Dance performances in Clough’
SlowMo: Cloughjordan is a performance work which is created as two international artists (Slovenia’s Jatun Risba and France’s Clara Grosjean) travel from their respective countries by land and sea to their destination in Cloughjordan.
This event takes place on Saturday January 13, at 7 and 8pm, in the Middle Country Café. Tickets: €10 and they can be purchased on the door from 6.30pm. After the performances the Middle Country Cafe will be serving food and drinks,
Slow travel is not merely a way of traversing geography and saving on carbon emissions: we have turned it into the framework for creating the work. Indeed, SlowMo: Cloughjordan is also a participatory work: four Cloughjordians (with connections to the countries that Clara and Jatun are travelling through to get here) will be co-creators in the work.
Those Cloughjordians are Jeanne Merer, Sinisa Mesaric, Susann Huschke and Julie Lockett. Each has posted Clara and Jatun a letter recounting European stories from a personal perspective: about France, the former Yugoslavia, the former GDR, and England. As they make their way to Cloughjordan, Clara and Jatun respond performatively to those letters, constructing the individual choreographic gifts which will eventually comprise SlowMo: Cloughjordan. This is choreography as a travelling gift; as a series of embodied travelling postcards. The final presentation at the Middle Country Cafe will be a promenade performance: when mounting the work, we will map Jatun and Clara’s travel route directly onto a journey from main street to the inside of the cafe, and as audiences you will travel their journey, encountering the different dance works/cities as you journey through the work.
WORKSHOPS
After the performance of SlowMo: Cloughjordan Jatun and Clara will remain in town to conduct their own research into performance and ecological practice. They will offer the Cloughjordan community an experiential insight into their research via these two workshops.
Workshops on performance and ecological practice are also taking place.
Live art & ecological practice with Jatun Risba on Thursday, January 25, 5-7pm, Parochial Hall, Cloughjordan. Tickets: €10 and they can be purchased on the door from 4.30pm.
Choreography and ecological practice with Clara Grosjean Friday, on January 26, 5-7pm, Parochial Hall, Cloughjordan. Tickets: €10 and they can be purchased on the door from 4.30pm.