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Siobhán de Paor

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Dramaturg and performance poet

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Siobhán de Paor is a mulit-disiplinary artist who creates immersive ritual theatre and spoken word. She is a contemporary iteration of the traditional bard with a political, social and shamanic function in the tribe.

Her work is intimate, provocative and always original.

''The element of improvisation is very important in all of my pieces because it allows the Spontaneous Spirit of the Moment into the performance and therein lies the magic.''

Siobhán shares both process and result in her shows articulating unspoken herstories and bringing story medicine to audiences. Accessibity is a key theme of her work which is characteristically low tech and portable and adaptable to a varity of sites.

Her work as a ritual maker/bean an tí informs her art and she has written and choreographed ritual community participation spectacles.

Her work sits within the movement of 're-idgenation', contemporarising Irish mythologies and reclaiming pre Catholic/colonial traditions using our native lanugage as an artistic medium.