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Up to the Elbow

Up to the Elbow is a site-specific dance performance work fusing movement, music and poetry in response to the river Ilen. Performed by a local community cast age 9-66 as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2018 on the Old Railway Bridge in Skibbereen. 

Direction: Helga Deasy
​Dancers: Corrin Adams, Jasmine Adams, Sarah Binroth, Gabriele Binroth, Joerg Binroth, Lucija Kluzniak-Madajczak, Pamuya Klusniak-Madajczak, Muireann Lewis,Patricia O'Sullivan, Daria Py
Dance assistant: Sarah Binroth
Choreography: Helga Deasy in collaboration with the dancers
Artist/Composer/Musician: Tess Leak
Composition Mentor/Musician: Justin Grounds
Poem written by Tess Leak in collaboration with historian Gerald O'Brien, poem performed by Muireann Lewis.

Up to the Elbow was created as part of Helga Deasy's Dance Artist in Residence Programme 2018 at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre with kind support from the Arts Council Ireland, Cork County Council and Cork Education and Training Board. 

'Up to the Elbow' Image: Zenda Williams
'Up to the Elbow' Image: Zenda Williams
'Up to the Elbow' Image: Zenda Williams
'Up to the Elbow' Image: Michael Plaice
'Up to the Elbow' Image: Michael Plaice
'Up to the Elbow' Image: Michael Plaice
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  • About
  • Choreography
    • River Fragments
    • Helica
    • Erin Connolly and the Children of Lir
    • Up to the Elbow
    • Past Tundra
    • When I'm here, I remember you
    • Longing Belonging
    • Traces of the Hand
  • Socially Engaged Dance
    • Dance and Health >
      • Creative Enquiry: Arts & Older People
      • Fuse Arts & Health
      • Breathing, Moving, Being
    • Dance in Education
    • Selected Projects
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