EARTH FALL
MAY 2025
Four people find themselves trapped in a Kafkaesque realm of incomprehensible rules, walls and boundaries and relentless schedules that change without rhyme or reason. Some have been here for months or years, while others have just arrived. Alienated and lacking agency they explore how to survive in this endless limbo. A young girl watches this world unfold. Is she the creator of boundaries or the guiding light towards connection and the helping hand over one precarious threshold to the next?
With a striking theatrical set and original sound score, Earthfall brings together four distinct cultural dance styles from five international performers .
2nd May BALLINA ARTS CENTRE
5th May FACTORY PERFORMANCE SPACE
Directed by Kate Wilson the ensemble are Gaelin Little, Yves Lorrhan, Cynthia Siberry, Robin Cara, and Georgie Sachs Warren.
Offering a joyous fusion of cultural dance this international and intergenerational ensemble ultimately express, without guard, the profound necessity for connection and the deep desire to move without limits.
MEET THE ENSEMBLE
Gaelin Little is a dance maker, performer, therapist, and facilitator based in Norfolk. She is the assistant director and a core performer for Undercurrent. Gaelin holds a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre and an MA in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. With a certificate in person-centred therapy and a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, Gaelin is an ISMETA-registered somatic movement therapist and educator (RSMT/E). Gaelin co-founded the dance quartet Eleven Farrer House. She also a performer for Glass House Dance and co-artistic director of Compass Dance (CIO), creating meaningful dance interactions for people with disabilities.
Yves Lorrhan is a dance artist and choreographer from Northeast Brazil , now based in Ireland. With 26 years of dance experience, he excels in Ballroom, Afro-Brazilian and Contemporary Dance. Over the past five years, he has collaborated with renowned Irish artists, including Philip Connaughton, Alessandra Azevedo, Osaro Adams, and John Scott. He has performed at various festivals and events, both in Ireland and internationally. Yves is one of twelve artists selected for the fourth edition of the Artists Encounter by Aerowaves Europe. Yves was granted the Dance Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland to develop his practice.
Robin Cara is a contemporary circus and dance artist based in London. Originally from Sligo, Ireland she moved to the UK at 17 to study Contemporary Circus Arts in Circomedia, Bristol. Since completing her studies she has worked and taught with various companies around Ireland and the UK such as, Above and Beyond Circus, Fidget Feet, Circomedia, Echo Echo Dance Theatre and Undercurrent Performance.
Her work combines live music, acrobatics, dance and aerial to create stories/performances, her art often has elements of sociopolitical conversation, questioning and inner curiosity.
Cynthia Siberry has been dancing for as long as she can remember—probably before she could walk! After years as a QS, she swapped spreadsheets for dance steps and never looked back. Now, Cynthia shares her love for movement every week, teaching various styles including salsa, jiving, and more with her company Dancefix Ireland. She also loves Southside dance styles from Africa, filled with rhythmic footwork, dynamic moves, and pure soul. For Cynthia dance is about laughter, energy, and sharing joy.
Georgie Sachs-Warren is 9 and based in Leitrim. Like so many nine-year olds Georgie is in love with story in all its forms of creation and absorption - writing, reading, drawing, comics, playing, dancing, imagining. She sees stories in everything. As a home schooler Georgie has the time and space to follow that love, spending hours enthralled in worlds of her own and others making. Georgie also loves mastering her own body movements - climbing trees, cycling, roller blading, making ambitiously intricate models from card and glue. Earthfall is her first opportunity to bring these loves to a performance space where this beautiful team allowed her to playfully participate in and create story together.