Nobodaddy

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15 Aug 2024

Teaċ Daṁsa is delighted to announce 'Nobodaddy', a new work by choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa that brings together familiar and new collaborators in Ireland’s West Kerry Gaeltacht.

Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted & belchd & coughd
And said I love hanging & drawing & quartering
Every bit as well as war & slaughtering 
— William Blake (1793)

Noboddaddy is an affecting large-scale dance and theatre ritual for a company of nine dancers and six musician including the renowned folk singer and musician, Sam Amidon. While ‘Nobodaddy’ is the name of a destructive divinity who appears in several of William Blake’s notebook poems, Teaċ Daṁsa’s Nobodaddy is an ode to the peacemakers and the bringers of good things.

Co-produced by An Droichead for Belfast 2024, Dublin Theatre Festival, the Abbey Theatre, and Sadlers Wells Theatre.

In 'Nobodaddy', saothar úr leis an chóragrafaí Michael Keegan-Dolan agus Teaċ Daṁsa,
tugtar le chéile comhoibrithe aitheanta agus comhoibrithe úra i nGaeltacht Iarthar Chiarraí.

Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted & belchd & coughd
And said I love hanging & drawing & quartering
Every bit as well as war & slaughtering 
— William Blake (1793)

Is deasghnáth corraitheach damhsa agus amharclannaíochta ar scála mór é Nobodaddy do chompántas de naonúr damhsóirí agus seisear ceoltóirí lena n-áirítear an t-amhránaí agus ceoltóir tíre aitheanta, Sam Amidon. Cé gur ‘Nobodaddy’ an t-ainm atá ar dhia scriosach atá le feiceáil i roinnt mhaith de dhánta leabhar nótaí William Blakes, is óid é Nobodaddy Teaċ Daṁsa do lucht déanta síochána agus dóibh siúd a thugann leo nithe maithe chugainn.

Arna chomhléiriú ag An Droichead do Bhéal Feirste 2024, Féile Amharclannaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath, Amharclann na Mainistreach, agus Sadlers Wells Theatre.