Silenced
Uillinn Dance Season 2026

Silenced (We’re still here)|Tara Brandel

Friday 6 November at 8:00 pm | 30 min | WARNING: References to transphobia

Tickets available to purchase here.

Something is afoot no?! Things are changing. The worm turns. Come into my parlours. It’s a bit of a mess. And I will share the stories. Weaving spoken word, looped vocals, movement, aerial and a glittery touch of drag, ‘Silenced’ takes a disturbing look at the current erasure of trans and queer rights in many parts of the world.

‘powerful and provoking’ Gay Community News

CREDITS

Created and performed by Tara Brandel.

Script taken from interviews with LGBTQ individuals from multiple countries.

Mentor Keith Hennessy.

Made in research with Isabella Oberlander, Bobbi Byrne and Jude O’Neill

BIOGRAPHY

Tara Brandel is an award-winning choreographer, director, contemporary dancer, and aerialist originally from West Cork. She 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). She holds a BA in Dance Theatre and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Performance.  As artistic director of Croí Glan Integrated Dance since 2006, her integrated dance work has been commissioned by the Unlimited Festival Southbank Centre London 2012, Propeller Integrated Dance Company Ottawa, Canada, and D-CAF Cairo, Egypt. Her most recent solo work includes Circus 2019 which toured to San Francisco International Arts Festival, Seattle International Dance Festival, Cork Midsummer and Dublin Fringe. She is currently working on a new multidisciplinary solo show Missing about pivotal queer women who are missing from history, to premier in 2027.

FUNDING

Arts Council Multidisciplinary Bursary, supported by Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre and Dance Ireland.