Irish World Academy: The SlowMo Experience

The SlowMo Experience took place the week of the 14^th of November at the Irish World Academy with student of the BA Contemporary Dance and MA Contemporary Dance Performance programmes. This included a lecture, choreographic workshop, and performance. 

SlowMo is a choreographic concept by Instant Dissidence: a work which is re-created every time that it is performed. Instant Dissidence is an Ireland-based company directed by Rita Marcalo. It is her way of bringing different artists together, in different combinations, to realise different ideas: through Instant Dissidence Rita invents ways of offering other people art experiences and solve creative problems. Instant Dissidence is also a socially-engaged and ecologically-engaged company: they foreground the role that dance/choreography can play as a social engine; we are ‘artivists’ who believe in the power of connecting art and social consciousness.

The third Sustainable Alliance Against Anti-Muslim Hatred research ‘pop-up’ at the Laois Network conference in Portlaoise took place recently.