Fingerprints in Cork — what to expect

Welcome to the Irish Premiere of Fingerprints.

We are delighted that you are here.

This is a fully improvised live performance.

Music, movement and visuals respond to one another in real time — nothing planned, nothing repeated, happening only once.

The Triskel Arts Centre is a repurposed church, steeped in history. There is a stage on which the screen is fixed, but the musicians are free — roaming through the audience and up to the balcony above.

A dancer moves through the space.

The projected visuals are created in the moment, from both the surrounding sound and movement.

Seated in the old church pews, you might find yourself swivelling round to follow the sound or the movement — that’s all part of the experience.

What is Fingerprints?

Fingerprints is part of ongoing collaborative research that explores drawing as a responsive system shaped by sound, movement and live performance. At its core is a custom-built computational drawing system that reacts in real time to acoustic instruments and gesture. Rather than treating audio and video as simple control signals, it is tuned to register nuance (intensity, articulation, rhythm, and texture) so that marks emerge through interaction and improvisation.

The resulting visuals are residue rather than representation — records of interaction over time. In this context, “fingerprints” refers not to biometrics, but to the human specificity of live performance: timing, touch, hesitation and collaboration — traces of decisions made together in the moment.

Where and when

Two performances at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on Sunday 21 June 2026, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival:

• Matinee — 2pm
• Evening — 7pm

Duration: 45mins, no interval. Tickets €15 / €12, from the Triskel Arts Centre event page or the Cork Midsummer Festival event pagealmost sold out.

Who you’ll see

Ioana Petcu-Colan — violin & viola

Communication lies at the heart of Ioana Petcu-Colan’s creative practice, a violinist and visual artist balancing a dynamic and diverse freelance career as guest orchestra leader, soloist and collaborator with her roles as Leader of the Ulster Orchestra and faculty member of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

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Steve Meyfroidt — live visuals

Steve Meyfroidt is a visual artist whose collaborative practice with musicians centres on computational drawing and process, using custom software and evolving systems to explore how sound and gesture shape visual form. The visual synthesiser software listens and watches the performance and presents an instrument for the visual artist to play.

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Lina Andonovska — flutes

Lina Andonovska is an internationally acclaimed flutist whose performances have been described as “re-defining the act of going solo” (The Age). A member of Grammy Award-winning contemporary ensemble Eighth Blackbird, she appears worldwide as a soloist, orchestral musician, chamber musician, educator and collaborator, celebrated for fearless interpretations of music.

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Ross Lyness — trombone

Head of Wind, Brass and Percussion at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Ross Lyness also plays Principal Trombone with both the Irish National Opera and Wexford Opera Festival Orchestras in addition to his busy teaching schedule and freelance performing work.

Alex Petcu — percussion

Curiosity, versatility and innovation are central to percussionist Alex Petcu’s work. Finding music in the mundane, Alex delights in creating instruments from recycled and repurposed materials, integrating them seamlessly into both existing and new music as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, teacher and collaborator.

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Davide Marinelli — dance & movement

Davide Marinelli is an Italian theatre maker. Recent work includes Orpheus in Eurydice (dir. Mollie Savage & Ben Holman, Cork Arts Theatre) and Old Saulo in The Girl Who Was a Hundred Girls (dir. Niki Tulk, Stack Theatre). He has also performed as part of the ensemble in Tosca (Bologna Teatro Comunale). He has trained internationally in Lecoq-based physical theatre, circus, mime, acrobatics & martial arts. He is currently completing his BA in Theatre & Drama Studies at the MTU Cork School of Music.

Production

Amy Prendergast — Producer & Movement Director

Amy Prendergast is a lecturer at MTU Cork School of Music. She holds Master degrees in Drama & Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin, Drama & Movement Therapy from Central School of Speech and Drama, Music Performance from MTU Cork School of Music, and Contemporary Dance Performance from University of Limerick. She continues her studies in embodiment and somatic practices with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Russell Maliphant. Her focus is presence and play in performance and practice.

Flavia Martac — Assistant Producer

Flavia Martac is a performer and theatre maker based in Cork, in her final year of a BA in Theatre and Drama Studies at the MTU Cork School of Music. Recent work includes Mount Eerie and Waiting for Godot at the Stack Theatre, the short film Absentmindedly (FAMU, Prague), and the production team for Baby Wants Candy at Edinburgh Fringe 2025.

James Barrett — Assistant Stage Manager

James Barrett is a Cork-based theatre maker, working primarily as a writer and director. Recent credits include Assistant Director on Misterman (2025) at the Cork Arts Theatre. He is currently studying on the BA Theatre & Drama Studies programme at the MTU Cork School of Music.

Crew

• Sound & tech: Chloe Nagle
• Projection: Anthony O’Reilly
• Cameras and filming: Joey O’Leary, Eoin McAuliffe and Aisling Whelan
• Editing and post-production: Jack Fitzgerald

With thanks to

Everyone who has supported us.

Robert Habimana, Gillian Hennessy, Rose Anne Kidney, Aisling O’Riordan and the wonderful teams at both the Triskel & the Cork Midsummer Festival, Sarah Morey & the MTU Arts Office for supporting this project with a Create Le Chéile Arts Project Award, and Cian O’Duill and Deirdre Collins at the MTU Cork School of Music.