Sing Your Failures
Louise White and Michelle recently collaborated on Sing Your Failures, an interactive show exploring singing and imperfection, which premiered at Cork Midsummer Festival 2022.
Dust
Michelle featured in Irish National Opera’s project 20 Shots or Opera, as part of Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s work Dust. Direction for this mini-opera by fabulous Stephanie Dufresne, and costume by wonderful Katie Davenport.
Crann
Richard Berengarten’s poem Tree is a symphonic hymn to the arboreal in every register. Crann, Nick Roth’s setting of this poem to music, is a dendro-chronographic film work directed by Laura Hilliard, for three voices, oak tree (Quercus petraea), raku-fired vessel and Boyne currachán.
Listening Bodies
Listening Bodies was, an epic, once-off installation performance featuring world-renowned composers in dialogue with unique local voices. Curated by Tonnta & Kirkos. Photographed here, Michelle performing O’ROURKE by Andrew Hamilton. Staging by Michelle, mentored by Amanda Coogan.
The Mouth of a Shark
A staged song cycle by Maeve Stone & Oonagh Murphy created with Michelle O’Rourke, Osaro Azams, Daryl McCormack and Ashley Xie for “Where We Live” Festival at the Complex in Dublin including a community choir from immigrant and asylum communities.