This Tuesday May 10 in Roscommon Arts Centre, 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. This evocative duet won Best Production at the Limerick Unfringed Festival and has already played to full houses in Paris and at the prestigious NOTTDANCE Festival.
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 had 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 dappled waters and they perform a playful duet of somersaults and pirouettes.
Reserve your tickets for this production at Roscommon Arts Centre by calling the box office on (090 ) 6625824.
