In partnership with the Dublin Dance Festival, DRAFF is taking over Project Arts Centre's Cube from the 13th - 16th May.
This will be the first in a series of DRAFF projects in 2019. Watch this space for more details on DRAFF//19, coming soon.
Acknowledging the rapid expansion of the field of ‘dance’, DRAFF has invited three artists who work at the edges of the form to Dublin to share their practice with the local community. These artists (from Barcelona, Brussels and New York) create work that may not be easily classified as ‘dance’, but which situates the body as central. They are artists who work through the body, as well as through text and voice; who view the body as a critical site of knowing, as an archive, as multiply intelligent.

nora chipaumire  
/​NHAKA

TUESDAY 14th MAY 2 - 5pm 
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Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe and based in NYC, nora chipaumire has been challenging and embracing stereotypes of Africa and the black performing body, art and aesthetics since she started making dances in 1998. chipaumire’s workshop will lead participants in an exploration of NHAKA - inheritance | legacy - in her Shona language. The work and philosophy owes its genealogy to Shona culture and Shona spiritual practices. Animist technologies, strategies and philosophy are useful to those who are willing to reinvigorate their own art-making practice with honesty and rigour.

Aimar PErez GalI  
​/ EMBODIED DISCOURSE

WEDNESDAY 15th MAY 2 - 5pm 
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Catalan choreographer Aimar Pérez Galí will lead a workshop that takes as its starting point his Trilogy of Embodied Discourse: Sweating the discourse: an embodied critique, The Touching Community and èpica. Galí develops his artistic practice as a dancer, choreographer, researcher, pedagogue and writer, always departing from the body as a reference place and understanding dance as a tool for critical transformation.
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Sarah Vanhee
​/ polyphonic spaces

THURSDAY 16th MAY 2 - 4pm
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Brussels-based Sarah Vanhee is an artist, performer and author. Her interdisciplinary work travels in between civic space and the art institutional field. She has worked in prisons, private living rooms, theatres, on public canvases and in corporate meeting rooms. In this workshop, Vanhee will speak about her interest in what usually stays hidden, and the importance of lifting unheard voices, as well as about the position of the artist as a friendly intruder into society.
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All workshops €10 // Limited capacity
We're teaming up with Dublin Digital Radio (ddr.) to host a night of new music by two of Ireland’s most adventurous sound designers.

THURSDAY 16th MAY 
Doors 8.30pm

SOUR BLOOD

WORLD PREMIERE
​8.45 - 9.30pm
Kevin Gleeson will make his first appearance as Sour Blood, his new music project peddling drone-haunted pop songs. Kevin has previously designed shows for Dead Centre, The Gate Theatre, Liv O'Donoghue and Collapsing Horse. 

DJ TRUFF TRUFF

IRISH PREMIERE
​9.30 - 10.45pm
DJ Luca Truffarelli will play his alternative deep house set developed during Oona Doherty’s Hope Hunt tour. Luca has previously designed sound for Company Philip Connaughton and Oona Doherty. 
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TICKETS €5 // LIMITED CAPACITY
DRAFF//19 is supported by the Arts Council with support from Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre, in association with Project Arts Centre.