DANCE Limerick is host to ‘The Rhythm of Fierce’ this Thursday 22 night at 8pm, a performance its choreographer/ director Fearghus O Conchuir describes as ”a celebration of imagination and ability. It’s a choreography that invites everyone to join in, like the best dance party, disco or wedding bop”.
Produced by Croí Glan Integrated Dance, his brief was make a piece for its dancers, some with disability, some without. This internationally rated artist set out to maximise their skillsets, choosing a backdrop that really rocked, club life in the 1990s.
There’s no story told in ‘Rhythm’, O Conchuir makes clear. ”Instead it’s like a DJ’s playlist that brings everyone on an uplifting journey of varied emotions. So an audience will see fun and fabulous dancing in which wheelchairs, gold fabric and a variety of bodies transform in surprising ways.
“And they’ll hear club hits from the nineties, like ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’, ‘Love is a Battlefield’, ‘Ain’t Nobody’ as well as new music by award-winning composer, Alma Kelliher – music whose beat is hard to resist”.
This Magdalene College, Oxford graduate who was born in Ring is on the board of The BBC Performing Arts Fund, and Dance Digital and is working with the Project Arts Centre. Connecting and communities are always in his mind’s eye.
“The design [of Rhythm], like the dance, transforms the everyday world of the bedroom into the magical fantasy of the dance floor”.
An epic soundtrack and free-wheeling movement, at this John’s Square venue, 8pm Thursday October 22.
