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***This is event is at: Echo Echo Studios, Magazine Street, Derry-Londonderry (Lunchtime Performance)***

Solo Square Dance - Nic Gareiss

'Solo Square Dance' is a one-person percussive dance performance created and performed by Nic Gareiss commemorating the 1935 Irish Dance Halls Act which banned citizens from dancing in homes.

This 60-minute show features new pieces inspired by this and other such dance bans, including the dancing ban in Pound, Virginia (only lifted in 1999!) which required that dancing permits not be granted "to anyone who is not a proper person, nor to a person who is not a person of good moral character."

Set in the round in houses, Solo Square Dance engages traditional and original step dance movement from Ireland, Canada, and Appalachia to explore the dialectic of public/private life, probing the subversive power of dancing bodies. The show begs the question: in light of its historic prohibitions, can dance act as a vehicle of transgression, liberation, and social transformation for our times?

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Waterloo House, Magazine Street,

Derry,

Londonderry,

Northern Ireland,

BT48 6HH.