Dance: On Screen - Chicago

Workshop & Screening: 

This workshop merges dance and cinema, featuring a screening of Chicago (2002), group discussion, followed by a dance workshop which explores the themes and choreography of the film as well as giving an insight into Honey & Lemon’s creative practice. Each half-day workshop includes a tea/coffee break and open discussion time.

This workshop is targeted to women in retirement, please get in touch with Honey and Lemon if fall outside this community and are interested in participating. Honey & Lemon - honeyandlemonltd@gmail.com

About Chicago: 

Based on the award-winning stage production by Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb – with songs and lyrics by Ebb and his partner John Kander – the feature concerns aspiring vaudeville star Roxie Hart (Rene Zellweger) who lands in Chicago’s infamous Cook County jail after killing her no-good lover. Who should be in the same cellblock but Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), the vaudeville star whose career the ambitious Roxie covets most. Velma is also awaiting trial for murder, having bumped off both her sister and her two-timing boyfriend after catching them together. When Roxie is arrested, the media suddenly loses interest in Velma, a hard pill for the former diva to swallow. The competition between the two is exacerbated not only by the prison matron (Queen Latifah) but also by the lawyer handling both cases, the slick Billy Flynn (Richard Gere).

Biographies

In 2023, Honey & Lemon were Dance Artists in Residence at The Civic Theatre in partnership with South Dublin County Council and Offsite Artists with thanks to Irish Theatre Institute and CoisCeim Dance Theatre. They were also recipients of the Assemble Bursary from Axis Arts Centre, following their time as Dance Artists in Residence at the venue in 2022. They are previous recipients of the Dance Ireland Mentored Residency Award, which began their ongoing relationship with their mentor, Lea Anderson MBE. Their work has recently been performed at Dancer From the Dance Festival, Five Lamps Arts Festival and Project Arts Centre. In 2024, they debuted their most recent work DOUBLE ACT (★★★★) to a sold out run at Project Arts Centre, a production supported by Mermaid Arts Centre, The Civic Theatre, Irish Theatre Institute, CoisCeim Dance Theatre, Axis Arts Centre and FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.