Momentum-Galway Dance Project June Showcase

Galway Dance Project is delighted to be working with Nuns Island Theatre to host an evening of work in progress dance performances and showings on Saturday 17th June at 7pm. Four Galway city and county based artists will present work in progress showings and exerpts from their work. Supported by the Arts Council, Galway city & county councils, Galway Arts Centre and the Town Hall Theatre

Admission €5 BOOK HERE

Linda Schirmer

“Carrying Wood” is project based work carried out at the Woodland Symposium at Interface Inagh. The work in progress reflects on our connection and dependence upon resources drawn from rural geographies. Performing with a firewood bundle on her back it is the artist’s symbolic way of dealing with the energy and climate crisis and the feeling of being overwhelmed by unfolding tragedies both human and environmental. 

The performance will be accompanied with sound and video material by composer and interdisciplinary artist Brett Sroka (New York). 

Picture Credit: Noelle Gallagher

Roberta Ceginskaite

 ’That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down, the medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way’’ 

 – sung by Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins.

Spoonful begins to examine the character of this spoon. Who is holding it? What happens when you don’t want it anymore?
A slightly surreal and absurd duet between the spoon and the person it wants to feed.

Jessie Keenan

Working Title: The Picture Palace Created by Jessie Keenan Choreographed by Jessie Keenan in collaboration with dancers Sarah Ryan and Róisín Harten Performed by Jessie Keenan (Live) and Róisín Harten (on film) Sound by Tom Lane Video shot by Padraig Conaty

Through residencies with Galway Dance Project and Townhall Theatre, Cavan, dance artist Jessie Keenan has been researching ideas around body, memory and architecture. Keenan is interested in how buildings affects our bodies and how our bodies are affected by the spaces we inhabit. As a site of significance in Cavan, the Townhall building itself is her creative starting point for a new site specific dance work. Drawing on interviews, folklore, newspaper articles and archival footage this new work will examine the life of a building and its role in the community over the last 100 years. This work-in-progress performance invites the audience into Keenan’s creative process in the early stages of creating this new dance work. Supported by Arts Council Ireland, Cavan County Council Arts office, Galway Dance Project, Townhall Theatre Cavan and Cavan Arts Festival Length: Approximately 20 min

Magdalena Hylak

After performing at the Dublin Dance Festival last month, Magdalena Hylak is back with A DANCE on her home grounds, together with the associated composer, Lionel Kasparian.

A DANCE is a site specific, non-story based and improvised performance, which invites

the audience to a new form of ritual made from repetition, high physicality, loudness, sound glitches and noises.

A DANCE is an ongoing artistic research through raw movement and sound that translates into public performances, where both artists explore the relationships and tensions between public-personal, inside-outside, visible-invisible.

“The physical being pushed to the maximum” The Irish Times

Magdalena Hylak is the Galway Dance Artist in Residence for 2023/2024 in partnership with Galway Arts Center, Galway County Council and Galway Dance Project. She is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick and Tipperary Dance.

Bernadette Divilly