David Bolger's The Parting Dance
WORLD PREMIERE | 30 JUNE 2020
For almost 20 years, the studio we created on Sackville Place has been our home – one that we are proud to have been able to share with so many. Now the time has come to move on.
In this short solo, choreographer and director David Bolger dances with memories past, conducting the creative spirit and artistic atmospheres collected and held within its walls. THE PARTING DANCE harnesses these physical memoirs in a final salute that recalls the joy that permeated the studio throughout the years.
Commissioned by Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s “Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography.
Gallery
Screenings
World Premiere
Dancer from the The Dance Festival of Irish Choreography
Online
30 June - 1 July 2020
TEXT FROM THE PARTING DANCE
Written by David Bolger
I’m here.
I’m with you.
Live.
Sackville Place.
An empty studio.
Twenty years ago we moved here.
We moved here and on the street outside –
A Hairdressers,
A Travel Agent,
A Polish Supermarket,
A Bookies,
A Shoe Mender,
A Public Library,
A College,
Two Public Houses,
And a Department Store,
Clery’s.
Under the Clock at Clery’s,
Under the watchful Clock,
Time passing,
Street Life passing,
Life passing,
Progression.
Outside the dance has changed.
No Holidays sold,
No shoes repaired,
No keys cut – while you wait,
No books borrowed,
No pints poured,
No bets are placed,
All bets are off.
Progression?
Progress.
Moving forward.
Moving onwards.
Onward.
I’m here.
I’m with you.
An Empty Hotel,
An Empty Bar,
An Empty Department store, its guts ripped out.
I’m live and I live high above street level.
Soaring with steps, laughter, tears, pain, joy, dancing.
Development advancing.
Develop.
Credits
WORDS & Choreography by David Bolger
Performed by David Bolger
Video by Luca Truffarelli
Filmed on location at 14 Sackville Place, 18 June 2020
