Luke Murphy

Luke Murphy
Attic Projects
Production Residency ‘Carnivore’ 13 to 24 May 2019 with performances 24 & 25 May 2019

A provocative new work emerging in the light of the research of the Renaissance Skin project from Kings University in London. With six hundred years behind us we still find ourselves caught between humanistic celebrations of the body and the discomfort of our underlying notions of identity. Carnivore aims to study and discuss the fundamental period where notions of the body and the self-shifted and conflicted.

As in all choreographers or directors work Carnivore is not born or conceived in a vacuum but within the wider context of my work and creative experience to date. In this sense my creative sensibilities and ambitions for the work are characteristically linked through process and approach to how I have considered work in the past. Abstract imagery inside provocative context, the friction between the geometry the encased theatre space and the unbridled chaos of human nature and the use of non-denotative physical languages to provoke very direct social questions all remain central in my consideration for the piece.

Cork born Luke Murphy is a choreographer and performer based between Brussels, Cork and New York.  He is an Associate Artist of Dance Ireland. Luke trained at Point Park University, Pennsylvania, where he earned his BFA in Dance and English in 2009 and University of Chichester where he earned an MA in Choreography in 2017. Luke has been supported by various commissions, awards and residencies including the Arts Council, Cork City Council, Culture Ireland, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, Kaatsbaan International Dance Centre, Pavilion Theatre, Dance Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Irish Arts Centre NYC, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Dance Limerick, Dance Base Edinburgh, Tribeca Performing Arts Centre. He has created five evening length works: Drenched (2012), Icarus (2013), Your Own Man/Mad Notions (2015), On Triumph and Trauma (2016) and most recently The Dust We Raised, which was presented in Cork and Dublin earlier this year.