site meetings

2010-07-15T01:11:00.000-07:00

Performance on Friday 16th

2010-07-15T01:08:00.000-07:00

The Courthouse Gallery will host “Site Meetings 160710”
on Friday 16th July 2010 at 8pm sharp.

SITE MEETINGS 160710: Ennistymon based artists Alexandra Boettcher, Meave Collins and Maria Kerin will be performing a site-specific, once-off work in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon on Friday 16th at 8pm. This interactive performance includes skyping live to audience in America. Audience here are welcome to experience this free multimedia dance performance of non-stylised embodied movement with live sound that explores points of meeting from different perspectives in the gallery space.

Skyping from Sweden to Ireland

2010-07-14T00:53:00.000-07:00

The final performance was successfully skyped through to a very supportive audience in the courthouse gallery,Ennistymon on Thursday 17 June. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Siobhan Mulcahy, the Clare Arts Officer for funding our flights to get to Sweden. We met some interesting dancers there and even got photographys of the live performance in 2 newspapers! Thanks too to Trudi and Daire in the Courthouse for hosting the event. And again depending on friendship to save our art, a very special thanks to Jackie, Fiona, Fiona, Antoinette and Marianne for all your support and practical help on the day! We couldn't have done it without you.

Performance invite 17-06-10 Sweden

2010-06-11T00:09:00.000-07:00

The performance dates approach.....
“Site Meetings 170610” is a LIVE performance broadcast
from a specific street sculpture site in the AbunDANCE International Choreography and Dance Festival, Karlstad, Sweden, performed by Alexandra Boettcher, Maeve Collins & Maria Kerin,
using two-way Skype new media and video projection for audience to experience it live
in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co.Clare
on 17th June 2010 at 11am and 1pm.

In this unique performance that removes boundaries, Alexandra Boettcher will be performing in the Courthouse Gallery simultaneously to the performers in Sweden. Both will be experienced by audiences in Ireland and Sweden through the merging of live performance and new media technology.

Ennistymon based artists Alexandra Boettcher, Maeve Collins and Maria Kerin have been selected to participate in the Site Specific section of ABUNDANCE, an international Choreoghraphy and Dance festival in its 3rd year. There will be 6 live performances in Sweden over 3 days with the final day skyped to the Courthouse Gallery. Through a variety of media: drawing, film, internet, sound, installation and dance they will choreograph and perform a response to the site as it offers a place of arrival, a meeting place for a live embodied movement process that stems out of a shared daily movement practice. As visitors to a site, they will receive and give, trusting that the space will provide a point of resistance and potential for transformation through creativity. This leads to exploration through presence and embodied movement with meeting points in contemporary culture. Boettcher, Collins and Kerin are, since March 2009, in the process of exploring, developing and performing Dance works live through New Media, mainly skype and the internet, by engaging with site and audience, locally, nationally and internationally. This coalition of artists wish to create experimental independent art and a wider context for Irish contemporary dance works, growing from the local to international. For more information please see sitemeetings.blogspot.com.

2010-05-13T05:11:00.000-07:00

Time away from practice for the past few weeks, allowed the resonance of work done to arrive in my body, an emboddied awearness of the turn of, having gone within, beginning to come out. the turn where the support from working within has transformed itself in meeting the support from outside, a shift of awearness. Looking forward to meeting audience now, beginning to travell to arrive again. . .

2010-03-31T05:30:00.000-07:00

Alex absent, used camera's from Laptops to work in two spaces. Two spaces- practice room above and kitchen below. Began with navel radiation in same space, the silver blue reflected from the sky onto land was a colour chosen to connect. set cameras to record Maria in practice space and Maeve in kitchen at same time. Camera's both facing north and west slightly. What interesting was the overlapping or corresponding nothing going on when movement out of view in both spaces. For me the hard edges in the kitchen with embodied movement meant that the often intuitive could meet in the spacial, particularly with movement on counter top. Think this a point for me to trust t keep happening, the head tail connection has helped me with this. Both talking after about the composition of the open door of the counter top coming out offering this other spaces and openings. also that performance was only 13 mins again, amounts of time. To work into: compositions with movement and camera's. framing time as well as spaces. . .

Culture - How to apply? | EACEA

2010-03-30T03:57:00.000-07:00

Culture - How to apply? | EACEA: "Culture - How to apply? | EACEA"

week of 14th March

2010-03-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

Movement with Alex absent. Topics covered- walking on beach backwards, open spine, release of hips, dropping sitbones to lengthen spine. Rolling on the floor, leading with the different parts of the body and feeling the weightshift. BONES .
Working with surface and weightshift meeting on the floor and wall. Touched on the middle space, crawling- to be continued. deep meditation into naval radiation and breath connection to the limbs. More and more we are becoming aware of COUNTERPOINTS - support.

2010-01-26T08:00:00.000-08:00

Monday 26 Jan

2010-01-26T07:51:00.000-08:00

Marias internal journey: Moving in my own space, becoming aware of the walls, the meeting of others. Warm up was individual, I used Chi Qung and got a figure of eight going in the ball space between my hands and then flowing through the body. Soon the floor called and the sensation of swimming was very strong, pushing off from the walls and from Maeve. Felt Alex very focused on her journey inward. Using the camera on the phone as an extension to the arm, no shift outward or very little, let the physical movement dictate when to photo, no detachment, camera part of the performance. relaxed into it. Felt soft but strong and very clear. the hour flew by. we all naturally came to a completion together.

19 January 2010

2010-01-19T03:35:00.000-08:00

discussed and moved through the questions. physical states of receiving and giving in a cultural context. out the door! how to receive and give from one perspective without the other. no knee caps

2009-11-09T11:45:00.000-08:00

site meetings

2009-11-09T11:41:00.001-08:00

We are three artists working in a variety of media,: drawing, film, internet, sound, installation and dance. Through these media we wish to choreograph and perfom a response to the site as it offers a place of arrival, a meeting place for an embodied process that stems out of a shared daily movement practice. As visitors to a site, we will receive and give, trusting that the space will provide a point of resistance and potential for transformation through creativity as we explore presence with meeting points in contemporary culture.

The material we wish to participate with is our continued collaboration and daily movement practice.

Since March 09 Boettcher and Kerin have been exploring sites of meeting through movement and choreography. Through inner listening and movement, unconscious meetings are manifested into presence arriving at points of resistance and transending. In May 09 they performed a commissioned live site specific work at the Iniscealtra Arts Festival, Mountshannon, Co. Clare. (See image of Freeze attached). Since October 09 Maeve Collins joined the daily movement practice of morning studio sessions where the 3 artists explore Mind Body Centering, meditation, yoga, authentic movement, contact improvisation, recording and tracking, writing and shared discourse in their search for presence as they develop their own individual choreographic processes..

In their ongoing research they are exploring new meeting points of engagement such as the internet, text messaging, skype, and how public/social space has changed. These meetings offer potential for new work to emerge and meet audience in liminal spaces.

Their diverse backgrounds from contemporay dance, fine art, perfomance, film making and design inform their multi-disciplinary collaborative process. Currently they are exploring presence in contemporary culture by listening inside and outside. They welcome the opportunity to do this through site specific performance.

“The concept of site specific offers a space that we meet or not meet through our chosen points of postioning - spatial, physical, ephemeral, energetic, framing the context in which we move. We approach site specific as a framework for moving through the familiar to a liminal space that releases the unknown into a creative alignment through presence as the audience witnesses/participates. These new points of relation offers new social spaces, new places for meeting, new public art spaces for work to emerge.”