2011

Shakram Dance Company in association with Cork Film Festival and the Firkin Crane

Presents

MotionCapture: An evening of short Irish contemporary dance films

Venue: Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork
Date: Friday 11th November 2011
Time: 8pm
Free Admission: Ticketed Event, available from Cork Film Festival http://www.corkfilmfest.org

Shakram Dance Company curates a selection of short Irish contemporary dance films alongside the premiere of their new work ‘Stone and Form’. In recent times, Ireland has seen a rapid growth in the genre of short dance film/choreography for camera. MotionCapture presents a selection of this new wave of work. Movement and camera inter-relate in a dialogical exchange redefining and challenging our perception of both dance and film. 

Stone and Form Shakram Dance Company
Choreography: Mairead Vaughan
Camera/Sound Artist: Dara O’Brien
Performers: Mairead Vaughan, Thomas Butler, Inma Moya Pavon, Patric Cashman, Karen Gleeson

Stone and Form presents the body’s internal architecture and its relationship to its environment. Hidden narratives are embodied within this sensory engagement, responding to the energetic residue inhabiting ancient spaces

Flicker Patric Cashman
Choreography/Camera/Editing: Patric Cashman
Performers: Ursula Chapman and Laura Murphy

Story of One Elena Gallotta
Director/Camera: Elena Gallotta
Choreographers/Performers: Ennio Sammarco, Cynthia Phung-Ngoc

Eternal Irish Modern Dance Theatre
Director: Steve Woods
Choreography: John Scott
Performers: Michael Pomero. Al Harah Theatre, Beit Jella

Warp & Weft Mary Wycherley
Choreography/Camera: Mary Wycherley
Performer: Antje Schneider

‘Living layers of surface residue contained in stone and form’

Shakram Dance Company have recently re-located to Cork. They began their new venture participating in the Blank Canvas residency in the Firkin Crane. Shakram worked with four dancers in a period of research and development for the creation of a new site-specific dance film. The process involved the exploration of experimental filming techniques and the aesthetic of moulding movement into architecture, specifically within confined spaces. Shakram received an Arts Council bursary to fund this research period. An informal sharing of the work was presented at Friday 4th Sept. Thanks to the Firkin Crane for this opportunity.

Frozen
Shakram’s film Frozen, described as a highlight of 2008 by Michael Seaver in the Irish Times yearly review was recently screened at the Lighthouse Cinema as part of Dublin Dance Festival’s Dance on Film series.

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Mairead Vaughan and Dara O’Brien are working with students of the BA in Voice and Dance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in 2009/2010. They are teaching Indian classical forms of dance and voice and interpreting them through a creative and exploratory process. This will culminate in the creation of live performances performed in the Academy in 2010.

Being Nowhere Else, Frozen and Two Worlds Lie At Their Feet
2008 was a year of new creative ventures for Shakram. Mairead researched the area of dance improvisation and assimilated information she gained by attended ethnic dance workshops in Borneo, Malaysia, Peru and Ecuador over the previous two years. Dara entered into the world of live laptop, combining sounds he recorded in the rainforests of Amazonia and Borneo with the endless creative possibilities of the computer. Dance Ireland’s Choreographic Initiative and the International Dance Festival was the platform for this new work. We also worked collaboratively in the area of drama with independent artist Regan O'Brien and screened our film 'Frozen' in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.