Wednesday 30 January at 7pm

The Gift is a response to Cassandra’s Necklace by artist Alice Maher. This performance will take the form of a live improvisation featuring Paris-based Japanese Butoh dancer Gyohei Zaitsu, composer / keyboardist Trevor Knight and lighting designer Aedin Cosgrove. This live performance will mark the final days of Alice Maher’s exhibition Becoming, which is running at IMMA @ NCH until 17 February 2013.

Gyohei Zaitsu, Trevor Knight, Alice Maher and Aedin Cosgrove previously collaborated on The Devil’s Spine Band which took place at The Galway Arts Festival and at Smock Alley Dublin.

Reviews of The Devils Spine Band

‘….submerged audiences in its beautifully strange imaginative world…’

‘The Devil ’s Spine Band offered innovative and unconventional performance and musical expressions contained within an astounding composition of forms and visual objects, garments and video art.’

‘…the playfully grotesque butoh dancers Gyohei Zaitsu and Maki Watanabe created mesmeric images of stunning, bizarre elegance….’ (www.billionjournal.com)

‘Weird or what?’ The Irish Times

For further information please contact Monica Cullinane or Patrice Molloy at Tel: +353 1 612 9900, Email: press@imma.ie