Price
Free of Charge. Pre-Registration Required
When
11:30am, Sunday 11 May
Where
Tramway, Glasgow
Tickets
Moving Meitheal Symposium in Glasgow.
Galway Dance presents a one-day symposium as part of their International Residency Initiative Scheme (IRIS) with partners Glasgow Life and Theatre Gu Leòr discussing Intangible Cultural Heritage.
This one-day symposium will explore the relationship between Intangible Cultural Heritage and contemporary (dance) performance.
It will open with an introduction by Kristyn Fontanella, Director of Galway Dance and Rona Dhòmhnallach, Gaelic Arts Producer for Glasgow Life.
The Symposium will include:
Sharings from the 4 participating artists – Bernadette Divilly, Jack Anderson, Fionnlagh Mac A’ Phiocair and Aneta Dortová.
Panel Discussion / FOLK FOLX -Lived experience of making work connected to tradition for the contemporary audience palette.
Hosted by Seona McClintock from Theatre Gu Leòr and panelists
Evie Waddell, Jen Wren and Hamshya Rajkumar.
Guest Speaker
Iliyana Nedkova TRACS and Pomegranates Festival
Event concludes with a sharing by participating IRIS artists and a Q&A facilitated by IRIS Facilitator Rob Heaslip.
This event is free of charge but you must register through Eventbrite.
The symposium is part of the International Residency Initiative Scheme supported by the Arts Council to build relationships with Scotland’s Glasgow Life and Theatre Gu Leòr. The scheme is facilitated by Rob Heaslip.
IRIS Dance Artists:
Bernadette Divilly
Jack Anderson
Fionnlagh Mac A’ Phiocair
Aneta Dortová
More about the dance artists…
Bernadette Divilly is an established contemporary dance artist and dance movement psychotherapist living in Galway City. The essence of her work is responsive to the present moment, nourished and informed by her West of Ireland cultural heritage. Her compositional dance aesthetic is also supported by dharma art.
She is Dance Artist in Residence with Áras Éanna Arts Centre since 2022, researching and developing work in the Gaeltacht community of Inis Oírr, based on ideas centred on landscape, language and the body. In 2024 her Dance exhibition Síreacht agus Sult with lens based Artist Cormac Coyne and Siobhán Ni Dhuinnin was based on an invitation to know one’s own longings and experiences of satisfaction, embodying one’s own ancestral influences in terms of landscape, language and relationship to place.
Jack Anderson began Irish dancing professionally in 2008, touring with Rhythm of the Dance and Celtic Legends before going on to work with Ériu Dance Company. Following this he trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and has since worked for a variety of choreographers and organisations including Éowyn Emerald & Dancers, Shotput and Scottish Ballet. Currently his practice is focused on dismantling and reconciling the relationships between traditional and contemporary dance histories in his body and approach to work, and he is exploring this in the creation of dance-theatre gig not for glory in collaboration with Charlotte Mclean and Malin Lewis. Jack lives and works in Glasgow.
Fionnlagh Mac A’ Phiocair is a 24-year-old native Gàidhlig speaker from the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides and has been immersed in traditional music all his life. Known for experimenting with different tunings & harmonics, he treats a euphonic, hypnotising sound which washes over audiences. Fionnlagh is regarded as a pioneer in the evolution of Scottish Smallpipes.
Fionnlagh also regularly plays with Sarah Hanniffy, A violist from Galway. This innovate fusion inspires new life into the old traditions that each member has grown up with – music which has been handed down both orally in Irish and Hebridean Gàidhlig cultures. The duo will take to the studio this year to record “The Solace From There”. Fionnlagh has recently taken the Smallpipes into a different creative space with his new ensemble The Sòlás Collective, which was launched in August 2024. This trio takes aspects of traditional music into new, experimental ground.
Aneta Dortová is a dance artist, choreographer, and musician based in Galway. She graduated with an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between live music and dance and traditional and contemporary dance. Her expertise is in solo step dance traditions of Ireland and percussive dance traditions of the North Atlantic region. Her contemporary dance practice is informed by release technique, improvisation, and contact improvisation.
She recently received the Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award, Galway City Council Bursary, Macnas Career Development Bursary, Arts Council Ireland Agility Award, Dance Ireland HATCH mentorship Award, and the Lightmoves Festival Student Merit Award. She co-founded and co-organizes a folk music and dance festival FolCon, in Brno, the Czech Republic.’
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