Turnstile - Film Screening
Uillinn Dance Season 2026

Turnstile I Tipperary Dance

Running time: 36 minutes

Friday 6 & Saturday 7 November 2026

Free event, film screening at 1:15pm and 7:00pm

Turnstile is a performance and visual arts installation, combining dance, video and original music. Commissioned by Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, in memory of the 1920 events known as Bloody Sunday.

Two dancers are enclosed inside a glass cabinet. Video projections show oversized bodies falling into an empty space. The factual numbers of a bloody forensic report become the backbone of the music composition.

In Turnstile, Tipperary Dance reflects on our ability to find resilience after violence. This work considers the decay of memory and pays a poetic tribute to the illusory nature of narratives that spin inside the collective unconscious, invading its heart.

Music, film, recorded voices and the flesh of the body weave threads of history, to form a new present-day image. This work enters through a door of memory and spins out through a turnstile of reinterpretation, imagination and possibility.

Turnstile is an invitation to revisit violent facts and reconstruct a new state of play through the lens of dance. Unravelling the story, taking rudimentary constituents that define the traumatic events. Letting each one of them carry its own significance. Decontextualizing each component from the original narratives. Weaving them into a new scene, a new plot that does not carry the trauma in its heart.

Note: Turnstile was filmed in January 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The first live performance of the piece was in 2024 at Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.

CREDITS

Artistic Direction: Jazmín Chiodi & Alexandre Iseli
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Robyn Byrne and Róisín Whelan
Dancers in the videos: Robyn Byrne, Jazmín Chiodi, Alexandre Iseli, Amberlee Toumanguelov
Music composition: Oscar Mascareñas
Video design, mapping, editing: Lucy Dawson & Shane Vaughan
Set: Martin Cahill
Light and video operator: Anthony Hanley
Photography: Alexandre Iseli

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Commissioned and funded by Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, funded by Creative Ireland, co-funded by The Arts Council under the Dance Artist in Residency Scheme.

Tipperary Dance is proudly funded by The Arts Council and Tipperary County Council. The development of the work was supported by Tigh Roy and The Source Arts Centre. Many thanks to Marie MacMahon, Amberlee Toumanguelov, Roy Galvin.