Choreo-graph/Sceno-graph
Katie Davenport
Choreo-graph/Sceno-graph
Katie Davenport
Luail is offering one-on-one mentoring sessions with award-winning set and costume designer and Luail 2024 Artist-in-Residence, Katie Davenport.
Emerging choreographers will be able to avail of this opportunity to receive advice from Katie on set and costume design for dance and to explore possibilities of scenography within their work. This can be for a particular choreographed piece, a starting point of a piece of work, or to explore the general intersection of dance, space, costume and narrative.
Topics
Discussions on dance intersecting scenography and dramaturgy on personal projects.
Discussions on costuming and the visual language of bodies in space on personal projects.
Help with articulating or sourcing costume and scenography items on personal projects.
Setting up links for collaboration with other specialists /young designers / writers / visual artists.
Sessions are on a first come, first served basis and are free of charge.
About Katie Davenport
Luail Artist-in-Residence Katie Davenport is an award-winning set and costume designer. Winner of Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for Costume Design 2021 and 2022, she has created scenography for many major theatre, opera and dance companies in Ireland, including the Abbey, Gate, INO, Landmark, Liz Roche Company and United Fall. Katie was previously vice-chair of Irish Society of Stage & Screen Designers, Designer in Residence at the Gate Theatre, and represented Ireland in Beijing NCPA 2016 and at the Prague Quadrennial 2019 & 2023.
