Archived Residencies
- Writer in Residence 1996 - 2000
- Composer in Residence, 1998, 2000, 2004
- Choreographer in Residence 2001
Writer in Residence 1996 - 2000
Writer in Residence Programme - Conor O'Callaghan 2000
Conor facilitated the first
poet-in-residence scheme in the country. Conor was born in
Newry. Northern Ireland in 1968. His first collection, The
History of Rain (Gallery Press, 1993), won the Patrick Kavanagh
award in 1993 and was short-listed for the Forward Best First
Collection Prize in 1994.
He has also received two bursaries in literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and a Rooney Prize Special Award. His recent poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times and The New Republic. He reviews regularly for the TLS and Poetry Ireland Review. His radio documentary on cricket Ireland, The Season, was broadcast in 1996 under the production of Dick Warner and has been repeated many times since.
A further essay, "Jolly Good Shot Old Boy - Confessions of an Irish Cricketer", featured in a Book of Matches (New Island Books 1999, ed. George O' Brien). Conor O' Callaghan's second collection of poems, Seatown, appeared from Gallery press in March 1999, and from the Wake Forest University Press in the U.S in March of this year. He was writer-in-residence at University College, Dublin for 1999-2000.
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Writer in Residence Programme - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill 1997
Nuala was writer-in-residence for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in 1997. Born in St. Helen's Lancashire in 1952 she returned in 1980 to the Dingle Gaeltacht to write full time. She has published seven poetry collections from An Dealg Drioghin (1981) including three bilingual editions. Selected poems / Rogha Danta, Pharoah's Daughter (1990) and The Astrakan Cloak (1992). She has also written plays and screen plays. Nuala's work has been translated into many different languages including French, German, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Estonian, Danish and Japanese. She is a member of AOSDANA, Poetry Ireland and the IWU.
Writer in Residence Programme - Patrick Galvin 1996
Born in Cork in 1929 Patrick Galvin
was Dún Laoghaire-Rathdowns first writer-in-residence. Poet,
playwright and frequent broadcaster of his own work on RTE
and BBC. He was educated at Presentation Brothers, Cork. He
was awarded Lverhulme Fellowship in drama 1973 - 1977 and
was resident dramatist at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast) 1973-1980.
Patrick was writer-in-residence at East Midlands Arts (Nottingham)
in 1981. His work has been recorded at The Library of Congress
Washington, D.C 1981. He has given readings in Ireland, England,
France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, USA and Mexico. His plays
have been staged at the abbey Theatre (Dublin), Citizens Theatre
Glasgow, Young Vic (London) and at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
Composer in Residence, 1998, 2000, 2004
Composer in Residence Daniel Figgis
May - October 2004
Daniel Figgis is dedicated to audacious applications for technologies old and new alike.
As composer in residence, Daniel will explore his process of "imposition" with "First Imposition" - a new work for locally based brass quintet, the Ottoni Ensemble. He will also deliver a series of lectures - STOP THIEF! - based on themes of intellectual copyright and "recomposition".
The residency will climax in a highly spectacular and unique intermedia
event entitled TAMPER (September 24 & 25 2004) which was developed in partnership with Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council, the Arts Council, Dublin Fringe, Project Arts Centre, RTE Lyric FM and October Eleven Pictures.
Taking place within, and playing with the mythology of, the forest,
this event posits a fictional history for Tamplins House in Marlay Park,
Rathfarnham. TAMPER is concerned with the development of Daniel's new approaches to sound generation and design and of a new collaborative process encompassing live music performance with true "surround sound" and integrated video projection/lighting design within a non-traditional performance space.
This hi-tech haunting giving voice to, and bearing witness to, the
will-to-be and hypnotic egress into currency of a landmark "objet trouvé" presents as an articulation of a highly charged and mutable public space, thereby creating a radical new environment in which to work with novel applications for familiar technologies, while shedding light on the underestimated romance of suburbia's "hidden" delights.
Supported by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and The Arts Council.
Composer in Residence - Kevin O'Connell 2000
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's second composer-in-residence Kevin O' Connell worked on two projects as part of his six month residency, a string quartet and a community basedproject 'The Sound Project.'
The Sound Project was a project involving groups of muisicians and people interested in music. Throughout his residency Kevin worked with two active retirement groups in The Kill of the Grange and Johnstown, he also worked with the Sound Access Course at Park House in Stillorgan and through the libraries in the County.
The Sound project was only one of the elements of Kevin's residency. His own composition, string quartet was commissioned and completed during his time in Dún Laoghaire. The quartet is a substantial work in three movements, lasting in all some thrity minutes. The Lotus quartet from Japan performed the piece in March 2002 in the County Hall, Dún Laoghaire.
Born in Derry, Kevin studied Music at Trinity College Dublin, where he later completed an M Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature. During his time there he taught courses in composition and in 20th century music. He has also composed many works for the BBC and for the Ulster Orchestra. The 1990's saw him concentrate on opera, with three chamber operas completed from 1992-1998. The second of these, The Fireking, was commissioned by British Telecom to enable young people to participate in live opera. Kevin's compostions, and his work with both young people and adults have often been inspired by a literary idea or an aspect of modern art, in which he has a keen interest.
Composer in Residence - Stephen Gardner 1988
In October 1988 Stephen Gardener was awarded composer-in-residence for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. As part of this residency he wrote a new work for the renowned contemporary music ensemble Concorde entitled You Never Know What's Round the Corner. He was involved also in a suite of three pieces created by five musicians from the county. The suite was influenced by traditional and jazz genres, and has drew inspiration from geographical, historical, contemporary and social themes relating to the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. Stephen stressed that his work during this residency has also been strongly influenced by his very positive experience of life in Dún Laoghaire.
Born in Belfast, Stephen Gardener studied at the University of Ulster and the University of Wales from 1984 to 1989. He has been the recipient of a Vaughan Williams Scholarship and a Draper's Fellowship. His music is inspired by a diverse range of styles including J.S Bach, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd and Lutosiawski. Stephen has written many pieces for Concorde, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the Ulster Orchestra.
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Choreographer in Residence
2001
New Balance Dance Company was formed in 1987 by Adrienne Brown. With this company, she has developed her own unique style of choreography and to date has created over 25 works. Her work draws on many stimuli - movement, narrative, text, musicality and compositional elements. She has remained true to the vein of dance as a pure art form existing as a specific form of existing as a specific form of expression, realised within the physicality of the dancer and giving allegiance to the mastery of the human body in motion.
Her choreography includes; "Fin De Siecle"1989, "Of No Dreams Remember" 1989, "Six Women in Search of a Dance"1990, "The Wounds of Art"1990, "Two Into One Won’t Go"1991, "Cry"1992; "For Delia"1993, "The Well"1994, "The Sin Eater"1995, "Meeting Points & Translations"1995, "Four Points of a Circle"1995, "Sculptura"1996, "This Happened"1996, "Mapping a Route Home"1996, "Love is Beautiful, Bondage too"1997, "Colmcille"2000, "You Who Have Never Arrived"2001, "Voices"2002. Adrienne has collaborated with several composers in her work including Paul Hayes, JJ Vernon, Michael Seaver, Mel Mercier, Trevor Knight and Siobhan Cleary. Her work has been performed throughout Ireland and in France and part of the Imaginaire Irelandis Festival, and in London’s South Bank.
Adrienne was invited by Mary Brady of the Institute of Choreography and Dance, Cork, to be the first Choreographer in Ireland to partake in the Righting Dance Project in 1997. This was a Mentored Choreographed Research Project, which took place over three years. Adrienne chose the international choreographer Kim Brandstrup to be her mentor, and following this stage, Firkin Crane commissioned Adrienne to create a full length piece for it’s New Work’s Series. The work created was "Colmcille" a narrative dance theatre work based on the life of St. Colmcille. This was premiered at the Firkin Crane in February 2000, and toured in 2001.
Since 2001, Adrienne has been resident as Choreographer at the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, creating new work — "You Who Have Never Arrived" & "Voices". She continues to create new work in her tenure there, which will be performed in the near future.
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