Video Installation with live performance

Inspired by Martha Graham’s quote, “a dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.”

Epilogue explores the wonder of a lived-in body and the subtle grace and wisdom held within tendons and bones that can accomplish more with less. In an industry obsessed with youth and careers coming to an end when bodies become less able for “big tricks,” it is the ability to be still, to shift space and time through sheer presence, experience, and craft that is most compelling.

Epilogue is an honest reflection of what ‘the dance’ took from and gave to two exquisite (and previously) retired professional dancers, Jane Mooney and Sandy Cuthbert. 

The piece has been devised by Eileen McClory in close collaboration with Jane & Sandy along with video artist and film-maker Conan McIvor, sound designer Helena Hamilton and poet Maria McManus. Produced by Maiden Voyage Dance Company.