Solo performance by Anna Furse as part of Live Collision International Festival 2014

Anna Furse will open the Live Collision International Festival 2014 with When We Were Birds, an inspirational performance work exploring the body of memory in general and the dancer’s body of memory in particular.

From a starting point in the analysis of the artist’s act of remembering (literally: putting the parts together), When We Were Birds draws upon shared and distinct memories to consider how a sense of self is deeply tied into embodied experience of the world. Revealing issues of identity, personhood, physical/psychological endurance and physical joy, it considers through movement, film and oral history how memory functions – the relationship between the body in action and mental activity, the interweaving of real and imagined memory, the way memories slip and slide, how different perspectives on the same event alter, how false and true the memories one holds and recalls might ever be.
Through the medium of the dancers’ ageing bodies and against a backdrop of discussion and debate between the project’s collaborators, advisers and audience, we aim to creatively consider what is actually going on at that moment when in the act of recovering a dance the body moves and the individual re-members herself…

Venue: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Date: Thursday 24 April
Time: 20:15
Tickets: €15/€12

This performance is part of a DOUBLE BILL with This Is My Body, both performances are included in the ticket price.

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Anna will also run a workshop on Embodied Memory - there are limited places available for this workshop so get in fast!

Venue: Fringe Lab, Dublin Fringe Festival, Sycamore Street, Temple Bar
Date: Friday April 25
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Tickets: €15

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