A new dance piece opens at Chapter Arts Centre on Thursday 28 November, following a month-long residency.
The Need for Roots is a trilingual creation funded by Arts Council Wales, which explores notions of cultural identity and has been conceived by choreographers Siriol Joyner, from Aberystwyth and Ruairí Donovan from Cork.
It will move to Aberystwyth Arts Centre next week and works across Gaeilge, Cymreag and English.
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I caught up with Ruairí ahead of the show to hear just what the pair is hoping to convey to audiences.
"Siriol and I have been working under the title Celtic Radical for nearly three years now, the body of work is an ongoing research and so the ideafor the show arrived organically through our work together, other productions and a need to respond to the climate in Wales and Ireland.
"The title itself comes from Simone Weil, a French philosopher and mystic who is a huge influence on our practice.
"In the book The Need for Roots, Weil builds a type of survey for the soul, assessing the needs or necessary conditions for humanity.
"With this project we wanted to interrogate the necessary conditions for contemporary Welshness/Irishness, to explore where we are coming from, culturally, historically, socially, linguistically.
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"We are attempting to dance from a place of Celtic sensibilities, drawing on the multiple roots available to us for support to imagine opening up a new space, in form, performance and dance."
The pair first met during danceWeb, an international residency during Impulstanz, the largest international contemporary dance festival and realised their shared interests.
Their residency at Chapter has been rewarding and has seen them developing the duet in response to the venue, spending time meeting people from Canton, Cardiff Market, and The National Museum Wales and trying to put down some roots.
Ruairí added: "We have accumulated material and a practice for Celtic Radical over the last two years and this material informs and supports the creative process.
"We have been considering our roots in a wider dance ecology and many of our 'dance folk' have supported us by sending us dance scores and materials which have informed our daily practice.
"We always work in response to the place that we are performing: normally we take our audiences out on a walk through the city, or to observe a dance in the sea surf at night.
"This time we are bringing the outside in, so we have spent the month getting a sense of what is possible in a more traditional theatre space."
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The piece aims to appeal to anyone interested in dance, live art, language, questions of identity and issues of minority languages, and will see each of the three languages struggling but often succeeding to hold an equilibrium.
The pair see their work as a kind of 'social acupuncture', acting as: "an intervention, an input, a slight disruption to the norm, of the social body, which in turn hopefully causes a response."
The Need for Roots is at Chapter until Saturday 30 November and is then at Aberyswyth Arts Centre on Thursday 5 December.
Find out more about the Celtic Radical collective or follow them on Twitter: @celticradical
You can also view a trailer of the piece