WRONGHEADED/BIAS DANCE DOUBLE-BILL PRESENTED BY LIZ ROCHE COMPANY
Thurs 20 Oct | 8pm
Tickets €12/€10
Liz Roche Company, one of Ireland’s most exciting contemporary dance companies, presents a feast for the senses with a dance double-bill at Dance Limerick. Wrongheaded by Liz Roche is an intense mix of emotions and physicality, while Bias by Katherine O’Malley challenges judgements we make on a daily basis.
Katherine O’Malley’s Bias explores the split-second judgements we make on a daily basis and asks: Do we suffer by taking the path of least resistance taught to us by our experiences? If we are composed of our biases, for better or for worse, what patterns are we repeating? This solo performance observes these biases, stating and reframing them in a series of different environments, from different perspectives. Choreographed and performed by O’Malley, Bias has been developed in collaboration with composer Daragh Dukes and video artist Mark Linnane.
Wrongheaded is a dancing body’s response to current events in Ireland, bringing together spoken word poetry, film and dance. Electrifying performances by Sarah Cerneaux and Liz Roche articulate the undercurrent of desperation which many Irish women face today around choices for their own bodies. The dancers engage in an intense and rhythmically physical duet, constantly at odds with each other, caught in a relationship of frustrated repetition and ritual. This film/performance features work by poet Elaine Feeney, film director Mary Wycherley, lighting designer Sinéad Wallace and composer Ray Harman, brought together by choreographer Liz Roche.
Announcing details of this double-bill, Jenny Traynor, Director of Dance Limerick, said “Liz Roche Company has brought together formidable talent for this project, across different art forms, so the evening will appeal not only to a dance audience, but also to a wider audience interested in spoken word poetry, music and film. These works are hot properties too, Wrongheaded having just premiered at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival and Bias at this year’s Dublin Dance Festival. We’re really excited to host these fascinating works at Dance Limerick and hope that Limerick audiences will join us for this feast of dance”.
Praise for Wrongheaded:
“there’s an urgency, immediacy and power to Wrongheaded that catches your breath…. there’s a raw, visceral almost primal force in play…. a truly exhilarating performance.” The Arts Review
Praise for Bias:
“a delight for the eye” Totally Dublin
Additional Info:
Liz Roche is Artistic Director and Choreographer of Liz Roche Dance Company. The company has expanded steadily since 1999, working with a core group of exceptional dancers and artistic collaborators. Liz has most recently been involved in works on the Abbey stage, at the GPO, and in Sydney and Brisbane.
Dance artist / choreographer Katherine O’Malley trained professionally in Russia at the Perm State Choreographic School and at the Vaganova Ballet Academy, touring extensively before returning to Ireland. A graduate of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at UL, Katherine was a founding member of Liz Roche Company.
Elaine Feeney is part of a growing band of new young political Irish poets. A winner of the Grand Slam at Cúirt International Festival of Literature, her poetry has also been broadcast on RTÉ radio and television.
Mary Wycherley is a dance artist whose practice spans choreography, live performance and screendance, and whose films are regularly featured at international dance and film festivals. She is also the co-curator of Light Moves Festival of Screendance.
Born in La Réunion and raised in France, Sarah Cerneaux’s career started with street dancing at the age of 18. She now works with Liz Roche Company and Akram Khan Company London.
Photo for Bias by Mark Linnane
Photo for Wrongheaded by Ewa Figaszewska
