Date: Thu 15 Dec 2022
Time: Sharing 14:00 – 15:00, Critical Encounter 15:00 to 16:30
Venue: DanceHouse
Admission: Free Events, advanced booking required on Dance Ireland’s website, links below.
As part of a Studio Light Moves / Open Futures 2022, three pairs of artists were selected from an open call for an interdisciplinary exchange. Two of the six artists, Canadian choreographer Jacinte Armstrong and Media Artist / Architect James Forren, will be in residence in DanceHouse, Dublin, from 5th – 16th December.
Light Moves and Dance Ireland invite you to an open studio sharing by Jacinte and James, as well as an Artist Talk; ‘Critical Encounter’, more info below.
Residency & Sharing
Book your place on Dance Ireland’s website here.
Jacinte Armstrong and James Forren invite you into the studio and share work-in-progress that they have been researching and developing during their time at DanceHouse. The sharing is immediately followed by Critical Encounter talk with the artists in conversation with Choreographer Mary Nunan and Immersive Technology producer Linda Curtin.
Critical Encounter
Book your place on Dance Ireland’s website here.
In this encounter Mary Nunan (dance artist/choreographer) will lead a discussion with Jacinte Armstrong and James Forren and Linda Curtin (immersive technology producer). We invite everyone interested in dance, technology and media art to join the discussions. Be part of nurturing conversations across the dance and technology community!
The discussion will be anchored in (but not limited to) the specifics of Jacinte and James’ current research undertaking. It will expand to include questions about how their decision to work with AR/VR sits within their wider practice: content, context, audience. Linda Curtin will address moving into AR/VR technologies through opportunities and training and considerations of access for participants and users.
The encounter will invite exchange with attendees as part of nurturing conversations across the dance and technology community.
This Dance House residency is a partnership with Dance Ireland and Light Moves. It awarded the artists a €5,000 bursary and 2 weeks studio space in Dance House Dublin following on from a two week research at Light Moves Open Futures residency lab in Limerick in June 2021.
Studio Light Moves is an initiative of Light Moves Festival aimed at investing in and nurturing creative process and enquiry in dance, technology and screen-based dance practices. The Open Futures Residency is in partnership with Dance Limerick, Dance Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Digital Media and Arts Research Centre and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City and County Council with support from Wriggle – Tech in Education.
