The Instrument
Shlomot
Working to the live music of the band Trouble Penetrator, Shlomot is a unique take on music-movement relationships, featuring ten artists from eight different countries. Involving four dancers, saxophone, electronics, drums, keyboards and turntables, Shlomot is a half evening piece, part of the double bill “Input/Output” - a riot of sound, movement, music and imagery.

duration: 30 minutes
choreography: Maya M. Carroll
music: Trouble Penetrator (Brian Wynne, Simon Milligan, Justin Carroll, Marc Fantini, Roy Carroll)
dancers: Alexander Sieber, Vidal Bini, Rebecca Walter, Maya M. Carroll
light design: Aedín Cosgrove
premiere: August 2007, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Shlomot was created for the double-bill evening project Input/Output
co-produced by Project Arts Centre
funded by The Arts Council

from the press
"...The sense of struggle finds an emotional correlation with the dark sounds and this is maintained throughout the work so that even the simple act of untying another person's shoelaces can appear sinister. Towards the end the musicians emerge from behind their instruments and lie on the floor, just like the dancers, in what feels like a rare act of support, but there is a subtle matching of visions between M. Carroll and Trouble Penetrator right up until a final unison dance to the funkiest music we've heard all night."
-Michael Seaver, Irish Times


work list

Temporal Terrestrial Series
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2024
Eyes held wild horizons
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2023
What Waves What Lands
Interview with a Body
Illustrations
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2022
Eternal Returns
Landscape Songs
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2021
Spin Tuner
Descending Dreams
of a Transparent Body

INTERBEING
ONETIME
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2020
Phantom My Love
Temporal, Terrestrial 8
Temporal, Terrestrial 7
ALL NATURE
Field Scores
Confinement
Temporal, Terrestrial 6
Encapsulation
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2019
Temporal, Terrestrial 5
Bloodsong
Temporal, Terrestrial 4
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2018
Temporal, Terrestrial 3
Temporal, Terrestrial 2
Temporal, Terrestrial 1
She Stone Sea
The Light Beneath Reaches
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2017
Peer
Ingesture
Amar
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2016
Night Glass Day Mirror
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2015
Eyes on Mars
Score 4
Instrumental Bodies
Unraveled Heroes
Tone Undertow
Tide Visible
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2014
Alkaline Birds
While House
Ten Horizons
Tendership
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2013
Fader
Dreadnought
Snake
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2012
Exercise
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2011
The Needle
Magic Valley
Undergrowth
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2010
Transforma
Hide
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2009
Closed Room
A Living Thing
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2008
Frost
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2007
Mem
Shlomot
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2006
Girl Bites Hand
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Maya M Carroll earlier work
Umpf (2006)
Numas Dream (2006)
Once (2005)
Bruno (2004)