Ériu Dance Company *Deutschland-Premiere*

Deutschlandpremiere der ÉRIU Dance Company aus Irland in Berlin

Das fünfköpfige Ensemble der ÉRIU Dance Company, unter der Leitung von Breandán de Gallaí, einem langjährigen Solisten des weltberühmten Tanzphänomens Riverdance, feiert seine Deutschlandpremiere in Berlin. De Gallaís erstes Werk, Noctú, wurde 2011 in New York für zwei Drama Desk Awards nominiert. In seinem aktuellen Stück The Village (Das Dorf) erzählen de Gallaí und vier weitere Tänzer ihre Geschichten in kraftvollen Tanzchoreografien und eindringlichen Monologen. Die Musik von Paddy Mulcahy, eine einzigartige Fusion aus elektronischen Klängen und traditioneller irischer Musik, begleitet die Darbietung und verstärkt die Intensität der Performance. Die zeitgenössische Tanzperformance vereint Tanz, Tradition und Theater auf eindrucksvolle Weise.

The Village wird am 18. Oktober 2024  um 20: 00 Uhr in der ufaFabrik Berlin aufgeführt. 

Tänzer*innen: Breandán de Gallaí, John Fitzgerald, Odhrán Mc Laughlin, Sarah Fennell, Shannon Burke

Die Veranstaltung ist Teil von Zeitgeist Irland 24, einer Initiative von Culture Ireland und der irischen Botschaft in Deutschland.

SOZIALE MEDIEN:
Instagram: @eriudancecompany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eriudance

Photo: Declan Colohan

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A contemporary Irish dance performance featuring world-class dancers.
Choreography by Breandán de Gallaí
Music by Paddy Mulcahy
Presented by Gyula Glaser
Part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.
 
 
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE:
The Village's action focuses on five strangers who, although unknown to one another, all grew up in the same place: the titular village. The performance is set on a hill overlooking the settlement, years after each of them has left. From the top of that hill, they survey their homeplace and tell their stories, which are motivated by two, key devices: a series of explosive and hypnotic dance routines set to a blend of traditional, contemporary and electronic music; and powerful confessional monologues. Through these devices, the audience is confronted by a dissolving sense of reality surrounding both the storytellers and the village. The Village is a meditation on Irish culture more generally. Within that culture, villages are places that host both literal and metaphorical forms of drama in national life. For at least a century, villages have provided the
setting for seemingly immutable artistic expressions of national identity, such as the central role of fields for Cathleen Ní Houlihan and the Bull McCabe. However, in recent times, our national conversations about villages have focused on decline; places left behind by a modernising, urbanising and diversifying Ireland. As a result, villages - to a greater extent than towns or cities - occupy a liminal space in Irish culture, both immutable and soluble depending on an observer’s perspective. This quality makes them fertile ground for expressing stories about the loss and remaking of identity, which is both the driving theme of The Village and Ériu’s as a company.
 
ABOUT ÉRIU DANCE COMPANY:
Ériu was founded as an avant-garde dance company in 2010, to explore and express a particular and peculiar moment in Irish culture and society. Since the early 1990s, Ireland has been typified by the dissolution of a hegemonic form of identity: one that was invariably white, bourgeois, Catholic and heterosexual. Through seismic economic, cultural, demographic and constitutional changes since, Irish people have been experiencing multiple dissolutions and remakings of “the self”. Through various works - Noċtú, Rite of Spring, Lïnger, Aon, Salómae, Chased, Walls Talk, The House of Bernardó Alba, and Countless Cathleens - Ériu has expressed these currents through dance, and now looks to do so again through a brave new production: The Village.
 
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER:
In his capacity as artist director and choreographer of dance company Ériu, Breandán explores the poetic potential of the Irish dance form and presents work that is explorative and innovative in a contemporary context. He has created several works, most notably The House of Bernardó Alba, Countless Cathleens, The Village, Walls Talk, Salómae, Aon, Lïnger, Rite of Spring and Noċtú. Noċtú (2010/11) completed a 5-week residency at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York which was supported by Culture Ireland. On the back of this run the show was nominated for 2 Drama Desk awards, “Outstanding Choreography” and “Unique Theatrical Event” (New York 2012). Breandán second work, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (2012) premiered at the opening of the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in August 2012 attracting 14,000 spectators. The work received a nomination for the coveted Allianz Business to Arts Awards (Dublin 2013). Breandán has recently re-worked the Rite which the company performed at the Cork Midsummer and the Earagail Arts Festivals (June & July 2018). The company was honoured to be invited to perform the work at the International Festival of Arts ""Diaghilev. P.S."" in St. Petersburg in 2019. Lïnger, which saw Breandán return to the stage after a 12-year hiatus, premiered in Project Arts, Dublin, January 2016, followed by performances in Firkin Crane Cork and Dance Limerick. In August 2016 Lïnger took part in the Edinburgh Fringe and was shortlisted for a Total Theatre and The Place Award for Dance. Since then Lïnger completed an 8-venue All-Ireland tour, with international performances in the Jack Crystal Theater New York, Théatro Sofia Bulgaria, and in Aix-en-Provence France. Aon had its World Première in Amharclann Ghaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal as part of the 2017 Earagail Arts Festival. These performances were followed by a 2-week run in Firkin Crane Cork. Aon toured Ireland, north and south, in November 2018. In 2019 Breandán adapted Oscar Wilde’s Salome (Salómae), which opened at the Galway International Arts Festival at An Taibhdhearc – Ireland’s National Irish Language Theatre. This dance, music, and Gaeilge interpretation of the classic was a new departure for the company. In more recent years the work has become more ambitious terms of its scope and its interdisciplinarity. Walls Talk featuring blues/jazz singer Gina Boreham performing alongside Breandán and opened at Projects Arts in 2020. It completed a 9-venue national tour of Ireland in 2022 and is slated for a 2-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2024. The Village premiered at the Black Box Theatre in May 2022, with a performance at the Earagail Arts Festival in July of the same year. His interpretation of Lorca’s The House of Bernardó Alba which explored the play’s themes through a queer lens and had male performers in key female roles, had its premiere at the Galway Theatre Festival in May 2023. 
 
 
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Instagram: @eriudancecompany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eriudance

Photo: Declan Colohan

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