Choreography and Performance: Caroline Meaden

Sound Design: Duane Morrison

Dramaturgy: William McBride

Visual Design: Caroline Meaden, William McBride, Ben Cobham and Rob McCredie

Project made possible with in kind support from Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc Moving Forward Residency, Firkin Crane Ceist Residency and Bundanon artist residency.

Images by Jeff Busby, Caroline Meaden and William McBride

‘Immacolata’ is a hypnotic dance work that draws audiences into an intimate, perceptual vortex. Like 'a spool of thread, tightening and unravelling all at once’, the work folds itself into a warped domestic scene. Dreamlike and faintly sinister, it wavers at the edge of no return.

"The clothes of my partner and I steadily pile up onto a chair in the corner of the room. Half-worn, semi-structured and rumpled, they obscure any semblance of formal clarity. I sit and look at it, and impulsively draw shapes - crossing over one another, around again, looping back, no end point, no rest for the pencil. I painstakingly colour in all the little misshapen teardrops, circles and triangles that I can identify, dropping in water to wash the colour around. Thus delineated, they assemble into grotesque and ungainly tumors - born out of the chair itself."

Emerging from a period of personal upheaval, Immacolata engages the body as a complex psychological and performative site, inviting audiences into a reflective encounter with purgatory, haunting and the buried living.

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Writing by Caroline Meaden published on the Lucy Guerin Inc Moving Forward Residents blog

Writing by Andrew Fuhrmann: “… the work demonstrates a rare capacity to generate thought through movement, image, rhythm and atmosphere. Its spare domestic world – at once intimate, disquieting and psychologically charged – gives rise to a rich field of associations around melancholy, agency and ethical life.”