Movementland
Aoife McAtamney Broadreach Guest Curator
August 2021 – December 2021
We are delighted to introduce Guest Curator, Aoife McAtamney and MOVEMENTLAND – an open invitation to create and practice dance alongside things you might never have imagined yourself doing, like recording an original group song, adding some photography skills, or delving into new dance forms!
MOVEMENTLAND brings together CoisCéim Broadreach with the acclaimed artist, Aoife McAtamney to devise and deliver a vibrant, thought-provoking six-month participation programme for older people, which imaginatively weaves together artforms and media through two interconnected artistic projects and a cycle of dance classes. Focus is on collaboration and international exchange in an energising initiative that explores how time shapes, and inspires our movement.
Uplifting and full of unique possibilities, MOVEMENTLAND gathers our creative energies into one homebase to enable people to mix and blend this series of in-person and online workshops and classes – where every element can be enjoyed on its own or as part of the next – allowing participants to personalise their creative experience in line with their own needs.
As Aoife writes:
When I was threading together the MOVEMENTLAND programme, I began thinking about how we can expand our preconceptions of our own physicality, and how we can do that through dancing together? In other words, how big can we dream – for ourselves and one another? After many long walks and conversations, I understood that the programme needed to be rooted in the present, with its gaze towards the future. I believe we need spaces of transformation as we grow, to have the opportunity to be anew. This inspired the decision to create a programme embracing many different art forms and places so that we can rediscover dance and ourselves. MOVEMENTLAND is a place where every part of you is welcomed, a place where you will be supported, cheered on and listened to.
Kicking off with SONGBIRDS in August – MOVEMENTLAND then shifts from the local to the global with STORYTELLERS, an exciting collaboration with dancer Bhargavi Gopalan in New Delhi, India… more on that to come! In the meantime I invite YOU to come dance, sing, and dream with us – and above all, to have the craic!
Aoife McAtamney, Guest Curator
Check out some of Aoife’s previous work below:
Winter Lights Movement Project | Dublin City Council Culture Company | Winter 2020
Slumber | Dance Umbrella | 2020
