Performance
Sunday, 18 October 2026 at 7.30pm
The Embassy of Spain and The James Joyce Cultural Centre are delighted to bring the extraordinary Karlik Danza Teatro, from Cáceres, Spain, and their production of Lucia Joyce, a small drama in motion, written by Itziar Pascual with direction and dramaturgy by Cristina D. Silveira, on Sunday, 18 October 2026 at 7.30pm at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
The life of James Joyce’s daughter, Lucia, is a fictionalized secret. Even her leading scholars have had to combat the intentional destruction of numerous letters, reports, and documents. Lucia was a passionate woman who devoted herself to creativity. She lived through the birth of modern dance but also suffered the fierce legacy of the James Joyce and the Joyce family, marked by exile, economic instability, talent, psychological suffering, and emotional devastation. Her story speaks of the difficult coexistence with a genius when a woman’s role is merely to be a muse, not an artist.
In “Lucia Joyce, a small drama in motion”, we want to pay tribute to all those female artists silenced by the geniuses of patriarchal society. At the same time, we take a brief journey through the birth of modern dance, with references to artists such as Margaret Morris, Martha Graham, Mary Wigman and Pina Baush. With a theatrical tribute combining dance, theatre and audiovisual elements, we bring the audience closer to the short story and drama of Lucia Joyce, daughter of the author of ‘Ulysses’. Cristina D. Silveira, Director
About the company: www.karlikdanza.com
35 years as a professional, more than 3,000 performances for over 60,000 spectators in 32 countries, hundreds of favourable reviews and more than 20 national and international awards. Since its creation, Karlik dance-theatre, under the artistic direction of Cristina D. Silveira and the technical and production direction of David Pérez Hernando, has staged 37 shows for the company and also for other companies and institutions. Working with dancers, actors and acrobats, Cristina D. Silveira has developed a choreographic language that blends these different disciplines in search of a universal language. In recent years, the company’s objective has been to ensure stability and continuity in this process of research and exploration, an objective that has been reinforced following the inauguration in January 2007 of the Performing Arts Resource Management Centre, ‘La Nave del Duende’, in Casar de Cáceres.
Tickets are €20.
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.