Cindy Cummings, Sebastian Adams, Jessie Thompson & Natalie Beridze
SPIRAL Double Bill
Friday 7 November, 8:30pm
Tickets €15/€12
A Double Bill evening of performances at Dance Limerick.
Radio Caroline and the Mi Amigo
Cindy Cummings and Sebastian Adams
Using dance, video collage, DIY radio transmitters and portable radios, composer, viola player and artistic director Sebastian Adams and dance artist and choreographer Cindy Cummings will navigate the spiritual legacy of Radio Caroline in a live, improvisational, experimental documentary.
Radio Caroline was founded by an Irish businessman in order to circumvent the BBC’s broadcast monopoly and refusal to play modern pop music. The solution: a radio station in international waters. It became a beacon for pirates everywhere, a kick in the face to the copyright system, but also a money-making venture motivated more by opportunism than by ideology.
As the old systems for policing and managing intellectual property and freedom of speech collapse around us, the voices of pirates are nowadays attempting not only to wrest media from the grips of their owners, but also to fight against new apparatus for mass surveillance.
AUTOMATA: A myth Reawakened
Jessie Thompson and Natalie Beridze
Where myth meets Music. Automata brings ancient legend into the digital age. Created by a pioneer of electronic music and one of Georgia’s most acclaimed composers, Natalie Beridze, and Jessie Thompson, a Dublin-based dancer and choreographer working at the intersection of contemporary and hip-hop, this performance draws inspiration from the mythical creations of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and forge. Automata explores the beauty, intelligence, and destructive potential of beings built to serve, yet driven by something more.
Through live electronic music and physical storytelling, the show conjures a world where creation slips out of its maker’s control—and chaos follows. A bold fusion of mythology, and live performance, Automata invites audiences into a realm where the ancient pulses with new life.
Part of Light Moves’ SPIRAL commissions.
Exploring the relationship between live music, dance and film has been a key part of our festival since 2016. In 2021 the festival launched SPIRAL, a series of new music and dance commissions that has resulted in over 20 artists creating new works for Light Moves. This year, for the third edition of SPIRAL, the festival is delighted to present three specially commissioned works that explore new possibilities through sound and dance interaction.