We’re delighted to announce the exciting programme for this year’s Light Moves Festival of Screendance.
Now in its third year, this year’s programme showcases beautiful, thought-provoking and cutting-edge new work in Limerick venues 3rd-6th November.
Highlights include artists from home and abroad, past and present, including Merce Cunningham, Terence Malick, Olwen Fouéré, Tacita Dean, Jennifer Walshe, Temper-Mental MissElayneous, Laura U. Marks, Vivienne Dick, John Scott, Douglas Rosenberg, and Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion.
The festival is an opportunity for audiences both local and international to watch, learn, film, compose, dance, discuss and participate. The programme includes Irish and world premieres, performances, installations, workshops, labs and talks from leading artists and thinkers from across the world. The festival includes a special focus on work from Ireland, a participatory project for older people and screenings for audiences aged 4+.
Details were announced at Dance Limerick on Tuesday 13th September by festival curators Mary Wycherley and Jürgen Simpson, who were joined by special guest Professor Mel Mercier, Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, to officially launch the programme.
Mary Wycherley and Jürgen Simpson said: “We invite you to delve into the rich diversity, boldness and vibrancy of screendance; film experienced through the lens of movement and choreography.”
Light Moves will take place in locations across Limerick, including Dance Limerick’s home in John’s Square at the historic St John’s Church, Belltable Arts Centre and Limerick City Gallery of Art.
The festival is produced by Dance Limerick in partnership with DMARC (Digital Media and Arts Research Centre) at the University of Limerick, and is funded by the Arts Council, Limerick City and Count Council and the JP McManus Fund.
For tickets, festival passes and the full festival programme, see www.lightmoves.ie or click link on right.
Click below for programme launch press release.
