La Cat Explore presents Exploriment! A dance fringe week-end dedicated to celebrating Exploration, Movement & Experimentation!
Let the body breaks its boundaries, making the physical fizz and igniting the imagination in action! This weekend is an open invitation to Dublin's dancers and dance-lovers and a unique opportunity to explore moods of movement in diverse workshops, to see fresh performance concepts staged before your very eyes and to play, discuss and dream at our open Corroboree Café evenings of improvisation, entertainment, beverage and biscuitry.
Let the body breaks its boundaries, making the physical fizz and igniting the imagination in action! This weekend is an open invitation to Dublin's dancers and dance-lovers and a unique opportunity to explore moods of movement in diverse workshops, to see fresh performance concepts staged before your very eyes and to play, discuss and dream at our open Corroboree Café evenings of improvisation, entertainment, beverage and biscuitry.
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Friday 18th May
doors 8pm, starts 8.30. free entry
Friday 18th May
doors 8pm, starts 8.30. free entry
Embodying Visions and Dancing Senses
An introduction to BUTOH dance facilitated by Ambra Bergamasco. More information on THIS LINK
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Saturday 19th May
12pm– 5pm - Don't Stop the Dance workshops
The weekend kicks off in style with a series of workshops by the
legendary 'Don't Stop the Dance' collective, including an introduction
to aerial acro-pole with Lisette Krol – visit their website for more info.
6pm– Chamber Dance - free admission
For our Saturday show, we are delighted to present an exclusive preview of 'Chamber Dance',
a new collaborative performance blending live classical piano and fluid
movement for magical results, by dancer Rachel Mulcahy and veteran
pianist Doug Lowe. Take a journey through the Romantic era with the most
stunning works of Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms and Gershwin
brought to life with hypnotic simplicity. Composer, pianist and dancer
merge in a beautiful harmony of pure expression. Savour the afterglow at
our evening corroboree café...
8pm - 11pm – Lady Windermere's Corroboree Café
Free Entry All Night
Inspired by the Australian Aboriginal corroboree interactive dance
concept, the corroboree cafes offer a chill-out space, spontaneous
performances both comical and serious, open improvisatory dance
opportunities, vintage dance-related cinematic visuals and reading
matter, beverages and biscuitry. Come one, come all to dance, discuss
and dream... Featuring masterful audiovisual maestro Marco Gutierrez,
cult comic improv crew 'The Princes of Lagos', the sinuousApollonia tribal bellydance and a jaw-dropping aerial acro-pole display by Lisette Krol.
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Sunday 20th May
12pm– 2pm – Butoh Workshop E 20, E18 conc.
In preparation for the first ever Butoh Festival Dublin on
23rd- 26th August, get a taste for yourself of this unique Japanese
dance form with an exclusive workshop facilitated by Ambra Bergamasco.
Butoh is a profoundly human artform, that speaks from soul to soul
through images rather than shapes, building philosophical mindfulness
through the body.
3pm– 5pm– T.A.C. Workshop E7
From Far East to near at hand, the Traditional Arts Collective have been earning rave reviews across
Ireland for their creative fusions of traditional dance and modern
approach, putting the craic back into the ceol. Come and get a taste
with this exclusive workshop and performance showcase, including an
introduction to the basics of sean nós dance by Mary Beth Taylor.
6pm– Afternoon Avant-Garde - €10
Pushing the boundaries of dance and movement in all directions, this
unique mixed bag of performances includes experimental dance piece 'In Whose Hands' by Deirdre Murphy, risqué performance art dance madness by Darren & Terence, tribal silhouette dance byRoisin Corrigan and
musical mimo-mask physical theatre performance by Sandra Gonzalez
Bandera. Over 18s only. Blending seamlessly into our evening's
Corroboree café, speaking of which...
8pm– 11pm - Lady Windermere's Corroboree Café
Free Entry All Night
Rounding out Exploriment with another night of spontaneous performance
and vintage visuals, this time with a dynamic cabaret twist including a
provocatively funny musical show by the gorgeous Rose Lawless,
and full-throated jazzy blues by Delta O'Hara and Johnny Rayge, with
perhaps a sneak preview of Mr. Rayge's forthcoming album, at everyone's
favourite decadent evening of beverage, biscuitry, vintage visuals,
dance, discussion and dreaming...
EXPLORIMENT! Is supported by the Arts Council under the Samll festival scheme and is presented by La Cat Explore, in collaboration with Corroboree Productions, as part of the La Cat Salons in-house curated programme at The Back Loft.
