INTRODUCING GIRL JONAH (WORKSHOP)

• Venue:
• Dates: May 4
• Time: 1pm
• Duration: 4 hours
• Tickets: €50/ €30 (Dance Ireland Members)

Girl Jonah are two choreographers, (one Australian, one British; one disabled, one non-disabled), currently working together. With more than fifteen years of independent solo and collaborative performance-making and directing between them, these artists are committed to an intelligent experimentation that is rooted in the bodily experience. During this workshop you will get a unique insight in to the choreographic tools applied by these practitioners in creating their work as they share with you their working process and teach you some of the company’s rep.

This workshop is open to disabled and non-disabled dancers. Participants should have some dance experience, not suitable for beginners.

Caroline Bowditch originates from Melbourne Australia, where she majored in performing arts for her Education degree. Caroline has 15 years experience dancing with mixed ability companies and is a founder member of Weave Movement Theatre (Melbourne) and The FATHoM Project (Newcastle). Since relocating to the UK Caroline has been mentored by Adam Benjamin, CandoCo and Yael Flexer (Bedlam Dance) and has collaborated in and been commissioned for numerous projects. She was recently awarded a Wellcome Trusts Arts Award to create a new solo piece titled ‘Proband’.

Fiona Wright was born in London, is currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne and has been making performances since the late 1980’s when she trained in Visual and Performing Arts in Brighton. Her recent work includes several close-up, short performances created for a solo spectator and presented as durational works in various sites. She also works as a lecturer and has connections with Nottingham Trent University and Brighton University and is often invited teach on various performance related courses.

If you are interested in taking part in this workshop, please contact Janet Healy, Arts & Disability Ireland, directly to reserve your place on 01 473 6600 or via email at adi@create-ireland.ie

This workshop is supported by Arts & Disability Ireland

Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) is a national arts development organisation striving to promote the engagement of people with disabilities in the arts at the highest level as audience members, artists, performers, participants, advisors and employees. ADI’s core aims are,
- To provide an artistic programme that includes performances an exhibitions
- To promote disability interests in arts organisations and arts interests in disability organisations.
- To form strategic partnerships to achieve mainstreaming; devising and delivering new initiatives
- To provide training opportunities for career development/workshops on artistic skills enrichment
- Conduct action research and implement models of best practice
- To strenghten communication and networking opportunities between th disability and arts communities.
- To provide support to arts organisations in making their artistic programmes and initiatives more accessable to people with disabilities, as audience members, artists, performers, paricipants, advisors and employees.
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ADI achieves these aims through a range of activities including Quick Bright Things Theatre Co, an ensemble of 25 learning disabled actors, Counterbalance integrated dance project, publications such as ‘Face On, Disability Arts from Ireland and Beyond’ and audio description and captioning services for live performances at the Abbey and Dublin Theatre Festival. ADI is an international affiliate of Very Special Arts, Washington DC.
If you would like to find out more about the work of Arts & Disability Ireland visit www.adiarts.ie or email adi@create-ireland.ie