PRESENTERS/MOVERS 2020 - Modes of Capture Symposium Modes of Capture Symposium

Rebecca Hilton

Rebecca Hilton (1964-) is an Australian born artist living in Stockholm. Her practices include dancing, performing, choreographing, teaching, writing and talking. Over three and a half decades she has contributed to the work of a range of artists including Russell Dumas, Stephen Petronio, Mathew Barney, Michael Clark, Tere O’Connor, Jennifer...

Sarah Cerneaux

SARAH CERNEAUX (dancer) started street dancing at the age of 17 in France. After completing her degree, she moved to Paris and kept learning with teachers such as Corinne Lanselle, Carolyn Carlson, Julyen Hamilton and Junior Almeida. Since then she has worked with Abou Lagraa Company (2006- 2014), Christine Bastin, David...

Lucia Kickham

‎Lucia Kickham is a Dublin-based dance artist, who has been performing and collaborating internationally since 2011. Trained in The Netherlands, she has worked with companies and artists which include TRASH(NL), Liz Roche Company, John Jasperse, Philip Connaughton, junk ensemble and Maria Nilsson Waller. Lucia has undertaken intensive training with David...

Jodi Melnick

Jodi Melnick is a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn, grew up in Long Island, graduated with a BFA in dance from S.U.N.Y Purchase, and have been part of the national and international dance community since the late 1980's. Melnick designs intricate movement to explore the exquisite nature of and...

John Jasperse

JOHN JASPERSE is a dance artist based in New York City for over three decades. He has created eighteen evening-length works with John Jasperse Projects, including two co-productions with Ballett Frankfurt and Forsythe Company, as well as numerous commissions for other companies including Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Batsheva Dance Company...

Jazmin Chiodi

Jazmin Chiodi trained at Taller de Danza San Martín in Buenos Aires, and graduated MA Festive Arts at the University of Limerick. She performed with companies in Argentina, France and Ireland, including Cie Hélène Cathala, Mathilde Monnier, Fabrice Barthès, Liz Roche Company, Dance Theatre of Ireland and Catherine Young. Since...

Alexandre Iseli

After graduating with an MSc in Biology in Switzerland, Alexandre Iseli has worked with renowned companies including Régine Chopinot (National Choreographic Centre, Fra), Philippe Saire (CH), Joanne Leighton (National Choreographic Centre, Fra), Liz Roche Company (IE), among others. He has performed in more than 400 venues and 40 countries in...

Philip Connaughton

Philip Connaughton is a choreographer and performer from Dublin. He trained at the Rambert School of Contemporary Dance in London. In 2013 he made his first piece, Mortuus Est Philippus for Dublin Dance Festival. In 2014, he formed Company Philip Connaughton and made Tardigrade which won best design in the Tiger Dublin Fringe Awards. In...

Jools Gilson

Jools Gilson is an artist, scholar and broadcaster. She works across multiple disciplines including choreography, performance, public and installation art, creative writing and radio broadcasting. She directed the dance theatre company half/angel from 1995 to 2006, and since 2010 has made creative radio for RTÉ and the BBC. Her texts, choreography,...

Ursula Robb

Ursula graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance and worked with the Douglas Wright Dance Company and the Royal New Zealand Ballet, before moving to Brussels in 1995 where she danced with Wim Vandekeybus - Ultima Vez, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker - ROSAS, and Thomas Hauert - cie Zoo....

Finola Cronin

Finola Cronin lectures on theatre and performance in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She has published on Irish and German-based dance theatre. She is a dancer and has performed with the German-based companies of Vivienne Newport, Raimund Hoghe, and Tanztheater Wuppertal (dir. Pina Bausch) and...

Siobhan Davies

Siobhan Davies is Artistic Director of Siobhan Davies Dance and a renowned British choreographer who rose to prominence in the 1970s. Davies was a founding member of London Contemporary Dance Theatre and in 1982 joined forces with Richard Alston and Ian Spink to create independent dance company Second Stride. Establishing...

Ryan O’Neill

Ryan achieved a first class honours degree in Dance from the Ulster University and studied his Masters in Dance Performance at Laban as part of a professional post graduate company Transitions. Since then Ryan has worked with Maiden Voyage Dance, Off The Rails, ponydance, Tinderbox, Oona Doherty Works (NI) Irish...

Paul White

Australian-born dancer Paul White has been living in Germany since 2011. Until 2017 he was employed by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, as the first dancer to join the company after Bausch’s death performing in over 20 of her works, including dancing the main male-role in her Frühlings Opfer (Le Sacre...

Mark Lorimer

Since graduating in London in 1991 Mark has worked as a dancer, rehearsal director, teacher and choreographer. He has worked with Rosas/Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker on and off since 1994, ZOO/Thomas Hauert 1997 - 2005. And then many projects with choreographers including Boris Charmatz, Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows, Alix Eynaudi, Marten...

Stephanie Dufresne

Stephanie Dufresne is a dancer, actor and maker from the West of Ireland, currently based between Dublin and Kinvara, County Galway. Stephanie graduated in 2012 from the Rotterdam Dance Academy with a BA in Dance and since then she has worked nationally and internationally with companies and choreographers such as...

Glenna Batson

Glenna Batson, PT, ScD, MA is an independent lecturer, researcher, mentor and performer. For five decades, she has sourced from multiple disciplines and methods in developing ways to expand the expressive envelope. Her life-long contributions to dance have been trans-disciplinary as teacher, author, performer, and pioneering researcher in dance and...

Susan Sentler

Susan Sentler, BA, MACP is a dance artist working as maker/choreographer, teacher, researcher, director and performer. She has taught globally in the field of dance for over 30 years. Susan’s creative, pedagogic and research practice is interdisciplinary, anchored by a honed somatic relationship to image. She works in gallery/museum contexts...

Theo Clinkard

Theo Clinkard’s practice spans choreography, pedagogy, performance and design. He launched his company in 2012 and has swiftly built an international reputation for creating compelling and visually arresting works that explore the communicative potential of the body and the empathetic nature of dance in performance. His works span small to...

Alys Longley

Alys Longley is an interdisciplinary performance maker, teacher and writer. Her interests span artistic research, performance writing, interdisciplinary projects, art and ecology and narrative research. Her work has been performed in NZ, Australia, Germany, Austria, UK, Chile, and Portugal. Alys's books The Foreign Language of Motion (2014) and Radio Strainer (2016) are published by Winchester University...

Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira

The art work of Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira has always revolved around one theme: power and its aesthetic dimension. Over twenty years, Corvalán-Pincheira has developed an extensive international career through South America, North America, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand. He's been awarded many national and international fellowships, residencies and awards and has...

Anne-Laure Dogot

Anne-Laure Dogot , professional dancer and dance teacher from Belgium, started dancing at the age of five at Danses & Cie (Belgium). From 2006 to 2009, Anne-Laure followed a three year professional dance education at S.E.A.D (Austria). She, then, became a member of the company’s school, Bodhi Project, and toured...

Carol Brown

Carol Brown is a New Zealand born dancer, choreographer, artist-scholar and director. She completed one of the first practice-led PhDs at the University of Surrey in 1995. Her PhD triptych, The Mechanics of Fluids toured internationally and led to her appointment as Choreographer in Residence at the Place Theatre London...

Kévin Coquelard

Kévin Coquelard began dance and theatre in France. In 2008, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he danced in choreographies by Hofesh Schecter and Itzik Galili. Kévin made his Irish debut with John Scott in 2013, performing in widely including in New York, Paris and Dublin. Since, he has...

Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Fearghus Ó Conchúir is a choreographer and dance artist. Frequently collaborating with experts from across and beyond the arts, he has made film and live performances as frameworks for audiences and artists to build communities together. He’s currently co-leading a project with Micro Rainbow International that he initiated as part...

Charles Koroneho

Charles Koroneho works in the fields of performance and culture. He created Te Toki Haruru (est 1997) to explore cultural collaboration and the intersection between dance, theatre and design. His projects are presented as performances, research workshops and arts collaborations exploring the collision between Maori cosmology, New Zealand society and...

Luke Murphy

Originally from Cork City, Luke is a performer and choreographer based between Cork, New York and Brussels. Luke has danced with Ultima Vez from 2014-2018 touring internationally in productions of In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, Booty Looting and Spiritual Unity and Punchdrunk since 2009, performing leading roles in the...

José Paulo dos Santos

José Paulo dos Santos (Brazil) started dancing as a tap dancer at « Projeto Rithmus », a social project in his hometown Araraquara (São Paulo). He received a scholarship to study ballet, contemporary and street dance at The Dance Center Gilsamara Moura in Araraquara. He started his professional career when he joined...

Liz Roche

Liz is co-founder and Artistic Director of Liz Roche Company. The company has produced and toured over 20 of her works, performing throughout Ireland and internationally at prestigious venues and festivals including the Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Church New York, South Bank Centre London, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Meet in...

Jenny Roche

Dr Jenny Roche has worked as a contemporary dancer since the early 1990s performing with a wide range of choreographers in Ireland and internationally, including Michael Keegan-Dolan, Rosemary Butcher, Jodi Melnick, John Jasperse, Yoshiko Chuma and in work by Dominique Bagouet, restaged by Les Carnets Bagouet (France). She has danced...