Merry.Go.Round
D-Light Studios
Acclaimed dance-theatre ‘Merry.Go.Round’ by choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller Irish/Swedish Tour 2022
D-LIGHT STUDIOS, DUBLIN 1st + 2nd NOVEMBER 2022, 7.30pm UILLiNN West Cork Arts Centre, SKIBBEREEN 4th NOVEMBER 2022, 8pm
“deepf-felt, heartfelt, exquisitely tender” **** The Arts Review
“grand and cinematic, like an intro to another universe” Östersundsposten “striking images, pure emotion” **** Irish Times
Dancers: Marcia Liu (CHN), Mikel Aristequi (ESP), Elin Hedin (SWE), Kevin Coquelard (FRA) och Sara Ezzell (USA).
Choreography, Concept, Design: Maria Nilsson Waller
Music: The Sei + Je Suis!
Merry.go.round is the latest and final piece in Maria Nilsson Waller’s triptych based on unclaimed territories. The piece looks beyond our world into the great vast blackness of the cosmos in order to examine our most human of concerns: the search for true love and what it is we call home.
In a work reminiscent of Chagall, Satie, Dali and Kubrick we meet five characters inside what seems to be a world stuck in post-romantic stress disorder. Time, Anticipation and Transformation are key ingredients when the clockwork of paths and journeys are set in motion – it is a search for true love in the light of the big western romantic myths, cinematic and otherworldly, yet strangely familiar. While the work contains an obvious reference to the movements of celestial bodies, our understanding of the universe, gravity and even time itself, the main concern is questions of a more humane character: What happens when you join another person’s orbit? How can you stay together when your paths are splitting apart? How many times do you have to pass each other before you connect or reconnect?
This very special tour of Merry.Go.Round was supported by the Swedish Arts Council and began in the North of Sweden in the Fall of 2022.Flora Fauna Project brought a re-adaptation of Maria Nilsson Waller's “Merry.Go.Round” to alternative venues and community halls throughout Sweden, starting with Co. Jämtland. They drove down the Swedish inlands, followed by a journey across Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, France and finishing in Ireland. FFP is initiating a sustainable and more ecological touring route, a creative silk road, connecting Sweden and Ireland via land, bringing professional dance and an international cast of high caliber dancers to rural communities and alternative venues.We believe in the global exchange of the arts, to allow for the exchange and communing of the imagination and as well as the sharing of the intelligence specifically that dance has to offer. There are very limited tickets available for 2 nights only at D-Light Dublin.
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RTÉ 2FM Rising on The Road is brought to you with support from IMRO and funding from the BAI and RTÉ.
Tickets are set at a nominal fee of €2 plus booking fee.€2 will go directly to Minding Creative Minds, a not-for-profit organisation that provides free 24/7 wellbeing support for those working in the creative sector.
How unbelievably great is that? You get to see the very best of new Irish talent and support an amazing organisation for only €2!
Tickets are limited and available on first come first served basis. Right of entry reserved.
