Fionnuala Doyle Wade
Roberta Ceginskaite (dancer) and Niamh Dalton (Musician) Thin Places

Fionnuala Doyle Wade with
Roberta Ceginskaite (dancer) and Niamh Dalton (Musician)
Thin Places

Thin Places developed in 2024, considers the potential to find connection & joy in loss, how we might create our own ‘thin places’ (spaces where we are closer to those who have passed), by sharing the stories, dances, & music taught to us by those no longer here. Investigating our responsibility to pass on knowledge & to preserve memories. This residency will begin the second phase of the development of the work, widening the themes to include the collective grief of a world that feels increasingly more volatile & divided. Interrogating how we can come together in action & joy to create a more just & equitable world. The week will be spent working in collaboration with dancer Roberta Ceginskaite & musician Niamh Dalton, & is funded through a Dance Bursary from the Arts Council.

The aim of this residency is to continue the development of a project started this year entitled Thin Places through re-visiting material & generating new material. I intend to test some news ideas which will include: using multi-disciplinary tools (design elements & filmed projections), exploring spaces outside the dance studio, & audience interaction.

As an emerging choreographer who is looking to continue to develop this project further & outside of Galway city where I am based, the time in studio in West Cork will be invaluable to these aims. Working in a space that includes many different disciplines under one roof will allow me to consider how I might incorporate non-traditional spaces & other disciplines into my work.

Fionnuala is a dance artist & community organiser based in Galway city. She has worked in a diverse number of settings & communities within the arts world including: dance in traditional & site specific contexts, theatre, film, young people with additional needs, & International Protection Applicants. She is interested in making highly physical & socially engaged dance works in collaboration with artists from different disciplines. Fionnuala has performed for choreographers such as Maria Nillson Waller & Laura Murphy & her work has been supported by the Arts Council.

@fionnualadoylewade

Arts Council of Ireland Dance Bursary

WCAC acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Cork County Council in making these residencies possible.