Merce Cunningham

Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival

An online project that presents one new dance show a week is just one of the Limerick festival’s intriguing aspects

Like Beckett, Yeats imagined every detail of his plays on the stage. Like Beckett, he has to be done well or not at all. And his ideas are now even more urgent

Are you heading to Enniskillen for the Happy Days Festival celebrating the life and work of Samuel Beckett? Here are our highlights, theatrical and otherwise

Alistair Spalding talks turning Sadler’s Wells theatre into a powerhouse of contemporary dance

Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans

It may lack focus, but this performance of past dances side by side is razor-sharp

Three companies – Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche Dance Company and CoisCéim Dance Theatre – are touring new work together. Is it an act that other arts sectors could or should follow?