The Peace Process
Uillinn Dance Season 2025

The Peace Process I Dance Performance by Flora Fauna Project

Wednesday 5 November from 6:00pm to 9:00pm – Premiere
Friday 7 November from 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Saturday 8 November from 10:30am to 1:30pm
I €8/10 I BOOKING ONLINE I

For school bookings Thursday 6 November, 9:45am-12:15pm and 1:15pm-3:45pm & Friday 7 November, 9:45am-12:15pm I  €3 per student for school groups I BOOKING BY PHONE 02822090  

The Peace Process is a new multidisciplinary performance by Flora Fauna Project, combining dance, sound, and film to explore ideas of inner and collective peace and conflict. Suitable for ages 8yrs+

The work unfolds over three hours throughout the galleries at Uillinn, which are transformed into an immersive environment of moving bodies, video projections, and layered soundscapes. An ensemble of​ five dance artists perform a circular score on repeat, with each cycle evolving and building on the last.

The performance is repeated during each booking block, allowing audiences to come and go freely while still catching the full show. The event duration is three hours, we recommend spending around ​90mins minutes to experience the​ full work​.

About Artist/ Company 

Flora Fauna Project is a multi-disciplinary dance company run by Swedish choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller and Irish inter-disciplinary artist Stace Gill/ The Sei. They make work for stage, film and installation. They release music as The Sei. Flora Fauna Project also includes a far reaching series of curated talks, workshops and community collaborations that focuses on relationship to nature and environment, natural intelligence, evolution and metamorphoses, representation/giving voice to diversity, gender and sexuality, community and social dreaming. The company has presented work throughout Sweden and Ireland since 2017, and has previously presented LUMEN, Merry.Go.Round and Prime at WCAC.

MARIA NILSSON WALLER is a dance artist, choreographer, teacher and designer. She trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet school, ECSD Rosella Hightower, Cannes and Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. She has been working freelance across Europe since 2004, and is since 2009 based in Ireland. In 2018 she founded multidisciplinary dance company and production house Flora Fauna Project together with Irish composer and videoartist Stace Gill/The Sei.
Over the past 15 years her work has been presented at a number of venues in France, Sweden, U.K and Ireland, through a.o Dublin Dance Festival, Estrad Norr and Cannes Jeune Ballet. Via Flora Fauna Project she produced 4 independent international tours between 2022-2025. Maria has received multiple commissions from festvals, councils and producing theatres, and has created work for both professional dancers and non-professional communities.
As a performer Maria has worked for a.o Gina Moxley, Rob Heaslip, ANU productions, Liv O Donoghue, Cahoots NI and Bo Arenander.
She regularly collaborates with artists from other disciplines such as musicians, photographers, theatre and filmmakers in capacity as dramaturg, movement adviser and visual designer. She also composes and design for her own work.
Maria teaches regular professional class at Dance Ireland and Danscentrum Sweden and is often hired as a guest teacher. She has also completed over 300 workshops in contemporary dance for primary schools in Ireland and Sweden.
She was elected Hoffnungsträgerin 2015 by Tanzmagazin, and was a Dance Ireland Associate Artist 2013/2014. She received the prestigious HATCH residency by Dance Ireland 2017, as well as Riksteaterns Production Residency, 2018 for Flora Fauna Project. She was Dance Artist in Residency at D-Light Studios between 2019-2022 and is a former board member of Dance Ireland. Maria is currently on the board of Danscentrum Norr, Sweden.

STACE GILL is an interdisciplinary sound and music artist working and collaborating professionally for the last 16 years throughout Ireland and Sweden. In 2017 she co-founded Flora Fauna Project interdisciplinary dance company with Choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller, and since then their collaboration has produced multiple dance productions with professional Dancers and a diverse range of community groups in Ireland and Sweden; thanks to the Irish and Swedish Arts Councils and many supporting partners. She is the primary Music director and composer for Flora Fauna Dance productions and her music scores have featured on multiple TV productions including Day of the Jackal 2024 and BBC/HULU ‘Normal People’ 2021. In 2024 FFP were chosen to showcase their work and company at Tanzmesse (Germany) and CINARS (canada), and in 2025 they will premier their new production ‘The Peace Process’. She have been awarded residencies throughout Ireland and Europe since 2017 with Dance Ireland, Tipperary Dance Platform, Trois CL Luxembourg, Dans i Orebro, Konstnärsnämnden, Riksteatern and Estrad Norr.

SARA EZZELL is an American-Cypriot movement artist, choreographer, and director. From 2014- 2019, she danced with the Saint Petersburg Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Bundesjugendballett (BJB) and the Hamburg Ballet. During this time she also premiered her first choreographic works, including “Just Like a Woman,” which has been performed throughout Europe by the BJB and was also selected by John Neumeier to be performed in the Nijinsky Gala, 2018. Alongside dancing principal roles with the Hamburg Ballet, in 2019 John Neumeier sent her to represent the Hamburg Ballet at the prestigious 2019 Erik Bruhn Prize, where she and her partner Matias Oberlin’s performance of Kristian Lever’s “An Intimate Distance) won Best Contemporary Choreography. She has been a freelance artist since 2020, creating new work in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and also initiating socio-kultur projects. Her recent work in co-creation with musicians includes her choreographic creation and performance of the “Feuervogel” in collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic (2021), her choreographic creation and performance of “Pygmalion 4.0” with the orchestra “La Festa Musicale”(2021), and her choreographic creation and performance “.M”, in collaboration with classical pianist Daniel Bucurescu and composer Xiao Fu (2023). Her approach prioritizes creating productions with a humanistic purpose through innovative, inclusive creative practice. Her latest initiative as director, choreographer, and dancer, “Ceremonia”, in collaboration with conductor Anna-Sophie Brüning, conceived an original performance from the oral history accounts of residents of an
elderly care home- performed by professional dancers, musicians, children, and the elderly (2023). Her 2024 season includes dancing/choreographing in a new collaborative children’s production with the Berlin Philharmonic, choreographing for and dancing within the production “Galathea Upload” at Beethovenfest Bonn, and initiating a premiere in Hannover collaborating with intercultural Istanbul-based music ensemble “Seyyah”. In Ireland, she has has offered ballet training for dance professionals at Dance Ireland (2021), taught contact improvisation and performed new work at Flow Festival in West Cork (2022), and has been thrilled to take part in the Flora Fauna productions of “Bluebells” (2021), and “Merry.Go.Round” (2022).

MARCIA LIU is a Brussels-based dance artist, originally from Hong Kong. After her studies at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Liu further pursued dance at The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Belgium. Besides being active in performance, she has achieved a master’s degree in Philosophy from KU Leuven. Besides engaging herself on stage and dance productions, she is passionate about movement exploration and embodied practices. In search of connections between the ‘how’ & ‘why’ of moving bodies, it leads her into internal martial arts/qigong, fascia & perceptive movement practices. She perceives bodies as our primal channels of energy, and the importance of cultivating a healthy exchange between our inner landscapes and the surroundings. Her works consist of embodied and creative journeys to recognise and facilitate connectivity. Connectivity is a practice. She believe there is power in understanding and sharing vulnerabilities. And to give space and voice to the multitudes of life that are already there and their ecology — is what human creation essentially means for her, touches and moves her.

ANNE ROWE is an irish dancer, trained at The College of Dance, Dublin and The Institute of the Arts Barcelona (2022-2025). Her performance experience includes ‘Converge’ 2024: Raphael Miro Holzer, Julia Ehrstrand and Ravid Abarbanel, ‘Stroked By a Delusional Beauty’ 2024: A contemporary dance film by Albert Garrell and ‘From Inside a House is Waiting’ 2024: Physical Theatre Performance at Nau Ivanov – Barcelona, directed by Valentina Temussi. Anne was selected out of 150 international dancers for Flora Fauna Project’s ‘The Peace Process’ with premiere 2025. Anne was performer and co-creator at ‘Terra Femina’ 2023: A contemporary dance piece choreographed by Simone O’toole (SOTO collective).

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Credits

Artistic Directors
Choreography / Set design / Light design / Dancer : Maria Nilsson Waller (Sweden/Ireland)
Video artist / Composer / Musician + Performer: Stace Gill (Ireland)

Dancers
Sara Ezzell: (USA/Cyprus)
Marcia Liu: (Hong Kong/ Brussels)
Annie Rowe: (Ireland)
Elin Hedin (Sweden)

Design Team
Matt Burke: Light design
Jacek Rzepka/Unique Interactive: Set Design
Barbara Klimecka: Set Design (wool)
Hermann Badowski: AV
The Sei: Sound design and music (Stace Gill, Maria Nilsson Waller + Ross Dowling)

Production Manager: Archer Bradshaw

Producer: Karen Aguiar

Acknowledgments 

The Arts Council