The Source in Thurles celebrates fifteen years of Tipperary Dance!

Tipperary Dance co-founded by Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli, is an artist-led non-profit organisation co-founded and directed by Alexandre Iseli, a dance artist and choreographer driven by a particular vision developed over three decades of artistic practice across Europe and the world.

Tipperary Dance develops a year-round programme founded in 2008 to support artists and offer creative dance spaces for our communities.

The year culminates with the Tipperary Dance International Festival which usually kicks off in the second week of October so the much anticpiated event is upon us already.

For this year’s festival The Source are hosting two very special events. First up on Thursday 10th October at 7.30pm we have Alexandra Waierstall's In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Moment which is an open invitation to contemplate, process and, most of all, feel through our times.

Part of an international double bill with From One Skin to Another. This ambitious work, initially inspired by dancers and the “Arena”, a monumental sculpture created by acclaimed American artist Rita McBride in 1997, is performed by the stunning dynamic range of finely attuned dancers, with every movement reflecting how our bodies are adjusting to rapidly changing social structures.

Using her signature style, Alexandra Waierstall engages us with seemingly contradictory emotions, through exquisite collaborations and the layering of thought-provoking references, about place and history.

Next up on Saturday 12th October at 7.30pm we will have ‘After All’ which is a celebration of our vulnerable and courageous existence with dancer Solène Weinachter.

Solène melds dance, comedy, storytelling, and theatre to ask - what happens in the end?

Through a series of impassioned re-enactments of the funerals of those she’s loved - as well as imagining her own - Solène attempts to conjure a better sort of space for all of us to be with death, dying and loss.

‘After All’ is a heartfelt exploration of the death rituals we have - the ones we’ve lost and those that need inventing - joyously bringing us together to explore the role that dancing might play in healing.

Advance tickets for all shows are available online at www.thesourceartscentre.ie Thursday 10th & Saturday 12th October 7.30pm | Tickets €15/€10