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SUMMARY:Physical Landscapes – Thrilling and Unique Dance event with Six Outstanding Dancers presented by Irish Modern Dance Theatre at the Black Box\, Galway
DESCRIPTION:Black Box Theatre\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe performance combines urgent physicality\, sensuality\, weighted duets and ensemble movement to explore ‘the other’ and ‘the witness’. Performed by dancers Magdalena Hylak\, Boris Charrion\, Alessandra Azeviche and Adam O’Reilly. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak\, Dancer\n\n\n\nBoris Charrion\, Dancer\n\n\n\nAlessandra Azeviche\, Dancer\n\n\n\nAdam O’Reilly\, Dancer\n\n\n\nJohn Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nChoreographer John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, following the sell-out ‘Human Geography’ at Galway International Arts Festival\, create a ‘Physical Landscape\,’ with six outstanding international dancers. \n\n\n\nThis thrilling and unique dance event features urgent physicality\, sensuality\, weighted duets\, and frantic ensemble pieces. Responding to ecology and nature\, ‘Physical Universe’ explores the themes of ‘the other’ and ‘the witness’ in a way that is both moving and life-affirming. \n\n\n\n​ \n\n\n\nDancers include Galway’s Magdalena Hylak\, French virtuoso Boris Charrion\, Afro-Brazilian Alessandra Azeviche\, and Ireland’s Adam O’Reilly. Lighting is by award-winning French artist Eric Würtz\, who creates lighting for the sensational ‘La Horde’ collective. Choreography is by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre. \n\n\n\nIrish Modern Dance Theatre – Pioneering Transformative Dance \n\n\n\nFounded in 1991 by dancer and choreographer John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble\, Scott and international guest choreographers create distinctive dance works with diverse casts\, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. Key works include Lear\, Inventions\, Actions and Fall and Recover – all recognised for their intelligence\, honesty and humanity. The work of Irish Modern Dance Theatre crosses disciplines\, subverts expectations of dance and dancers and finds new ways to explore contemporary issues. Irish Modern Dance Theatre is Strategically funded by the Arts Council. \n\n\n\nBlack Box Theatre and Town Hall Theatre\, Galway \n\n\n\nTown Hall Theatre Galway\, owned and managed by Galway City Council incorporating the state of the art 400-seater Main Auditorium and the 52-seater Studio Space at Courthouse Square\, and the nearby\, multi-purpose Black Box performance space (up to 550 seated\, 800 standing) on Dyke Road presents an extensive and eclectic mix of theatre\, concerts\, musicals\, dance\, film\, comedy and family shows year-round. The venue is open 362 days a year and 15 hours a day on average. The venue attracts audiences in excess of 100\,000 annually (close to 2 million since we officially re-opened on 1st February 1996) making it the most successful theatre of its size in Ireland. \n\n\n\nEach year\, the venue is the epicentre of activity for virtually all of Galway’s key festivals and cultural events including Galway International Arts Festival\, Galway Film Fleadh\, Cuirt Festival of Literature\, Baboro Children’s Festival and Galway Comedy Festival to name but a few. Druid have premiered many of their acclaimed and award-winning productions at the venue before embarking on national and international tours including successful Broadway and West End runs\, and an increasing number of Galway International Arts Festival’s own productions tour the world following premieres at Town Hall Theatre and Black Box. Acclaimed for consistently delivering the best of national and international talent year-round to Galway audiences\, the venue’s programme proudly features the work of many performers\, companies\, musical societies and arts organisations (both professional and amateur) from across the city and county. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak is a dance artist based in the West of Ireland.Born in Poland\, she studied cultural studies\, including theatre and dance\, at University of Wroclaw. She began her professional career in 2011 by working with Michael Keegan Dolan (IE)\, Liz Roche (IE) and Lea Anderson (UK) as part of Step Up Dance Project. She then worked with Ríonach Ní Néill (IE)\, Catherine Young Dance (IE)\, Emma Martin (IE) and Akiko Kitamura (JP) before starting touring nationally and internationally with John Scott-IMDT (IE) and Nacera Belaza (FR)\, with over 150 performances in 52 venues across 12 countries. \n\n\n\nEarly 2021\, she started developing her own body of work through “Dances for Nobody”\, where she questions the notion of performance. Then with “A dance”\, an ongoing artistic research through raw movement and sound that translates into public performances in unconventional spaces. She is currently working on a multidisciplinary event conceived as a physical journey through a space and the time frame of her personal dance evolution. At the core of her research is the movement and sound outside of the question of style/genre or technique\, as well as the exploration of the relationships and tensions between public-personal\, inside-outside\, visible-invisible. \n\n\n\nHer dance work can be described as raw\, repetitive\, highly physical and emanating from within. She is working with the belief that dance is rooted in human existence and that there is no confusion in the public perception of a choreographic work. Therefore\, she is interested in community works where she tries to go back to the beginning and work around an absolute idea of movement/dance. \n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak was the Galway Dance Artist in Residence for 2023-2024.She is the recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland (Agility Award 2021\, Commission Award-GDP 2021\, Dance Bursary Award 2022) and the Galway County Council (Artist Support Scheme 2022). \n\n\n\nShe has been commissioned by Galway Dance Days (2012)\, Galway Dance Project (2016\, 2020\, 2021)\, Clifden Arts Festival (2022 & 2023) and Tipperary Dance Festival (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoris Charrion is a French movement and performance artist born in 2002. After studying contemporary dance in the regional conservatory of Lyon\, he entered the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon where he had the opportunity to broaden his artistic horizons\, notably through various collaborations with musicians\, graphists\, composers and space designers. During his studies there\, he has worked with different choreographers such as DD Dorvillier\, Collectif A/R\, Ashley Chen. Performing Study for the Valeska Gert pavilion by Eszter Salamon for the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art has been a major part of his artistic development. Carrying a political and provocative performance for four months in a public space was a revelation to him of how performative work could be captivating and concretely rooted in current social issues. His different internships with the Ballet of the Grand Theatre of Geneva\, Carte Blanche and the choreographer Katerina Andreou have made him more aware of the reality of the dance world and of how he wants to situate himself in it. After the creation of Spatium ex-materia in 2022\, he wants to cultivate this thirst to create with his collective La niche. He is currently a member of SUB.LAB.PRO The Ensemble Program in Budapest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlessandra Azeviche is a leading Afro-Brazilian dancer with performances at major Irish festivals with her group Criola Dance and the first woman to teach Capoeira in Ireland.Since moving to Ireland in 2015\, Alessandra  has worked with contemporary choreographers Catherine Young\, John Scott and more as well as Dublin City Council\, Axis Ballymun\, Carlow Arts\, Dublin Fringe Festivals and the Brazilian Embassy. Alessandra is a board member of Dublin Dance Festival and associate artist with THISISPOPBABY.Leading her Quilombo Terra (the first Afro-Brazilian Arts performance group in Ireland) & Natural Rhythm\, Alessandra has performed at major festivals sharing rhythms & dances that developed from her roots that echo the resilience and beauty of indigenous communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam O’Reilly is a 26 year old Dublin based Dance Artist\, his work spreads across live performance\, choreography\, screen-dance and facilitation. Adam has most notably performed in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2023 production of ‘This Solution’ Directed by Shaun Dunne & Claire O’Reilly and Choreographed by Jessie Thompson\, The Step up 2024/ Dance Limerick production of ‘Of The People’ Choreographed by Catherine Young\, The Irish Modern Dance Theatre production of ‘Begin Anywhere’ choreographed by John Scott\, And the 2025 national tour of ‘MOSH’ directed by Rachel Ní Bhraonáin and directed by Robyn Byrne. \n\n\n\nIn 2023 Adam presented his debut screen-dance work\, a short dance film titled ‘Oscillation’ at 5 Lamps Arts Festival & Dance From The Dance Festival at the Irish Film Institute and is currently advancing his practice as a screen-dance director via his selection in the Youth Music Video Competition 2025\, supported by Screen Ireland and The Arts Council. As the Founder and Artistic Director of COMHAR Dance\, Adam has facilitated the COMHAR Workshop Day Intensive series 2025 in partnership with Dance Ireland\, which sees international dance artists lead professional workshops in Dublin followed by open practice sessions with live music. \n\n\n\nAdam is currently in the midst of research for his own debut Live Dance work and development of his practice as an emerging Live Dance Maker and Choreographer via various funding supports from the Arts Council and Fingal County Council as well as residency opportunities from Dance Ireland\, Shawbrook Residential and Garter Lane Arts Centre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, a founding board member of the Dancer from the Dance Festival and a member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at the Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nJohn founded Irish Modern Dance Theatre in 1991 which is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre features work by John and by international guest choreographers who create distinctive dance works with diverse casts\, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. \n\n\n\nJohn’s choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions and Dances for Inside and Outside\, the latter  a cycle of dances\, large and small\, created for our times and presented in a range of venues including the Complex\, Dublin\, and for Culture Night and  Dance Limerick  with the work nationally and internationally recognised for its intelligence\, honesty and humanity. \n\n\n\nJohn’s work has appeared in the  Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at the John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He has collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. \n\n\n\nJohn was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/physical-landscapes/
LOCATION:Black Box Theatre\, Dyke Road\, Galway\, H91 C9PP
CATEGORIES:Dance
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