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DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY | INFORMATION BOOKLET 2006 | INITIATIVES26RICE – SOCIAL THINKING SOCIAL DREAMING SOCIAL CHOREOGRAPHYRICE embodies a new and growing consciousness about how human activity transforms the world. Initiated byDaghdha Dance Company to explore fully the broader implications and applications of Michael Klien’sproposition: Choregraphy as an Aesthetics of Change, RICE specialises in communication, deep research, andsocial choreography. RICE choreographs unique social situations that allow a deeper surface to becomeapparent, enabling citizens to sense the encompassing systems within which we perform our private and publiclives.PROJECTS 2006MEANINGFUL PUBLIC SPACE | A NEW INTERFACE BETWEEN CULTURAL, SOCIAL, COMMERCIAL AND POLITICALORGANISATIONS IN FRANKFURTHOW TO BE INVISIBLE | A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE GARVEY CENTRE FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS,DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY AND ATELIER GOLDSTEINDREAMING LIMERICK | A SERIES OF NETWORKING EVENTS FOR LEADERS OF CULTURAL INSTITUTIONSIN LIMERICK, COMMISSIONED BY THE LIMERICK CITY COUNCILCOMMISSIONED PROJECT FOR ‘I CONFESS THAT I WAS THERE …’ | A CITY-WIDE EXHIBITION/EVENT OF/ONART IN CONTESTED SPACE, PRODUCED BY INTERFACE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTERRICE is led by Jeffrey Gormly and Steve Valk. RICE is sponsored by Daghdha Dance Company and the LimerickCity Council Arts Office. RICE is supported by BASTA! Youth Collective, the Project Arts Centre, CityArts, theDublin Fringe Festival, Dublin; the Garvey Centre for People with Special Needs, Limerick; Atelier Goldstein,Raumpool, Frankfurt; Interface Research Department at the University of Ulster, Belfast; the Free InternationalUniversity, Amsterdam.
27 DAGHDHA’S HISTORYDaghdha Dance Company was formed by Mary Nunan at the University of Limerick in 1988. Daghdha DanceCompany quickly established itself as a dance company with a unique artistic identity and attracted fundingfrom the Arts Council/an Chomhairle Ealaíon. During Nunan’s directorship, the company toured extensivelythroughout Ireland and was invited to perform at international dance festivals in London, Paris, Berlin, Munich,Barcelona and Mexico City. In 2000 Yoshiko Chuma took over as artistic director. For the next three years,Chuma further developed Daghdha’s international profile by touring theatrical dance concerts, streetperformances and large-scale productions throughout Europe, America and Japan. Michael Klien was appointedartistic director in July 2003. Under the stewardship of Klien, Daghdha Dance Company has moved to itsinspiring new premises in Limerick’s city centre, where it has continued to develop and strengthen its positionas a pioneer of contemporary dance in Ireland.DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY | INFORMATION BOOKLET 2006 | DAGHDHA’S HISTORY
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