This year we will both celebrate the Irish film industry and with the help of some key broadcasting industry members present an opportunity for those interested in pursuing a career to give some tips about getting started. A number of the film courses in the country will attend the event with relevant material.

 

Featuring excerpts from extremely rare tapes documenting a series of 1972 performances, this is a unique opportunity to experience the work of the groundbreaking New York performance collective Grand Union (1970-76) in the company of Yvonne Rainer, one of its core founding members. Composed of choreographers/performers Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer, Grand Union created lively group improvisations that fiercely interrogated the nature of performance using movement, spoken text, and props, demystifying the act of dancing and deconstructing the very notion of “choreography.” Their work influenced a generation of artists in the US in the 1970s and is now the focus of much choreographic research in France and elsewhere. Yvonne Rainer will introduce the footage and will hold a short Q&A session afterwards.