Visual Language Workshop with Ramesh Meyyappan

 

🗓️ Sunday 18 October 2026

⏰ 10am – 5pm 

📍 Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork

 

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival are delighted to partner with Inclusive Dance Cork to welcome Ramesh Meyyappan to present a workshop on Visual Language, on Sunday 18 October at Dance Cork Firkin Crane.

 

Ramesh Meyyappan is a theatre maker who develops performances using an eclectic mix of visual and physical theatre styles as he continually seeks to develop and extend his theatrical visual vocabulary

 

The Visual Language workshop is an introduction to and brief exploration of how a visual theatrical language can work. Using visual texts as a basis for exploration, participants will have an opportunity to play with visual ideas and consider a myriad of visual possibilities within ‘storytelling’ to create a short visual narrative using a range of physical and visual theatre techniques, including; choreographed movement and sign mime. Through the themes they will find their own characters and narrative ideas as a way to adapt and develop their own interpretation or version of the text given. Participants will explore visual theatrical vocabulary combining visual elements to support their storytelling and characterisation in a unique visual way without the use of sign language or spoken dialogue. 

 

Access:

• This workshop will be delivered in BSL and will have ISL and English interpretation. Please let us know on the sign-up form if you have any access requirements.
• Wheelchair accessible.

 

📝 Please register your interest using the sign-up form at the link below:

Register Here

 

Please note spaces are limited and Disrupt will notify you by Friday 9th October to confirm your place.

If you have any questions, please email cathy@disruptfestival.ie

 

This workshop is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland

 

 

About Ramesh Meyyappan

Ramesh Meyyappan, Singaporean based in Scotland, is a theatre maker who develops performances using an eclectic mix of visual and physical theatre styles as he continually seeks to develop and extend his theatrical visual vocabulary. He enjoys the challenge of creating strong narrative visual work. 

Ramesh is something of a pioneer, he has continually explored visual styles that allow him to make work entirely accessible to the mainstream audiences. 

Over the years, his solo performances and collaborations have toured nationally and internationally to much critical acclaim. He has been commissioned to devise, write and direct plays for other companies internationally. His work has been nominated five times for Best Actor at the Life! Theatre Awards (Singapore) and awarded the accolade twice. In Scotland he was nominated for a CATS (Critic Award Theatre Scotland) – Best Male Performance for Off Kilter & Love Beyond. First time he was nominated for CATS – Best New Play for Love Beyond (Best Scottish Production Award Winner). 

Recently, he was commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Arts to write and perform a new play, LEAR inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear performed in Singapore and Scotland. Lear won Life! Theatre Awards 2026 (Singapore) for Best Lighting and Best Actor. 

He is co-creator and performer for one man show Last Rites with Ad Infinitum Theatre. 

 

About Inclusive Dance Cork

Inclusive Dance Cork (IDC) is a project of Dance Cork Firkin Crane (DCFC). Under the artistic direction of Rhona Coughlan, IDC was established in 2021 to support the development of inclusive contemporary dance practice in Ireland through accredited training for people with and without disabilities, delivered in partnership with Cork Education and Training Board and university partners.

IDC is an awardee of the Rethink Ireland Disability Participation and Awareness Fund 4.0, supported by Rethink Ireland on behalf of the Department of Children, Disability and Equality (DCDE). IDC also receives support through the HSE National Lottery Grant Scheme and the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP).

Dance Cork Firkin Crane is funded by the Arts Council and Cork City Arts Office, with capital support from Cork City Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. DCFC and IDC remain grateful to the members of the Friends Scheme and to private donors.