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The Casement Project is a choreography of bodies and ideas that takes place across multiple platforms and national boundaries. It dances with the queer body of British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement to ask: Who gets to be in the national body? How could the national body move?
An award-winning creative team, a cast of internationally-acclaimed performers and contributors from beyond the arts, join choreographer and dance artist Fearghus ó Conchúir to create five interconnected ways for people to be involved in the project:
•The Casement Project, a choreography for stage that will be presented in London, Dublin, Belfast and Kerry
•Féile Fáilte, a day of dance on Banna Strand (23 July) that celebrates through curated and spontaneous dance the welcoming national body that Casement might have dreamt of when he came ashore at Banna in 1916.
•Fáilte, a short dance-film with Emmy-award winning director, Dearbhla Walsh, for broadcast and online streaming, so that people can access the work from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
•Two cross-disciplinary academic symposia, one, Bodies Politic, with Maynooth University (25 February) and a second, Hospitable Bodies with the British Library and the Place (3 June), reflecting on The Casement Project and the legacy of Roger Casement.
•A series of engagement opportunities to invite a diversity of people to be part of the creation process of The Casement Project and to explore their own creative response to the topic
SAT 11 JUN TO SUN 12 JUN
Fearghus Ó Conchúir
Butterflies and Bones: The Casement Project
The Place
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Concept and choreography Fearghus Ó Conchúir
Designer Ciaran O’Melia
Composer & sound design Alma Kelliher
Performers Mikel Aristegui, Theo Clinkard, Philip Connaughton, Bernadette Iglich, Matthew Morris, Liv O’Donoghue
The Casement Project is a choreography of bodies and ideas that takes place across multiple platforms and national boundaries. It dances with the queer body of British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement to ask: Who gets to be in the national body? How could the national body move?
An award-winning creative team, a cast of internationally-acclaimed performers and contributors from beyond the arts, join choreographer and dance artist Fearghus ó Conchúir to create five interconnected ways for people to be involved in the project:
•The Casement Project, a choreography for stage that will be presented in London, Dublin, Belfast and Kerry
•Féile Fáilte, a day of dance on Banna Strand (23 July) that celebrates through curated and spontaneous dance the welcoming national body that Casement might have dreamt of when he came ashore at Banna in 1916.
•Fáilte, a short dance-film with Emmy-award winning director, Dearbhla Walsh, for broadcast and online streaming, so that people can access the work from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
•Two cross-disciplinary academic symposia, one, Bodies Politic, with Maynooth University (25 February) and a second, Hospitable Bodies with the British Library and the Place (3 June), reflecting on The Casement Project and the legacy of Roger Casement.
•A series of engagement opportunities to invite a diversity of people to be part of the creation process of The Casement Project and to explore their own creative response to the topic
SAT 11 JUN TO SUN 12 JUN
Fearghus Ó Conchúir
Butterflies and Bones: The Casement Project
The Place
Concept and choreography Fearghus Ó Conchúir
Designer Ciaran O’Melia
Composer & sound design Alma Kelliher
Performers Mikel Aristegui, Theo Clinkard, Philip Connaughton, Bernadette Iglich, Matthew Morris, Liv O’Donoghue