shimmer. This is an invitation to question, to seek, to excavate the physical starkness of realities and imaginations of otherness.
“We are all alienated - but have we ever been otherwise?“ - The Xenofeminist Manifesto
Conversing with aliens, growing a fern from our ribs, following electric pathways or Falco’s Young Romans “to dance differently than the others”, acknowledging the infinite stranger and opening the threshold to our multitude – what encounters does it take to become comfortable with uncertainty?
Seizing our alienation, navigating in motion, seeking the glistening of hope.
CREDITS
Choreography & Performance: Isabella Oberländer
Artistic Mentor: Lucy Suggate
Sound Design: Elll (Ellen King)
Lighting Design: Gearoid O’hAllmhuráin
Costume Design: Giordana Giache
Photography: Frank Carlin
REVIEWS
What audiences say about Glisten:
‘I have been brought somewhere I have not been before, It sparked feelings in me that where surprising and brought me on an journey
‘it created worlds with sinuous sweaty dancing , inviting us to see and imagining the worlds with the performer inviting us to enter with them’
You can see an abundance of possibilities in every beat of the movement and that energy really transports you somewhere new.
Review: 4 stars by The Arts Review (Ireland): DFF Sept. 2021
‘…Oberländer is indeed a revelation. Arguably the best twenty-five minutes you will spend this festival’
‘...a dance in which no part of the body is left unused, right down to the expressive use of breath’
https://www.theartsreview.com/single-post/glisten-eleanora-salter-and-the-monster-from-the-sea
ABOUT Isabella Oberländer
Isabella Oberländer is a dance artist and choreographer based in Limerick, where she was Associate Artist with Dance Limerick 2019-2021.
Her work engages in choreographic frameworks that embrace the materiality of the body and aim for a visceral articulation of physicality and thought. Working the imagination muscle, engaging with queer feminist ideas and dancing her heart out are integral parts of her artistic practice.
As a dance artist she is always seeking, she is always in motion. With alienation, otherness and sweaty dancing at its core, her solo work ‘Glisten’ premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2021.
As a performer she has worked with Philip Connaughton, Lucy Suggate, Pietro Marullo, Mary Nunan and Laura Murphy.
Currently she is collaborating with Fearghus Ó Conchúir on developing the practice ‘Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary’ and working with plant scientist Eoin Lettice as part of her residency with UCC Creative & ERI at Glenkeen Gardens/Crespo Foundation.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Commissioned and co-produced by Dance Limerick as part of the Associate Artist Programme.
Funded by The Arts Council Ireland and Limerick City & County Council.
Supported by Dance Ireland and FRINGE LAB.
Uillinn Dance Season 2023 is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media's Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum Scheme.
The Contemporary Dance Programme at Uillinn is in partnership with Cork County Council and supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Proud members of Dance Ireland.
We extend our gratitude to our Curator and Dance Artist in Residence, Luke Murphy, the artists, arts workers, funders and everybody involved in bringing you this live and exciting programme.
