Shawbrook

24/05/2026

Really excited to have Kelly Keesing with us this week for her creative space residency!!

"Kelly and collaborators will continue the development of ‘Speak to Me’, a dance theatre work exploring memory, perception, and the fragile space between inner and outer worlds.

Set within a shared domestic environment, the work moves through shifting states of connection, emotional proximity, disorientation, and return. Bodies move together, fragment, dissolve, and reappear.

Through movement research and choreographic experimentation, the residency will focus on uncovering the physical language and emotional atmosphere of the work, whilst continuing to shape its visual world through light, space, and cinematic imagery.”

Supported by

18/05/2026

Beautiful Future - Linden Dance Company

Performers Chris Radford, Sara McQueen, Azizi Cole, and apprentice Ellie Waller, LIVE MUSIC

Join us for a special sharing this Thursday 21st May at 7:30pm at Shawbrook, Legan (N39 RD74).

Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy this work in progress in the Big Studio with a chance to meet the artists afterwards.

Come along and be part of the process!

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10/05/2026

We are extremely excited for the return of Linden Dance!!! During their residency, they will explore their new project 'Beautiful Future'.

Inspired by the book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' by Rob Hopkins, the work will argue for the power of imagination in combating environmental dread and anxiety... If we dare to imagine a joyful, liveable future together, we’ll find the courage, and the practical steps, to start building it today.

Set around a rotating 'sun dial' set, the project will see two dancers (Chris Radford and Sara Macqueen) and musician (Azizi Cole), explore a positive approach to the climate emergency through envisaging how much better and more beautiful our world can be, if we can change our behaviours.

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05/05/2026

05/05/2026

DEATH RALLY (work in progress)

Join us for a special sharing on Thursday 7 May at 7:30pm at Shawbrook, Legan (N39 RD74).

This is an open invitation to experience the work as it evolves — set on the forest stage, with a chance to meet the artists afterwards.

With collaborators:autin




Death Rally explores how awareness of mortality can bring bodies together — how we gather, rupture, and repair. A rally for life that holds both fragility and defiance.

Through breath, weight, proximity, timing, and stillness, the work builds an intense, wordless space while holding care for emotional wellbeing.

Come along and be part of the process!

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04/05/2026

The tent is up, the floor is laid, outdoor season is here!!!! Come join us for an amazing sharing this Thursday at 7.30pm at the Forest Stage with .autin EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!

26/04/2026

We can't wait to have Johnny Autin and his team arrive for their two residency! Johnny will work on a piece called DEATH RALLY during his time.

“ I am turning towards a smaller, studio-rooted language that explores how mortality awareness can reorganise bodies together. The work examines how we gather, rupture, and repair. The title signals a paradox: a rally for life that acknowledges fragility and defiance in the same breath. The research will develop score-based tools. These include breath, weight, and proximity tasks, gather and release cues, timing, and stillness. The aim is to hold intensity without text while safeguarding emotional wellbeing."

Proudly supported by

12/04/2026

They've made it!!!! We are so excited to have Hannah Scholten and Anaïs Reymond Dubois join us for our next residency!

“Throughout this residency, we will begin the first off-page development of our new physical theatre work ‘One More Time’.

We want to build on the ideas of memory loss/fragmentation and shifting realities, which all live under the umbrella of the story’s underlying theme of dementia. Our story is inspired by, but not limited to, the first-hand lived experience of Anaïs’ father and family. We will use this time at Shawbrook to unveil what our movement language and style looks like for the show whilst being guided by these strong themes to frame some scenes involving characters, text, partnering and emotional states/physicalities.”

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

30/03/2026

We are delighted to have Junk Ensemble back in Shawbrook for a creative Space Residency!

“We plan to create our new production ‘STORM 1.0' ahead of our premiere at Dublin Dance Festival in May 2026.

We will be working with two dancers - to create a poignant and humourous dance theatre work about survival and environmental change.

STORM 1.0 is set in an apocolyptic wasteland with themes of sustainability, renewal, hope, survival, solidarity, and revolt."

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Photo by Luca Truffarelli

16/03/2026

Super excited to have Dylan McGloin & Brian F. Devaney joining us for the second of our Creative Space Residencies in 2026!

Dylan will work on a 10-minute solo dance work devised from Keeping Track, a poetry collection by Rob King. The piece explores the surreal and physical experience of humanity sinking — of keeping one’s head above as time, history, and memory pass and settle like peat.

“During the residency, I will explore how the body adapts to and learns from natural surfaces, creating choreographic material that reflects the physical sensation of the bog. I will collaborate with Brian F. Devaney, musician and performer, to create an original soundscape that merges distorted Irish folk motifs, foley recordings of bog environments, and classical undertones. Together, we aim to craft a sound world that moves in tandem with the choreography — an auditory landscape of breath, mud, and memory.”

Proudly Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon