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THE BOBBY SANDS MEMORIAL RACE 7 DEC 2010 Dance/ Multimedia Space Upstairs By Eddie Ladd Presented as part of Queer Notions 2010 Tickets €12/8 THE BOBBY SANDS MEMORIAL RACE Bobby Sands was a long distance runner as a teenager. Set on a 12ft X 6ft running machine, Ladd’s stunning solo piece follows the sixty six days of the hunger strike and considers the long-distance goal of resistance. During his time in the infamous Maze prison in Belfast, Sands wrote articles and essays on endurance and running. His essay, The Loneliness of a Long Distance Cripple, is the inspiration for Welsh choreographer Eddie Ladd’s extraordinary show The Bobby Sands Memorial Race. Bobby Sands died on hunger strike in 1981. His aim was to win back political status for the republican prisoners, in pursuit of the longer-term aim of a united Ireland. Eddie Ladd is one of Wales’ most exhilarating artists. She makes breathtaking performances that combine dance, text, music and new media technologies. What the critics thought: “A uniquely physicalised distillation of the life and death of the IRA man who died on a hunger strike in Belfast’s notorious H Blocks in 1981. Impressive…compelling.” The Times |
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