Dublin Dance Festival 2025: At Chora, generations of choreographers, dancers and producers witness an auspicious debut
Luail resists the temptation of a slick, easy-to-digest premiere, instead presenting three dances that celebrate the intangible
Mufutau Yusuf
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
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Impasse choreographer Mufutau Yusuf: ‘I can’t have fixed ideas. Difference often opens up into something completely better than I imagined’
Dublin Dance Festival 2024: The dancer and choreographer has always valued collaboration, but it has been key to the creation of his new work
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Mufutau Yusuf is to debut his first hourlong solo show at the Irish Arts Center in New York
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