Uillinn Dance Season 2023 Film, Discussion & Workshop
The Dance: Film Screening and Discussion
Harvest Films | South Wind Blows
Saturday 28 October | 12noon – 2:00pm
Tickets €10, booking essential on Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/719276434177
Over the course of eight weeks, we witness the creative process of the world-renowned choreographer, Michael Keegan-Dolan as he prepares MÁM for its premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival; a new dance and theatre production that brings together twelve international dancers, concertina player Cormac Begley and the European orchestral collective, s t a r g a z e. Under the gaze of the camera, Keegan-Dolan brings everyone to the Dingle peninsula for rehearsals, and from the openness of the initial conversations, improvisations and experiments, the harmony of the final artwork slowly emerges.
CREDITS
Director: Pat Collins | Producers: Philip King, Tina O’Reilly, Sharon Whooley
ABOUT the artists
Michael Keegan Dolan
Michael Keegan Dolan is one of the most exciting choreographers working in dance and theatre today. His ground-breaking productions have won numerous international awards. He rose to acclaim as the artistic director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (1997-2015), creating three Olivier Award-nominated productions: Giselle (2003), The Bull (2005) and The Rite of Spring (2009). The Bull received a UK Critic’s Circle Award in 2008 and his show Rian, won a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award) in 2013 for Best Production. His last production with his new company Teac Damsa, Swan Lake / Loch na hEala, won the UK Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Production 2018. Premiered at the 2016 Dublin Theatre Festival, Swan Lake toured the world including to Sadler’s Wells London, Stuttgart, Wellington, Sydney, Seoul, Toronto and Moscow
Pat Collins
Pat Collins is a film maker from West Cork in Ireland who has made 30 films over the last 25 years. In 2012, the Irish Film Institute curated a mid-career retrospective of his work to date. His latest feature documentary Henry Glassie Fieldwork - premiered at TIFF in 2019 and was released in New Wave films in the UK. He has directed the feature films Song of Granite and Silence and made films on the writer John McGahern, the poets Michael Hartnett and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, the Connemara based writer and cartographer Tim Robinson, the Iranian film maker Abbas Kiarostami (co-directed with Fergus Daly), and two political feature essay films ‘What We Leave in Our Wake’ (2009) and ‘Living in a Coded Land’ (2014). He also makes short experimental films including ‘Pilgrim’, ‘What Remains’, ‘Twilight’ and the forthcoming ‘All There is, is light’.
Illusion of Loss - Bathroom Dreams - Bone Stone Dune: Online Screening and Discussion
Wednesday 1 November | 11.00am – 12.15pm
Free, booking essential on Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/719284408027
Croí Glan presents three short dance films (approx 40mins) by Artistic Director Tara Brandel, followed by a discussion with the artist. The films will also be presented in Gallery II from 28 October to 2 November.
Illusion of Loss A Croi Glan film commissioned and funded by ADI. Dancer Stephani Bastos. (premier)
Bathroom Dreams Funded by an AC DARS award. Looking at rural isolation. (premier)
Bone Stone Dune Funded by UC Davis Provost Fellowship. Looking at our connection to place. (Premiered at Wicklow Screendance Laboratory).
Tara Brandel will be in conversation with Gavin Buckley in a special podcast release for Uillinn Dance Season exploring dance and the environment in the context of our changing climate. Check out social media #UDS23
ABOUT Croí Glan
Croí Glan Integrated Dance highlights the value of diverse bodies in creating performance. Working with dancers both with and without disabilities we produce innovative, engaging, high calibre productions and deliver associated participatory activities.
www.westcorkartscentre.com/croi-glan-integrated-dance-company
Dance Masterclass
Thursday 2 November | 10.00am – 11.00am
€10 and free places for a limited number of dance students
Booking through Uillinn at 028 22090
Dance artist and choreographer Isabella Oberländer will lead a masterclass for dance artists and students.
TRIPLE SPIRAL: Film Screening and Discussion
Thursday 2 November | 8.30pm – 9.15pm
Tickets €5, booking essential on Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/726694983257
TRIPLE SPIRAL is a new work by composer Justin Grounds, drawing inspiration from Baroque instruments and bringing it into the modern day. The 3 movements (spirals) have the fast-slow-fast structure of an 18th-century trio sonata, while taking inspiration from modern drum’n’bass beats and rhythmic patterns, electronic music, and particle physics.
Featuring Justin Grounds (baroque violin), Sarah Groser (viola da gamba), Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord), and Yumi Lee (contemporary dance), the result is a vibrant work linking traditions of the past with the energy and vitality of the present day. The dynamic film is a production of Now and Then Media, Ltd. with support from the Irish World Academy, Limerick Arts Office, Limerick City and County Council, Tipperary County Council, Tipperary Arts Office, and Cork County Council.
Uillinn Dance Season 2023 is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media's Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum Scheme.
The Contemporary Dance Programme at Uillinn is in partnership with Cork County Council and supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Proud members of Dance Ireland.
We extend our gratitude to our Curator and Dance Artist in Residence, Luke Murphy, the artists, arts workers, funders and everybody involved in bringing you this live and exciting programme.
