What Next 2025 - Programme 3

Un-One-Ing (15 min)

Choreography and performance by The Parsley Collective (Salma Ataya, Mary Nunan, Isabella Oberländer, Rachel Sheil, Angie Smalis).

Riding horses of intention. Through gaps in the land of thought. Through the hole in the middle of the word nOw. Expanding. Riding horses of intention. Lightly. Receiving. Through channels where intellect, Intuition and force meet. Meet. Meet. Meet. Soft flesh. Sweet. Shards of narrative. Surges of emotion. Stick. Stuck. Stop. Drop. Riding horses of intention. Un-One-Ing. And One. Becoming. Almost something. Nearly nothing. Together. Riding. Through that good place that is also a no place. Together. Through moments of unobstructed ordinariness. All in the turning of a dance.

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missing you, missing me (15 min)

Choreography by Jessie Thompson, Performed by Alex Vostokova.

missing you, missing me is an intimate new work in which Jessie Thompson looks at unique familial setting. She explores the recurring and unavoidable experiences of grief, guilt and the consequences of actions. 

The dancer embodies human resilience, endurance and the sweat, blood and tears we shed. 

The dance portrays a sister, a mother, a brother or a friend. Continuing on from Jessie’s recent work CRAWLER she continues to choreographically pull from many influences such as hip hop and contemporary, in collaboration with Vostokova.  

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Bridging (13 min)

Choreography by Amir Sabra, performed by Maeve Fahey, Lu Han, Molly Kelley, Wenlin Li, Yaying Lin, Yaqian Liu, Jyoti Soni, Verna Tainio and Xiaofeng Yan. 

The name Bridging is inspired by the place it was created for, the Living Bridge, located at the Irish World Academy in Limerick. In collaboration with the MA Contemporary Dance Performance students at the Academy, choreographer Amir Sabra with composer Rossa Ó Snodaigh and fellow members of the award-winning Irish band Kíla, invite the audience to experience an intercultural dialogue in a charged and contested movement space.  From the dancers’ first step into the space, until their dramatic final movement on the ground, Amir's choreography inflects influences from his background in Dabke & Hip-Hop, supported by Irish traditional music with an Arabic music flavour.

Bridging was originally commissioned by Luail – Ireland’s National Dance Company, to mark their foundational partnership with the Irish World Academy of Music at Dance at University Limerick in 2024. Luail is funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.