In this edited conversation, Anu Productions’ and CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s artistic directors, David Bolger, Owen Boss and Louise Lowe, reflect upon their past projects, creative practices, and reasons for working together in a... more
In this edited conversation, Anu Productions’ and CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s artistic directors, David Bolger, Owen Boss and Louise Lowe, reflect upon their past projects, creative practices, and reasons for working together in a conversation with the cultural geographer Karen E. Till. The artistic directors further describe their responses to the testimonies of the 38 women whose stories inspired THESE ROOMS, and their motivation for trying to create a visceral means for future audience members to understand what it must have felt like to have an ‘uninvited rebellion’ crashing into their homes. At the time of this conversation – seven-and-a-half months before the launch of the 2016 performance in Dublin – the artists discuss the possibilities and challenges of collaboration when they didn’t have a performance venue. Their artistic journey, a kind of ‘collective dreaming’, was built upon mutual trust that enabled the artists to move between visual, theatre and dance artistic forms, while maintaining an ethical impetus to bear witness to the civilian murders of North King Street.
Booklet edited and designed by Karen E. Till (2017).
Booklet edited and designed by Karen E. Till (2017).
