LAURA SARAH DOWDALL
CREATE + COLLABORATE
Get in touch to see how we can work together to create a unique performative experience for your audience, performance space or ensemble.
Book performance experiences, film screenings, and bespoke interactive performances for your gallery space, festival or event.
Offer an Embody Lab, Open Jam (Dance + Live Music), Performance Project, Creative Collaboration + Improv Workshop, Inclusive Dance Training to your festival, program or event.
For Creative Wellness events see www.healingyoga.ie
Email laura@healingyoga.ie
Performance Installations
Choose from a series of existing works dependent on your interests- including group, 1:1 interaction, spoken word, installation, live music, multimedia, durational performance, film and commissioned composition.
Performer
Excited about a new project, need a performer, reach out with your vision and ideas and see how we can make your idea a reality.
Be it film, photography, staged or site specific, get in touch - laura@runningblind.ie
Creative Collaboration
Collaborative process and creation to develop a unique work merging and stretching boundaries of art forms and genres, that invite the audience as participants and create an immersive memorable experience.
Mentoring , Workshops + Training
Laura has been working in inclusive dance since 2015 working with all ages and abilites. Through the Running Blind Dance project she collaborates with people who are blind, deafblind and non-verbal.
She delivers trainings and workshops sharing the inclusive dance methodolgy she has created and developed over ten years of research and collaboration with the VI community.
Laura is a conference and festival keynote speaker on Inclusive Dance , Somatic Embodiment and Collaborative practice.
learn more about the background of this work- www.runningblind.ie
Creative Access + Audio Description Services
Laura works collaboratively with artists, producers, cultural venues and festivals to create engaging audio description for audiences, interactive touch tours before performances and as part of gallery exhibitions, as well as audio access guides and resources for visitors to arts, heritage and cultural places of interest.
Laura is a dance artist specialising in inclusive, immersive and experimental performance integrating access as artistic form. Founder of Running Blind Dance, collaborating with blind and deafblind communities since 2015. This collaborative project has been expanding the creative potential of audio-description to enrich and support access to dance practice and performance for visually impaired and blind people.
More info: https://laurasarahdowdall.wixsite.com/dancer/audiodescription
Performance Projects
Workshop series that offer a deep dive into artistic practices, contemporary dance, performance skill, embodiment, improvisation technique and collaborative practice.
Typically an 8 week series of workshops with a culminating performance with invited audience and artistic collaborators.
