Painting the Canvas

A family performance - recommended age 5 years.

Have you ever considered the essence you bring when you enter a room? What is left when you leave? Does it have colour, does it have sound? Does it make you move?

Painting the Canvas explores listening and moving with and without crayons. It includes projection and atmospheric sounds that ignite moments of colourful and playful imagination.  

The piece features Echo Echo Ensemble artist Tonya Sheina with her daughters Dara Sheina-Batts (11years) and Mira Sheina-Batts (8years) and Echo Echo Ensemble artist Ayesha Mailey with her daughter Naya Duffy (7years).

It also features multi-instrumentalists Amanda Koser and Stephanie Pawula. With lights by Barry Davis. 

Created in collaboration with Maria Svensson. 

Duration: approximately 30 mins including a short movement workshop.

Made possible thanks to an Arts Council Dance Bursary Award and Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company.  

Performances

Schools Outreach - Thursday 26th and Friday 27th January shows at 10.30am & 1pm

Public Performances - Saturday 28th January at 12 noon & 4pm | Echo Echo Studios

Tickets

Tickets £5 Adult £3 Child

(This is a sit down performance - recommended age for children is 5years - Although if your child is younger but able to sit and watch show for around 20 minutes they are welcome too!!)

About the Artists

Maria Svensson

Maria Svensson is a dance artist with over 15 years experience performing and creating work as well as teaching and organising events. She is artistic director of the solo dance festival Going Solo Together which takes place biannually in Örebro, Sweden and has taught in numerous Primary Schools around Ireland and Sweden. Maria has collaborated with Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company on various projects since 2015 and shares the company’s ethos and approach towards movement and dance, which enriches the work that she does with both children and professionals. In 2020 Maria received Dance Ireland’s HATCH Award as well as a Dance Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Both awards supported Maria in her research and development which culminated in the intergenerational project Painting the Canvas. For more information about Maria and her work please visit www.mariasvensson.com.

Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement 2023 

Friday 27th January - Saturday 11th February 2023

Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, Waterloo House, Magazine Street, Derry-Londonderry BT48 6HH

Programme

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Accessibility information

Echo Echo Studios are accessed via rear entrance to Waterloo House at Hangman's Bastion, Magazine Street. The centre is fully accessible. Please note both studio spaces and gallery are accessible via stairs or platform lift.

If you have a specific accessibility query please contact us in advance by email: info [at] echoechodance.com or phone: 02871308883.

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Festival Supporters

Thanks to Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The National Lottery through ACNI, Derry City and Strabane District Council Headline Events Fund, The Foyle Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation.

Thanks to Echo Echo Festival Presents Tradition and Beyond partners and supporters including Department for Tourism Culture Arts Gaeltacht Sport and Media, Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin and Siamsa Tíre. 

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