Fingerprints at Cork Midsummer Festival

Fingerprints at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, 21 June 2026.

On Sunday 21 June 2026, the final day of Cork Midsummer Festival, we performed Fingerprints twice at Triskel Arts Centre in Cork, a matinee at 2pm and an evening performance at 7pm. It was the Irish premiere, and the first time a dancer, Davide Marinelli, performed with us.

We’re waiting for the video of both performances, and we’ll add it here when it arrives.

Ensemble

• Ioana Petcu-Colan — violin and viola
• Steve Meyfroidt — live visuals
• Lina Andonovska — flutes
• Ross Lyness — trombone
• Alex Petcu — percussion
• Davide Marinelli — dance and movement

Production

• Amy Prendergast — producer and movement director
• Flavia Martac — assistant producer
• James Barrett — assistant stage manager
• Chloe Nagle — sound and tech
• Anthony O’Reilly — projection
• Joey O’Leary, Eoin McAuliffe and Aisling Whelan — cameras and filming
• Jack Fitzgerald — editing and post-production

Thank you to everyone who supported us. They’re named in full on Fingerprints in Cork — what to expect.

Responses

Critic Nicki ffrench Davis wrote:

There’s lots to enjoy in Fingerprints… Fingerprints was captivating from start to finish, and despite not being promoted as a family event, kept the attention of all present…

And these notes from audience member Lucy Healy-Kelly:

Fingerprints arises out of nowhere, sound arriving seconds before image. We take our seats along the pews of Triskel’s Christchurch, the lights are dimmed but it is not fully dark. On the stage in front of us, the visual artist sits behind his laptop, expectant. The musicians are, for now, shadowy presences, half-seen.

From a pulpit space above the audience, the violin is the first sound to emerge, and from those first notes the screen pings to life. There is something quietly epic about it, almost tentative at first, but as the violin finds the line of its tune, so too do the lines on screen. What follows is a 45-minute journey where the interplay of sound and vision literally ebbs and flows between the performers and their respective instruments.

Support

Supported by an MTU Arts Office Create Le Chéile Arts Project Award.