BUILT ON BRIDGES is a large-scale dance performance created in collaboration with an ensemble of professional dancers, an intergenerational community cast featuring the Mayfield Men’s Shed Choir and young participants and a multi-disciplinary creative team. Investigating themes of home, identity and migration in connection with Cork City the work set out to build bridges – between generations, between professional artists and the local community and between artistic disciplines.
Concept, direction & choreography: Helga Deasy
Performers: Kevin Hayes, Sara Hernandez and Yumi Lee
Featuring young participants and the Mayfield Men’s Shed Choir with Statio Bene written by Liam Christopher O’Leary
Set & costume design: Jenny Whyte, Lighting design: Tim Feehily, Composition: Fiona Sheil
Choir conductor: Susan McManamon, Producer: Eoin Ó hAnnracháin
Critical acclaim for Built on Bridges:
“A world premiere which might deserve a world stage.”
“…a work that uses creativity, inquiry and collaboration to such an impact that when this performance ends there is that moment of silence in which an audience can gather its emotional wits before rising unanimously in applause.” Mary Leland, Irish Times (★★★★★)
Created as part of Helga Deasy’s Cork City Dance Artist in Residence Programme 2021-23 at Dance Cork Firkin Crane supported by Cork City Council and the Arts Council.
Concept, direction & choreography: Helga Deasy
Performers: Kevin Hayes, Sara Hernandez and Yumi Lee
Featuring young participants and the Mayfield Men’s Shed Choir with Statio Bene written by Liam Christopher O’Leary
Set & costume design: Jenny Whyte, Lighting design: Tim Feehily, Composition: Fiona Sheil
Choir conductor: Susan McManamon, Producer: Eoin Ó hAnnracháin
Critical acclaim for Built on Bridges:
“A world premiere which might deserve a world stage.”
“…a work that uses creativity, inquiry and collaboration to such an impact that when this performance ends there is that moment of silence in which an audience can gather its emotional wits before rising unanimously in applause.” Mary Leland, Irish Times (★★★★★)
Created as part of Helga Deasy’s Cork City Dance Artist in Residence Programme 2021-23 at Dance Cork Firkin Crane supported by Cork City Council and the Arts Council.
