O’Reilly was participating in PUSH+, a Creative Europe co-operation project which aims to stimulate European dialogue and initiate new artistic ideas and performances for young audiences. In work like Rau’s, “children were taking an active role in performing stories that were about them. CoisCéim’s first experiences for creating work for young audiences was at Baboro, where choreographer David Bolger debuted the internationally acclaimed The Wolf and Peter in 2015. Bolger says his approach to creating work for young audiences has evolved in the years between the shows: “it is only by making work for young audiences that you come to understand how to do it, what works best. “There are so many different factors that need to be taken into account” when making work with or for children, he says.

Source: The Irish Times October 15, 2019 03:56 UTC