Change by Croí Glan

Change is a hope filled reimagining of the world with diverse bodies from diverse lands including Yves Lorrhan (Brazil), Andrea Williams (Cape Verde), Oran Leong (Ireland/Malaysia), Rachel Paul (France), and Bobbi Byrne (Ireland/Spain).

A celebration of interconnectedness, Change brings us back to the things that we thought we’d lost. This is an invocation, we are weaving a call to climate action. The clock is ticking. Are you on board for change?

Made in collaboration with scientists from the Environmental Research Institute at UCC, and inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s Not Too Late, Change explores hope in the face of adversity. Building resilience through connection, diversity and community, Change reveals personal experiences and feelings precipitated by these unprecedented times.

• Choreographer Tara Brandel with the dancers
• Dancers Yves Lorrhan, Oran Leong, Rachel Paul, Andrea Williams, Bobbi Byrne.
• Additional dancers for research Alex Legrain, Tanya Turner, Yumi Lee, Rocio Dominguez, Justine Cooper, Anderson da Souza.
• Composer and Sound design Benji Bower
• Set and Costume Design Deirdre Dwyer
• Lighting design Alan Mooney
• Dramaturgy Lou Cope
• Script Tara Brandel, the dancers, and direct quotes from Rebecca Solnit, Christiana Figueres, Arundhati Roy, Marie Annaise Heglar
• Producer Gwen van Spÿk
• Company and Production Manager Gearoid O'hAllumhráin
• Social Media Oran Leong

As Uilinn Dance Company in Residence, Croí Glan is very generously supported by Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre. Funded by the Arts Council with additional funding by Luail - Ireland’s National Dance Company, through a contribution to Research and Development of Change in 2024. With further support from Dance Cork Firkin Crane, UCC Environmental Research Institute and UCC Theatre Department.

Croí Glan, led by Artistic Director Tara Brandel, is an award winning Contemporary Dance Company celebrating diverse bodies on stage, and a flagship company for EDI with a case study in the new Arts Council’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit. Creating 22 works since 2006, Croí Glan has toured nationally and internationally: highlights of the company’s body of work include Liz Roche's An Outside Understanding (Dublin Dance Festival 2013, nominated Best Performers Dublin Fringe), the multi award winning short film Armour Off! (in collaboration with Invisible Thread, Caroline Bowditch and Linda Fearon), Tara Brandel’s Sputnik for the Unlimited Festival/Cultural Olympiad London Southbank 2012, and David Bolger's On the Wall (performed in 25 locations including Miami, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Barcelona, Bern, and Turku). Croí Glan’s most recent productions include TILT, an integrated aerial dance show (Cork Midsummer Festival, Tipperary Dance Festival and Dancer from the Dance Festival); In Place a site specific performance made for IMMA; and Unseen a multidisciplinary duet looking at plankton and enduring love (Uillinn Dance Season, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, and Mermaid Arts Centre).

Croí Glan is EDI Company in Residence at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre 2022-25.