Liz Roche Company

26/07/2024

The premiere of the Step up2024 production is coming to Dance Limerick very soon!

OF THE PEOPLE by Catherine Young is a dance experience that resonates deeply with our shared human desire for connection, community and a kinder way of living. It reflects on a particular state of the body, where it is always on, always moving, always doing, always productive. The piece looks for alternatives, asking how the body could feel if we slowed down and worked to foster solidarity together. How do we rebuild community?

These ideas came about through conversations with the dancers, who spoke of their experience living in different cities and the differences in how the body feels in those places. Their experience of Limerick is that of a kind and slow-paced, welcoming city, where people have time for each other - it is a city of the people.

Join us as we explore reclaiming our spaces and rebuilding our communities.

📅 Wed 7 & Thurs 8 August | 7.30pm | Dance Limerick

🎫 Tickets on sale at https://tinyurl.com/mvzx62tp

CREDITS

Choreography- Catherine Young Dance
Performed by Inez Berdychowska, Tara Bredemeier, Grace Cuny, Adam O’Reilly, Alex Vostokova
Rehearsals director Lucia Kickham Dance Artist
Step Up curator – Fearghus
Project management and costume design - Ella Daly
Production management - Sorcha Hassett
Lighting designer - Gavin Byrne
Production assistant - Emily Waters
Photography - Maurice Gunning
Filming and edit - Shane Vaughan
Design and communications - Leonor Miralles
DL Bridge artist - Katy Hewison
Dance Limerick Director - Mary Wycherley


Step Up Dance Project is a partnership between the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon , Dance Limerick, the
Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick & Dance Ireland

14/06/2024

LuailDance is holding auditions for full-time dancer contracts from mid-November 2024 through 2025. Read more here:

Apply for full-time dancer contracts with Luail, Ireland's National Dance Company. Auditions in Dublin and Brussels. Deadline: 21 June 2024.

13/06/2024

Luail - Ireland’s National Dance Company is holding auditions for dancers for full-time company dancer contracts mid-November 2024 through 2025. Luail’s Artistic Director Liz Roche is seeking skilled professional dancers of any gender identity with:
👉 a minimum three years’ training for all roles and solid professional performance experience.
👉 a high level of contemporary technique (experience in additional forms welcome).
versatile and impressive performance presence.
👉 excellent improvisation skills.

Dancers will be part of a full performance programme that includes the creation and touring of new works alongside the revival of existing works, working with choreographers Liz Roche, Mufutau Yusuf and many other Ireland-based and international choreographers.

For more information, visit 👉https://luail.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Auditions_May24-form-link.pdf



LuailDance KVS Brussels

12/06/2024

Congratulations to the newly-announced participants: Inez Berdychowska, Grace Cuny, Tara Bredemeier, Adam O’Reilly and Alex VostokovaInez. We wish you all the very best on this fantastic programme.

Following a competitive Open Call last year, Dance Limerick are delighted to announce the Step Up 2024 participants

05/06/2024

Sentient, a Beckett: Unbound 2024 Festival commission by Liz Roche, in collaboration with saxophonist Nick Roth and ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget is coming to Paris! 🇫🇷

Taking place at La Menagerie de Verre (Espace Wigam) from June 5 - 7.
Visit our website to read more and to buy tickets:
https://lizrochecompany.com/whats-on/performance/sentient

Sentient, by Liz Roche is commissioned by Unreal Cities for Beckett: Unbound, Liverpool/Paris 2024, in association with the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, supported by Culture Ireland.



📸 credit Foreign Body Productions

04/06/2024

Bonjour Paris! This week we will be in France presenting Sentient, a Beckett: Unbound 2024 Festival commission from the Liz Roche Company. Collaborating with saxophonist Nick Roth and ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget, and featuring the voice of actor Adrian Dunbar, this work includes a cast of exceptional dancers.

This significant new work for six dancers, saxophone, and ondes Martenot draws inspiration from a seemingly simple passage in Samuel Beckett’s "Molloy," where he marvels at the dance of bees. 🐝💃

For more details and to book your tickets please visit: https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/exhibitions-events/sentient

30/05/2024

World Premiere of Sentient, a Beckett: Unbound 2024 Festival commission**, is opening this evening at the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres in Liverpool and running for two nights only!

Costumes are ready to be stepped into, dancers are poised ready for action and musicians are all warmed up!

Tickets still available here: https://lizrochecompany.com/whats-on/performance/sentient

Sentient, by Liz Roche is commissioned by Unreal Cities for Beckett: Unbound, Liverpool/Paris 2024, in association with the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, supported by Culture Ireland.

30/05/2024

"Dance as an art form is powerful at conveying emotion and this is a vivid experience." No More Workhorse's review of last week's world premiere Impasse, part of 👉

Impasse – Dublin Dance Festival – Review Impasse @ the Project Arts Centre – by Mufutau Yusuf At the start of the production, the stage is bare other than for a collection of pla…

28/05/2024

We are delighted and excited to present Sentient, a Beckett: Unbound 2024 Festival commission from choreographer Liz Roche, in collaboration with performer / composers Nathalie Forget and Nick Roth.

In a space somewhere between social urgency and urgent sociality, Sentient offers a new interpretation of what it is as a human being to be only one part of our natural world in its vast communicative complexities. The dance travels through different atmospheres; exploring vibration, language, and group communication, with the performers collectively in adaptation to these changing environments.

Sentient is taking place in:
📍 Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
🗓️ May 30 - June 1
📍 La Menagerie De Verre, Paris
🗓️ June 5 - 7

Visit our website to read more and to buy tickets for either location 👉
https://lizrochecompany.com/whats-on/performance/sentient

Performers: Sarah Cerneaux, Emily Terndrup, Mufutau Yusuf, Conor Thomas Doherty, Grace Cuny, Inez Berdychowska (apprentice), Nick Roth, Nathalie Forget

Voices: Adrian Dunbar, Jenny Roche
Choreographer: Liz Roche
Composers: Nick Roth and Nathalie Forget
Set and Costume Design: Katie Davenport
Lighting Design: Sinead McKenna
Photographer and videographer:José Miguel Jiménez

Sentient, by Liz Roche is commissioned by Unreal Cities for Beckett: Unbound, Liverpool/Paris 2024, in association with the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, supported by Culture Ireland and through a producing partnership with Luail - Ireland's National Dance Company and through residencies at The Irish World Academy, University of Limerick and TROIS C-L - Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois.