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Performance Project by Laura Sarah Dowdall at Blackrock Park​

 

Summer 2024:​

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Site-Specific Performance and Community Workshops inspired by Blackrock Park's sea origins, reclaimed landscape, once-coastal Martello tower, the first Irish railway that cut across Dublin bay, the need to protect coastal habitat, and the historic and lived connection local people have to the sea.

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Performance in Blackrock Park

Date: August 31st

Time: 3pm, Saturday

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Join Dance Artist, Laura Sarah Dowdall and Cellist, Yseult Cooper Stockdale in this site-specific work inspired by the park's coastal history, reclaimed landscape and the potential future of rising tides.​

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PERFORMERS:

Yseult Cooper Stockdale-

Yseult is a musician with an especially explorative and varied career. With her experimental ensemble, Kirkos, she has created and performed works for festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and New Music Dublin, as well as countless premieres. She works extensively as an orchestral and chamber musician, regularly performing with ensembles such as the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Ficino Ensemble, Quiet Music Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, Irish National Opera and Musici Ireland. She is a founding member of the Ora String Quartet, supported by the National String Quartet Foundation. A keen improviser, Yseult likes to work collaboratively. She draws influence from her wide-ranging repertoire, from very old music to very new, and everything in-between.

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Laura Sarah Dowdall-

Laura is an innovative dance artist creating performance that is experiential, engaging and immersive. She integrates instant composition, immersive theatre and durational performance into contemporary dance work that is site-specific, staged and on film. Her practice and choreography focus on researching the performative body in its expanded, transformative, political and imaginative states, breaking boundaries of hierarchy and expectation, and offering experiences of heightened personal and social awareness.

She has worked with international choreographers, performance ensembles, composers, performance artists and festivals performing in Ireland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland and the USA. She was inaugural artist-in-residence at the Dún Laogaire Baths Artist Studios in 2023 from which she has created an on-going coastal project working with communities throughout Ireland to explore and connect with their local landscape through movement and climate conversation. She is the founder of the inclusive dance project - Running Blind - which featured on Nationwide in June 2024.

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Book to attend the performance here!
 

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WORKSHOPS:

Dates: July 27, August 3rd & August 24th 

Time: Saturdays 2 - 3:30pm

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Come and enjoy Movement Workshops in Blackrock Park inspired by the park's coastal history, reclaimed landscape and the potential future of rising tides.

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Dancers and Movers of all experience and age are welcome to participate in these creative workshops exploring dance improvisation, spoken-word, writing practice, contact improvisation and site-specific performance.

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Please bring rain-gear, snacks and a warm drink as we will be working outside.

Location details will be sent after you book, the day before each workshop.

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Limited spaces, booking essential. 

​​In attending you acknowledge that you are fully responsible for your own health and safety and should only participate if you are in good health.

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For updates follow the Artist and the project on her website.

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This project is kindly supported by Creative Ireland and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Photo by Mark Stedman during Laura's residency at the DLR Artist Studios 2023.

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Book your place​