Moving bodies and moving machines. Cailleacha damhsa (Dancing Hags) The body is round, soft and malleable. The machine is straight, hard and will not give unless it fails. The body begins with failure. This is a Journal of the project Cailleacha Damhsa (dancing hags),...
Finding my signature moves. Cailleacha damhsa (Dancing Hags) I’m a visual person, is it weird that I can’t visualise myself? I’ve long wanted to work with Robyn Sedgwick, múinteoir damhsa (choreographer) and founder of Graffiti Dance Theatre. Our...
Memory, Body and Image. Cailleacha damhsa (Dancing Hags) The creative process as loop. Kicking a new film idea into pre-production is tough, I resist opening the door to that idea because once its opened, even slightly, there is no closing it. I’m curious though...
For my swimming sister Colleen It is not the cold that scares me, my screams are piercing though, it is the power. I need to make peace with the ocean, its potential for harm. I have previously run into the water on southern sands, naked, an offering of myself and my...
What Kind of Courage? To leave family, country and your night sky? What kind of courage does it take to migrate, to journey worlds away from home? For me Irish culture is not performative, it is expressive. That is, not fixed traditionally as ‘Irish’, more...
