Aerial Dance Performances and Art Installation by Katie Joyce Holmes
Ticketed performances Fridays – Sundays are €10 per ticket.
https://www.courthousearts.ie/booking
Performance times are as follows:
Friday 28th August: 2pm and 6pm
Saturday 29th August: 2pm and 6pm
Sunday 30th August: 2pm and 6pm
Friday 4th September: 2pm and 6pm
Saturday 5th September: 2pm and 6pm
Sunday 6th September: 2pm and 6pm
Performance Tickets are extremely limited so booking in advance is essential.
Each performance is approximately 20 minutes
Wearing a mask is mandatory at The Courthouse Arts Centre
Children under 9 can avail of a free slot if accompanied by an adult paying a full price ticket. Please email bookings@courthousearts.ie to avail of one of these free child spaces. There is a limit of 2 child spaces per show.
THRESHOLD RITUAL HAUNTING is an immersive aerial dance installation and performance created by Katie Joyce Holmes, Artist in Residence at the Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely.
Joyce Holmes, is from Ballymanus, lives in Tinahely and has been Artist-in-Residence at the Courthouse since 2018. She has created a multi-dimensional performance art piece inspired by her local ecology, local theologies, ideas of home, ritual, lineage and natural devotion.
The show involves a scheduled aerial dance performance and a permanent immersive art installation to create an experience that explores how we can untie our anchors to the past to be fully present in the multiplicities of now.
The installation and performances will cycle over a 3-week period for a show that has taken anything from 10 years to 3 years to 4 months to create.
Combining aerial dance and a large-scale projected animation in collaboration with Bray artist Liing Heaney, the installation also involves poetry, 2D and 3D art pieces and music. THRESHOLD RITUAL HAUNTING invites you to immerse yourself in our new worlds, its new rituals and new god/desses for the duration of their visit. Using the tenets of prayer, repetition, rhythm, movement and feeling you will be transported to a place in the right now.
Ambitious and experimental in its realisation and its production, this will be The Courthouse’s first in-house production, a fruitful harvesting of a residency in partnership with Katie, since 2018. The show is produced by Cultural Producer Maeve-Ann Austen and was funded by The Arts Council of Ireland, Wicklow County Council Arts Office and Creation Aerial.
Katie Joyce Holmes is an artist whose work was originally in poetry and text, but in the past 5 years has embraced aerial dance, dance and visual art. Her current interests lie in ritual, devotion, environment, ecology, theology and the cycles, repetitions, rhythms and tensions inherent in all of these worlds, tangible and intangible. The local environment and landscape of the South Wicklow hills and uplands are an essential element in all of her work.
She has previously created work in the Dublin Fringe Festival, and in various art projects, collaborations and residencies around Ireland. Katie is Associate Artist at Creation Aerial in Dublin.
For the performances audience members will be taken by staff and placed in their socially distanced places to remain there for the duration of the performance. Masks will be provided and sanitisation will take place before entry to the Courthouse.