Contemporary dance performance with live music

Amaia Elizaran is a Basque choreographer and dancer who over the last ten years has created six original contemporary dance pieces and participated in a diverse number of cultural projects.

ARIMA is a provocative dance piece by Basque contemporary dancer, Amaia Elizaran and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí, that contrasts powerful images and striking energetic moments with brittle passages of delicacy and serenity.

Based on improvisation, it charts an emotional journey that explores the unfinished and the eternal. The Celtic harp, an especially designed glass flute, the human voice and the piano create an atmosphere that takes the viewer on an emotional journey.

Amaia Elizaran and Liam Ó Maonlaí began working together in 2020 when they met on a Project commissioned for the Galway 2020 celebrations. They discovered there, an ability to follow a musical frequency with movement and to allow them, the movement to affect the music. In 2021 they worked for two months to develop ARIMA. Both Liam and Amaia allow room for new expression in this work based on improvisation that charts an emotional journey that explores the unfinished and the eternal.

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Seó damhsa comhaimseartha le ceol beo

Is píosa damhsa corraitheach é ARIMA, cruthaithe ag Amaia Elizaran, ó thír na mBascach agus Liam Ó Maonlaí.

Píosa rince corraitheach is ea ARIMA, leis an damhsóir comhaimseartha Bascach, Amaia Elizaran agus an ceoltóir aitheanta Liam Ó Maonlaí. Déanann ARIMA íomhánna cumhachtacha agus míreanna fuinniúla a chur i gcodarsnacht le sleachta mín, lán le suaimhneas. Fréamhaithe sa dTobchumadóireacht, fiosraíonn ARIMA an aistear a bhaineann leis an rud neamhchríochnaithe.

Cruthaíonn an Chláirseach, an fheadóg ghloine, deartha go speisialta don phíosa, an guth daonna agus an pianó atmaisféar a thabharfaidh an lucht féachana ar thuras chroíúil.

Thosaigh Amaia Elizaran agus Liam Ó Maonlaí ag obair le chéile in 2020 nuair a tháinig siad le chéile ar thionscadal a coimisiúnaíodh do Ghaillimh 2020. Tháinig siad ar bhealach speisialta chun an caidreamh idir an ceol agus an damhsa a neartú. In 2021 d’oibrigh siad ar feadh dhá mhí chun ARIMA a fhorbairt.