“It felt very intimate to have a view into the way in which he was thinking about things.”

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Structure the ages.

In Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), the radio is an important theatrical device. Apart from connecting the Mundy sisters to an emerging modernity, it also functions as an almost supernatural presence as it makes sudden musical intrusions that disturb the domestic scene.

So what is surfacing

This film, directed by Jessie Keenan, is set in the stunning surrounds of the Museum of Literature Ireland. Three dancers - Lucia Kickham, Marion Cronin, and Sarah Ryan - move between their individual interior world and their collective exterior world.

The Creative Process

Rehearsal, 14 August 2020

These photographs were taken by Zosia Kuczyńska during project workshops and rehearsals at Dance House on 14 August 2020.

“In some ways I've been looking into archives without even giving it a name.” – Jessie Keenan

“At least it is a starting point. And all starting points are arbitrary – and then become an essence.” – Brian Friel

“How do you archive the moving body?” – Zosia Kuczyńska