Live Performance

Along with my film and TV work, I collaborate regularly on live performance projects with dance theatre companies and visual/installation artists. Scroll down for a selection images and music excerpts from some of that work

Body Language

Coiscéim Dance Theatre | RHA Gallery
Photography: Ros Kavanagh

Body Language evolved over three weeks and was a large-scale multimedia exploration of non-verbal communication. Each day saw a spontaneous performance created in real-time from live interviews, photography, video projection, music and choreography. The music score was created for an eight-channel surround sound rig and also included a daily rotation of live performers such as choir, bass clarinet and guitar.

Ultima Thule

Catherine Young Dance
Photography: Luca Truffarelli

Set to an intense electronic score with live percussion and voice, this highly physical piece was inspired by Carl Jung’s The Red Book and the ‘confrontation with the unconscious’ he experienced while writing it.

Woman Stood Regardless

Catherine Young Dance
Photography: Luca Truffarelli

Pounding and relentless percussion was at the centre of this piece in which four female dancers explore direct testimonies from women who’ve suffered from domestic violence. The performance switched back and forth between loud, fast and uncontrolled movement to an almost deafening and uncomfortable silence.

In the Magic Hour

Coiscéim Dance Theatre
Photography: Ros Kavanagh

Covid 2021, all cinemas and theatres are closed. In five locations across Ireland over the course of five evenings as the sun set, the familiar setting of handball alley became the portal to experience a unique, spontaneous performance created at Dance House, Dublin in real time.

Roderic O’Conor & The Moderns

Location : National Gallery of Ireland
Brief : Creating music pieces in response to three Roderic O’ Conor paintings

A commission by the National Gallery of Ireland to choose three paintings from the exhibition, Roderic O Conor & The Moderns and compose a score in response to each of them. This music subsequently formed the score for a podcast series on the exhibition.

Journey To An Absolute Vantage Point

Audio-visual installation
Artist: Michelle Deignan

‘A large, sleek two-channel screen hangs from the roof and an elegant, dramatic string trio piece echoes throughout the gallery, beautifully underscoring the story of an intense encounter between two people….’