We are in shambles.

Ciseach is a pulsating contemporary incantation weaving together a tapestry of dance, rhythm, live music and voice that seeks to rekindle our broken relationship with the land.

Ciseach is an Irish word with multiple meanings. It means a shambles (where we are today) and it also means wattled walkway, a means to cross difficult terrain, soft ground or a bogland.

Ciseach looks to the body, to the collective, in search of a new path as the ground beneath us yields. This stirring new work by CYD is an embodied manifesto – urging us to re-member, to re-connect with our past, with nature and with each other. Collecting fragments of native wisdoms, myths and kinships, Ciseach pieces together possible futures to build the wattled causeway, the ciseach to guide us to solid ground.

Irish Times write up by Michael Seaver

 

“Our elders say that ceremonies are the way we remember to remember”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer from Braiding Sweetgrass

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THE MANIFESTO

Re-member the past.

Re-kindle our relationship to the land, to nature and all living things.

Re-connect to our place within and as part of nature.

Re-construct, rethink, re-build, re-weave the social system. Keep failing better.

Re-store nature.

Remember to remember. Assemble to remember.

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