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Join us and travel from instinct to intention using your moving signature: a short physical phrase that carries your body memory, your thoughts, your energy.

This four month-long project begins in the galleries of IMMA where you will take part in a series of Saturday afternoon slow-art tours designed to provoke your senses and deepen your connection with selected works from the museum’s permanent Collection. Then, guided by choreographer and filmmaker Jonathan Mitchell, you’ll respond physically to an artwork that resonates with you to capture your own moving signature, your unique trace.

These moving signatures will be filmed and shared as a series of citizen reviews through IMMA. They will also become the building blocks of a new dance work, co-created during Sunday sessions at CoisCéim Studio. This collective response to the artworks will be performed at IMMA in November and captured in a short dance film.

This collaborative movement-based project is deliberately slow and explores how our lived experience, intergenerational exchange, and creative expression can open up new forms of agency, presence and participation in the museum.

Together, we ask: how might we expand our understanding of health to include the spaces we occupy, the histories we inherit, and our relationships with the natural world? Through movement, we respond not only to the artworks on display, but also to the museum itself, its architecture, its history, and its role as a public space – engaging with place in ways that are grounded, situated, and deeply felt in the body.

This programme is suitable for adults of all ages. No movement, art or museum experience necessary!

 


Key Dates

Event Date & Time
Art as Agency tour with Coisceim Participants Saturday 02 Aug, 10am – 10.45am
Art as Agency Slow Art Tour Saturday 16 & 23 Aug, 10am – 11am
Harvest Festival  Saturday 30 Aug
Final Slow Art Tour Saturday 06 Sept, 10am – 11am
Creative Dance Sessions at CoisCéim Studio Sundays, 14 Sept – 9 Nov
Performance Rehearsal Sunday 19 Oct, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Performance Sunday 16 Nov, 12noon – 1pm

Participation Fees

Pay What You Can, recommended price:  €156*  (Range: €65 – €299). Please register through Inna@coisceim.com

If you can afford to pay the recommended price of €156 or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to take part.

Open to adults aged 18+. No movement, art or museum experience necessary – All welcome!


Programme Partners

Moving Signatures is a new collaboration between CoisCéim Broadreach & IMMA Horizons led by Jonathan Mitchell, CoisCéim Broadreach and IMMA Horizons.

About CoisCéim BROADREACH
CoisCéim, pronounced “Kush Came,” takes its name from the Irish word for “footstep.” Led by David Bolger, a member of Aosdána, it produces exceptional, inclusive, and sustainable dance theatre, in line with its values of integrity, vibrancy, connection, and joy.

Integrated, original and comprehensive CoisCéim’s artform awareness and participation initiatives are run by CoisCéim BROADREACH, which is founded on the principle that dance is a performing art. The activities are pioneering, targeting all sections of the population in an exciting and innovative manner to create a genuine curiosity in dance and to positively influence health, wellbeing and social responsibility. Central to its ethos is to facilitate and enable people to work inventively and imaginatively together, to take creative risks and explore the unknown and to challenge and enjoy themselves. A registered charity, the company is strategically funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, and supported by Dublin City Council, and Culture Ireland.

IMMA HORIZONS
IMMA Horizons aims to contribute to new research and ongoing conversations in Ireland and globally, on how creativity can positively impact health and wellbeing across the life course through programming and partnerships. We provide free, creative, inclusive experiences and events for adults and community groups to meet and explore art together at a relaxed pace, in a sociable and supportive environment that encourages active participation by all. Take time for yourself, engage your senses and stretch your imagination, while discovering new ways of looking at the world and connecting with others, through facilitated experiences at IMMA and online.