Uillinn Dance Season 2024

18 October to 1 November 2024

Welcome to our seventh Uillinn Dance Season. UDS24 offers audiences and performers an opportunity to experience and take part in a vibrant array of live performances, film screenings & discussions in our unique location curated with award winning choreographer, Luke Murphy.

Uillinn Dance Season is part of West Cork Arts Centre’s growing and ambitious contemporary dance programme which presents opportunities for dance research, classes and workshops, professional development, performance and project work with communities both onsite and off.

Recognising the challenges facing the development of dance in regional areas, we are working with national and international choreographers, dance artists and for the first time partnering with Dance Cork Firkin Crane, and Tipperary Dance to present excellent Contemporary Dance for Uillinn audiences.

You can view and download the programme pdf here.

You can book tickets to all events by using this Eventbrite Collection link - https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/uillinn-dance-season-2024-3609949

Uillinn Dance Season 2024 Opening Wine Reception
Friday 18 October | 7.30pm I Uillinn Galleries I free entrance

Come along to celebrate our first night with a pre-show complimentary drink and conversation.

 

After All | Dance Performance by Solène Weinachter
Friday 18 October I 8.00pm I €15  I BOOKING online
James O'Driscoll Gallery I 60 mins 

Age 12+, Themes of death, dying and loss

AFTER ALL is a celebration of our vulnerable and courageous existence. Solène attempts to conjure a better space to be with death, dying and loss, asking - what happens in the end. The solo dance performance masterfully invites the audience to ponder on their own mortality as well as explore how to celebrate life.

After All | Death Café | Lisa Fannen and Solène Weinachter
Saturday 19 October  I  11:00am I donations I BOOKING by phone 028 22090 or email
Uillinn Workspace I 120 mins 

AFTER ALL hosts a group directed conversation to share experiences, feelings or questions around death. This is not grief support or counseling, rather it follows the traditions of the Death Cafe movement, aiming to host an accessible, respectful and confidential space.
 

 

This is it | 8 dance portraits I Film Screening  I  Laura Murphy
Saturday 19 October I 7.00pm I €10 I BOOKING online
James O’Driscoll Gallery I 55 mins plus post show discussion 

Age 12+, contains strobe effects

The worth of a dancer’s career is often measured by the time spent in the limelight. Yet a dancer’s experience of their career extends beyond the stage. This series of short films reveals an archive of untold stories and unspoken values by women in dance in Ireland. Collaborating with filmmaker Pato Cassinoni, animator Alan Early and composer Irene Buckley, Laura Murphy presents an innovative and multifaceted exploration of eight women in dance in Ireland: Jean Butler, Alicia Christofi Walshe, Lisa Cliffe, Finola Cronin, Joan Davis, Katherine O'Malley, Mary Nunan and Angie Smalis.

A selection of the short films will be screened as an installation in Gallery III from 21 to 1 November during gallery opening times. Free entry.
 

 

 

Tangle | durational aerial duet | The Detached.Collab in association with Loosysmokes
Sunday 20 October I 6.00pm and 8.00pm I €10  I BOOKING online
Gallery II I 30mins 

Age 10 +, contains strobe lighting 

Work in progress showing, Tangle features two aerial artists entangled in anxieties of ropes, an extension of the mind into a physical world in which they navigate. Experimenting with vertical rope structures, the artists climb, spiral, bend, unravel, and incorporate intricate knots to challenge traditional movement possibilities. The piece explores layers of identity, unaware anxieties and the influence and interdependence of each other. Inspired by the sculptural pathways of hanging rope formations that reform in no order, the performance is an attempt to unravel a tangled identity unsure of self.
 

 

 

 

Change and I Dream of Water | Dance Performance | Croí Glan & Tara Brandel
Thursday 24 & Friday 25 October I 8.00pm I €15  I BOOKING online
James O'Driscoll Gallery I 70 mins with interval

A double bill of extracts from new works by Croí Glan.
I Dream of Water is a burlesque inspired romp through gender, climate change and disability. Performed by Bobbi Byrne and Tara Brandel.
Change draws on research from climate scientists at UCC to explore climate resilience through the personal lenses of dancers Rachel Paul (France), Oran Leong (Ireland) and Yves Lorrhan.

A post show discussion takes place on 25 October at 9:00pm with Lydia Cumiskey and Croí Glan.

The Hope Project | Masterclass | Tara Brandel and Lydia Chumsky
Saturday 26 October | 10:30 am I BOOKING online
UCC and Bollinger Family Space| 120 mins

Exploring climate resilience through movement with Tara Brandel, and the sharing of a sound score and discussion by climate adaptation scientist Lydia Cumiskey.

During the session participants will experience the co-created sound piece developed within the Creative Ireland BluePrint project, co-ordinated by MaREI, University College Cork.  To create the sound piece BluePrint project artist Sally Walmsley facilitated a co-creation process using soundwalks and creative workshops with flood affected communities in Derry and Tryone to capture their lived experiences of flooding and vision for climate adaptation in the future.

Following the creative experiences, participants will be invited to reflect on the impact of movement and sound in their own climate action journeys.  The group will then interactively discuss the value of using creativity to meaningfully engage and communicate climate risk within places and with decision-makers to leverage systems change. 

 

LUMEN  I dance performance  I Flora Fauna Project 
Saturday 26 October I 7.00pm I €15  I BOOKING online
James O'Driscoll Gallery I 45mins I Family Friendly event

LUMEN is a metamorphic, rampant, botanical showdown highlighting topics of biodiversity, beauty, worldbuilding and the interconnectedness of all living things. Lumen exists in the borderland between music and dance, human body and machine, between sunset and sunrise. Using sound, light, movement, video and voice the stage becomes an animated space that vibrates, shivers, thunders, glitters and glows, bowing to the beauty of the natural world.
 

 

 

 

 

Triple Spiral I dance and music concert  I Chloé Pisco with Justin Grounds, Sarah Groser & Yonit Kosovske
Tuesday 29 October I 8.00pm I €15  I BOOKING online
James O'Driscoll Gallery  I 60 mins

A full concert of live original music and contemporary dance, taking inspiration from the baroque and bringing it into the modern world. Harpsichord, viola da gamba and baroque violin meld with the electrifying contemporary dance in this dynamic trio. The concert will feature a full live performance of 'Triple Spiral' plus improvisation between dancer and musicians, and two premiere performances of new works by the trio.
 

 

 

 

 

Luke Murphy West Cork Dance Artist in Residency at Uillinn 
As part of his work in collaboration with Uillinn, award winning Dance Artist and Choreographer Luke Murphy presents a three stranded programme of performance, film and discussion

Luke Murphy I in conversation with Liz Roche
Sunday 27 October I  3:00pm I free I BOOKING online
Online from Uillinn UCC and Bollinger Family Space

As a Dance Artist/Company supported by Luail this conversation between Luke Murphy and Luail Director Liz Roche offers an opportunity to learn more about Ireland's National Dance Company and what this exciting development in Contemporary Dance might mean for rural audiences.

WIM I Lut Vanderkeybus presented by Luke Murphy and special guest - 
Monday 28 October time I 7:00pm I free I BOOKING online
James O'Driscoll Gallery I 115 mins plus post film discussion 

In WIM, documentary filmmaker Lut Vandekeybus takes us into the energetic, poetic and complex universe of her brother, the acclaimed choreographer and director Wim Vandekeybus. A captivating film about a distinguished career and intense life. Lut Vandekeybus uses an abundance of unpublished archive material, unique home videos and in-depth interviews to deliver an inspired portrait of her brother's impressive career.

This is a unique opportunity to witness choreographic process of Wim Vandekeybus from the perspective of an insider and enter into a discussion with Luke Murphy on his experiences working with the highly acclaimed artist.

 

 

 

 

Prometheus I Sharing of work in progress I Attic Projects
Friday 1 November I 7.00pm I free I BOOKING online
UCC and Bollinger Family Space I 30mins with post show discussion

Taking the classic story of Prometheus, the god who gave fire to humans and specifically the crucial moment where Zeus took it away, Luke and his collaborators will weave, dance, theatre, music and visual installation. Exploring a world preparing for the lights to go out forever, Attic Projects presents a sharing of work in progress concluding a studio residency at Uillinn. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uillinn Dance Season 2024 is presented in partnership with Cork County Council and supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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. We thank our audiences for your support and look forward to seeing you at Uillinn soon!

Photography credits: AFTER ALL by Genevieve Reeves, This is it with Finola Cronin by Patricio Cassinoni, LUMEN by Marcis Liu,  Prometheus by Patricio Cassinoni, WIM by Octavio Iturbe

Graphic Design by Robin Hannon & Marketing by Jeanette Keane