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Digital Dance Film The Here Trio Digital Dance Film Streaming 4th March 2021, 8pm The angular precision of Liz Roche’s The Here Trio offers an intriguing reflection on space, history and the transitory, uncertain nature of our humdrum existence, all unfolding within the rapidly changing environments around us.” “ The Stage, UK Proudly supported by The Arts Council, RTÉ Supporting The Arts, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and by Belfast City Council Co-produced with Maiden Voyage Dance and screened in partnership with Project Arts Centre, Tipperary Dance Platform and Dance Limerick The Here Trio got off to a superb start in early 2020 playing to capacity audiences at The MAC, Belfast, and The Market Place Theatre in Armagh. Due to the pandemic, the company has been unable to continue a live tour of the show planned for this spring. However, we are thrilled to present the film version with our touring partners, Project Arts Centre, Dance Limerick and tdp’20 International Dance Festival, to the audiences that didn’t have the chance to see the piece live. The Here Trio had its world premiere in February 2020, as part of Maiden Voyage Dance’s “timely Boundaries and Belonging programme, which took place only one week after Brexit. With the ongoing uncertainty around our shared future on the island of Ireland, it was definitely the right moment to come together as artists and reaffirm our position of openness and interconnectivity. In preparation for the making of The Here Trio, I thought first about the history of the actual site of The MAC theatre in Belfast. I was thinking about all of the traffic of life that passes through a particular point in space over the years, a ‘here’. It made me question what and how things get remembered. I thought about how physical scars are permanent on the body, acting as triggers for memory, and how that can be in contrast to a site, where the memory can be erased with the destruction of the old structure and rewritten with the construction of the new. In The Here Trio, the dancers movements convey bodies that are slightly ‘outside-of- themselves’, agitated and driven, even stressed. Voices are independent from their speakers, images fracture and reform, and the senses are stuck in over exaggerated comparisons. Time doesn’t flow, but hiccups along, with memories and imagined histories erupting throughout. The body is a source of sound, with the beating heart and drums setting the pace. Dance captures the body, its patterns, movements, expressions and energies. A person can say a thing but if their body isn’t behind it, it doesn’t have any weight or conviction. In dance we highlight what the body does before words are formed. We explore instinct and gut reaction, and in The Here Trio we have really tried to trust what the body says before the thinking mind has too much time to get in the way. Moving between the original Brexit inspired live performance at The MAC Belfast in February 2020, to the newly adapted and socially distanced version filmed at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles for TPD’20 International Dance Festival, this film navigates what it means to connect in the midst of a pandemic, post-Brexit, where our sense of boundaries and belonging are being challenged on many different levels.” Liz Roche The Here Trio streaming March 4th 2021 at 8pm Following the film, audiences will be invited to attend a live Q&A session via Zoom. Panel includes Fearghus O’Conchuir (Choreographer/Dancer/ Artistic Director), Luca Truffarelli (Videographer), Mary Wycherley (Choreographer and Director – Light Moves Festival of Screendance), and Liz Roche. In order to make this work more accessible, closed captioning will be available for the film, and live captioning during the Q&A. Approximate duration is 50 minutes The film will also be available to ticket holders for 48hrs after. The senses, they differentiate for us, they compare, they separate us from others. I see the senses as a vehicle to connect to “what is not us.” Production Credits Cast Ryan O’Neill, Lucia Kickham, Justine Cooper, Sarah Cerneaux, Glὸria Ros Abellana Directed and Choreographed by Liz Roche Lighting Design by Stephen Dodd Sound Design & Visuals by Luca Truffarelli Original Music and Drum Recordings by Bryan O’Connell Set and costume by Liz Roche Filming by Lucy Dawson, Shane Vaughan and Luca Truffarelli Video edit by Luca Truffarelli Drum Samples by kind permission of Jeremy Davis Set build by Theatre Production Services Photography by Luca Truffarelli Stage Manager Lisa Krugel Production Manager Sebastian Pizarro Olivera Bios Liz Roche is co-founder and Artistic Director of Liz Roche Company. Since 1999, the company has produced and toured over 20 of her works, performing throughout Ireland and internationally at prestigious venues and festivals. From 2009 to 2012 Liz was choreographer-in-residence at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL, and is a former recipient of Peter Darrell Choreographic Award, Bonnie Bird U.K. New Choreography Award and the Dublin Fringe Festival’s Jane Snow Award. She has made new work for the National Ballet of China, Arcane Collective, Croi Glan Integrated Dance, Scottish Dance Theatre, Maiden Voyage Dance, Cois Ceim and Dance Theatre of Ireland. She has also choreographed extensively in opera and theatre, most notably for The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Landmark Productions, Wexford Festival Opera, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, Liceu Barcelona, Opernhaus Zurich and Irish National Opera. In 2020 Liz was elected to Aosdána Stephen Dodd is a lighting designer for theatre, dance, and opera. Currently based in Dublin, he trained at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. Recent lighting designs include: For Liz Roche Company: The Here Trio (LRC & Maiden Voyage Dance co-production), I/Thou, Wrongheaded. For United Fall: Birdboy, Girl Song, Dancehall, Dogs, Listowel Syndrome. For Junk Ensemble: The Misunderstanding of Myrrha. For Dead Centre: To Be a Machine (Version 1.0), Beckett’s Room, Hamnet, Chekhov’s First Play, LIPPY. For Brokentalkers: The Examination, The Circus Animal’s Desertion. For Irish National Opera & United Fall: Orfeo ed Euridice. For Company SJ: Company. For The Emergency Room: riverrun. Luca Truffarelli is a freelance photographer and video maker based in Dublin. He graduated in photography in 2011 and started experimenting and challenging himself in the field of visual arts. Over the past few years he has been involved in contemporary dance and theatre works as a photographer/video maker, visual/set and sound designer and artistic collaborator. BRYAN O’CONNELL is a drummer, improviser, composer of rhythmic acoustic / electronic music. Previous work includes Bastard Amber, Interloper (Liz Roche Company), Hear Me Sing Your Song and With Raised Arms (Liv O’Donoghue). He co-wrote soundtracks to The Adventures of Prince Achmed with Eric Friedlander and others and Fußall Wie Noch Nie with Ernst Reijseger, and others. With Tom Lane, he co-wrote scores for Bird With Boy (junk ensemble), Listowel Syndrome and DOGS (Emma Martin). Bryan’s regular collaborators include Beautiful Unit, Si Schroeder, Matthew Nolan, David Stalling, Anthony Kelly and Gavin Prior. He is co-author of a new book on drummer Jaki Liebezeit. Sarah Cerneaux started street dancing at the age of 17 in France. After completing her degree, she moved to Paris and kept learning with teachers such as Corinne Lanselle, Carolyn Carlson, Julyen Hamilton and Junior Almeida. Since then she has worked with Abou Lagraa Company (2006- 2014), Christine Bastin, David Drouard Company, Vincent Mantsoé and Maryse Delente Company. She joined Akram Khan Company in November 2014 and toured the production Kaash for 2 years. She began working with Liz Roche Company in 2014 and performed in Bastard Amber, WRoNGHEADED, Pilgrimage and I/Thou. Ryan O’Neill achieved a first class honours degree in Dance from the Ulster University and studied his Masters in Dance Performance at Laban as part of a professional post graduate company Transitions. Since then Ryan has worked with Maiden Voyage Dance, Off The Rails, ponydance, Tinderbox, Oona Doherty Works (NI) Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Junk Ensemble, Panpan, Company Philip Connaughton, Coisceim, Liz Roche Company (IRL) Gwyn Emberton Dance (UK) and Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in Shanghai. In 2011 Ryan was selected by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham palace for recognition of his achievements as a young person in the Arts. Ryan is also a qualified Ashtanga Yoga teacher. Glòria Ros Abellana graduated in classical dance at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, she continued her studies at Cannes Jeune Ballet (France). She joined Introdans Ensemble voor de Jeugd (NL), with whom she performed internationally in pieces by Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Inbal Pinto. As a freelance, she has worked with Arno Schuitemaker and Arthur Rosenfeld, among others. Glòria was awarded 1st prize in Shortcuts - Experimental Dance Film Festival (Austria). She is part of Liz Roche Company having performed in Totems, I/Thou and Dēmos. She develops her own instant composition work in collaboration with several dance and music artists. Her shows and videodance projects have been presented in Spain, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Australia. Lucia Kickham Lucia Kickham is a Dublin-based dance artist performing and collaborating internationally since 2011. Trained in The Netherlands, she has worked with companies and artists which include TRASH, Company Philip Connaughton, junk ensemble, Liz Roche Company, Maria Nilsson Waller and Oonagh Kearney. Lucia frequently performs at festivals in Dublin, Cork and Belfast and has toured throughout the UK, Sweden and The Netherlands. She has trained intensively with David Zambrano in Flying Low & Passing Through techniques, developing her interest in group dynamics within composition and teaching environments.
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