LAURA SARAH DOWDALL
SEA SCORES: DANCE PROJECT
APRIL 12- MAY 31
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:
Friday 4-5:30 pm
At Dance Theatre of Ireland
From April 12th - May 10th (5 weeks)
Seaside Promenade:
Outdoor practice taking studio research to the sea,
Fridays 4-5:30 pm
May 17th, 24th & 31st (3 weeks)
These workshops are for you if you:
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Want to explore your creativity through dance
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You have a good level of fitness and love to move
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Want to learn about dance creation and choreography
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You are a nature lover happy to attend workshops outdoors ( you have your flask of hot tea and wet-gear ready just incase!)
This project is partially funded by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.
Contribution of 55 euro per participant will go towards the running costs of the project.
To participate:
Please send an email outlining your interest in the topic of the Sea and any movement experience you have to laurasarahdowdall@gmail.com before April 5th.
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
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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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Full details of events here!​
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THE UNDERSCORE - Global Dance Event, June 24th 2023
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Based on the work of Nancy Stark Smith, whom Laura trained with in January 2016.
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With Talk-Through workshop online on June 20th
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Laura and Paul will perform the six new works over the evening, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
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Performance: 7pm, Saturday, Nov 19th
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Venue: Unit 44, Stoneybatter, Dublin City
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Click here for Festival Program!
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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!)
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In collaboration with Irish Composers Collective and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland
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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/
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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]
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