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Coming soon:
WHITE DOVES: a ballet (2023)
Produced by Six Dance Collective
Choreography: Ruaidhri Maguire
Premiere: 3-5 August 2023, The MAC, Belfast
Supported by PRS Foundation Women Make Music, Hinrichsen Foundation and RVW Trust.
A music workshop clip:
DEAR FRANCES: a one act ballet (2019)
Choreography: Ruaidhri Maguire
Dear Frances is a ballet for chamber orchestra which explores themes of mental health and sexual consent through the life of Frances Shea, the young 60s woman who became wife to notorious London gangster, Reggie Kray.
The piece premiered in London in 2019, conducted by Jonathan Mann and performed by dancers of the Baltic Opera Ballet.
BUTTERFLIES
'Meeting' pas de deux
THROUGH HIS GAZE: three songs for tenor and harp (2020)
Through His Gaze is a deconstruction of three poems by W. B. Yeats, exploring the speaker's simultaneous adoration and resentment of women.
The set was commissioned by the 2020 Presteigne Festival, supported by the Musicians Company and performed by Bradley Smith and Oliver Wass at Presteigne Digital.
"Through repetition and emphasis, the songs cast a revealing light on the texts’ male
perspective, repeated phrase patterns emphasising their obsessive character."
- MUSICAL OPINION
The piece begins at 15:50.
I AM LEDA (2021/22)
A non-verbal retaliation to depictions of nonconsensual sex in classical and contemporary culture.
Commissioned by the National Concert Hall and Sounding the Feminists as the recipient of the 2021 emerging Commissioning Award.
Premiere: Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, October 2022.
SISTERHIVE (2021)
Inspired by female bees, Sisterhive is an exploration of perceived femininity and fertility.
Commissioned by Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble in 2021 supported by the PRS Foundation Talent Development Partnership
Conductor: Sinead Hayes
Violin: Joanne Quigley McParland
Bass Clarinet / Clarinet: Sarah Watts
Cello: David McCann Amelia Clarkson:
