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Yes and Yes

Dublin Dance Festival: Liz Roche Company presents

20-21 May 2023

There are four dancers all wearing full-body floral morph suits. Two dancers are positioned on the floor, while the other two dancers are being dragged by the two standing dancers. We see that are on the floor are being positioned into an L shape by the dancers that are standing.
Yes and Yes is a contemporary response to one of the most important works of modern literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Marking 100 years since its first publication, Yes and Yes is a contemporary response to one of the most important works of modern literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses. Yes and Yes comes to Dublin Dance Festival following sold out performances in Washington D.C, Philadelphia and Ireland.

This evocative dance work by leading Irish choreographer, Liz Roche, takes its title from the final episode of the book and its famous last words, “…yes, I said yes I will Yes”, exclaimed by Molly Bloom. Featuring four exceptional dancers, the piece moves through the episodes of Joyce’s masterpiece, exploring the sensuality, absurdity, release, and resignation of the book through movement, film, sound and design.

The piece maps the movement of the narrative through the streets of Dublin in 1904 and reimagines those same spaces and encounters today, with contemporary bodies revealing new and surprising connections.

“Liz Roche Company bask[s] in the complexity of Joyce’s multi-layered novel…. a sense of irreverence is never far from the surface … the novel, a conceptual scaffold for the impressive choreography.” The Irish Times

“Like Joyce did with words, Roche plays with the infinite choreographic possibilities of movement … Yes and Yes is an artistic delight, offering a multitude of perspectives for you to enjoy and discuss time and again” The Arts Review

Yes and Yes by Liz Roche is a co-production between Solas Nua in Washington D.C. and Liz Roche Company in partnership with Cork Opera House. Commissioned by Solas Nua. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and Dublin City Council.

Dublin Dance Festival is proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

Project Arts Centre is proudly supported by The Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

Created and choreographed by Liz Roche in collaboration with the dancers: Sarah Cerneaux, Mufutau Yusuf, Grace Cuny and Toon Theunissen.

Music: Ray Harman

Stage and Costume Design: Katie Davenport

Lighting Design: Davison Scandrett

Film and Videography: José Miguel Jiménez

Dramaturgy: Wayne Jordan

Costume Supervisor: James Seaver

Yes and Yes by Liz Roche is a co-production between Solas Nua in Washington D.C. and Liz Roche Company in partnership with Cork Opera House. Commissioned by Solas Nua. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and Dublin City Council.

Established in 1999, Liz Roche Company is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary dance companies. With a reputation for its finely wrought and beautifully crafted choreographic style, the Dublin based company presents the works of choreographer Liz Roche in collaboration with artists, dancers and designers of the highest calibre. An artistically distinctive and ambitious arts organisation, the company has produced over twenty original productions, touring throughout Ireland and further afield in the UK, Germany, France, USA, Australia and China, most notably being presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Memorial Church in New York, the South Bank Centre, London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at access@projectartscentre.ie or call 01 8819 613. You can find the latest information about Project’s accessibility here.

Marking 100 years since its first publication, Yes and Yes is a contemporary response to one of the most important works of modern literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Yes and Yes comes to Dublin Dance Festival following sold out performances in Washington D.C, Philadelphia and Ireland.

This evocative dance work by leading Irish choreographer, Liz Roche, takes its title from the final episode of the book and its famous last words, “…yes, I said yes I will Yes”, exclaimed by Molly Bloom. Featuring four exceptional dancers, the piece moves through the episodes of Joyce’s masterpiece, exploring the sensuality, absurdity, release, and resignation of the book through movement, film, sound and design.

The piece maps the movement of the narrative through the streets of Dublin in 1904 and reimagines those same spaces and encounters today, with contemporary bodies revealing new and surprising connections.

This event is part of Dublin Dance Festival 2023 – click here to see the full programme at Project.

A colour photograph of a dancer on a stage with a black background. In the foreground, there's a plastic sheet balled up in a mound. The dancer stands in the background behind this on one leg, with their other leg positioned upward, their thigh a straight line towards the ceiling with their knee bent and toes pointed down at the floor. Their chest is facing the back wall, with one shoulder towards the ceiling, and their other shoulder and arm reaching down in paralel with their planted leg. They are looking down towards their hand. They wear loose brown clothing.

CREDITS

Created and choreographed by Liz Roche in collaboration with the dancers: Sarah Cerneaux, Mufutau Yusuf, Grace Cuny and Toon Theunissen.

Music: Ray Harman

Stage and Costume Design: Katie Davenport

Lighting Design: Davison Scandrett

Film and Videography: José Miguel Jiménez

Dramaturgy: Wayne Jordan

Costume Supervisor: James Seaver

Yes and Yes by Liz Roche is a co-production between Solas Nua in Washington D.C. and Liz Roche Company in partnership with Cork Opera House. Commissioned by Solas Nua. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and Dublin City Council.

A colour landscape photo of 4 dancers on an empty stage with a black background. All the dancers wear full-body floral morph suits with clothes over them. In the foreground, one dancer is crouching with a second dancer's head suspended across his lap. The second dancer has their feet planted on the floor, knees bent, with their chest and face too the ceiling and their left arm suspended out to the side. In the background, one dancer is bent over with their hands on the second dancers knees. Behind them, one dancer is standing up and leaning backwards behind them. The four dancers stretch back in a line across the image.

BIOGRAPHIES

Established in 1999, Liz Roche Company is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary dance companies. With a reputation for its finely wrought and beautifully crafted choreographic style, the Dublin based company presents the works of choreographer Liz Roche in collaboration with artists, dancers and designers of the highest calibre. An artistically distinctive and ambitious arts organisation, the company has produced over twenty original productions, touring throughout Ireland and further afield in the UK, Germany, France, USA, Australia and China, most notably being presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Memorial Church in New York, the South Bank Centre, London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

PRESS

“Liz Roche Company bask[s] in the complexity of Joyce’s multi-layered novel…. a sense of irreverence is never far from the surface … the novel, a conceptual scaffold for the impressive choreography.” The Irish Times

“Like Joyce did with words, Roche plays with the infinite choreographic possibilities of movement … Yes and Yes is an artistic delight, offering a multitude of perspectives for you to enjoy and discuss time and again” The Arts Review

A landscape photograph of two dancers on stage, one male and one female. The dance floor is a cream colour and the background is black. The male dancer is dress in long beige trousers with a brown t-shirt. The female dancer is dressed in a cream top with cream shorts. The two dancers are caught mid-flight, walking across the stage. The female dancer is on the male dancer’s shoulders, holding his face with both hands to secure herself. The male dancer’s arms are by his side.

ACCESSIBILITY

Please do not hesitate to contact us at access@projectartscentre.ie or call 01 8819 613. You can find the latest information about Project’s accessibility here.

FUNDING

Yes and Yes by Liz Roche is a co-production between Solas Nua in Washington D.C. and Liz Roche Company in partnership with Cork Opera House. Commissioned by Solas Nua. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and Dublin City Council.

Dublin Dance Festival is proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

Project Arts Centre is proudly supported by The Arts Council and Dublin City Council.

A colour photo of four dancers on a stage wearing tracksuit bottoms and plain t-shirts of different styles. The stage is lit in two overlapping points, with the rest of the floor and wall in darkness. On the back wall, there is a landscape image being projected showing a crane and a cloudy sky in black and white. In the two points of light on stage, two dancers stand separately. They face the camera, with their left feet planted on the stage and their right heels on the stage in a slight step out, toes pointing up. They have their arms hang down from their shoulders but are bent out and upwards at the elbows, with their hands splayed out and facing the camera. Their faces are angled slightly upwards towards the ceiling. In the dark behind them, two dancers walk separately across the stage in the same direction.
Tickets

€22/€18

(+ €1 booking fee)

Time

7.30pm

(Duration 70 minutes)

Location

Space Upstairs

Genres

DanceFestival
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