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Filmed performances

Bench #1 | Jessie Thompson

Choreography

Jessie Thompson

Director

Neil O’Driscoll

Collection

CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Year of production

2023

Part of BENCH – a series of short live performances along the banks of Dublin’s canals. The Bench collection is a series of artworks inspired and informed by canals as valued cultural, social, environmental assets in our city. Curated by David Bolger, these original choreographies capture the idea of a BENCH by water as an everyday piece of public space infrastructure – a place to pause, to rest, to savour one’s surroundings, to contemplate, to connect – and engage the public and local communities with dance in unexpected ways through original short dance works.

BENCH was born from a unique two-year pilot partnership between CoisCéim Dance Theatre and Waterways Ireland. It began in summer 2023 with commissions to Jessie Thompson, Favour Odusola, Sibéal Davitt and Tobi Omoteso. In 2024 the project was awarded the prestigious Business To Arts Kmend Arts Partnership Award.

Choreography

Jessie Thompson

Director

Neil O’Driscoll

Collection

CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Year of production

2023

Performance

Jessie Thompson

Music

Jack Foster

Technician

Laura Rainsford

Production

With thanks to: Volunteers from the Royal Canal Cleanup Group. Filmed at Spencer Dock | Royal Canal, Dublin, Ireland | 30 August 2023 part of the BENCH Collection in collaboration with Waterways Ireland
Curator | David Bolger
Production Manager | Seán Dennehy
Production Coordinator | Caoimhe Coburn Gray
Graphic Design | Alphabet Soup
Waterways Ireland | Louise Dredge and Máirín Ó Cuireáin
Producers | Sarah Latty & Bridget Webster CoisCéim Dance Theatre ‘s work is made possible with strategic funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and supported by Dublin City Council

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