This National Dance Platform Ireland event showcases works in progress by acclaimed choreographer Liz Roche (IRL) and by Jill Crovisier (LUX), artist in residence at Tipperary Dance in partnership with TROIS C-L - Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois.

Sentient by Liz Roche is a collaboration with the composer/saxophonist Nick Roth working with renowned ondes Martenot player, Nathalie Forget. This work explores a comment in Samuel Beckett's Molloy, where he admits his wonder, and also his ‘unknowing’, at the dancing communication of bees. In a space somewhere between social urgency and the wonder of nature, Sentient offers a new interpretation of what it is as a human being to be only one part of our natural world in its vast communicative complexities. The work travels through three atmospheres; exploring vibration, language, and group communication, with the performers adapting collectively to these changing environments.

Jill Crovisier began research on her new project THE GAME RESEARCH at the beginning of 2022. Since then, it has become a highly inclusive project which - through the lens of choreography, movement and sound design - explores the theme of games in different cultures, within different social groups and between individuals. In 2022-23, Jill has conducted THE GAME RESEARCH in Madrid, Luxembourg, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and now in Tipperary. During this period, the artist has worked with groups of professional and non-professional dancers and individuals. This resulted in short live performances, short dance films, experimental sound scores and community building events. The culminating chapter will be THE GAME – GRAND FINALE which will premier in February 2025.
This showcase of THE GAME RESEARCH was supported by two weeks of research and creation at Tipperary Dance as part of Tipperary Dance’s International Exchange Programme, in this case in collaboration with TROIS C-L Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois.

The National Dance Platform Ireland 2023 takes place on the 13th and 14th of October in County Tipperary, in the context of the 14th edition of Tipperary Dance International Festival. The National Dance Platform Ireland is an encounter where Ireland-based dance artists, programmers, curators and promoters are invited to meet. A way of getting to know each other, and reveal the creative energy that bubbles up in this particularly forward-looking country, which is so central to the European Union despite its very peripheral geographical location.