ARTIST Luke Murphy returns to Dance Limerick with his provocative and powerful new work, ‘On Triumph and Trauma’. Described as bold and visceral, it takes place with four performers this Thursday May 26 at 8pm. www.dancelimerick.ie
According to the venue’s communications manager, Maeve Butler, “With dynamic choreography, a haunting soundscape and a constantly evolving design, ‘On Triumph and Trauma’ draws the audience into an unpredictable journey through the complexities of our past towards the precipice of our future”.
From its creator Luke Murphy, we hear: “With a hundred years behind us, we are caught with the heroes and demons of our past, and the fraught uncertainty of our future. Emerging in the wake of the centenary of the 1916 Rising, ‘On Triumph and Trauma’ is at once a poetic dedication to a turning point in the nation’s history and a rigorous examination of what Irish identity, politics and nationalism means today”.
The work conveys a morphing landscape of creation and destruction as the ideas of nationalism, sacrifice, violence and memory are drawn and erased under starkly different lights.
Drawing upon a wealth of investigative sources including witness accounts from the Bureau of Military History, transcripts from the Dáil and the writings of accomplished scholars, the work “paints and analyses the quiet day to day humanity that drove a country into an endless waltz of triumph and tragedy”
