Loosysmokes 2023

Loosysmokes
Experiments with Textiles and Tension (research title)
Elaine McCague & Hazel McCague
1 to 8 May & 11 to 15 May 2023

The Experiments with Textiles and Tension is a creative professional development project within Loosysmokes that will support the evolution of a powerful new performance. This project will focus on broadening the companys approach to adapting skills and techniques outside of the traditional circus setting and aerial apparatus.

They will undertake a series of experiments in collaboration with textile artist Hazel McCague and competent riggers to analyze the aerial acrobatic possibilities of several common textiles, with the aim of bringing high level circus skills onto non-traditional apparatuses. The residency time at Uillinn will explore and develop the initial construction and transformative possibilities of the apparatus; informing the conceptual development for a new performance work. The residency will place particular focus on development of the artists’ individual physicality and dynamics of movement working primarily in the air on the rope as well as movement investigation on the floor.

ELAINE McCAGUE – Co-Creative Director | Producer | Multi-disciplinary artist | Aerialist | Mentor
Elaine McCague is a professional aerial performer, and co-creative producer and director of modern circus art at Loosysmokes.
Interested in contemporary human based circus Elaine’s ambitions are to construct unique site responsive works in the collaboration and experimentation of the physical, visual and audio scape, that is not bound by the traditional trapping of art, circus or performance. She strives to create the unbelievable, and an all-encompassing visceral experience by method of circus.

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Supported by The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon – Circus Arts Grant