Dance: David Bolger and his company turn events and people from Irish political and social history into a layered overview of 100 years of the Republic
Palimpsest review: Emigration, Charvet shirts and the Anglo tapes – CoisCéim powerfully evokes Ireland’s past and present
For his dance Bolger has taken events and people from Irish political and social history and created a layered overview of the first 100 years of the Republic. And if history is why we are who we are, then he finally questions how these events have created our present identity. Are the layers of the past visible in our present?
Similarly, historical episodes are summoned from memories. The infamous “living way beyond our means” television broadcast by Taoiseach Charles Haughey is played alongside dancers measuring Charvet shirts, popping champagne bottles and showing off yachts and racehorse saddles.
These collective and individual memories are presented without a narrative arc or chronology: Bolger is happy to let each viewer create individual histories. But he is not entirely dispassionate. Anger is clearly evident in the duet by Alex O’Neill and Mateusz Szczerek set to the Anglo Irish Bank tapes, where executives talk nonchalantly about losses of tens of billions of euro.
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