Middle End Beginning
Middle End Beginning presents a shifting perspective on dance practice and community. The work attempts to let go of patterning in order to make space for play, for the other and for finding ways to enrich an experience collectively. What do I need, what do you need and what does the shared space need?
“A beginning can allow for a sense of wonder. Give yourself permission to stay with that without defining what it is too quickly. Be in the finding, mine it without suffocating it.”
From Lucia’s notes for Middle End Beginning
photo Steve O’Connor
Destabilised and refueling, Lucia looks to fold the experience of the past year into her dance practice. Middle End Beginning looks at this process of re-tuning creative sensitivity and embraces the idea of powerful softness, in movement and in collaboration. It is a solo dance performance that is in a real-time conversation with a sound artist, writer and lighting designer.
photo Laura O’Loughlin
Middle End Beginning was presented as a live-stream sharing at Modes Of Capture Symposium 2021 in University of Limerick. Performed by Lucia Kickham, Jools Gilson, Craig Cox and Matt Burke.
Commissioned by Liz Roche Company with support from an Arts Council Commission Award.