MARIA, MARIA, MARIA – DANCE TRILOGY WITH OONA DOHERTY, MARIA NILSSON WALLER & EMMA FITZGERALD
Tues 29 Nov, 8pm
Tickets €12.00/€10.00
Oona Doherty, Emma Fitzgerald, and Maria Nilsson Waller, three of the most exciting dance artists working in Ireland today, have joined forces to bring Maria Maria Maria, an evening of three solo works, to Dance Limerick on Tuesday 29 November at 8pm. These powerful solos explore the personal, the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane with wit, brio and verve.
Lazarus and the Birds of Paradise (Oona Doherty) is a distillation of Northern male youth and the fire of boredom.
Prime (Maria Nilsson Waller) draws inspiration from mythology, science-fiction and 1960s pop culture to trace a journey back from black and white to a life in colour.
Rest (Emma Fitzgerald) weaves song, storytelling and dance in an exploration of the living, dying impermanence of all that surrounds us.
The three diverse works, spanning the poetic to the punk, are connected by their charismatic and powerful performers, female choreographers who have won acclaim in Ireland and abroad. Oona Doherty, “standout of 2016 Dublin Dance Festival” (Totally Dublin), Emma Fitzgerald, “a gamine tour de force” (The New York Times) and Maria Nilsson Waller, Tanz Magazine Europe ‘Bearer of Hope’ 2015, break through dance’s boundaries as choreographers who write, compose, play and sing.
Announcing details of Maria Maria Maria, Jenny Traynor, Director of Dance Limerick, said “We’re delighted to welcome these outstanding dance artists to Dance Limerick. We know Maria Nilsson Waller and Emma Fitzgerald from their exciting performances here previously, and I’m really pleased that they will be joined by Oona Doherty, who was recently selected as an Aerowaves Artist 2017, reflecting the esteem in which she’s held not just in Ireland but on the European stage. Limerick audiences are in for an extraordinary evening of dance”.
Produced by Firkin Crane in Cork, in partnership with Dance Limerick, this production is part of a tour which also includes Cork, Ballina, Galway and Belfast.
Additional Info:
Oona Doherty portrays the body-life of the streets of her native Belfast in the virtuosic Lazarus and the Birds of Paradise, a performance which “blew away the audience” at Les Plateaux Festival in Paris. A rising up of the disadvantaged and stereotyped, this piece is raw, vulnerable and intensely physical. Currently Hatch Artist-in-Residence at The MAC, Belfast, Oona recently starred in Enda Walsh’s Arlington and her own Hope Hunt (4 stars, The Irish Times).
Emma Fitzgerald’s new work Rest references the living, dying impermanence of all that surrounds us and of which our existence is part. Darkly humorous and biographical, Rest strikes a chord with anyone attempting to negotiate the challenges of a self-reflective life. Emma combines story-telling, song and dance in her poetic and provocative works, which have been performed worldwide, at venues including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and New York’s Judson Church. She has won acclaim for her solo work and also as part of the duo Fitzgerald and Stapleton, who Limerick audiences last saw at Dance Limerick in 2014.
Maria Nilsson Waller, a multi-talented choreographer, who also composes and designs many of her own performance works, presents Prime which gradually unfolds from black & white to colour, accompanied by the music of Tina Turner and Maria’s original score. Prime draws inspiration from mythology, science-fiction, the early days of space travel and 1960s’ pop culture to create a striking looking post-traumatic space where a woman is in the process of re-building herself and her universe.
Further details from www.mariamariamariatour.com (click link on right)
TOUR PERFORMANCES
Nov 25, Firkin Crane, Cork, www.firkincrane.ie
Nov 26, Galway Arts Centre, www.galwayartscentre.ie
Nov 29, Dance Limerick, www.dancelimerick.ie
Dec 2, Ballina Arts Centre, www.ballinaartscentre.com
Dec 3, The Mac, Belfast, www.themaclive.com
