Bio
Artistic Statement
Making the intangible visible
Seve Feathers (she/her) manifests imagery of oneiric nature to make the intangible visible in live performances at the intersection of circus (handstands), embodiment and visual art. As an emerging performing artist and director, Seve questions our relations to existence while seeking the cathartic and transformative power of authenticity and embodiment for the audience and the performer alike. As a maker, Seve combines the circus body's physicality with gesture-based choreography in minimalistic non-verbal performances characterised by slow-paced, detailed and stylised embodiment, musicality and conceptual layers.
Recent Work
Seve presented “Fleshed”, her latest body of work, at the Experimental Circus Award Showcase 2023. The creation of this triptych started during the Artistic Development Course at SKH (DOCH) in 2022 and is still in process. Seve created and produced “Fleeting” in 2020-21 with Director and Co-choreographer Megan Kennedy (Junk Ensemble). Seve was commissioned in 2020 by The National Circus Festival of Ireland to make “Dis-Oscillate”, a short dance movie, also presented as a live performance at NCFI 2021. She is a recipient of the Experimental Circus Award 2022 (Creation Aerial) and the Circus Project Award 2022 (Arts Council of Ireland).
In 2018, Seve founded the contemporary dance and circus company, Feathers Ensemble, directing and performing nationally and internationally: Spoffin Festival (NL), Hat Fair (UK), Spraoi Festival (IE), Surge Festival (SC). Seve has performed her original creations across Ireland: Carlow Arts Festival, Spraoi Festival, NCFI, Fringe Fuse Night, Limerick Fringe, Pitch'd Circus Festival Cork, The Alliance Francaise Dublin, In-Spire Galerie Dublin.
Seve was a Handbalance, Flexibility and Creative Methodology Tutor & Mentor for the BOOST programme for emerging artists at Dublin Circus Project. She currently coaches handbalancing and flexibility in Brussels, Dublin and online since 2018.
With a background in Literature, Theatre and Languages, Seve also is a regular handstand online coach, model, photographer, assistant editor and writer for Motion Impulse (The Handstand Factory, Modern Methods of Mobility, The Handstand Press Magazine).
Seve is a member of Apartheid Free Circus (IE) and is committed to an apartheid-free practice. Seve stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their right to self-determination.
Photo by Graeme Coughlan for “Fleeting”
Photo by Kreetta Astala for “Dis-Oscillate”, 2020.
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