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42, BY ELLA CLARKE

Thurs 16 June | 8pm
Tickets €12.00/€10.00

Ballet dancer turned contemporary dance artist Ella Clarke offers a personal examination of how a dancer becomes an artist in her autobiographical work “42” at Dance Limerick on Thursday 16 June at 8pm.

Part biography, part history exposition, 42 was originally a lecture commissioned for the Dublin Fringe Festival Contemporary Performing Arts Symposium in 2011.

Now a performed response to her evolving career as an artist, Clarke describes 42 as “a kind of TED Talks dance… a creation formed from the attempt to understand what makes me an artist, what governs my practice, why I love precisely ordered chaos and what use it will all be when the plane goes down in flames. Using montage, excerpts from some major ballets and some of my favourite things, I’ve been writing this dance for years”.

Announcing details of 42, Jenny Traynor, Director of Dance Limerick, said “We’re delighted to welcome Ella Clarke to Dance Limerick for the first time. This is a wonderful opportunity to see a dynamic, original performer, who questions and challenges herself, her work and her art. I find her work refreshes and invigorates, so I hope Limerick audiences will come and experience this true original for themselves”.

Ella Clarke graduated from the Perm State Ballet School and performed as a soloist with Perm Youth Ballet and Wexford Festival Opera before radically retraining her technique to contemporary dance and working with many of Ireland’s major companies and choreographers. A further transformation saw her evolve as a post-modernist solo performer, adapting works by eminent US choreographer Deborah Hay. Clarke earned her theatrical stripes through award-winning work with Selina Cartmell at The Gate Theatre and Jason Byrne at the Abbey Theatre. She has lectured in dance at The Conservatory of Vocal Opera and Drama at DIT for 16 years, while her work for theatre has led her to create a distinct technique to physicalise violent acts. Clarke has journeyed from the heart of classical ballet to the outer reaches of ‘acceptable’ public behaviour in search of the thing that makes her tick and makes art ‘art’.

Additional Info re Ella Clark:
Ella’s choreographies include the 2008 Irish Times Theatre Award Best Production winner Phaedra’s Love, A Midsummers Night Dream and Anatomy of a Seagull for Loose Canon Theatre Company, Only an Apple, Comedy of Errors, Big Love, Romeo & Juliet and Woman and Scarecrow for The Abbey Theatre, Wedding Day of the Cro-Magnons for Bedrock, Macbeth, Shutter and Titus Andronicus for Siren Productions, Adaptation of a Meeting and Behindtheeyeliesbone for Myriad Dance Company, Don Gregorio and Transformations for Wexford Festival Opera and Sweeney Todd for The Gate Theatre, 100 feet (dance film) for Projects Arts Centre and The Fall for Ella Clarke Choreography.

Between 2004 and 2011, Ella co-founded and directed Genesis Project and Collective, a practise-based project for radicalisation in the art form of dance with centres of practice in Dublin, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and L.A. She has adapted and performed four of eminent experimental choreographer Deborah Hay’s solo works and commissioned, produced and performed her trio A Lost Opera with Genesis Collective.

Photo Credit: Jason Byrne

Pricing

€12.00 / €10.00 (concession)

€12.00 / €10.00 (concession)


Time

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm


Date

16 June 2016


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