Alistair Livingstone - Art, Theatre, Yoga

Artist, designer and director for theatre and films.

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In the 1920’s - Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce the celebrated writer of Ulysses - was fêted in Paris as a dancer with a starry future ahead of her. As a critic in the Paris Times noted: “When she reaches her full capacity for rhythmic dancing, James Joyce may yet be known as his daughter’s father.” Sadly and for reasons that are sill unclear, following a disastrous relationship with Samuel Beckett, Lucia spent most of the rest of her life in mental institutions and was eventually diagnosed as Schizophrenic by Carl Jung. This project seek to understand why Lucia stopped dancing and what might she have become had she been brought up in a less dysfunctional family.

NEW DANCE THEATRE PROJECT

Follow the progress of the Lucia Project by using this link:

Last year I was approached by Gordon Hewitt, who writes and produces articles for the THE MONTHLY - the Belfast based Community Arts Partnership Magazine.

Gordon was interested in talking to me about my career in the theatre and particularly about dance.

. At first I was extremely reticent, but he coaxed me into talking to him - and a series of articles was the result. Use link below to access the articles :

THE MONTHLY Interview