Intrusive
Uillinn Dance Season 2025

Intrusive I Dance Performance by Hetty Gazzaniga I

Prelude to Replicas I Thursday 30 October I 7:45pm I Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 10mins I

This work-in-progress invites audiences to witness Hetty’s creative exploration into new choreographic movement and immersive soundscapes revealing perspective on the deeply unsettling terrain of intrusive thoughts.

About the Artist/ Company 

Hetty Gazzaniga attended Alan Foley Academy of Dance from the age of 4 and Uillinn Young Dancers from her early teens, working with artists such as Tara Brandel, Elaine McCague, and Inma Pavon. She has performed at Cork Opera House, Crawford Art Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, and solo work at Everyman Theatre, Cork in 2023 and 2024 as part of the Alan Foley Academy of Dance Showcase. Hetty is currently studying contemporary dance at University of Limerick, Irish World Academy with choreographers including Grant McLay, Monica Munoz and Justine Cooper. Through college, she has performed at the UL Glucksman Library, Dance Limerick, The Irish World Academy, The Hunt Museum, and a site specific contemporary ballet at Kinsale Arts Festival (choreography by Patricia Crosbie). She is currently participating in a nine month placement at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre as Dance Project Assistant, with responsibility for leading Uillinn Young Dancers, support work for Uillinn dance residency/Uillinn Dance Season programmes, teaching with Alan Foley Academy of Dance and delivering dance workshops for Skibbereen Arts Festival  and West Cork Feelgood Festival

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Justin Grounds immersed in his own unique musical world since the age of 4, Justin Grounds is a violinist, composer and music producer originally from Cambridge, UK. His early years were spent studying violin, playing in bands and making recordings on a 4-track tape machine, including an early work Timeless which was premiered at the Cheltenham International Music Festival in 1998. He went on to study a degree in Music & Theology at Durham University, majoring in electroacoustic composition, while touring and recording with the live drum’n’bass collective Keiretsu, melding his classical violins with electronic beats and bass – a thread that has woven through his diverse musical output to this day.

After years spent in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia, Grounds now lives and works in West Cork, Ireland, and is a celebrated and sought-after composer, performer and producer. As well as releasing 4 solo records and touring in Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA, he collaborated with Dublin based singer Pearse McGloughlin on a highly acclaimed cycle of electronic chamber songs called ‘Idiot Songs’, one of Irish Times’ albums of the year in 2013. He more recently produced the debut record of The Vespertine Quintet, 2 albums with singer Jessie Kennedy and Cork songwriter ADT’s records ‘Vol.1’ and ‘Vol.2’.

His works for orchestra and chamber ensemble meld his training as a baroque violinist with his love for modern electronic sound processing and display a healthy disregard of genre. Passagalia Apis for string orchestra and de-tuned baroque violin was performed by Elizabeth Wallfisch and the Cork Baroque Orchestra at the Curtis Auditorium, as well as by Maya Homburger and Barry Guy in their own duet arrangement for the East Cork Early Music Festival 2014. He has received commissions and bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, CREATE Ireland, Uillinn Arts Centre, Cork Orchestral Society among work for local ensembles and independent film. His large-scale oratorio The Embracing Universe was premiered to a sold-out audience at Skibbereen Arts Festival in 2019. His most recent work CumuloNimbus for orchestra and soloists, commissioned by the East Cork Early Music Festival, was premiered on early music day 2022.

Passionate that music should be a vital and central part of all society, Justin has spent many years teaching a string course for teenage violinists with the ETB, facilitating electronic music and composing workshops internationally as well as volunteering with the local youth orchestra and youth centre studio in his home town of Clonakilty. In 2014 he composed a series of scores for his Human Orchestra Project which he presented along with a specially commissioned piece as a TedX speaker. Since 2015 Grounds has been a member of the Arts for Health team in West Cork as composer-in-residence at the Clonakilty Community Hospital and presented this work at numerous national conferences. He continues to host a weekly open-air listening party entitled ‘Stop Look Listen’ every Sunday in his home town.

Credits 

Choreographer/ Dancer – Hetty Gazzaniga

Composer – Justin Grounds

Photographer – Sylwia Migdal

Acknowledgments

University of Limerick and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre