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DANCE
THEATRE OF IRELAND
Dance Theatre of Ireland
produces dance which is physically dynamic, visually arresting
and musically inspiring. It tours nationally & internationally
often featuring collaborations in New Technologies; choreography
by Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick as well as distinguished
international choreographers. The Company have recently opened
a New Centre for Dance.
REPERTOIRE (Full Length
works)
BETWEEN YOU & ME (2004)
Choreography Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick
An intimate and powerful programme of works by DTI Artistic
Directors Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick, Swiss Choreographer
Phillippe Saire, Austrian Willi Dorner, and Alex Iseli &
Marie Francoise Garcia (CH/FR). Robert & Loretta's duet
features dancers Karl Pacquemar & Melanie Nezereau and
music composed & performed by Dara O'Brien. Willi Dorner's
work for 2 men is a dance thriller: gutsy, dynamic and full
of contrasts. Philippe Saire's work examines the irrepressible
desire for two to become one. And Alex Iseli & Mairie
Francoise Garcia's work is a movement language rich in intelligence
and ease.
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick (Ireland),
Willi Dorner (Austria), Philippe Saire (Switzerland), Alexandre
Iseli & Marie-Françoise Garcia (Switzerland/France)
With Dancers: Robert Connor, Karl Paquemar, Melanie Nezereau,
Alexandre Iseli, Marie-Françoise Garcia, Mike Winter
;Original Music: Dara O'Brien, Heinz Ditsch, Gerard Maimone;
Lighting: Mark Galione; Costumes: Suzanne Cave
As A Matter of Fact (2003)
Choreography
Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick
Time management, cost of living, products of more than one
country. Meanderings of the modern day mind. From the annals
of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, to the latest Quality of
Life reports this production by Dance Theatre of Ireland explores
the cross pollination of word and image …contradictions,
communications, secrets, astonishing fluidity, clinical precision…
and the best dancing in Ireland. Think physical, think fast.
With live music and an impressive list of Irish & international
collaborators. Set in a 3-dimensional world by Swiss artists,
Tenteki.
Choreography, Concept & Design: Robert Connor & Loretta
Yurick; Original Music, played live: Dara O'Brien; Additional
original music: Fran Hegarty; Text: Joe O'Byrne, Loretta Yurick:
Video & graphic imagery: Tenteki (Switzerland); Dancers:
Gillian Beauchamp, Emma O'Kane, Vanessa Spinassa, Carl Paquemar,
Astero Styliani Lamprinou, Angel Zotes Ramos
The Simulacra Stories (2002)
Choreography Joanne Leighton (Belgium)
Drawing it's inspiration from the work of Swiss architect
Bernard Tshumi, The Simulacra Stories, is also fed by literary
and cinematic sources to create a powerful contemporary multi-textured
work featuring original music and soundscapes by Peter Crosbie.
Features an outstanding international cast of six dancers
performed with the audience on 4 sides.
Ch. Joanne Leighton; Music: Peter Crosbie Lighting: Trevor
Ahearn;
Costumes: Anne Gregory; Dancers: Robert Connor, Marie-Francoise
Garcia, Adriana Sulzer-Goncalves, Alexandre Iseli, Styliani
Lamprinou, Edouard Pelleray
Prism (2002)
Choreography Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick
Visually beautiful and inventive, PRISM fuses dance, music
and digital animation in a colourful blend of imagery and
movement. Using motion captured, on-screen choreography, projecting
virtual dancers with live dancers, PRISM paints an ever changing
motional landscape, structured on and informed by the spectral
colours of refracted white light.
CH. Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick; Music: Conor Curran,
Judith Ring, The Art of Noise, Marc Kasai-Royal and others;
Animation: Dennis Kenny and Tim Hawkins; Lighting: Mark Galione;
Costumes: Marc O' Neill; Motion Capture: Dr. Kieran Moran;
Dancers: Blanca Arrieta, Niamh Condron, Marie -Françoise
Garcia, Adriana Sulzer-Goncalves, Alexandre Iseli, Edouard
Pelleray
RE:Lease Me (2002)
Choreography Niamh Condron
Music: Art of Noise; Costumes: Marc O'Neill; Lighting: Marc
O'Neill
A new solo exploring personal identity performed by Niamn
Condron
Evidence 2001
Choreography Robert
Connor & Loretta Yurick
Lighting: Mark Galione Costumes:
Courtney Davies The Dancers: Blanca Arrieta, Stefano Botto,
JJ Formento, Niamh Condron, Adriana Sulzer-Goncalves, Cosimo
de Tommaso.
"Part modern dance, part theatre, part performance art, part
installation, EVIDENCE is an experience not to be missed.the
movements are simply mesmerising.breathtaking.a powerful evening's
entertainment..leave(s) you speechless but the images will
remain with you long after the lights go down. Unmissable."
Cristin Leach, RTE ACE, Arts, Culture & Entertainment
".EVIDENCE is a visually beautiful piece inspired by the
four elements: air, fire, earth and water.a successful blend
of dance and technology..." Paul Clancy, The Irish Times
Cha-Cha-Cha
d'Exil & A Question of Distance 2001
Choreography Charles
Cre-Ange & Philippe Saire
Lighting: Marc Galione/Charles
Cre-Ange; Set design: Charles Cre-Ange; Costumes: Marc O'
Neill/Charles Cre-Ange The Dancers: Blanca Arrieta, Stefano
Botto, JJ Formento, Niamh Condron, Robert Connor, Robert Jackson.
Cha-Cha-Cha d'Exil (Charles
Cre-Ange) exposes a raw edge to the risk of being,
driven by the music of Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Cake and the
Buena Vista Social Club.
A
Question of Distance (Philippe Saire) is
a playful deliberation on the politics and poetry of personal
space; where closeness is defined by intent and "no touching"
has a sensuous delight.
Only Human
2000
Choreography Robert Connor in collaboration with Loretta
Yurick and The dancers;
Original music: Fran Hegarty; Lighting:
Marc Galione; Set design: Robert Connor; Costumes: Marc O'
Neill; The Dancers: Muirne Boomer, JJ Formento, Niamh Condron,
Romain Guion, Olwen Grindley, Robert Jackson. Live Video Capture:
Sheelagh Honan.
Pushing the boundaries of intricacy and physicality in a
setting of stark beauty, oNLY hUMaN mines the heartbeat of
emotion with a range of vivid kinetic textures, creating a
dance whose narrative is generated by the sheer force of the
movement and the power of the performers. A seamless union
of dance, original music, and compelling projections; executed
with multi-layered precision.
Soul Survivor
1999
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick
Original
Music: Fran Hegarty & John Ryan;
Video: Tim Redfern, Digital Media Centre,DIT
Lighting: Mark Galione; Costumes: Marc O'Neill; Additional
Music: Meredith Monk, Arvo Part & John Taverner; 5 dancers
Choreography which explores the world of technology and
dance, with great special effects-yet is not driven by them;
remarkable non virtual presences on stage-a world where the
human spirit and technology converge.elegant, subtle, continually
engaging.
Made To Measure
1999
Choreography: Rui Horta;
featuring 3 works:"Wolfgang,
bitte.", "Pocket Ocean" and "Ordinary
Events"; Music: Mozart/Koen Brandt & Norbert
Zacharias/Les Tambours des Bronx/ ; Lighting: Rui Horta; Costumes:
Kathy Brunner/Anne Gregory; 6 dancers
Three works, each different.exhilarating
and thrilling, playful and serene, vivid and razor sharp movement
that surprises and delights, relentlessly physical with stunning
visual effects, moments of real power and breathtaking crescendo.
Tombs 1998
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick / Suzy Blok
& Chris Steel (Neatherlands);
Original Music: Pol Brennan;
Lighting: Paul Keogan; Costumes: Sabine Dargent; Set
Design: Fiona Leech; 8 dancers
Inspired by and set within
the backdrop of Ireland's megalithic sites, TOMBS is a double
act, reflecting two sets of dynamics-the sacred and the profane,
old and new, mystical and modern.
Like
water flowing east 1997
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan/Adam
Lynch/Eugene Murphy/Thom Willems; Lighting: Paul Keogan; Costumes:
Helen McCusker; 6 dancers
Distilling a vocabulary of
water into the motional energy of human relationships.
Jours etranges
1997/99
Choreography: Dominique Bagouet
(Les Carnets Bagouet);
Music: The Doors; Lighting: Paul
Keogan/Serge Dees; Costumes: Les Carnet Bagouet
Revealing the humour, passions,
innocence and sensuality of the 60's & 70's; a cast of
characters-gentle, helpless monsters .straight out of a psychedelic
nightclub. 6 dancers
Body Travels
Time 1996
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan;
Lighting: Stephen McManus; Costumes: Helen McCusker and Mary
Donnelly; 6 dancers
Premiered at the Place Theatre
London, selected for the Bagnolet Competiton; a
collage on the Body, as a means for human interaction or isolation;
6 dancers
Deseo 1996
Choreography: Blok & Steel (Amsterdam);
Music: Balanescu Quartet/Prodigy/Flaming
Lips/Gang of Four & Nino Rota; Lighting:
Stephen McManus; Costumes: Helen McCusker;
In Spanish "Deseo"
means "I Wish" ".a smart head jolt of an evening.a
humorous riotous of flirtatious ooze, contact acrobatics and
raunchy funk-the-philosophy yee-hoor." 6 dancers
Deserts d'amour
1995/96
Choreography: Dominique Bagouet (Les Carnets Bagouet);
Music: Tristan Murail/ Mozart;
Lighting: Jacques Chatelet, Rupert Murray; Costumes: Maritza
Gligo;
One of Bagouet's masterpieces
in choreographic writing.a work for 9 dancers which was invited
to open the 1996 Montpellier International Danse Fesival -
transporting us into a world of contemporary baroque
Bonefire
1995
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan; Lighting:
Rupert Murray; Design: Ian McNicholl; Costumes: Marc O'Neill;
7 dancers
Inspired by the W.B. Yeats
Play, "The Dreaming of the Bones"; "Have
not old writers said that dizzy dreams can spring from the
dry bones of the dead?" Featuring a solid wall of
masks, set against a backdrop of the political climate in
Ireland.
Fuchsia
1993/94
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan; Lighting:
Paul Keogan; Set: Ian McNichol; Costumes: Mary Donnelly; Projected
Photos: Tony Higgins; 6 dancers
"FUCHSIA
.in Irish 'Deora De'- God's Tears
"FUCHSIA.the
flower.exquisite yet ordinary
"FUCHSIA.the
color passion
"FUCHSIA.an
original dance theatre creation
Dances
in Dreams 1992
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan, Michael
Seaver, Donal Hurley; Design: Robert Ballagh; Lighting: Rupert
Murrray; Costumes: Paul McCauley/Helen Kiersey; 7 dancers
"I'm going to plant
a heart in the earth, water it with love from a vein."
(RosarioMurillo)
Examining our relationship with
the Earth and each other. Using images which evoke and contrast
ancient forms and modern tensions, the ritualistic episodes
unfold within the sparse mountainous landscape of visual artist
Robert Ballagh and lit superbly by Rupert Murray (Riverdance).
Touching the
Moon 1991
Choreography: Janet Smith;
Original Music: Michael Seaver;
Set: Robert Ballagh; Lighting: Rupert Murray; Costumes: Chisato
Yoshimi; Poetry: Seamus Heany - 7 dancers
That feeling of knowing, being
guided by intuition.knowing without reason-for which the Moon
is a metaphor.is sometimes lost in today's world.Touching
the Moon, touches that place--using poetry of Seamus Heany
and original music played live by an emsemble of six.
Freedom's
Gait 1990
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Dunne/Eugene
Murphy; Lighting: Rupert Murray; Costumes: Mary Donnelly;
Design: Nigel Rolfe; 7 dancers
"Never could I have
imagined that a Dance Company could so eloquently and so movingly
capture and articulate so many of the thoughts, feelings and
moments of heightened reality that made up the larger part
of my four and one-half years captivity...I thank the Dance
Theatre of Ireland for translating into movement those inarticulate
moments and experiences.in a sense confirming that we are
never alone".Brian Keenan
La Beaute
des Fleurs 1989
Choreography: Pierre Doussaint/Isabelle Dubouloz;
Winner-Prix de Bagnolet.
Original Music: Pierre
Modier; Lighting: Walter
Pace; Costumes: Mary Donnelly; Set Design: Dousaint/Dubouloz
An inspired depiction of
the Power, Energy & Spirit of Nature, Nominated
Sunday Tribune Arts Award; 6 dancers
DANCE THEATRE OF IRELAND:
REPERTOIRE WORKS (20-25 Minutes)
Hopelessly
Helixed 1995
Choreography: Jerry Pearson; Music: Michael O'Suilleabhain;
Lighting: Stephen McManus;
Costumes: Mary Donnelly
Licks
its lips and chews its gums 1995
Choreography: Liz and Jennifer Roche;
Original Music: Denis Roche; Lighting: Stephen McManus; Costumes:
Mary Donnelly
Angel
Land 1995
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan; Lighting: Stephen McManus; Costumes:
Mary Donnelly
Trembling
on a Limb 1994
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan;
Lighting: Paul Keogan; Costumes: Mary Donnelly
BYTE!
1993
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: John Ryan, Lighting:
Paul Keogan; Costumes: Loretta Yurick
Enough 1992
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: Donal
Hurley; Lighting: Paul Keogan; Costumes: Marie Tierney
Weigh the
Heart against a Feather 1991
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Lighting: Paul Keogan;
Original Music: John Ryan; Costumes: Marc O'Neill
Full Moon
1990
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: Eugene Murphy; Costumes: Mary Donnelly
Remnants
1989
Choreography: Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick;
Original Music: Eugene Murphy; Costumes: Gabrielle O'Brien
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