Dublin Dance Festival and Irish Museum of Modern Art present Jodi Melnick & Burt Barr / Yasuko Yokoshi

DOUBLE BILL – FANFARE & BELL

• Venue: Great Hall, Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Dates: Friday 13 & Saturday 14
• Nationality: USA & Japan/USA
• Time: 7.30pm
• Duration: 60 mins (short pause between each work)
• Tickets: €20 / €18 Conc / €16 Early Bird

“Trying to convey Melnick’s brilliance is like trying to grasp a silver trout in a running stream.” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice)

Two-time Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Award winning choreographer/dancer Jodi Melnick and artist Burt Barr present their live collaborative performance, Fanfare. Melnick’s meticulously designed dance creates a layered world of rhythms, gestures and motions, contrasting structural regularity with disarray. Her solo revolves around Barr’s installation of video, lighting and kinetic sculpture, which casts streaks of spinning light across the space and provides a kaleidoscopic setting for the dance.

“Yokoshi has a brilliant way of distilling her art to the barest of essences.” Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York

Yasuko Yokoshi, who has also received two Bessie Awards, is originally from Hiroshima, Japan. She will perform Bell, her interpretation of Kyoganoko Musume-Dojoji (A woman and a bell at Dojoji temple), a classical Japanese dance reputed to be the most important and complex work of the Kabuki theatre repertoire. It depicts the transformation of a woman from youth to mature beauty, with the Noh play Dojoji, a tale of unrequited love and revenge, as its source. Having trained in Tokyo with master teacher Masumi Seyama, Yokoshi will perform her unique version created in collaboration with Seyama.

Fanfare
Created by: Jodi Melnick & Burt Barr
Lighting: Joe Levasseur
Sound Score: Joel Mellin

Bell
Concept/performance: Yasuko Yokoshi
Choreography: Masumi Seyama VI
Lighting: Roderick Murray

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Embassy of the United States of America in Ireland

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation