.LIV O'DONOGHUE / Moving Projects.
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Liv O'Donoghue trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in the UK, graduating with the Outstanding Achievement award in 2007. As a choreographer, her work has been shown as part of the Dublin Dance Festival, DancEUnion at the Southbank Centre (London), Bealtaine Festival (Sligo), Immersia/LEAP (Berlin), Regina Teaten (Sweden), The New Choreography Showcase (London) and the DMJ International Video Dance Festival (Japan).
As an Associate Artist of Dance Ireland, Liv is focussing on developing her choreographic practice further and will create two new pieces of work in 2012. She is currently working on a solo opera with composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly which will premiere at the Project Arts Centre in August while also in the process of research and development on a new work which will be inspired by modernist literature in collaboration with composer Tom Lane.
To date, Liv has worked with companies and choreographers including Henri Oguike, Carol Brown, Wendy Houstoun, John Scott/imdt, junk ensemble, and Material Sequence Dance Company. Liv has been working with Liz Roche Company since 2009, working on five new creations with the company and touring widely throughout the USA and Europe.
Liv’s work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland and Dance Ireland. In 2011 Liv was Artist-in-Residence at the Hawk’s Well Theatre in Sligo.
As an Associate Artist of Dance Ireland, Liv is focussing on developing her choreographic practice further and will create two new pieces of work in 2012. She is currently working on a solo opera with composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly which will premiere at the Project Arts Centre in August while also in the process of research and development on a new work which will be inspired by modernist literature in collaboration with composer Tom Lane.
To date, Liv has worked with companies and choreographers including Henri Oguike, Carol Brown, Wendy Houstoun, John Scott/imdt, junk ensemble, and Material Sequence Dance Company. Liv has been working with Liz Roche Company since 2009, working on five new creations with the company and touring widely throughout the USA and Europe.
Liv’s work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland and Dance Ireland. In 2011 Liv was Artist-in-Residence at the Hawk’s Well Theatre in Sligo.
.NEWS.
E-MOTIONAL Bodies and Cities
In September I will be travelling to Cyprus to attend the Open House Dance and Performance Festival in Limassol. This trip will be funded by the E-MOTIONAL Bodies and Cities Mobility Grant.
Associate Artist of Dance Ireland
I'm so happy to announce that I've been asked to become a an Associate Artist of Dance Ireland. Along with two other Associates, Emma Martin and Aoife McAtamney, I will be supported by Dance Ireland over the next year. This is a great opportunity to further my practice and showcase my work. Here's to a great year ahead!
In September I will be travelling to Cyprus to attend the Open House Dance and Performance Festival in Limassol. This trip will be funded by the E-MOTIONAL Bodies and Cities Mobility Grant.
Associate Artist of Dance Ireland
I'm so happy to announce that I've been asked to become a an Associate Artist of Dance Ireland. Along with two other Associates, Emma Martin and Aoife McAtamney, I will be supported by Dance Ireland over the next year. This is a great opportunity to further my practice and showcase my work. Here's to a great year ahead!
.WHAT'S COMING UP IN 2012?.
Prompted Breathless at the Dublin Dance Festival 2012
Thrilled to announce that Prompted Breathless will be performed as part of a Triple Bill at the Project Arts Centre on May 15th & 16th...
Prompted Breathless examines the complexities of human nature in an interplay of emotion, instinct and physicality. The dancers’ intricate movement weaves between the emotional conditions and sensory states of human life. Their own real-life memories evoke visceral and compelling thoughts on the delicacy of existence and prompt the question, what is it that makes us human?
Thrilled to announce that Prompted Breathless will be performed as part of a Triple Bill at the Project Arts Centre on May 15th & 16th...
Prompted Breathless examines the complexities of human nature in an interplay of emotion, instinct and physicality. The dancers’ intricate movement weaves between the emotional conditions and sensory states of human life. Their own real-life memories evoke visceral and compelling thoughts on the delicacy of existence and prompt the question, what is it that makes us human?
Body and Forgetting (World Premiere)
Liz Roche Company
Liz Roche's latest piece will open the Dublin Dance Festival on May 11th & 12th with a new work, Body and Forgetting. The piece explores themes of loss, separation, hope and control. The cast appear on film and on stage, as if creating different versions of themselves. They struggle to understand how and why they have forgotten
Really excited to be part of this new work. The piece is currently in process with rehearsals split between Dublin and Portugal, with support from Modul Dance.
Liz Roche Company
Liz Roche's latest piece will open the Dublin Dance Festival on May 11th & 12th with a new work, Body and Forgetting. The piece explores themes of loss, separation, hope and control. The cast appear on film and on stage, as if creating different versions of themselves. They struggle to understand how and why they have forgotten
Really excited to be part of this new work. The piece is currently in process with rehearsals split between Dublin and Portugal, with support from Modul Dance.
TEN: white/grey studies in movement
Delighted to announce that TEN will be performed in Riga, Latvia as part of the 'Time to Dance' Festival, June 2012
This performance will take place as part of the
E-MOTIONAL Bodies and Cities programme.
This work was originally shown as part of New Movements at Dance House in December 2010, and as part of Re-Presenting Ireland at the Dublin Dance Festival in May 2011. The piece, a duet with Maria Nilsson, was created in collaboration with composer and musician Tom Lane (www.tom-lane.com).
Supported by the Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dance Ireland.
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Solo project exploring the nature of the relationship between the body and the being, the sentiment within and the aesthetic without, questioning how perception and reality often differ.
With music by BLACKFISH (James Everest + Joel Pickard) Improvised expansive, spontaneous sound worlds and songs built with layers of texture, tension, and delicate bombast....
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All of the photos on this website, unless otherwise credited, are by the wonderful Luca Truffarelli who I have collaborated with on various projects, including our short film 'The way we met' which was shown at the DMJ International Video Dance Festival in Japan in 2012.
Photo of Luca and I hard at work, by Fracesco Taurisano
