Join us for a work in progress showing, hosted in our Galway Dance Studio, May 15th at 2pm.
As part of a Galway Dance residency, Justine Doswell collaborates with new-media artist Róisín Berg and Galway-based dance artist Aneta Dortová. Continuing the development of Who Calls the Wind…, in collaboration with Marina Carr, the research explores memory and time through generative systems, combining movement, sound, and visual material within a constantly evolving performance environment.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Justine Doswell
Dance artist, choreographer and creative producer, Justine trained at Legat and Central in the UK. Resident in Dublin since 1997, she has worked with numerous notable Irish and international choreographers, directors and companies, including Liz Roche Company (formerly Rex Levitates) / Jodi Melnick US; John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre / Fabrice Dugied FR / Sean Curran US / Sara Rudner US; CoisCéim Dance Theatre; Ballet Boyz UK / Charles Linehan UK; Dance Theatre of Ireland / Les Carnet Bagouet, Dominique Bagouet FR; Charleroi Danse BE / Merce Cunningham USA / Paul Taylor Dance Company US / Karole Armitage US / Lucinda Childs US / Joachim Schlömer DE; The Abbey Theatre, Landmark Productions, Opera Ireland amongst others. Read Justine’s full bio here.
Róisín Berg
Róisín Berg is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Limerick, Ireland. Their practice investigates how technological systems and algorithms act as mediating agents in the construction of memory, perception, and relational experience. Working across instruments, code, electronics, and sculptural forms, Berg builds and calibrates hybrid systems that evolve over time, developing tendencies and forms of memory through interaction. These systems are treated as active agents, producing behaviour that resists, drifts, and accumulates bias, requiring ongoing negotiation rather than direct control.
Their work spans performance, installation, and lens-based media, often combining autonomous processes with embodied interaction to explore how relations between people, machines, and environments are formed and transformed. They have exhibited and performed in Ireland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S., across galleries, academic institutions, festivals, and hybrid club contexts. Berg teaches digital art and media at the University of Limerick. They run Concept Null, a community-led organisation connecting new-media artists across Ireland, and facilitate workshops with Synthesize_Her, a FLINTA-focused sound-technology project
Aneta Dortová
Aneta Dortová is a dance artist, choreographer, and musician. She holds an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Her artistic practice centers on the relationship between live music and dance, as well as the intersection of traditional and contemporary dance. Aneta finds joy in collaborating with artists of all disciplines, firmly believing in the transformative power of dance and its potential to create connections within and between communities. She co-founded and co-organizes an annual folk music and dance festival, FolCon, in Brno, the Czech Republic, since 2024.