The Creative Process

Running the Ending, UCD Humanities Institute

This collection of video clips is taken from the first full recordings of Robbie Blake’s ‘Running the ending’ filmed in and around the UCD Humanities Institute on 12 May 2019. It is performed in full and in part by Robbie Blake, Jessie Keenan, and Zosia Kuczyńska.

“A line on a page isn’t a solemn commitment.” – Brian Friel

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Robbie Blake, 'Running the ending' score

This is Robbie Blake’s original graphic score (pp. 1-5) for their live performance piece ‘Running the ending’, which is featured in this exhibition as a short film and which was inspired by Blake’s engagement with the Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland.

Running the ending

This is a film, directed by Robbie Blake, about exhaustion, self-expression and joyousness. Blake’s score uses a graphic notation to represent three states: run, reset/shake-out, dance.

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Running the Ending Compilation (Dublin Fringe Festival application)

This video is a compilation of different performances of Robbie Blake’s live version of ‘Running the ending’, inspired by Brian Friel’s composition process for Dancing at Lughnasa (1990).