Rob Heaslip Dance
An endling is an individual that is the last of its species. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. ENDLING uses dance, vocals, music and design to reimagine tales of funerary and mourning rituals of Scottish and Irish Gaels, their chants, songs and customs; many on their own deathbeds and disappearing with each passing generation. Rob Heaslip collides popular and folk culture to create a tale of collective memory and consciousness in a world tinged with acid pink, green and purple. Contemporary meets traditional, macabre meets joyful, and morbid fascination is welcomed in to the raucous world of a Gaelic wake.
Crìocharan – an neach mu dheireadh dhe a sheòrsa. Le a bhàs, thig bàs air an t-seòrsa sin. Tha ENDLING a’ cleachdadh dannsa, guth, ceòl agus ìomhaigheachd airson cruth ùr a chur air traidiseanan tìodhlachaidh agus caoinidh nan Gaidheal Albannach agus Èireannach, na traidiseanan sin fhèin air leabaidh a’ bhàis le gach ginealach a dh’fhalbhas. Tha Rob Heaslip a’ tarraing an t-seann-nòis agus an nòis-ùir còmhla airson sgeulachd dhathach, dhealrach a tha a’ snìomh iongnadh mu bhàs còmhla ri othail an taigh-fhaire Ghàidhealaich.
Credits
Composer: Michael John McCarthy
Designer: Alison Brown
Lighting Designer: Rob Moloney
Dancers: Marion Cronin, Tamsyn Russell, Evan Schwarz, Astrid Sweeney
Vocalists: Robbie Blake, Gillebride MacIllemhaoil, Michelle O’Rourke
Dramaturg: Brigid McCarthy
Production Manager: Brian Gorman
Project Manager/Producer/Marketing Manager: Noelia Ruiz
Assistant Producer: Seona McClintock
Funding
Funded by Creative Scotland, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, The Work Room, Glasgow, and Culture Ireland