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ABSTRACT
Speckled Egg Dance was established in Galway, Ireland, in 2013, to facilitate opportunities for learning disabled dance artists to develop semi-professional dance skills and independent choreographic practice. The company aims to contest normative perceptions of learning disabled dance ability, and to make learning disabled dance aesthetics visible through public performance. Referencing the dancers’ own descriptions of their choreographic process, this discussion of two of the company’s recent projects, ‘The Barna Pier Solos’ and ‘Loop Head: Dreams of My Life’ explores landscapes of the West of Ireland, and the dancers’ own bodies, as sites of their agency as learning disabled artists.
Cited interviews
Faherty, Damien. Interview with Rachel Parry. Personal interview. Galway, Ireland. 5th June 2016.
Hickey, Richard. Interview with Rachel Parry. Personal interview. Galway, Ireland. 14th November 2015.
O’Connell, James. Interview with Rachel Parry. Personal interview. Galway, Ireland. 6th April 2016.
O’Connell, James. Interview with Rachel Parry. Personal interview. Galway, Ireland. 8th April 2016.
O’Connell, James. Interview with Rachel Parry. Personal interview. Galway, Ireland. 17th April 2016.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes on contributor
Rachel Parry is a PhD student at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research is an inquiry into non-narrative choreographic approaches, in particular the legacy of Judson Dance Theatre, in current international learning disabled dance and choreographic practice. She is artistic director of Speckled Egg Dance, Galway, Ireland.