'Trial' by Mufutau Yusuf
Dance Limerick Performance Space - Dance Limerick Performance Space (St. John's church), John's Square, Limerick
Like every summer, The Step Up dancers spend a number of weeks at Dance Limerick and The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, with a team of choreographers and guest artists, developing their skills as professional dance performers, building vital networks to carry out their professional practice and working on a new piece to be premiered at Dance Limerick.
This year, choreographer Mufutau Yusuf is working with dancers Sarah Flavelle, Áine Kidney, Alison O’Shea, Mayara Pessanha and Jyoti Soni on the creation of his latest piece, Trial.
A coven of witches gathers for a trial. They have been summoned to defend themselves, yet no accusation is ever revealed. The crime is absent, forgotten, or perhaps it never existed at all. Still, they proceed, constructing their innocence through testimony, gesture, and ritual, creating meaning in the absence of certainty.
The performance explores femininity, ceremony, community, and care as intertwined ways of gathering, remembering, and relating. Through collective gestures and shared presence, it approaches ritual as a space where care, solidarity, and transformation can emerge, not through resolution, but through the act of coming together itself.
Performances take place on:
- Wednesday 6 & Friday 7 of August at 7.30 pm at Dance Limerick Performance Space
- Saturday 8 of August at DanceHouse, Dublin (Tickets for the Dublin show can be acquired at danceireland.ie)
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