Change and I Dream of Water

Dance Performance by 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 post show discussion takes place on 25 October at 9:00pm with Lydia Cumiskey and Croí Glan

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 (Brazil).

The Hope Project 

Masterclass | Tara Brandel and Lydia Cumiskey
Saturday 26 October|10:30 am 
UCC and Bollinger Family Space|120 mins| BOOKING ONLINE

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. 

ABOUT

Led by Artistic Director Tara Brandel, Croí Glan is an award winning Contemporary Dance Company celebrating diverse bodies on stage, and a flagship company for EDI with a case study in the new AC EDI handbook.  Creating work since 2006, Croí Glan has toured nationally and internationally: highlights of the company’s body of work include Liz Roche's An Outside Understanding (Dublin Dance Festival 2013, nominated Best Performers Dublin Fringe), the multi award winning short film Armour Off! (in collaboration with Invisible Thread, Caroline Bowditch and Linda Fearon), and David Bolger's On the Wall (performed in multiple locations including Miami, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Barcelona, Bern, and Turku). Croí Glan’s most recent productions include TILT, an integrated aerial dance show (Cork Midsummer, Tipperary Dance Festival and Dancer from the Dance Festival); In Place a site specific performance made at IMMA; and Unseen a multidisciplinary performance about plankton.

Lydia Cumiskey is a senior postdoctoral researcher at MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine in the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork. Over the past 10 years Lydia has worked in research and consultancy projects in the areas of integrated flood risk management, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and risk communication. Creativity and interactivity inspire her work, as well as enabling multi-stakeholder collaboration, co-creation and partnership. Lydia leads the Creative Ireland funded project BluePrint, implementing a creative co-creation process with flood-affected communities to develop artistic risk communication materials. She also works on the EU Horizon funded project DIRECTED aiming to enhance disaster resilience for extreme climate events across Europe.

CREDITS

Choreographer: Tara Brandel with the dancers
Dancers: Yves Lorrhan, Oran Leong, Rachel Paul, Bobbi Byrne, Tara Brandel
Additional dancers for research: Alex Legrain, Tanya Turner, Yumi Lee, Rocio Dominguez, Justine Cooper, Anderson da Souza
Composer and Sound design for CHANGE: Benji Bowers
Set and Costume Design: Deirdre Dwyer
Lighting: Alan Mooney
Dramaturgy for CHANGE: Lou Cope
Producer: Gwen van Spijk
Company and Production Manager: Gearoid O'Hallmharin
Social Media: Oran Leong