The Vintage Residency | Jools Gilson, Cindy Cummings, Mary Nunan & Bebe Miller

It only seems like a whisper ago that The Vintage was causing trouble at Dance Cork Firkin Crane in May 2022. They are back in April 2023, a bit beside themselves with excitement about their week of mentorship with (O my goodness!) Bebe Miller! Still performing and touring at age 71, Bebe is one of the defining choreographic voices of her generation. Her dance theatre adventures combine feminism, race and identity politics in ways that we hope will rock our collective boat. What trouble might we unlearn with such wise and powerful support, and what better trouble might we make?

There will be a public sharing in the Smurfit Studio on Friday 28 April, 6pm.

The Vintage is a bit like an upmarket charity shop for older dancers, except with better cake. We are fine and extraordinary women, with a decade or four of experience in professional dance and choreography in Ireland, in which we have mostly been very well behaved, and we are seriously done with that. It is our conviction that wise (and perhaps wizened) older women have a bad rap in fairy tales for a good reason. The Vintage are Jools Gilson, Mary Nunan and Cindy Cummings and we are interested in embroidery and irreverence. Well irreverence anyway.

Made possible by an Arts Council Agility Award.