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Liz Roche Company

Top Floor, 69 Dame Street, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin

T + 353 (01) 679 4962 E admin@lizrochecompany.com W www.lizrochecompany.com

Liz Roche Company has been presenting evocative and compelling contemporary dance on Irish and International stages for over 15 years. Unanimously appreciated for its physicality, poetic strength and the cleverness of its intuitive collaborations with other art-forms, the company has become a leading light in the development of contemporary dance in Ireland. Currently Company-in-Residence at Dublin Dance Festival and the Civic Theatre, the work itself explores themes of shared memory, image, embodiment, migration, politics and family, connecting itself to poetry, visual art and literature as sources of inspiration. 

In 2015 the company premiered Bastard Amber, a co-production between the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Dance Festival. It was a historic moment for dance in Ireland, the first time ever for an Irish choreographer to be commissioned to create a full length dance work for the main stage of Ireland’s National Theatre. 

New dance programmes are created every season and older ones re-staged and toured. Supported by the Arts Council and also by Culture Ireland, the company has performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Memorial Church, New York,  Brisbane Powerhouse and Dance Bites Festival Sydney, Australia, Massachusetts International Festival of Art, The South Bank Centre London, LEAP Festival Liverpool, DanceBase Edinburgh, Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Festival De La Nouvelle Danse Uzes and The Irish Arts Festival Beijing. 

The company supports associate dance artists to develop their skills and make new work. They have been Katherine O'Malley 2011 - 18 and now, Lucia Kickham 2018/19. Each year we also run a Tenderfoot programme which invites younger dancers to work with the company during research and development of new work. 

Liz Roche Company TEAM

Artistic Director Liz Roche
Company Manager Moyra D'Arcy
Company Development Manager Catherine Nunes

PRODUCTIONS BY Liz Roche Company

  • I/Thou by (Cork Opera House 2018)

  • Pilgrimage by ( 2018)

  • NÄHER…. CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER by ( 2018)

  • WRoNGHEADED by ( 2017)

  • Totems by ( 2017)

  • Time Over Distance Over Time by ( 2016)

  • Bastard Amber by Liz Roche (Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach 2015)

  • Neither Either by Liz Roche ( 2014)

  • Interloper by Liz Roche (Samuel Beckett Theatre 2014)

  • Body and Forgetting by Liz Roche ( 2013)

  • GALLERY

  • Bastard Amber
    I/Thou
    NÄHER…. CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER
    I/Thou
    I/Thou
    I/Thou
    NÄHER…. CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER
    NÄHER…. CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER
    WRoNGHEADED
    Totems
    I Thou at Cork Opera House
    I Thou at Cork Opera House
    I Thou at Cork Opera House

  • VIDEOS

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    © Paddy Cahill

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    © Luca Truffarelli

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    © Alan Gilsenan

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    © Luca Truffarelli

Playography
Stage and Screen Design Ireland

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