Programme 1

the body symphonic (40 min)

Choreography and Performance by Charlie Khalil Prince

the body symphonic (2024) is a solo performance-concert that observes the body as a site of resistance, an engaged body which journeys through rituals of excavation, revealing new and unbound mythologies and allowing for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness. Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon – this work is a meditation on the body’s place in the struggle against occupation, where looking back, looking in and forward become strategies of steadfastness and liberation. 

Charlie Khalil Prince is an Aerowaves Twenty24 artist. Aerowaves is a platform funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European union. 

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The Weight (35 min)

Created & Directed by Luca Truffarelli. Performed by Erin O’Reilly

The Weight is an immersive new dance work by Luca Truffarelli where ideas of freedom and subjection, the individualism of human beings and their basic human rights are reflected on. The Weight evokes scenes from daily life, turned compelling through the gestural movements of a dance solo and the power of the orchestral score.  

The production was born from Luca’s desire to creatively conjure the places and people in society so often overlooked, challenging us all to take another hard look at each other.  

Against a soaring orchestral backdrop specially composed by Greg Haines and recorded with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, this new dance collaboration by Truffarelli, was originally conceived with Oona Doherty and developed with Swiss-based dancer Erin O’Reilly. 

Watch the trailer here