ISACS Network and Dance Ireland, present Where Dance meets Circus in association with the SpringMoves Dance Festival , taking place on 18 June in Wexford, in Jerome Hynes Theatre, Wexford Opera House. Where Dance meets Circus is a partnership between Dance Ireland and ISACS exploring collaborative practice and presentation between the art forms of Circus and Dance.
This year we are delighted to bring internationally renowned company Gandini Juggling and choreographer Alexander Whitley to Wexford to lead a day long masterclass where they will share methods of collaboration between genre, art forms, technique and style, including prop manipulation and how that affects movement.
The masterclass is designed for dance and circus artists who are working in or are interested in cross-genre work across dance and circus. You will learn about approaches to choreography and creation inspired by the unique collaboration between Gandini Juggling and Alexander Whitley; with practical sessions exploring dance and circus skills, and creative sessions which will give insights and tools to support your practice.
Alex and Sean will bring the experience they gained from their collaboration Spring and from many years of creating work. They will be using a number of playful strategies to generate material in a fun and energetic environment, placing them in the hybrid place where both disciplines co-exist. Using dance sequences as maps to place the circus. Using the Circus as a map to place the Dancing. Using randomizing procedures and musical structures to generate both the dance and the Circus.
