NDRP 2023 recipient Magdalena Hylak in residence

The NDRP is a partnership between Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Galway Dance Project, and Tipperary Dance to provide a networked support to choreographers in the production of new dance work. By coming together, the partners acknowledge that our collective infrastructure and resources can go further and encourage more ambition in the dance sector.

The NDRP 2023 recipient, Magdalena Hylak, will be in residence at Dance Limerick from 15 – 26 January, working on her latest material with artistic collaborator, musician and composer Lionel Kasparian.

About her work, Magdalena says “After questioning the notion of performance and then working on sound and movement confrontation with associated composer Lionel Kasparian, I arrived at the point where I removed different components of what is perceived as dance or considered as music. As I have only explored it as a solo, I now want to ‘put’ this research through another moving body and witness new confrontations with live sound.”

About Magdalena Hylak

Magdalena Hylak is a dance artist based in the West of Ireland. She is currently touring nationally and internationally with John Scott-IMDT (IE) and Nacera Belaza (FR), with over 150 performances in 50 venues across 12 countries up to date.

Since 2021, she has been developing her own body of work, where she questions the notion of performance. At the core of her research is the movement and sound outside of the question of style/genre or technique.

Magdalena Hylak is the Galway Dance Artist in Residence for 2023-2024. She is funded by Arts Council of Ireland and Galway County Council.