Dance Limerick is delighted to welcome back contemporary dance artist Angie Smalis and performance artist Colin Gee for a two-week residency, prior to presenting two new dance works - Chaplet of Roses (2014) and They Go Out in Joy (premiere)
Chaplet of Roses (2014) is drawn from a 15th century fragmentary tapestry, “Honor Making a Chaplet of Roses,” featuring an allegory of courtly love told through the simultaneous action of four characters. Created in Limerick, Ireland, with Gee and Smalis performing the four parts, the work explores a contemporary interpretation of the allegory as a notion of individual and community morality, by framing shifts between public and private life.
They Go Out in Joy (2016), is a series of performance portraits drawn from photographs of Irish emigrants taken just prior to their departure from Cobh, Ireland in the 1920’s, when Cobh was the major port of emigration. Set against the background of present day Cobh, Gee and Smalis again portray all the roles, shifting between the public and private lives of each persona at a single moment of pause ? imagining what has just happened or is about to happen.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
