Pan, God of the Wild, travels to the Ocean to dance with the pearl - a freakish hyper-object from a post-natural age.
Mother of Pearl is the second of a twin production created by pioneering artist and aerialist Emily Aoibheann. It explores themes of civilisation and nature, honouring the dismantled natural world sacrificed in the name of human progress.
This new experimental circus production sees bodies perform exceptional but abnormal gestures of human beauty and skill, transforming themselves into geological art-forms with the body becoming a landscape to be cultivated.
Evoking pantheistic and pagan ritual through playful performative gestures, Mother of Pearl is an expression of longing for wildness from within the container of human domesticity, society and civilisation.
Vision and Direction by Emily Aoibheann. Diesgned and Concept by Emily Aoibheann and Liing Heaney. Design realised with James O’Toole, Moz Art and Laura Fajardo. Music composed and created by Emily Aoibheann and performed with Ciaran Byrne and Ronan Jackson. Choreographed by Emily Aoibheann and Megan Kennedy with performers Michael Gillick, Cathi Sell and Becky Nell. Produced by Mitzi D’Alton. Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomairle Ealaíon.
Credits: Associate Director & Sound Design
Images by Emilie Pason, Eoin Kirwan and Liing Heaney