LAURA SARAH DOWDALL
Water Dance
Belmullet, Mayo
Join Water Dance workshops in August with Laura in Belmullet in August!
Laura is dancer in residence this Summer at Aras Inis Gluaire where she will be hosting beach and water based workshops- for updates on events follow here @laurasarahdowdall
WATER DANCE WORKSHOPS at Belmullet Tidal Pool
Dates: August 7, 9, 13
Time: 12- 1:15pm
Explore your body's connection to water and the sea with movement practices standing, floating, travelling and dancing in the water.
For movers who love the water!
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 and a competent swimmer.
Book Water Dance Workshops here!
DANCE + DIP- Beach workshop, Elly Bay
Date: August 14th
Time: 11am - Elly Bay
Join this fun Beach Workshop happening at Elly Bay Beach!
With movement on the sand to warm us up and connect us to the sea as we enjoy the stunning surroundings of Elly Bay/ Trá Oiligh!
Don't miss out on this opportunity to dance by the sea!
Beach workshop on East Side (sheltered side) of Elly Bay!
Meet on the beach in front of the small carpark.
Sign up for ELLY BAY WORKSHOP HERE!
Any questions contact Áras Inis Gluaire on 097 81079 | info@arasinisgluaire.ie
Lios an Uisce: Waters's Edge
Blackrock Park
Performance Project by Laura Sarah Dowdall at Blackrock Park
Summer 2024:
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.
Performance in Blackrock Park
Date: August 31st
Time: 3pm, Saturday
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.
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.
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.
Book to attend the performance here!
Workshops in the Park
Dates: July 27, August 3rd & August 24th
Time: Saturdays 2 - 3:30pm
Come and enjoy Movement Workshops in Blackrock Park inspired by the park's coastal history, reclaimed landscape and the potential future of rising tides.
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.
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.
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.
For updates follow the Artist and the project on her website.
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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SEA SCORES: DANCE PROJECT
Dance & Picnic by the Sea!
MAY 31, 5:30pm
Come and observe the creative process of the SeaScores Dance project on Friday May 31st as the group shares an extract from their time together outdoors by the Sea.
Followed by a community picnic and conversation - please bring a blanket to sit on, warm drink and snack to share with others.
SeaScores dance project explores our climate cares and concerns through dance, embodiment, eco-somatic and nature based practise, developed by dance artist Laura Sarah Dowdall, supported by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county council.
Free event, booking essential!
Location details will be sent after you book-
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SEA SCORES PROJECT DETAILS:
Dates: April 12- May 31, 2024
In Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Extending from Laura's Residency at the Dun Laoghaire Baths artist studios in 2023 -
Explore your connection to the Sea through a series of sea-inspired workshops integrating contemporary dance practices, improvisation, somatic embodiment, creative composition and site-specific research by the sea!
The Sea holds many associations, memories, emotions and experiences for us- joy and loss, power and vulnerability- through these workshops we will consider the waters of life, the water element within our body and our interconnection with the Sea through movement, voice, sound and text.
8 weeks of consecutive workshops:
Fridays 4-5:30pm
April 10th - May 31st.
Studio based workshops:
At Dance Theatre of Ireland
From April 12th - May 10th (5 weeks)
Seaside Promenade:
Outdoor practice taking studio research to the sea,
May 17th, 24th & 31st (3 weeks)
SeaScores dance project explores our climate cares and concerns through dance, embodiment, eco-somatic and nature based practise, developed by dance artist Laura Sarah Dowdall, supported by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county council.
This is a research and development phase, we hope to create the opportunity for a second phase of workshops in Summer/Autumn that will lead to the creation of an outdoor performance.
REROOT - MARCH 2024
ReRoot is a hybrid soundwalk performance created by composer and sound artist Robert Coleman and dance artist Laura Sarah Dowdall for Barnaslingan Wood. It explores the interaction of sound and touch to re-connect with the forest and our bodies and brings our relationship with the natural world into question.
This experience seeks to deepen and renew our relationship with nature and in doing so, allows us to challenge the existing conditions which have brought us into this climate and biodiversity crisis.
Using a variety of recording techniques around the forest including contact microphones (microphones which sense audio vibrations through solid objects) and geophones (microphones which sense seismic waves in the earth) Robert has recorded sounds typically inaudible to the human ear opening us up to a new perspective on the living world around us.
This listening is deeply rooted in our tactile connection with the eco-system of the Woods, complemented by Laura’s practice in dance, spoken word and somatic sensing, we will explore the moments when touch becomes sound, and sound becomes touch.
ReRoot is part of Nature and Place, funded by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Supported by Coillte and the Dublin Mountains Partnership.
The artists will guide you though the forest for a 75 minute walk, exploring the interaction of sound and touch.
+ Five walks take place between 22-24 March.
+ Free, advance booking is essential.
Booking & More Inform on this unique nature based event here!
WORKSHOPS: SUMMER 2023
BATHS RESIDENCY WORKSHOPS
Laura will share a series of events as part of her Bath's residency June - August 2023!
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Open Studio Drop-in!
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Community Dance & Dip events!
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Sea Chi - sea and shore workshops by/in the water
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Evening talks/workshops
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THE UNDERSCORE - Global Dance Event, June 24th 2023
Based on the work of Nancy Stark Smith, whom Laura trained with in January 2016.
With Talk-Through workshop online on June 20th
ICC SALON, NOV 19TH 2023
A COLLABORATION WITH IRISH COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE
Laura is guest artist performing with clarinettist Paul Roe on a new series of compositions by Kevin Free, Luke Smyth, Oisín Dilger, Kellie O’Neill, Donnchadh MacAodha, and Santiago Kodela.
Commissioned by the Irish Composers Collective, this project has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
As part of this collaboration Laura and Paul have been working with the composers over a few months through workshops, one to one mentoring and rehearsals to devise the performance of these new pieces.
The purpose of this exchange is to offer mentoring, new perspective and inspiration to the composers, all of who have never worked with a dancer before.
Laura brings her experience as a dancer, performance maker and collaborative artist, sharing her skills in devising performance, collaborative practice, immersive theatre, dramaturgical direction and performance art.
Laura and Paul will perform the six new works over the evening, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Performance: 7pm, Saturday, Nov 19th
Venue: Unit 44, Stoneybatter, Dublin City
Click here for Festival Program!
EMBODY LAB -
WORKSHOP + LIVE MUSIC JAM
SAT, NOV 12TH, 1-5PM
An exciting collaboration with Irish Composers Collective 🎶
Embody Lab is an experimental space to tune-in, experiment and explore dance, movement, improvisation and performance.
Laura is a dance artist ~ choreographer, and holistic therapist, who works collaboratively with musicians and artists of all modalities making film, theatre and site-specific performance.
Laura creates immersive interactive performances that invite audience to engage and co-create.
This workshop gives an insight into Laura’s performance practice, movement research and choreographic approach.
Enjoy a deep dive into embodiment practices, contemporary dance, haptic communication, contact improvisation and creative scores.
This workshop will be followed by an Open Floor Jam (bring your body, an open mind and your instruments!)
In collaboration with Irish Composers Collective and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland
Venue: Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Participation is just 10euro, sign up via link below or through @irishcomp
Click below to register:
www.healingyoga.ie/events/embody-lab/
BODY NOISE WORK- DEC 8 TH, 7-10PM
Body Noise Work, presented by Kirkos Ensemble, bring together 9 artists across disciplines to create an extraordinary evening over four floors of the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios on Saturday December 8th. Each artist will demolish the divide between performer and creator, pulling the audience into brave new spaces and building their own separate but colliding worlds.
The artists of BNW came together during a series of intensive residential workshops in and around Carrick-on-Shannon led by mentors Jennifer Walshe, John Godfrey, Vicky Langan and EL Putnam. All involved were chosen from a hugely oversubscribed call for participation and come from core backgrounds of music, dance, film and visual arts, but all are committed to the idea that boundaries are meaningless in the art of our time.
Our artists come from core disciplines of music (Sebastian Adams, Robbie Blake, Robert Coleman, Seán Ó Dálaigh and Susan Geaney), visual art (Sarah Ellen Lundy-Visual + Sound Artist), interdisciplinary art (Natasha Bourke) and dance (Ruairí Donovan, Laura Sarah Dowdall), but all are deeply engaged in multiple media.
Audience members should expect everything from wires to ropes, plants to baths, and even one-to-one encounters with artists; it's sure to be a multi-sensory, interactive encounter that will captivate, astound and inspire anyone with a thirst for new experiences.
Saturday Dec 8th ж Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Doors 7.00pm ж Performance starts 7.30pm
Tickets €10 [student] ж €15 [regular]