Local Tipperary arts centre set to host unique sugar-themed performance

Dancing from Archives, a Brussels-based artistic platform that creates work at the crossroads of industrial architecture, site relevant performance practice and working-class heritage, is hosting a series of events here at The Source Arts Centre.

This includes workshops, discussions, community activities, rounding off with a performance of dance piece Chapter 1: SUGAR.

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The event will take place from Wednesday, February 26, to Saturday, March 1.

Tickets for the performance cost €10, with the workshops being free of charge.

During the week, the local community is invited to actively contribute to building an archive of information that explores Tipperary’s post-industrial and working-class heritage.

The materials and stories gathered during this process will be featured in the final dance event.

‘Chapter 1: SUGAR’ develops from dancing from archives, a platform which connects industrial architecture, site-specific creation, and working-class heritage and dance practice and research.

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The piece brings the research into the production systems, machines, movements, and social landscape of the sugar factory into the body and physicality of two performers.

The workshops will be guided by Giulia Vitiello, Artistic Director of dancing from archives.

Vitiello is an Italian born theatre maker, choreographer, performance designer and researcher.

Supported by danscentrumjette, Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, La Fonderie Brussels, The Source Arts Centre.

More info available online at www.thesourceartscentre.ie.