territorial claims

Daghda Dance Company, 1992

Choreography: Mary Nunan
Dancers: Megan Buchannan, Paul Johnson, Clare O’Dea, Paris Payne.
Original Music: Composed and performed by Tommy Hayes. Voice: Paul Healy
Costumes: Tanya Power
Lighting: Paul Keogan
Premiere Performance: Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Presented by invitation at Festival Iberamerica de Coreografia Oscar Lopez, Barcelona Caixo,Tarragona, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, Belfast Festival at Queens, South Bank Centre London Tanz-im-August Festival, Berlin, Dance ’95, Munich, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast Gavle Festival, Sweden, Pompidou Centre, Paris, as part of L’Imaginaire Irlandaise Festival.

Clare O’Dea & Mary Nunan. Photographer: Tom Shortt

Daghda Dance Company, 1992

Clare O’ Dea, Paris Payne. Photographer John Comiskey

Megan Buchannan, Clare O’Dea, Paul Johnson. Photographer John Comiskey

Megan Buchannan, Clare O’Dea, Paris Payne. Photographer John Comiskey

Reviews

‘A powerful political piece of dance/physical theatre… a forceful comment on the battle for cultural identity’ – Ashling Duffield, The Irish News

‘One of the highlights [of Springtime Collection, London] was Mary Nunan’s ‘Territorial Claims’… it has a very musical contemporary breakdown born from pure forms of folkdance.’ – Jochen Schmidt, Frankfurter Allgemeine

‘A powerful, hard and virtuoso choreography… to expose the combined brutality and logic of our time.’ – Volker Boser, AZ Feuilleton