On the town: Dance-lovers gathered for the opening night of a work by the radical and respected choreographer, Rosemary Butcher, at Dublin's Project Arts Centre this week.
"I'm very excited to come and see her and her work. She's a very famous and very revered British choreographer," said John Scott, choreographer and director of the Irish Modern Dance Theatre, which will present a new production at Project next week, called The White Piece. "They danced it beautifully," he said of the two sisters, Jenny and Liz Roche, directors of the Rex Levitates dance company, who performed Six Frames: Memories of Two Women.
"Bhí sé an-mhaith. Píosa crua a bhí ann (It was very good, a strong piece)," said Fiach Mac Conghail, director of the Abbey Theatre, afterwards.
Donal Shiels, a producer, and chief executive of the St Patrick's Festival, said he found it thought provoking.
"It will stay with me . . . The inter-relationship between the two women was intriguing because they were sisters," he said. "It was like a metaphysical relationship."
Butcher hopes that those who see the production, which continues until tonight, "will question a bit more the nature of the moving body. People can change a little bit. Some will be terribly connected to the piece. Some will not feel that response at all. Some will not forget it".
Among those who came to see the performance were Nik Quaife, publisher of Irish Theatre Magazine, and Eric Fraad, former director of the Ark, the children's cultural centre in Temple Bar, and his wife, singer Caitríona O'Leary.
"It was great to see something by Rosemary Butcher. It was really therapeutic, moving and relaxing," said Aideen Howard, artistic director of the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, Co Wicklow, which will present Six Frames: Memories of Two Women on Thursday, September 1st for one night only.
Six Frames: Memories of Two Women finishes tonight in Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin