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DDF News — 17 Oct 2016

Irish Premiere: BUTTERFLIES AND BONES at Project Arts Centre 20 Oct

Irish Premiere: BUTTERFLIES AND BONES at Project Arts Centre 20 Oct

BUTTERFLIES AND BONES: THE CASEMENT PROJECT
by Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Project Arts Centre, 20-22 October at 7.30pm

In 1916, British peer Roger Casement was hanged in Pentonville Prison. Having achieved international recognition for exposing human rights abuses in the rubber trade of the Congo and of the Amazon, his support for Irish nationalism during the First World War was a scandal for the Empire that had knighted him.

His sex with men was even more contentious both then and for many years after his death. A hundred years later, Butterflies and Bones uses Casement’s legacy to address today’s questions of belonging and becoming: Who gets to be in the national body? How could that national body move?

This new work, performed by six dancers, is part of The Casement Project, a larger choreography of bodies and ideas by Fearghus Ó Conchúir addressing the legacy of 1916, and is a major project in the national and international Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme and also part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s First World War Centenary Cultural Programme.

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