This May, 77-year-old Madge Bolger takes to the stage with her son, the award-winning choreographer David Bolger, in a national tour of Swimming with my Mother stopping off at Roscommon Arts Centre on Tuesday May 10 at 8pm. Swimming with my Mother is a heartfelt and unsentimental journey into the dancing and swimming lives of David and Madge. Shared pasts intertwine and build gently like a rising tide. Life stories are told with humour to the sultry tones of Nat King Cole.
What began last year as a work-in-progress commission from Dublin Dance Festival has emerged as a fully realised show of great charm that will certainly appeal to anyone who has a mother!
Playing alongside Swimming with my Mother is Deep End Dance, a short film featuring a fully dressed man as he is pushed into a swimming pool by his mother. He brushes himself off and begins dancing underwater, always aware that she is watching. After a while she joins him in the turquoise waters and they perform a playful duet of somersaults and pirouettes. Deep End Dance was awarded Best Short Film at the Irish Film Festival, Boston and was nominated for an Irish Film & Television Award.
Tickets for this magical evening celebrating the relationship between mother and child, and also creativity in older age, are available at Roscommon Arts Centre. Tel (090 ) 6625824.
