Slow Tide, an outdoor dance performance by Luke Murphy and Attic Projects

Slow Tide by Luke Murphy and Attic Projects is performed by Hannah Rogerson and Diarmuid Armstrong.

Sunday 24 July 2022 at 2:00 pm and 4:00pm

Liss Ard Estate Lake

Duration 20 - 25 mins

Prebook lunch or afternoon tea here: lissardestate.ie/restaurants-skibbereen

Tours of James Turrell's Irish Sky Garden will also be available during the afternoon.

Alone while surrounded, confined in open air, free yet hesitant to step, Slow Tide explores a sea of contradictions through the lens of two figures cast away.

Stepping away from the controlled world of the theatre, Luke invites audiences to step into the open as two performers brave the world around them. A meditation on emerging, falling and floating, creating an otherworldly physical poem around themes of time, place, isolation and perseverance.

Director and Choreographer: Luke Murphy

Created by: Luke Murphy and Will Thompson

Performed by: Hannah Rogerson and Diarmuid Armstrong

Producer: Gwen Van Spÿk

Production Manager: Austin Lawler

Surrounded by the estate's beautiful woods, trails and gardens, contemplative and reflective, the show is a poem in movement, an opportunity to step away from the everyday, to enjoy being outdoors in nature, to take in the atmosphere and give some space to thinking and feeling, to be inspired and refreshed what by you see and hear.

Attic Projects is supported by Arts Grant Funding from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. We extend special thanks to the owners and management at Liss Ard Estate for supporting the project and facilitating our time on the lake and in the grounds.

Originally from Cork, Luke Murphy is a performer, director and choreographer. He is West Cork Dance Artist in Residence at Uillinn 2021-2022. He has performed with Punchdrunk (2009-2022) in the UK, US and China, Ultima Vez (2014-2018) and many others. Luke founded Attic Projects in 2014 as an umbrella for his various independent projects in dance, film and theatre. Luke’s work has been presented across Ireland, the UK, Germany and the USA, and has been supported with commissions, awards and residencies from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Culture Ireland, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, Kaatsbaan International Dance Centre, Lamama Moves NYC, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Irish Arts Centre, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, DanceBase Edinburgh, Tanz Tendendz Munich, b12 Berlin amongst others. Luke’s most recent production for Attic Projects – Volcano – premiered, was a hit at Galway International Arts Festival in August 2021 and went on to win four Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Winner of Best Production at the 2021 Irish Times Theatre Awards for our production of Volcano. “Original, complex and skillful… It makes for an intense, thought-provoking and exhilarating experience”. The Irish Times on Volcano.