Dublin Dance Festival
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Dublin Dance Festival 2019: stunningly artistic and utterly uplifting
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- May 21, 2019, 05:00
There was a highly visual, even cinematic quality to many of the shows and events of the festival, as lighting design, sound and music underlined expe(...)

Dublin Dance Festival review: A riot of movement and sound
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- May 14, 2019, 05:00
The disparate choreography featured in the first week of Dublin Dance Festival had one clear similarity: all spoke – with different voices – to some a(...)

Phoenix: art and politics rise up in ‘dance of resistance’
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- May 11, 2019, 05:00
Drones are both harmless toys and deadly weapons. In Phoenix, French choreographer Éric Mihn Cuong Castaing brings these two extremes into the theatre(...)

Session: ‘Four men in a space playing with music and dance’s relationship’
- Stage
- May 6, 2019, 05:00
Session is a collaboration that brings together two unlikely partners: Colin Dunne, a former Riverdance star from Birmingham, who has been carving out(...)

10 things to do in Ireland this May bank holiday weekend
- Culture
- May 2, 2019, 23:05
Bray International Jazz Festival, Co Wicklow, May 3-6 One of Ireland’s most established jazz festivals, this four-day event turns the north Wicklow s(...)

Fear and apathy at the end of the world
- Music
- April 29, 2019, 05:00
For choreographer Liv O’Donoghue looking back is as important as looking forward. This year’s Dublin Dance Festival will highlight her skills as an ar(...)

2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
- Culture
- December 27, 2018, 05:00
Dreaming in Blue Until February 14th Harry Clarke’s dreamy The Eve of Saint Agnes is at the Hugh Lane in Dublin, but you can see his wonderful waterco(...)

In the new theatre space, there’s no room for an emotional vacuum
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- August 25, 2018, 05:00
In 2014 I was asked to take part in a theatre conference at NUI Galway called “Pushing Form”. My paper was on my own experimental work, exploring form(...)

‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
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- August 14, 2018, 05:00
Inventions, a new Bach-inspired dance by John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre, will premiere in the midst of Kilkenny Arts Festival’s classical-mus(...)

Freeing Lolita from Nabokov’s narrative clutches
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- May 15, 2018, 11:00
Dolores ★★★★ Dolores Haze was raped and brutalised in Nabokov’s novel Lolita. In Junk Ensemble’s Dolores, she is dancing back at that oppression, high(...)