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NEW 2024 INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONED ARTIST
ABBY Z & THE NEW UTILITY
AUDITION OPPORTUNITY
Upon receiving the Arts Council Ireland’s 2023 Commission Award, Irish Modern Dance Theatre has commissioned in partnership with Dance Cork Firkin Crane and Dance Ireland, international dance artist, Abby Zbikowski to create a new highly physical work for 6 dancers from varying movement trainings and ethnic backgrounds that currently call Ireland home. Abby Z (Zbikowski) is a Polish-American choreographer who has studied and worked extensively in the Germaine Acogny’s legendry ‘Ecole des Sables’ African Dance Academy in Senegal. Abby Z will be in residence with Irish Modern Dance Theatre throughout 2024.
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Auditions for Abby's new work will take place:
Sunday 10th March | Liffey Trust Studio 117- 126 (Upper Sheriff Street , Dublin 1, D01 YX93) | 12:30pm- 4:30pm
Monday 11th March | Drop Studio (5 Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1, D01 V03Y) | 11:00am- 3:00pm
This new work will be Abby Z’s latest work on a ten year trajectory of creating highly physical, collaborative dance works that force audiences and dancers to reckon with the collision of cultures that vibrate throughout the practice of dance in this contemporary moment, and manifest a path towards equity that supports the necessary evolution of the world via the practice of dance. Throughout the process of creation Abby Z physically challenges assumed conventions of form and work towards re-imagining known outcomes as a way to challenge the systems we cling to for understanding.
