by Rose Rushe
DANCE Limerick has had a first 18 months full of pop and sizzle. Its rich community-minded programme will continue with a performance, or suite of 10 of them, on Thursday April 30 under the umbrella Limerick Dance Collective. Expect 11 professional participants, virtually all of them choreographers as well as dancers, to provide danceworks from 8pm on. ‘Sum of Parts’ is the title.
“Some of the people involved are emerging, some are very established,” observes Lisa McLoughlin, who will be choreographer in this instance to a new piece with Megan Kennedy. “In all my years as a dancer, I have never seen a collective such as this”.
Excited about this collaborative project of shared decision-making on sound, design, lighting and so on, McLoughlin makes the point it defies the hierarchy typical of contemporary dance. “Always in credits you see the choreographer’s name on top, then the designer, then the dancers”.
Using different parts of St John’s Church, Dance Limerick’s romantic HQ in John’s Square, McLoughlin says that each performance will have its own slot. The expectation is the audience will stand, sit and move around to appreciate the link between dancers, their movement and space afforded by this irregular venue.
Familiar names involved include Mark Carberry and Angie Smalis and ‘Sum of Parts’ is the first time certain dancers have worked together.
Book for this original hour of newly created elements on www.dancelimerick.ie
