Michael Gallen
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Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
- Music
- December 12, 2020, 05:00
“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

Culture Night could be hit by new Dublin coronavirus restrictions
- Culture
- September 17, 2020, 17:14
More than 700 events are due to take place, both virtually and in person, across the country on Friday evening as part of Culture Night 2020, now in i(...)

Dublin Dance Festival review: A riot of movement and sound
- Stage
- 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(...)

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(...)

St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend
- People
- March 14, 2019, 06:00
The forecast may not be great for this year’s St Patrick’s Day, but there are lots of events and other attractions, many indoors, to keep you entertai(...)

‘I was going to vote for her, but then she said she wanted to be a swan’
- People
- June 23, 2018, 06:00
What is your spirit animal? Des Do you not know yours? Sinéad No. Des Well, I always thought my spirit animal was a dolphin, but whe(...)

Dublin Dance Festival: Striptease, Extraterrestrial Events, Deep Dish and Displacement
- Stage
- May 29, 2017, 14:00
The concluding days of this year’s Dublin Dance Festival brought into focus themes that had peeked through earlier performances: in a world of where t(...)

Review: Tardigrade
- Stage
- September 11, 2014, 12:00
TardigradeSamuel Beckett Theatre****Tardigrades aren’t just nature’s toughest creatures, able to suspend their metabolism dehydrated for up to 10 year(...)

Tardigrade: Keeping the audience on their toes with a riot of colour and movement
- Stage
- September 8, 2014, 01:00
Contemporary dance performances can often call on self-consciously meagre means. Driven by a shoestring aesthetic – think street clothes, bare stag(...)