Flora Fauna Project Residency

The Peace Process is a Ceist Residency

There will be a Work in Progress Showing Friday 29 August, 6pm

Maria Nilsson Waller will teach a professional class Thursday 18 August, 11am

The Peace Process is a new project and research focusing on the frequencies of peace and war; internal and external, timeless, personal and collective, starting with the body; through choreography, music/sound composition, film and installation.

The Peace Process is a pace-setting space, looking to the natural world and what is reflected back to us by the natural human dancers and artists for rhythm, vibration and momentum. Can we radically relax together in this space? Facing ourselves comes first, and to accompany us all we propose to create both a natural and other worldly simulation that the audience moves through together; where peace and the permission for process is the message being delivered by light, water and the human body masterfully dancing and authentically moving.

Flora Fauna Project is an interdisciplinary dance company and production duo rooted in dance, music and film led by choreographer, performer and designer Maria Nilsson Waller and composer, performer and photographer Stace Gill/The Sei.

The two artists joined forces in 2017 when making the first Flora Fauna stage performance at Dance Ireland's HATCH residency. Since then Flora Fauna Project has grown into a far reaching series of work including stage performance, music release/TV syncs, workshops and talks that focus on nature, natural intelligence, evolution, metamorphoses, time, gender and sexuality, inclusivity, community and social dreaming. It is the artists/directors conviction that the intelligence of dance can offer us much wisdom and unimaginable insights about life together on this earth. Both artists have combined their multi disciplinary practices to build and share immersive sensorial worlds and spaces that call on our bodies and collective imaginations. Nature, we believe, does not lie, what is more trustworthy than the natural world? Than our own natural bodies? These questions form the foundations of their arts practices and research. The body in collaboration with the imagination opens pathways in each of us, and our inter disciplinary and multi sensorial performances are an invitation to open these pathways.

Supported by Irish Arts Council, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Brockagh Resource Centre.