Áine Stapleton

Áine Stapleton works in dance, film, and music. She is an invited member of Project Arts Centre Dublin and The Arts Council peer panel. She was selected as Associate Artist with Dance Ireland in 2019. Within this role, she was supported as an artist in residence at NMAC Foundation in Andalucia, Spain. NMAC Foundation holds permanent works by renowned artists including Marina Abramovic and Olafur Eliasson. Dance Ireland is Ireland’s national dance development organisation and representative body for the professional dance community in Ireland.

Áine Stapleton

Light Moves Festival presented an online screening of Áine Stapleton’s Horrible Creature as part of the 2021 edition.

In 1915, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle travelled with their young children Giorgio and Lucia to Switzerland to escape the turmoil of World War I. Lucia later trained as a dancer and performed throughout Europe. Her career ended suddenly in the early 1930s, and she was forced into psychiatric care and underwent treatment at various hospitals across Europe. Horrible Creature is filmed at locations in Switzerland where Lucia spent time. The work challenges the accepted biography of Lucia’s life and considers the complexity of mental instability.

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