Luke Murphy -Attic Projects

CATCH8

CATCH8 2023 JUNE 19-26

BOOKING OPEN NOW- EARLY BIRD ENDS APRIL 28

CATCH8 is an intensive programme of workshops focused on training and creation, as well as new opportunities for professional dancers.

Produced and curated by Luke Murphy-Attic Projects, CATCH8 returns for its sixth edition since 2017.

These masterclasses are be taught by national and international leading dance professionals.

Open until fully booked. 25 total participants.

Workshop Fees-

€210.00 EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT for Full Eight Days. ENDS APRIL 28th

€240.00 Full Eight Day Series.

€40/day subject to availability open for booking from MAY 19th.

BOOK ONLINE @ https://firkincrane.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173626620

Please note: This is an intensive workshop series for professional dancers or students in the advanced stages of professional training. Prior to booking, please be aware of the Cancellation Policy.

The CATCH8 Workshop series is supported by a 2023 Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grant Award

2023 FACULTY

Hannes LanGolf

Hannes is a German choreographer, director and performer with a commitment to work that crosses the genres of dance and theatre and creates visceral, relevant and poetic connections with its audiences. 

He has choreographed and directed numerous productions for stage and screen, including “DANDELION” (with Ermira Goro for The Onassis Cultural Center in Athens), “UNRUHE” (for and with the Susanne Linke Dance Company, Germany), and THE FALL (for Orsolina28 and supported by SkyArts). Hannes has recently worked with Lena Dunham, choreographing for the movie “Catherine Called Birdy”, and duetted with Akram Khan in “Breathless Puppets”, an animated film produced during the pandemic by Manchester International Festival. 

Hannes was DV8 Physical Theatre’s first Creative Associate and formed part of the original cast of the critically acclaimed stage productions “To Be Straight With You" (nominated for an Olivier Award), “Can We Talk About This?”, and “JOHN” in which he performed the title role. All three productions, conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson, toured internationally and enjoyed sell-out seasons at The National Theatre, London. He continued his role as Creative Associate as well as being the Tour Director for the much-anticipated re-creation of DV8’s Enter Achilles in 2019/20 (produced by Rambert and Sadler’s Wells).

Furthermore - in a career that has spanned over 20 years - he has collaborated with numerous artists and companies, including William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Wayne McGregor, Ben Duke, Fabulous Beast and Punchdrunk to name a few. He is a celebrated creator and educator working for institutions and organisations across the globe, and he was nominated as one of the 100 most influential and innovative people working across Britain's creative industries by The Hospital Club, London. 

In 2022, Hannes founded MOONWALKING BEAR PRODUCTIONS, a home for his creative ideas, a hub for innovation and collaboration, and a launch pad to support new talent. 

Kristina ALleyne

Alleyne Dance (AD) is a UK based company with an international reach, founded in 2014 by award winning dancers and twin sisters Kristina and Sadé Alleyne. The choreographic aesthetic reflects the sisters diverse background in athleticism and dance training. Within their abstract contemporary construct, Alleyne Dance blend West African, Caribbean, Hip Hop, Kathak and Circus Skills, delivered as fast paced and dynamic movement. They infuse lyrical and fluid motion, layered with rhythm and textures in physically powerful, yet graceful performances.

Alleyne Dance strives for high quality and excellence as the Company delivers its three main objectives: performance, participation and development. The Company has five main works currently being presented: Stage productions A Night’s Game and The Other Side of Me, award-winning film (Re)United and outdoor production BONDED. A new stage production, Far From Home, premiered in Autumn 2022 and is touring throughout 2023. Recently, Alleyne Dance have worked on high profile commissions for renowned Martha Graham Company (USA), Phoenix Dance Theatre (UK), and the Mayor of London’s London Borough of Culture 2022 in Lewisham. Other notable commissions include the 2019 Bench commission with 2Faced Dance Company.  

Mario Bermudez Gill

Mario Bermudez Gil, Artistic Director and Choreographer of Marcat Dance, is a prolific creator who has developed a recognizable movement language known for its dynamic physicality and long-lasting emotional impact. His highly acclaimed works and commissions are performed by Marcat Dance as well as other leading dance companies around the world including the National Dance Company of Spain, the National Dance Company of Wales, Flamenco Star Eva Yerbabuena, Hung Dance Taiwan, Nuovo Balleto di Toscana BDT, and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam.

Prior to Marcat Dance, Mario was a company member of Tel Aviv based Batsheva Dance Company (2012-2016). With Batsheva he performed work by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Hofesh Shechter, and Roy Assaf, and danced in prestigious theaters around the world including the Opera National de Paris (Paris, France), Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.). From 2010-2012 Mario was based in New York City and danced with Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance and Jennifer Muller/The Works. His training began at age 20 when he studied at Centro Andaluz de Danza in Sevilla, Spain from 2008-2010.

Catherine Coury

Catherine Coury is a performer and the creative assistant of Choreographer Mario Bermudez Gil, as well as a Gaga Teacher (Movement language of Ohad Naharin/Batsheva Dance Company) and Ilan Lev Practitioner. She has received multiple awards as an interpreter, including “Best Dancer Award” from Premios PAD in Seville, 2020; was finalist as “Best Female Interpreter” in Premios MAX 2020, and received “Best Dancer” in 2019 from Certamen Coreográfico Distrito de Tetuán. Dedicated to dance education, Catherine frequently teaches at conservatories, universities, and companies around the world and in 2019 launched the first ever Study Abroad Program for the University of Michigan (USA) in Spain in partnership with Marcat Dance. Prior to Marcat Dance, Catherine lived and worked in New York City for five years freelancing with choreographers Shen Wei, Shannon Gillen, Andrea Miller, and Loni Landon. As a performer she toured internationally in venues including the Lincoln Center (NYC), Art Basel (Miami), Festival de Danse (Cannes), and Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre (Moscow), among others. As a dance administrator, Catherine played an integral role in the development of Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance and The Playground NYC. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Catherine received her BFA from the University of Michigan.

LUKE MUrphy

Luke has danced with Ultima Vez from 2014-2018 touring internationally in productions of In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, Booty Looting and Spiritual Unity and Punchdrunk since 2009, performing leading roles in the original casts of The Burnt City (‘22-’23), The Third Day-Autumn (HBO/Sky TV 2020) Sleep No More in Shanghai (‘16-‘18), New York City (’11-‘15) as well as productions of The Drowned Man in London and Sleep No More in Boston. In addition he has danced in the companies of Martha Clarke, Kate Weare and Pavel Zustiak, and in projects with Ben Duke, Alexandra Waierstall, John Kelly, John Scott, Luca Silvestrini, Jonah Bokaer, Bill T Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company and others. With his own company, Attic Projects, Luke has created and produced eleven evening length works since 2012- touring throughout Ireland, UK, Germany and US. He has been supported by Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grant Awards since 2018 and is currently dance artist in residence and dance curator at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre. Luke's most recent project, a four part live performance mini-series Volcano premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in September 2021. Luke is currently Artist-in-Residence at Dublin Dance Festival 2023-2025.

Tamara Gvozdenovic

Born in Serbia, raised in Switzerland, Tamara studied in London before settling in Brussels where she is now based. Many personalities with whom she worked affected her way of approaching dance in the on-going contemporary process of materializing the medium, notably Rosemary Butcher, Simon Vincenzi, Franck Chartier & Gabriela Carrizo (Peeping Tom). Since 2016 she has been collaborating closely with the Swiss based choreographer Tabea Martin as a dancer and as an assistant choreographer with whom she has found a common ground to explore the many facets of dance-theatre. Working as an independent artist and performer, she is leading her research of the “ma” in the field of dance through her teaching, her performing and creations around the globe under the name of Le Facteur (The Postman in French). Le Facteur was born from the inspiration and the desire to bring creators together around common artistic values and hybrid performance formats. Based between Belgium, France and Switzerland, Le Facteur develops a structure that reflects on the relationship between different mediums being mostly dance and experimental music. Several questions then arise about the place of the body, the sensory, the language or the matter in the themes the artists from the collective develop through their productions and their exchanges during their workshops

Cree Barnett Williams

A graduate of Rambert School in London, Cree has worked in contemporary dance and dance theatre for over a decade, first as a freelance dancer and teacher in the UK and then as a member of the Johannes Wieland company at the State Theater Kassel. Most recently on stage Cree has worked with Christopher Roman (US/DE), Marina Mascarell (ES/NL), Elisabeth Schilling (DE/LU), Johannes Wieland (DE/US), as well as appearing on film in Issey Miyake’s “Rhizome” choreographed by Holly Blakey, Punchdrunk’s ‘The Third Day: Autumn’ (HBO/Sky Arts) and short film “Change” choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Her choreographic works have been seen at theatres and festivals including Staatstheater Kassel, The Place London, b12 Festival Berlin, Mayfest Bristol, London’s Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre and Sadler's Wells’ Lillian Baylis Studio. Cree has also moderated talks around intersectionality for Berlin b12 Festival’s “deep space” and “critical mass” platforms and believes the discussion and interview formats to be critical in connecting us as individuals through our experiences while also challenging the structures of dance and the arts.

Emily Terndrup

Emily Terndrup is a performer and movement director working in dance, theater, and film. She has spent much of the past decade working with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk in 'The Burnt City' (2022, London) and ’Sleep No More' (2012-2019, New York/Shanghai) as a performer and rehearsal director. She has served as a movement director on Yael Farber’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (The Almeida Theatre, 2021) and My Brilliant Friend (The National Theatre of Iceland, 2021) and was nominated for “Best Choreography & Stage Movement” at the Gríman Awards (the National Icelandic Theatre Awards). Emily has also collaborated and performed with choreographers Andrea Miller, Bobbi Jene Smith, Luke Murphy-Attic Projects, Shannon Gillen + Guests, and Gregory Dolbashian. With collaborator Derrick Belcham, she has choreographed, directed, and produced three evening-length dance theater works: FABLE (2015), DEBUT (2014), and The Wilder Papers (2014) at the Knockdown Center in New York. Together, Belcham and Terndrup have created music videos for The Antlers, My Brightest Diamond, Marissa Nadler, White Prism, BLKKathy, and Mary Lattimore. Emily’s other choreographic projects have been presented at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (D.C), Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater (NY), The Knockdown Center (NY), The Packing House (CO) and Supercinema (NY). 

Sean Curran

Seán Curran’s career in the arts spans 35 years, beginning with traditional Irish step dancing as a child in Boston. A sought-after choreographer and director for opera and theatre, notable projects include Salome (Opera Theatre of St. Louis, San Francisco Opera, Opera Montreal, San Diego Opera); Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream for The Shakespeare Theater; Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Shalimar the Clown, Ariadne on Naxos, Nixon in China, and Daughter of the Regiment at Opera Theater of St. Louis; NYC Opera productions of L'Etoile, Alcina, Turandot, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Capriccio, and Acis and Galetea; Shakespeare in the Park's As You Like It; the Metropolitan Opera’s Romeo and Juliette; and on Broadway in James Joyce's The Dead, Cymbeline, and The Rivals at Lincoln Center Theater. A graduate of New York University, Curran now serves as Arts Professor and Chair of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance. As a dancer, he is known for his early performance work with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, receiving a “Bessie” award for his role in Secret Pastures, and as an original New York City cast member of STOMP! His 30 choreographic works for his contemporary dance ensemble, Seán Curran Company, are characterized by collaborations across artistic genres and have toured to nearly 100 venues in the U.S., Europe and Asia with seasons in New York City at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, The Guggenheim Museum, New Victory Theater, 92nd Street Y/Harkness Dance Project, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, Central Park Summerstage, and Celebrate Brooklyn. Seán Curran Company’s highly regarded service to the field includes donation of performances and classes to the American Civil Liberties Union NYC Chapter, Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Residence (a safe house for LGBTQ youth), Dancers Responding to AIDS and the Hetrick-Martin Institute. 

ARCHIVED SEASONS

Catch8 Faculty 2018

Maxine Doyle, Tamara Gvozdenovic, Elie Tass, Jacquelyn Eldar, James Finnemore, Oona Doherty, Liz Roche, Pavel Zustiak, Ian Garside, Luke Murphy

Catch8 Faculty 2017

Maxine Doyle, Alex Iseli, Maria Nillsson Waller, Emma Martin, Isael Mata, Moritz Ostruschnjak, James Finnemore, Jose Agudo, Luke Murphy, Jack Webb

Catch 8 2019 Faculty

Oona Doherty, Ian Garside, Dimitri Jourde, Lea Tiribasso, Fearghus O’Conchuir, Lali Ayguade, Alex Iseli, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Maria Kolegova, Luke Murphy

CaTCH 8 2021 FACULTY

Emma Martin, Eddie Bruno Oroyan, Luke Murphy, Ursula Robb, James Finnemore

Catch 8 2022 FACULTY

Lucia Kickham, Hugh Stainer, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Juliette Valerio, Sarah Reynolds. Philip Connaughton, Karolina Szymura, German Jauregui. Luke Murphy