“So [the] play should grow in joyousness”

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.

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Exhibition map, 31 August 2021

A visual guide to the exhibition and how items related to each other, made by Zosia Kuczyńska on 31 August 2021 as part of the exhibition design process.

The Creative Process

Dance House, 3 September 2020

This is a recording of a live improvisation by dancers Marion Cronin, Sarah Ryan, and Lucia Kickham whilst listening to Zosia Kuczyńska’s placeholder recording of the opening monologue from Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa (1990).

“Dancing as release and entrance to suppressed + almost forgotten truths” – Brian Friel

Related Manuscript

So what is surfacing

This note towards Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) contains a phrase that directly inspired Jessie Keenan’s short dance film of the same name, ‘So what is surfacing’.

The Creative Process

Jessie Keenan interview, extract 1

Jessie Keenan talks about the origins and development of her dance film ‘So what is surfacing’.