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. In recent years Lucia has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Ireland, Firkin Crane Cork and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Lucia was HATCH Artist 2018 at Dance Ireland and is Associate Artist with Liz Roche Company 2018/21.
Justine Cooper is originally from New Zealand and has been based in Ireland as a freelance dance artist, teacher and choreographer since 2008. She has worked with EMMA MARTIN, United Fall, ‘I am Ireland’ film for opening of Culture night 2020 in collaboration with RTE, Girl Song, Tundra, Dogs, Listowel Syndrome; JUSTINE DOSWELL’s Corvidae, Contrapuntus III, The Thing Is?; OONA DOHERTY’s Lady Magma; MARIA NILSSON WALLER’s Merry.go.round; ANU/COIS CEIM These Rooms, COIS CEIM’s Body Language, , Agnes, Dance Talking, JUNK ENSEMBLE’s Dusk Ahead, Bird with Boy, Sometimes We Break, Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre Company Member (1998-2000). Justine’s own work FOLDS OF THE CRANE was presented as part of Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival 2015, Dublin Dance Festival 2016 and Whats Next Festival, Limerick, 2018. Works with Liz Roche Company include Wrongheaded, Bastard Amber, Body and Forgetting, Fast Portraits and Secondary Sources.
The place might not always be the same but still familiar. Necessary.
You have to go through it “to get somewhere else.” About Liz Roche Company
Established in 1999, Liz Roche Company is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary dance companies. With a reputation for its finely wrought and beautifully crafted choreographic style, the Dublin based company presents the works of choreographer Liz Roche in collaboration with artists, dancers and designers of the highest calibre. An artistically distinctive and ambitious arts organisation, the company has produced over twenty original productions, touring throughout Ireland and further afield in the UK, Germany, France, USA, Australia and China, most notably being presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Memorial Church in New York, the South Bank Centre, London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, The Irish Arts Festival Beijing and Brisbane Powerhouse, Australia.
The company is dedicated to collaboration, archiving, research, as well as extending the art of contemporary dance. We deliver a wide ranging programme of professional and audience development opportunities in partnership with high level institutions such as The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Dublin Dance Festival, The Lir Academy and Dance Ireland. Our Associate Dance Artist 2018 – 21 is Lucia Kickham. The company was co founded in 1999 by sisters Liz Roche and Jenny Roche and was formally known as Rex Levitates Dance Company. Now under the artistic direction of choreographer Liz Roche, the team consists of Company Manager Moyra D’Arcy, Digital Communications Manager Manager Noelia Ruiz and administrator Emer McMahon.
For more information about the company please visit: www.lizrochecompany.com
Board of Directors Chair: Caroline McNamara Members: Catherine Marshall, Ursula Robb, Helen Meany, Michael O Reilly, Garret Ward and Lucia Prihodova
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