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2024/ 2025 Recipient of Dance Artist Residency Scheme funded through the Arts Council Ireland in partnership with Interface Inagh, Galway County Council and Galway Dance
What's next in June 2025
14th of June 2025 Moving Earth - Eco Dance Day at Interface
Don't miss our OPEN CALL - Closed Now! Thank you to everyone who applied.
This event will bring dancers, artists, and the local community together to explore ecological dance and performance art. The day will feature live performances, workshops, and screenings of dance films, with a special community workshop and relaxed performance in celebration of Global Water Day.
What's next in May 2025
16th of May, Nature Discovery Walk at Kylemore Abbey, Sicap
What's next in April 2025
1st-21st of April: Open Call for Moving Earth - Eco Dance Day at Interface
2nd of April, Global Water Dance Workshop (Free and for everyone!) at Clifden Town Hall, 5pm-6pm.
10th of April, Local PLayschool is going to visit Interface for fun dance sessions outside
29th of April, Global Water Dance Workshop (Free and for everyone!) at Terryland, Dance Studio with special guest Laney Mannion
What's next in March 2025
15th of March St Patrick's Festival, Dublin, Performance at ANAM Dancing Chair Installation by Peter Sheehan at EPIC MUSEUM
25th of March Global Water Dance Free Workshop at Ellis Hall, Letterfrack, County Galway
26th March to April 6th, Screening of Carrying Wood, Pittsburgh International Dance Film Festival
What is next in December:
13th December Nature Walk with dance movement, book your place through Sicap Connemara (please text 085 - 1797959)
8th -15th December, Screening of Carrying Wood at Palace Cultural Center, in the city of Ribeirão Preto/ SP/ Brazil
What is next in November:
IFT UK Irish Film & Television UK, Screening of Carrying Wood as part of their online festival throughout November
17th November, Dallas Dance Film Festival Season Six, organised by the North Dallas Dance Arts Council, Screening of Carrying Wood
13th November: Roundstone Primary School Visit at Interface as part of my DAR
9 de noviembre/ November 9th / Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual IX Edicíon, México
Lugar/ Location: CCAIE Centro de Cultura Ambiental e Investigación Educativa, Zapopan, Jal.Diálogos con el paisaje: Carrying Wood//Linda Schirmer/Irlanda
What is next in October:
October: Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual IX Edicíon, México, Screening Carrying Wood
29 de octubre/October 29th
Lugar/Location: Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias (CUCBA), Zapopan, Jalisco, 11 hrs/ Diálogos con el paisaje: Travesías al bosque, Carrying Wood//Linda Schirmer/Irlanda
October 25th -26th : Green Film Festival 2024, Legon Botanical Gardens, Screening of Carrying Wood in Accra, Ghana
October 25th - 26th: 2ªed. of Zêzere CineDance International Festival 2024, Screening of Carrying Wood at Cine-Teatro Ivone Silva, in Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal
October 26, Connemara Seaweek, Live Performance of UNDULATE & Screening of Carrying Wood, Letterfrack, County Galway
October 23rd-26th, Ferrara Film Corto Festival VII Ambiente et Musica, Ferrara, Italy. Nomination for Indie Music Award
October 23rd, Westival, Western Front Studio Screenings: Carrying Wood, Westport, Ireland
October19th & 20th : Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Award for Best Location and Cinematography
October 13th, Nature and Culture - International Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual IX Edicíon, México, Screening Carrying Wood
MMA EN COLABORACIÓN CON FESTIVAL BOSQUE LA PRIMAVERA
9 de octubre/October 9th
Lugar/Location: Sala de Cine - Biblioteca, Universidad ITESO, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
13:00 hrs/ Diálogos con el paisaje: Espejos de agua, Carrying Wood//Linda Schirmer/Irlanda
October 2nd-6th: Berlin Female Filmmakers Festival, Screening of Carrying Wood
What is next September:
September 24th -27th: Teaching Creative Dance at 8 different schools in Connemara as part of the Clifden Arts Festival School Programme
September 19th - 22nd: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Screening of Carrying Wood as part of Earth Rising Festival, Dublin
September 19th - 21st Greenwich Film Festival: Screening of Carrying Wood (online)
23rd September: Clifden Arts Festival, Performance Carrying Wood, Station House Theatre at 4pm
What is next July
July: Inheritence Film Festival, UK, Brighton TV Screening of Carrying Wood
July 4th: 25th Shorts International Film Festival, Trieste Italy
July 8th : John Scott's Dancer from the Dance Festival, Carrying Wood at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin
What is next June:
June 22nd: Children Dance Workshop at Interface as part of their family day
June 1st: Artist Talk and Performance of Genius Loci (Work in progress) at Interface as part of IV Woodlandsymposium
What is next May:
May 2024: XIV International CineDanza Festival, Tenerife, Spain
May 2024: Anything to Declare Dance Residency with Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre & Liz Roche and Jenny Roche, Enniskillen, North Ireland
May 2024 IV Woodland Symposium 2 weeks Residency at Interface Inagh
What is next March:
March 2024: Choreographer on Set of Remote Strutting a RTÉ and Ardan Production with Western Front Studios
March 2024: Performance Carrying Wood, Wicklow as part of Wicklow Screendance Laboratory
January 2024: group exhibition at Galway Arts Centre, The Branch, The Fork, The Harrow
Commissioned by Interface Inagh, funded through the Arts Council Ireland, supported from Galway Dance Project and Galway Arts Centre
December 2023 Galway Arts Centre Woodland Symposium Group Exhibition
October 19th -21st, Recipient of Baboró Festival Mentoring Programme, Galway
September 21st -24th IMMA Earth Rising Festival Dublin, Woodland Symposium Group exhibition, Performance & Family Movement Workshop "Let's be trees"
June 2023, Dance Commission Award by Interface Inagh, funded through the Arts Council Ireland with support from Galway Dance, June 2023
14-24 September Clifden Arts Festival, Commission: TIDE Dance Performance, Clifden Arts Festival
September, Connemara Muses, Group Exhibition Dance Photography, Connemara West Sand Hotel
June 17th, Carrying Wood work-in-progress, Nun's Island Theatre as part of Momentum Show Galway Dance
June, Recipient North West Dance Residency, Galway Dance, Galway City
29 June -14 July, ANAM Art Installation Peter Sheehan, Ardnagreevah, Performance Commission
May Woodland Symposium III, Residency at Interface
May Performance: Carrying Wood, first work in progress
Em-BOG-iment is a collaboration between artist Ailbhe Wheatley and Tony Whelan of Canola Pictures.
Em-BOG-iment is a poetry performance filmed on-site in the wilds of East Clare, Ireland. It documents a personal and collective remembering through playful interaction with the Irish landscape. It is a story of what it means to sink, drop and descend in a society that often seeks to escape.
Bowland Beth, a film by Vidda Le Feber & Catherine Seymour
Ten years ago the extraordinary bird of prey, the Hen Harrier, was virtually extinct in England due to illegal persecution. It is still under the same threat today.
The inspiration for our film is the searing, tender poem, Bowland Beth, by David Harsent, his elegy to a Hen Harrier, Beth, birthed on the wild moors of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire and shot
before she could breed. His own reading forms the heart of the film, embedded in Rob Godman’s specially composed and haunting soundscore.
Featuring dancer Zoe Arshamian amid the landscape of Bowland itself, our film bears witness to
the sky dancing beauty of Hen Harriers in flight and the mindless cruelty of their unwarranted
persecution.
Filleadh - Return by Zoë Green
This film explores the world through the eyes of lichen, and questions what we as humans can learn from them, their deeply slow growth habits and their state of ultra-symbiosis.
The dance film, Liquid Spine, Augusta, highlights the environmental and health challenges of the region known as "The Black Triangle" in Sicily due to seaside industry.
Nothing Exists Until It Moves is short film which uses a computer-vision technique called frame differencing to extract and
emphasise all movement within a moving image. A body encounters an unseen environment, revealed only through its
disturbance. The earth shifts, stones scatter, and bushes tremble toward consciousness, unveiling the subtle violence of
existence.
The screen becomes a space where movement alone defines existence, blurring the line between body and environment. A
movement study in transformation, presence, and the unseen forces that shape what we perceive.
Ailbhe Wheatley is a writer and visual artist from County Clare. Her work explores themes of embodiment and interrelationship through poetry, performance and painting. More about her work can be found at www.albalanna.com.
Katie Pustizzi, MFA (she/her) is an Interdisciplinary Movement Artist in the greater Boston area. She is the Director of Liquid Spine, a global dance series that explores the needs of our water systems through the lens of ecology and conservation. Katie is deeply interested in international exchange as a form of artistic research and connection. Her research, teaching, and performance has taken her across the globe. Most recently, she created the dance film "Liquid Spine, Augusta" in Sicily. She also curates the work of international screendance artists through Liquid Spine's FOR THIS EARTH - Screendance Festival. Katie is currently on faculty at Dean College, Endicott College, and Boston University, where she teaches contemporary and improvisational movement forms
Zoë Green is a visual artist with a collaborative and socially engaged practice; using natural materials, found objects, performance, film and sound recording to connect with place.
She co-designs and facilitates creative environmental projects to encourage nature connection, empathy, and playful curiosity in both children and adults.
Sophie Hutchinson and Billy Kemp are a collaborative duo from the West of Ireland. Drawing on their
backgrounds in contemporary dance, sonic, visual and digital art. Their practice explores the dynamic
interplay of these disciplines, delving into themes of nature, connection, elemental forces, and the sensory
experience of place. Through their audio-visual creations, they invite audiences to engage with the
landscapes and ideas that inspire their work.
Sophie Hutchinson is a dance artist and movement practitioner from Waterford, now based in the west
of Ireland. Her work spans performance, film, and site-specific practices. She collaborates with musicians,
filmmakers, poets, and visual artists to create interdisciplinary projects that explore rhythm, dissonance, and the integration of movement with sound and visual media.
This year, she is developing a new project with Surface Area Dance Theatre (UK) in collaboration with Deaf visual artist and writer Louise Stern, in partnership with Dance Limerick. The project is supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award. The landscapes of the Burren, in County Clare, where Sophie was based for the past three years, have deeply influenced her creative practice
Catherine Seymour is a Devon based choreographer and writer. This most recent collaboration
with film maker Vidda Le Feber, Bowland Beth, explores the threat to the endangered bird of prey,
the Hen Harrier. It was exhibited as a Screendance installation at Harbour House Gallery,
Kingsbridge, Devon, Feb-March 2024. Further screenings include, Hen Harrier Action’s, Skydancer
Day, May 2024, Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Oct 2024. Fisheye Film Festival, High
Wycombe, Nature & Culture Poetry and Film Festival, Copenhagen, and Birmingham International
Art Film Festival, 2023. Their first film, We Who Stood Upon This Place, was shown in Watch This Space, Dartington, Devon Mar 2019. After training at London Contemporary Dance School and the Merce Cunningham studio, she
performed with Plesni Teater Ljubljana and Nightshift Dance Theatre. Early live dance and dance
theatre works were presented within seasons at The Place Theatre, London and UK touring.
Choreographic residencies include The Royal Festival Hall, London, Dance Base, Edinburgh and,
with the Kreutzer String Quartet, at Chelsea Royal Hospital and Lauderdale House. She has been
a visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and on the faculty at the Scottish School of
Contemporary Dance.
As a poet (Catherine Edwards) she is published as a finalist in the current LISP (London
Independent Story Prize) Flash Fiction and Poetry Anthology 2024 and is performing with Wild
Words, Nature Poetry Project Plymouth, May 2025.