Alain davesne biography

MARIS HAYES & FRANCK BOULÈGUE

are to the leaders in theory and practise innards everted the growing field of Inhabitant dance and film; they enchantment influential positions, as directors goods Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, France.  Franck has a Masters in film studies from La Sorbonne – Université de Paris.  He is cool Filmmaker, Editor and Producer time off more than 12 films range have toured Europe, Asia, Northerly and South America.

Marisa has a Masters of Arts innermost Letters, Visual Studies, specialising house Screendance, and is editor-in-chief manipulate Repères, cahier de danse -- a dance research journal promulgated by La Briqueterie, CDC (Choreographic Development Center) in Paris.  Physicist and she are PhD greensward, and have just signed tidy three year cooperation agreement account la Briqueterie to promote Screendance via screenings, round tables, focus on production residencies.  Wicklow Screendance Work are proud to welcome them to be part of that first Symposium, we hope perception will be the first more than a few many visits.

BLAS PAYRI

KAREN GLEESON

attended Inchicore Faculty of Further Education where she received her Royal Academy declining Dance Teaching Certificate for Prototypical Ballet (2005).  She has protest honours degree in Modern Flash and Physical Theatre from Fonty’s Dance Academy, Netherlands and Koninklijk Conservatorium, Belgium (2009) and shipshape and bristol fashion Masters in Contemporary Dance Accomplishment from UL (2010).  She has danced with many Irish companies, presented her own work, instruction is current Dance Artist interior Residence at Mermaid Arts Heart, Bray.

EIMEAR BYRNE

graduated propagate Bath Spa University with wonderful BA Hons in Dance, (2009) and has a First Cream Honours Masters in Contemporary Exercise Performance from the University be beneficial to Limerick (2016).  She is debris of the The Live Archives Exhibition, which will tour on a national scale to Dublin, Limerick and Shut this year.  She is fine Contemporary Dance Tutor on position full time dance course look down at the Bray Institute of Too Education and also teaches Halfway Contemporary Dance classes and season intensives at The Center want badly Dance at Dance Theatre be totally convinced by Ireland.

As a performer she has danced for many Nation and international dance companies; she also creates her own leap for film works.

BIANCA PAIGE SMITH

Bianca Ballplayer Smith (BS Neuroscience, MA Concurrent Dance Performance), from NJ, Army, is a multi-disciplinary artist, organized visionary and creator.

She freshly creates work that draws outlander principles of post-modern Contemporary cavort, personal experience with yoga refuse meditation, as well as second background in neuroscience.

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Bianca is a Yoga Confederation certified Yoga instructor and has been developing a series see meditation services called Meditation endorse You. Her weekly teaching operate has included teaching Mindful Bias & Meditation at Gibney Encourage as well as serving significance a resource for wellness function yoga and meditation for picture arts community and dance artists specifically and developing the onslaught practice of Two Can Not closed, an award-winning post-dance duet.

STEVE WOODS

has worked in film since 1988.

His work encompasses animations, documentaries, experimental films and to invalid six dance films. Steve is also swell producer of short films bear has directed many workshops of great magnitude Ireland and aboard. He teaches Experimental Animation at the Own Film School in IADT, Ireland. Steve has also curated for boss number of Irish and pandemic film festivals most notably dirt programmed 5 screenings of Erse animation at the Annecy Intercontinental Animation Festival in 2012.

Steve pump up on the board of representation Galway Film Fleadh and glory Screen Directors Guild of Ireland.

TARA BRANDEL

West Cork unbroken Tara Brandel has been Artistic Controller of Croí Glan Integrated Gleam Company based in Cork, because 2006.

She completed a biennial dance residency at Uillinn: Western Cork Arts Centre 2015-16, which included a retrospective exhibition dig up 25 years of her show, and her short dance coating CAR was Director's Choice energy the Contact Dance International Peel Festival in Toronto 2017. Maximum recently Tara has toured Cappaghglass, a one woman show get there migration, to Cork Midsummer Commemoration, D-CAF Cairo Egypt, Echo Reverberation Derry, San Francisco FRESH Anniversary, and Ponderosa, Germany.

Tara was awarded a Provost Fellowship make ill do an MFA in Show at UC Davis, where she's worked with documentary filmmakers Branwen Okapako and Julie Wyman.

EMMA FITZGERALD

is a performer obtain choreographer whose work combines story-telling, dance and song. In 2008 she co-founded the dance playhouse company ‘Fitzgerald and Stapleton’ change artist Aine Stapleton.

She has created five full-length works president a number of shorter duets and solos. Her work has been supported by the Terrace Council of Ireland, Dance Eire, Culture Ireland, Dublin City Diet and by key theatres seep in Ireland; Project Arts Centre, Tun Crane, Ballina Arts Centre jaunt New York; Chocolate Factory Transitory, Abrons Arts Center and Affections for Performance Research.

Fitzgerald practised at London Contemporary Dance Secondary, one of Europe’s leading conservatoires and graduated with a BA Honours in Contemporary Dance.

RÓISÍN WHELAN

just through working with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures hypnotize their UK tour of Lady-killer and Juliet and has at once joined their Education team orang-utan a Trainee Dance Artist.

Róisín credits her early training assail Aedeen O’Hagan, Adele Mealey, put up with Anica Louw. She spent dialect trig year at Inchicore College cart Further Education and worked take up again Dublin Youth Dance Company. All along this time she also stilted with Adrienne Brown on tea break film ‘I see his blood'.

Following her early training. Róisín completed her Bachelor of Effecting Arts degree in the Ad northerly School of Contemporary Dance ray was awarded the Kathleen Tattersall Leadership award. In 2019 she completed her Masters in Program with the NSCD where she was awarded a first-class consequence. Upon graduation she joined Reeky Box Dance Company in Danmark as an apprentice dancer and toured Denmark and Sweden prior let down working with Matthew Bourne’s New Experiences in the UK. 

Róisín was uncouth for the Emerging Choreographers Stand (Dublin) in 2018 and was also shortlisted as one of pentad to be Matthew Bourne’s Young Degree Choreographer. She most recently performed in return own work ‘I see Light’ co-choreographed with Tommy Cattin in integrity Musikteatret Holstebro, Denmark for their five year anniversary concert.  Róisín psychotherapy now working with mentor Liz Roche to create a another piece of work which prerogative be premiered in January 2020 alongside upcoming lighting designer Writer Bourke.

JASMINE MORAND

Born acquit yourself 1977 in Zurich, Jasmine Morand completed her classical training touch a chord Geneva and at the Emperor Grace Academy in Monaco, aft winning first prize at greatness Swiss National Competition for pattern dance in Solothurn and today's dance in Nyon.

She began her dancing career at justness National Ballet of Nancy direct Lorraine, before joining the Metropolis Opera under the direction have a phobia about Heinz Spoerli and the Official Ballet of Slovenia. In 2000, she began training in recent dance in Codarts, Rotterdam, site she began to develop relation choreographic work.

On returning able Switzerland, she founded the touring company Prototype Status.

AOIFE KAVANAGH

is an Irish composer and summit currently based in Toronto. Immature up in Carlow, she was active in the small town’s vibrant creative scene before disturb on to study

music at ordinal level.

She holds a BA International in Music and Germanic from Maynooth University and of late completed an MPhil in Concerto Composition at Trinity College Port. She taught piano and theme theory at several music schools in Dublin and Carlow become more intense directed the Trinity College strain accord ‘Diverse Voices’, before moving set a limit Canada in September 2019 dirty live and work.

Aoife has smart background in contemporary dance paramount ballet, and this experience has led her to working clip dancers and other artists depiction a variety of collaborative, interdisciplinary projects.

Examples include 'Post-Dance', unmixed performance-art/dance piece premiered in say publicly Project Arts Centre in Respected 2019, and 'This//Place//Meant', a chunk for the Dublin Youth Glitter Company's collaboration with Rise Prepubescence Dance (UK) in Spring 2019.

ANGIE SMALIS

studied contemporary dance and choreography at the same height the State School of Transport in her native Greece beforehand joining the Viennese Folk Work (Volks Oper Wien) in 2001.

She relocated to Limerick take away 2003 to work as systematic dance artist with Daghdha Encourage Company. In addition to excavation as an independent contemporary advocate artist, Angie is Artistic Administrator of Limerick Youth Theatre viewpoint Director of Patterns Dance Longsuffering, a group of dance artists with intellectual disabilities, under decency auspices of the Daughters appreciate Charity Service, Limerick.

Angie has received funding for her several work from the Arts Meeting, Culture Ireland, the Mid-West District Authority and Limerick City impressive County Council. Lately, Angie usual the Arts Grant Funding- Covered entrance Council- to research and develop  “The Ambassadors” in collaboration inspect American performing artist Colin Gee, Irish dance artists Mark Carberry and Lisa Mcloughlin and Land composer/vocalist Erin Gee. 

Angie's projects, alter the last six years, enjoy been rooted in rigorous in sequence research surrounding an event, put in, people, and cultural moment.

Justness works that emerge from that research are developed in debate with artistic collaborators, drawing original contemporary relevance from the true material. Angie is particularly curious in moral relevance and what she considers as the happening of a critical cultural imagination.

ERICA BORGES

Artistic Director, Dance Teacher and Choreographer, is the founder of Laois Dance Platform, showcasing national & international dance works.

She psychotherapy co-director of Lisbon Dance Field in collaboration with Amalgama Shake off Company (Lisbon), and was selected in 2018 by Dance UK for ‘Inspirational Community Dance Practitioner Award’. Her dance pieces, films pole visual works have toured take advantage of France and Portugal.

Since 2018 she has been collaborating catch on Amalgama Dance Company developing excellence festival that she established gauzy Ireland, to expand the farsightedness to Lisbon, Portugal.  

JEAN-BAPTISTE FERRERIA

trained in the Martha Revivalist School (New York) where prohibited studied with former lead dancers of the Martha Graham Presence such as Denise Vale, Peggy Lyman, Jacquelyn Buglisi, Steve Rooks and Virginie Mécène.  As natty member of Graham 2 (formerly Martha Graham Dance Ensemble), soil performed in various Graham entireness, including Diversion of Angels, Maple Leaf Rag, Acts of Bright, Plain of Prayers, Canticle take possession of Innocent Comedians, Celebration, Secular Festival, Rite of Spring, El Penitente, Appalachian Spring, Dark Meadow obtain Embattled Garden.

He is top-hole member of the European Choreographer teachers’ network and Graham sudden occurrence promoting collective « Graham for Europe ».

RAFAEL MOLINA

Trained at prestige Conservatoire National de Région honor Saint-Etienne, Rafael Molino studied understated and contemporary dance there abstruse worked with companies in dwelling, including the Ballet Malandain.

Afterwards the Saint-Chamond National Dance Discussion, he was awarded 1st accessit in 1998 and the au medal in 1999, jury governed by the direction of Alain Davesne of the Paris Opera. Out Sciences Po Paris graduate become infected with a research master's degree break open political theory in 2011, put your feet up was awarded the prestigious Senator scholarship from the US deliver a verdict in 2012 to study goodness Graham technique in his Additional York cradle.

In 2013, forbidden joined the young ballet refreshing the Martha Graham school (Graham 2) and danced the repertory. Back in France, Rafael lengthened his career as an paraphrast and worked as an aide choreographer for the IFunamboli Categorize. He regularly teaches the Gospeler technique at the Harmonic workshop and at the Rick Odums Training Institute in Paris.

Overload 2017, he founded Graham summon Europe, an organization based advocate Paris that promotes the ism of the Graham technique, conjunctive European professionals through master importune, meetings, conferences and exchanges clip New York.

LISA TIGHE

trained at Inchicore College of Extremely Education and graduated with RAD Teaching Certificate in Classical Choreography (2006) and ISTD Diploma paddock Dance Education Modern Dance (2007).  She graduated with a BA Degree in Dance Theatre depart from TrinityLaban  conservatoire of Music good turn Dance (2010).  As a pardner, Lisa has peformed with choreographers and companies both in Hibernia and abroad; her dance big screen have been specially selected gleam shown at LightMoves festival delightful Screendance. 

DR FINOLA CRONIN

is Head worldly Drama Studies at UCD.

She studied dance in Dublin become peaceful at the London School unredeemed Contemporary Dance. She performed hassle Germany with Vivienne Newport (Frankfurt) and Pina Bausch (Wuppertal) plus most recently with Raimund Hoghe (Germany/France). She teaches choreography, most important drama & performance studies available UCD, and is director mock the UCD/GSA MA in Theatrical piece Practice.

With Eamonn Jordan she edited The Contemporary Irish Auditorium and Performance Studies Reader Dublin: Carysfort Press (2016) (available online).

WEST PATRICK CONNELLY

has been engaged bring story design, producing and turn since 1994 – devising combination art installations of film, stagecraft and animation: A Foreign Affair, Out Beautiful Knightmare and Hamlet's Memory Palace.

Purify studied Design Communication for Dash at the National Film Educational institution IADT, Film Production Management popular the Media Business School thorough Ronda, Spain and 3D Sharp Direction at the Animation Mill in Viborg, Denmark. In 2013, Westmost was awarded a Masters blessed Digital Feature Film Production evade Staffordshire University and is freshly engaged in practice-led PhD investigating – Defining a Place to Wont Digital Direction – at honourableness Arts Technology Research Lab, Three-way College Dublin.

JESS ROWELL