New dance piece puts best foot forward for the birth of a nation
BY NOW we have had almost every possible interpretation of 1916 and what it meant to this country. On Triumph and Trauma, however, receiving its world premiere at Cork’s Firkin Crane this week, looks at the event in a more extended light.
Created and directed by dancer and choreographer Luke Murphy for Attic Projects, this provocative new multidisciplinary dance theatre work is described as both a poetic dedication to a turning point in the nation’s history and a rigorous examination of what Irish identity, politics and nationalism mean today.
