Past work

2010

12 Steps

Premiere: Wed November 24th 2010
George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland
12.30pm / Free admission

little Time / little Space

Saturday October 2nd 2010 as part of Transversal
at Block T, Smithfield Square, Dublin 7
Tickets e11

'Some expandance evening...'

Featuring four works never seen in Ireland: Tributaries, Making Change, Chi'il Bel Sogno, and little Time / little Space.

Saturday 17th July 2010 at 8pm

Dance Theatre of Ireland
Bloomfields, Lower Georges St., Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Free / Donations welcome

Please RSVP to Dance Theatre of Ireland, 01-280 3455, info@dancetheatreireland.com

Tributaries

Wednesday 28th April 2010 at 7pm

A sweet, rambunctious and vulnerable foray into the lives of a choreographer, a dancer and a clown... who just happen to share the same body.

Rachel's solo 'Tributaries' shown NYC for Emerging Artists Theatre's ILLUMINATING ARTISTS: New Works Series 'One Woman Standing' Festival in April.

TADA! Theatre
15 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

Tickets are $10 in advance and available here.

2009

April: Making Change - A piece about change, and making it - Making Change is about facing an uncertain future with little more in our pockets than trust.

Choreography / Rachel Wynne
Dance / Christina Noel Reaves
Music / Josh Ritter with Blake Hazard
Props / The U.S. Mint

1st performance at Brooklyn Arts Exchange Upstart Festival April 4th 2009. 2nd performance as part of Dance New Amsterdams' Visa Voices platform, April 2009.
3rd performance at Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dun Laoghaire, July 2010 - as a trio with ChristinaNoel Reaves, Rachel Wynne and Alicia Christfi-Walshe performing.

April: 'Fountain piece' - Christina Noel Reaves & Rachel Wynne take part in 60x60 Dance at Galapagos Arts Space, Brooklyn, New York. 60 seconds of dance, 60 choreographers.

January: 'Trio with Invisible Third' - the second installment, is performed simultaneously by Laurie Schneider in Cois Ceim studios, Dublin, and Rachel Wynne / Alicia Christofi-Walshe as part of Movement Research's ongoing Open Performance series in Dance Theater Workshop studios, NYC. This time, the three connected via Skype line so audiences could hear performers in the corresponding city.

Other 2009 news: Dublin Absolut Fringe 09 accepted a full length version of Making Change into the 2009 festival programme. We were unable to participate owing to a lack of funding. Thank you to those of you who helped us in our application process.

2008

November: 'Short attention sp...' premieres at 60x60Dance at the World Financial Center, New York City, earning us a positive mention in The New York Times review of the show - one of only four choreographers (out of sixty) who are mentioned.

September: Untitled works-in-progess piece shown at Greenspace's Fertile Ground Series, New York City

September: We perform a Magic Moment happening as part of Dublin Fringe Festival - 18 people dance wildly outside the Spiegeltent to the B52s 'Rock Lobster' for exactly 1 minute, then resume their pre-show drinks.

July: 'This is what she sees' is reworked as a solo for Dance New Amsterdam's "Works in Progress" series in New York City.

July: 'Trio with Invisible Third' premieres at the second Project Brand New in Dublin. Two company members (Rachel & Laurie) dance on stage in Dublin while the third (Alicia) simultaneously dances the same piece in Queens, NYC - the three connected by friendship and a phone line.

January: 'This is what she sees' premieres at the first Project Brand New at The Project Theatre, Dublin.

Choreography / Alicia Christofi-Walshe
Dance / Alicia Christofi-Walshe & Laurie Schneider
Props / Fred Walshe

2007

April: 'Sephiroth / The Forest Piece', a site-specific work for Shawbrook Forest, is performed as part of LD Dance Fest 07.

Febuary - April: expandance perform in several Genesis Project Showings at The Lab and Dance House, Dublin

2006

October: At the Irish Choreographers' New Works Platform in Dublin, expandance is founded, and Rachel, Alicia and Laurie perform with Karl Sullivan at the ICNWP showcase