The Whistle | research and feedback
Darragh McLoughlin
6 - 8 pm, Cork School of Music
Free but booking required. Please contact artsoffice@cit.ie to participate in this unique opportunity to contribute to the development of new work
CIT Arts Office is delighted to announce the upcoming residency, workshop, feedback sessions and performance at CIT by award-winning contemporary circus performer Darragh McLoughlin with his unique audience engaged show, The Whistle.
A developmental period from Tuesday – Thursday will see Darragh working on aspects of 'The Whistle' during the day, with an audience feedback and review session each evening. During his time at CIT, Darragh will use a dedicated space to conduct further experiments to deepen his research and knowledge of the "Whistle Technique".
If interested, during each day a small number of students will be invited to act as research assistants. This will entail documenting the process, and on the floor work in developing new material. Each evening there will be a open feedback session where students/teachers alike are invited to watch new material that Darragh will perform, participate and give feedback.
Darragh is open to creating a potential 6th Chapter involving some of the students during his stay at CIT depending on their level of involvement and enthusiasm.
This is opportunity for participation is open to cIT students and Staff. This event might have a special attraction to anybody who has an interest in the creation and development of interactive work and the spectator / performer relationship.
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The Whistle is a solo production featuring Irish artist Darragh McLoughlin. It uses a cinematographic approach to dramaturgy and experiments with innovative artist-audience relationships. The creation premiered at Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival in September 2014.
The main intention is to merge different ways of creating (drawing from cinema, circus and theatre) and to make use of the audience´s expectations and psychology in surprising ways. All while, between the lines, addressing the themes of rules, trust and obedience in a light, very playful way.
For more information and for full details of events taking place during Darragh's residency please contact:
CIT Arts Office
Admin Building, CIT Bishopstown Campus
021 4335344
THE WHISTLE
SQUAREHEAD PRODUCTIONS
Darragh McLoughlin
"When you hear the sound of the whistle you have to close your eyes.
When you hear it again you may open them."
What if you were at the same time spectator and creator of a piece?
A juggler, a whistle and the audience together create a multitude of moments: Time travel - Déjà vu – Glitches - Fast forward – Rewind - Déjà vu
All without technics or special effects.
A journey through several different hilarious yet often poetic narratives.
Close your eyes!
Open them!
Will you play the game or will you cheat?
Either way you will be played!
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Currently laureate of CircusNext, European scheme coordinated by Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe and supported by the European Commission and receiver of the Circus Project Award administred by the Arts Council of Ireland, Squarehead Productions is a contemporary circus company founded in 2011 by Irish creator / performer Darragh McLoughlin. The company makes use of the liberating potential of creating for the stage by inventing abstract worlds with specific logical frameworks. Applying dramaturgical logic as a centre point to the creative process and transferring cinematographic principles on stage are defining features of the Squarehead Productions aesthetics; researching and focusing on challenging the symbiosis of meaning, purpose and action.
Other creations of the company include A Collection of Tales and Oddities (10 min.) and Fragments of a Mind (60 min.).
DARRAGH MCLOUGHLIN
Darragh is a contemporary circus performer/creator from Ireland. He founded Squarehead Productions in 2011 with the aim of bringing together different contemporary artistic practices. In 2008 he completed a foundations of juggling course in the Jonglier Katakomben in Berlin. In 2012 he graduated with a Bachelor degree from the Academy for Circus and Performance Art (ACAPA) in the Netherlands (including a two month exchange with the Academy of Circus and Variety Arts in Kiev and a minor in creative writing, creating with media, research and psychology of creative processes). Since then he has been performing and teaching in more than ten European countries and has been working to build on his growing network in the contemporary performance world.
For more information about Squarehead Productions / Darragh McCloughlin see www.squareheadproductions.com
https://www.facebook.com/CieSquareheadProductions
