Projects | Celina Jaffe

Artistic Interests

My interests involve improvisation with body and voice, site-specific performance, cross-cultural communication, body language and dance as a way to discover unknown versions of self.

I seek to develop insight into empathy, presentation, representation, and the effects of environment on body and visa-versa. Performances and workshops I’ve attended in Ireland, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands in 2018-2019 have opened me to the possibilities of site-specific and technologically-infused performance. I continue to feed my movement curiosities while simmering on my main explorations: the study of the relationship between movement improvisation and text/voice.

My projects involve work with musicians, writers, poets, and curators with most recent performances including collaborative performances with contemporary Irish and American poets.

Recent Projects

Currently in France, teaching weekly virtual private lessons on Zoom.

Filmmaker for The Townhall Theatre of Galway's "Bringing it all back home" project, film release set for Jan. 2022.

"All the Way In" vocal improvisation intensive training with Rhiannon in Hawaii Feb 2020 + 2021 and in Italy, June 2022

2019 was awarded a bursary from #CreativeEurope to attend the dance intensive ROAR! in Berlin, Germany

Hosted monthly Open Dance Days at Dance Limerick and weekly Swing Dance classes

Lead Dance Burst Summer Camps at Dance Limerick from 1-5 July 2019

Performance at the

Galway Theatre Festival

'Between Language and Limb' with Patricia Glynn of

Galway Dance Project

May 7, Nun's IslandTheatre

Rehearsal Director for St. Michael's Primary School Artists in Schools Project and performance, Creative Ireland, with a filmed documentary and Tipperary Dance Platform

'Single-Use'

Over the past four years I have been developing my piece, 'Single-Use' in both workshop, residency, and performance settings. As an activist for environmental sustainability and social equality, my goal is to continue researching this piece as a way to explore the body’s relationship to material as body, partner, and other. With plastic bags as a prop, this ‘dance’ portrays the essence of the single-use mentality in today’s modern society. How does a fast-pace disposable way of living affect our relationships with the environment and with other living beings?

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Check out these videos:

Trailer for Limerick Fringe

Teaser

Performance Review