Helga's works for stage and film are informed by her specialist background in Choreological Studies (the contemporary developments of Laban's principles for the performing arts) and her research into somatic practices and empowerment. Her work, which has been described as 'creatively powerful' explores themes of identity, belonging, migration and care through the immediate expressive potential of the moving body.
Works:
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Built on Bridges - large scale cross-disciplinary dance performance work featuring an ensemble of professional dancers and an intergenerational community cast, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Cork Midsummer Festival 2023
Cura - ensemble work, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, 2022
Of Bluebells and Butterflies - interactive dance theatre performance for babies and their adults, created for Graffiti Theatre with a TRACKS co-commission from Baboro International Arts Festival for Children, Cork Midsummer Festival and Dublin Fringe 2022
State of Flux - ensemble work, Dance Cork Firkin Crane 2021
River Fragments, the film - Cork City Culture Night and IndieCork Film Festival 2020
Helica - ensemble work, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies 40th anniversary celebration, Washington Square Park, New York, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen and Firkin Crane, Cork (2018)
Erin Connolly and the Children of Lir (movement director) - Theatre production directed by Eoin O'hAnnrachain (Lantern Productions), The Everyman, Cork (2018)
Up to the Elbow - site specific, cross-disciplinary dance work performed by a local community cast aged 9-66 created in collaboration with musician/visual artist/poet Tess Leak, Bealtaine Festival, Old Railway Bridge, Skibbereen (2018)
Choreographic response to 'Metamurmuration' - an installation by visual artist Joanna Kidney, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen (2018)
Past Tundra - music video for Crash Ensemble, directed by Oonagh Kearney (2017)
When I'm here, I remember you - solo work, Dublin Dance Festival (2016) and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen (2017)
Murder at Shandy Hall (movement director) - musical directed by Michael Sheridan with original composition by Alan Kiely, Briery Gap, Macroom and Cork Opera House (2016)
Traces of the Hand - solo work, Firkin Crane, Cork (2015) and Echo Echo Festival of Movement and Dance, Derry/Londonderry (2015)
Longing Belonging - ensemble work, Cork Midsummer Festival (2015)
Choreographic response to 'The Amulet' - an exhibition of sculptural audio visual work by Marie Brett, the Lab Gallery, Dublin (2015)
The Cabaret - collaboration with the Circus Factory, Dragon of Shandon Festival, Cork (2014)
Person at Risk - theatre based, cross-disciplinary collaboration directed by Eoin O hAnnrachain, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (2014)
Etched in stone, washed away - ensemble work, Firkin Crane, Cork (2013)
Mood - does it hold the key to addiction? - collaboration with neuroscientist Wesley van Oeffelen, winner of the UCC doctoral show case 'Creative Mind' prize, UCC (2013)
Goodbye - solo work, Trinity Laban, London (2012)
Unter Traenen Lachen - solo work, Firkin Crane, Cork (2010)
Lost Shoe - ensemble work, Firkin Crane, Cork (2010)
Tanz der Kreaturen - ensemble work, University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg (2008)