CISEACH
CISEACH
An Embodied Manifesto
Catherine Young Dance
We are in shambles.
Ciseach is a pulsating contemporary incantation weaving together a tapestry of dance, rhythm, live music and voice that seeks to rekindle our broken relationship with the land.
Ciseach looks to the body, to the collective, in search of a new path as the ground beneath us yields. This stirring new work by CYD is an embodied manifesto – urging us to re-member, to re-connect with our past, with nature and with each other. Collecting fragments of native wisdoms, myths and kinships, Ciseach pieces together possible futures to build the wattled causeway, the ciseach to guide us to solid ground.
From Floating on a Dead Sea to State of Exception, Catherine Young Dance takes on the challenging stories of our time, delivering thought-provoking works that echo on long after the curtain draws. Ciseach is certain to follow suit.
Funded by The Arts Council’s Arts Grant Fund, Backstage Theatre Longford and Kerry County Council, and supported by Project Arts Centre and Shawbrook Dance.
Credits
Director & Choreographer – Catherine Young
Created in collaboration with:
Dramaturg – Hanna Slättne
Dance collaborators – Nana-YAA Appiah, Diarmuid Armstrong Mayock, Valentin Lemaitre, Emily Nicolaou, Simone O’Toole, Carmen Palacios Sáenz.
Original Music created in collaboration – Martin Schärer, Henning Fuchs, Jess Kavanagh, Mícheál O’Dubhghaill & Jon Sanders
Live Musicians – Martin Schärer (music director/ percussion) in collaboration Jess Kavanagh (vocals) Mícheál O’Dubhghaill(fiddle, flute, vocals), Jon Sanders (mandola/guitar)
Set Design – Sabine Dargent
Lighting Design – Sarah Jane Shiels
Costume Design Cherie White
Sound & Sound design – Alan Kelly
Production Team
Production Manager – Michael Stapleton
Photographer /Videographer – Pato Cassinoni
PR – Kate Bowe Communications
Marketing – Emer Casey
Producer – Kristyn Fontanella
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