Weekly Class with Aoife Desmond

Aoife Desmond will teach two classes, one during her residency this January, and one the following Thursday. These classes will be based on improvisation techniques influenced by training in butoh, body weather, somatic movement and physical theatre. A gentle warm up will lead into group, partner and solo work developing internal imagery and collective responsiveness.

Aoife Desmond is a filmmaker, visual artist and performer whose work prioritises embodied knowledge and explores materiality, site and human/non-human relationships. She works in response to environmental crises and rupture with an emphasis on restorative practices. Based in Cork, Aoife works locally, nationally and internationally both on solo and collaborative projects. Solo and collective performances have been presented at Global Water Dances Glucksman Gallery UCC, Dublin Fringe Festival, Intermedia Cork, Infusion Limerick and with Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett presented by Theatre Gare Lazarre. She trained and performed with Torifune Butoh Sha, Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin. Her films / art works have been shown in festivals such as Lima Alterna, Peru, Dissolutions Festival, Dublin, Out of Focus, Kilkenny, Marienbad Film Festival Czech Republic, Cork International Film Festival, aCinema Milwaukee, Experiments in Cinema Albuquerque, Cornwall Film Festival, Wildscreen Galway, Tulca Festival Galway, EVA Limerick and galleries / museums such as ICA London, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Temple Bar Galleries Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin, Galway Arts Centre, Crawford Art Gallery Cork, Fragil Gallery, Madrid, Galerie Fin Avril, Paris, Whitespace, Bangkok, National Sculpture Factory Cork, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Four Gallery, Dublin, Pallas Projects, Dublin.