Fitzgerald & Stapleton Dance Theatre are performing Wage at this years Dublin Fringe Festival.
Emma and Áine are performing in the festival with WAGE, a show they made and performed in New York last year. This time round they wanted to rework the piece to include MINE with the existing choreographic score for the Dublin festival.
They wrote to me last week to ask for my permission to perform it. Why?
We would need a tardis to take us back in time… back to a blog post I wrote in my old blog in 2010. (The site is down at the moment, thought it was live last weekend, while my toyboys work on updating and moving all the old posts to the my new home).
MINE is an interactive online choreographic process involving Fitzgerald & Stapleton and four Irish women who live in different locations around Ireland and are aged between 8 and 63 years – Poppy Kane, Jenny Doyle, Kay O’Grady, and Grannymar.
Their plan was to work with each participant to create four individual choreographic scores over an 8 week period.
The work was completed and the problem of funding, loomed large. Things went quiet. The last time I heard from the girls, they were in New York (a previous visit), and there was still no sign of funding. Perhaps MINE was a ‘wrong fit’ for that time.
That did not mean it was a lost cause altogether, it was a hurdle to be jumped at another time. That time is now.
I will leave you in the good hands of the other LBC active members to check how they handle the topic Wrong fit chosen for us this week by Will Knott, while I head for the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar, Dublin, to see Wage.
Cor! William Shakespeare. Samuel Beckett. You.
LOFLOL! Go on with you, you old tease. Great to have you back in the playground!
We can soon see Dame Grannymar!
Would I not need to be a knight’s wife? Wait now…. They were done away with in the 17th century and although I am old, I don’t go back that far! I would not even make a pantomine Dame since they are usually played by men.
good on ya missus. thought of you when I was in West Cork….
XO
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You surfaced! Are you home or away?
very cool!
Thank you.
Looking forward to seeing you Grannymar 🙂
I am looking forward to meeting you both after the show!
As they say in theatrical circles: Break a leg!
ouch my legs!! lol just kidding 😉 See you after 🙂
:lol; Please don’t take it literally!
This is wonderful, but then we always knew you were a Bright Light!
Pity the light shines through a fog at times! 😆
How exciting! But I’m a bit confused . . . are they performing your work? Or are you performing? Or both?
‘MINE’ was the work I contributed to, it is now being combined with Wage, their US production and The girls will do the work on stage. I get to watch, listen & learn!
Gotcha. Very cool!
How was it? Sounds fascinating! Xx
I have tickets for Tuesday, the last night of their run.
Is mum going with you?
I had invited her, but alas her plans changed yesterday. I do hope to catch up with her when I am down.
How exciting for you. I am onto more mundane things, having used the knot you demonstrated last week on my latest crochet project. I think of you as a fiber artist. Dianne
Glad it was helpful for you.
That’s knot of course. I can see I will never be a playwright. First you must learn to spell.
I corrected it for you. 😉