Missing
Uillinn Dance Season

Missing I Dance Performance by Tara Brandel

Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 November I 8pm & 3pm I €15 I BOOKING ONLINE I

Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 35 min I Age guide 13+I 

An interdisciplinary dance theatre solo work which looks at pivotal queer women whose voices and stories have been erased from history, such as Margaret Skinnider and Bronislava Nijinska; exploring possible global parallels between history and the present day. The work seeks to explore the notion of erasure and how it might impact on people’s lives?

About Artist/ Company 

Tara Brandel  has been making work extensively since 1990 in London, Berlin, San Francisco and Ireland. She trained in contact improvisation and acrobatics with Steve Paxton, Laurie Booth and DV8 Physical Theatre as a teenager, and in aerial with aerial pioneers Terry Sengraff USA (Motivity low flying trapeze) and Genevieve Mazin France (Vertical dance, wall running), and with members of No Fit State Circus UK (hoop and trapeze). Tara holds a BA Dance Theatre from Laban Centre London 1990, and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Performance from UC Davis California 2019, where she was awarded the Della Davidson Award 2019, the Mondavi Fellowship, and the Women’s Research Center Fellowship for her solo show Circus, which toured to San Francisco International Arts Festival, Seattle International Dance Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and FRESH San Francisco 2020. Her dance film CAR was Director’s Choice at the CDIFF in Toronto 2017.

Tara Brandel is a queer neurodivergent award-winning choreographer, director, contemporary dancer, and aerialist from West Cork, with a 35 year track record of creating high calibre innovative artistic work shown at festivals + venues in San Francisco, Berlin, London, Dublin, Cork, Cairo, Canada, Australia + Mexico.

She trained in contact improvisation and acrobatics with Steve Paxton, Laurie Booth and DV8 Physical Theatre as a teenager, and in aerial with aerial pioneers Terry Sengraff USA (Motivity low flying trapeze) and Genevieve Mazin France (Vertical dance, wall running), and with members of No Fit State Circus UK (hoop and trapeze).

Tara holds a BA Dance Theatre from Laban Centre London 1990, and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Performance from UC Davis California 2019, where she was awarded the Della Davidson Award 2019, the Mondavi Fellowship, and the Women’s Research Center Fellowship for her solo show Circus, which toured to San Francisco International Arts Festival, Seattle International Dance Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and FRESH San Francisco 2020. Her dance film CAR was Director’s Choice at the CDIFF in Toronto 2017.

Credits

Choreographer/performer – Tara Brandel

Acknowledgments 

Missing is supported by Cork County Arts, Dance Ireland, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Dance Base Edinburgh, Tramway Glasgow and the Irish Consul in Scotland.