Writing, Film, Radio, Dance History, Curation, ACADEMIA, & More…
Deirdre Mulrooney
Happy would-be 112th birthday Lucia Joyce!
My latest BAI-funded feature radio documentary, about Lucia Joyce broadcast on RTE Lyric FM during the week of her July 26th birthday. She would have been turning 112 years old, high time to reclaim the much-misunderstood dancer as an artist in her own right,...
Out There Productions: Film
Deirdre has been awarded many accolades for her films and documentaries, including “1943 – A Dance Odyssey” first broadcast on RTÉ One, “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” which premiered at the Belgrade-Irish Festival and “TRUE NORTH: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8”.
Writing
Deirdre is author of “Irish Moves – an illustrated history of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland” and “Orientalism, Orientation, and the Nomadic Work of Pina Bausch” (her PhD). Deirdre’s latest chapter ‘Erina Brady: Mary Wigman’s Disciple to Ireland?’ is coming out this Autumn in ‘Dance and Modernism’, published by Lexington Press .
Curator
Deirdre has curated many events, exhibitions, and directed many theatre shows, including, most recently, “Mother Tongue” at Kilkee’s Culturlann Sweeney (Nov 23 – Dec 21st, 2018), and at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin, for Culture Night, 2018.
Out There Productions: Radio
Deirdre’s radio documentaries include “Lucia, Sweet Dancer”, “Coosheen’s Forgotten Seanchai and Son”, “Surrender on Grand Canal Street” and “Georgie’s Vision”, the first ever documentary about the fascinating but little-known Mrs. WB Yeats.