San Francisco International Arts Festival – Croi Glan Dance Co.

Friday May 22nd – Sunday May 24th. San Francisco International Arts Festival, Fort Mason

Three performances by Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company of On The Wall by David Bolger and Gawky and Awkward by Tara Brandel.

Croi Glan creates work “of considerable power and, it must be said, surprise.” The Irish Times

The Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company is a professional contemporary dance company based in Cork, which performs work that includes both disabled and non-disabled dancers. Croí Glan aims to promote the cutting edge artistic value of Integrated Dance by creating high calibre work which can tour nationally and internationally. The company has earned a reputation for its commitment to integrated innovative dance both in its performance and education. It has broken down the barriers for disabled dancers in Ireland, working with esteemed choreographers from Ireland and abroad.

On the Wall is a humorous and poignant trio by choreographer David Bolger that looks at the feelings we have about our place in the world.

Gawky and Awkward is a solo created and performed by Croí Glan’s Artistic Director Tara Brandel that explores one dancers struggle with dyslexia ‘Whether you see dyslexia as a disability or not, it affects your daily life, and you have to get to a place of excepting it for its foibles, what it gives you, and what it takes away – the way it interrupts your life… In that way it is so like Love.’

Fri. 9:30pm, Sat. 3:30pm. Sun. May 24 4:30pm
Firehouse, Fort Mason. Tickets: $20 – $25 General Admission.
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