Wild Grace: The Untamed Women of Modern Dance – An uneven celebration of radical feminist power
Sara Veale’s portrayal of nine dancers who rebelled against the constraints of classical ballet is so broadly glowing that nuance is lost
Dance
‘Irish teenagers are so innocent. Where I’m from we learn not to be naive’
Viní Martins Araújo came from Brazil to Dublin in late 2023, to further his dance career
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All-Ireland contemporary dance company ‘a new dawn’ for art form
Collaborative venture to be led by Liz Roche Company will involve Belfast-based Maiden Voyage Dance and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick
Jean Butler: ‘There’s an expression of love that happens when people dance together’
Themes of retrieval and transformation abound in What We Hold, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022
Jezahel: ‘This is for the generations who have yet to experience that four-four beat banging through their chests’
Malachy Duggan’s play about a rave is a call to action to rehabilitate Ireland’s night-time culture
‘My mum would sign me to sleep every night, and they’d be these huge, intricate stories she painted with her hands’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: In Resonance, Chloe Commins fuses aerial arts with her experience of growing up as a child of deaf adults
Michael Harding: My courageous farmer friend fights his loneliness by dancing
Old dancers used to be lionised for their steps, because their exuberance contrasted with their seniority, evoking both awe and pity in the tragic ritual
‘For Helen, dance was life. Pure and simple.’
Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance celebrates a woman who refused to be defined by the wartime horrors she endured and instead became a major figure in the cultural life of Belfast
Estonian ballet casts its unbreakable spell
As a country of less than 1.5 million people located close to two warring nations, Estonia is proudly sending its close-knit company of dancers out on tour
How to enjoy ballet: Lessons can help build your strength, balance and confidence
Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit
What We Hold review: Five stars for Jean Butler’s astonishing dance work
Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The dance star’s fine intergenerational ensemble delivers a visual, aural archive of Irish step dance
Dublin Dance Festival 2021: The unbearable lightness of being apart
Watching this year’s programme online was frustrating but also brought new intimacies
In marking Prince Philip’s death BBC didn’t so much lose the plot as revert to ancient one
Broadcaster stuck to protocols that harked back to pre-Netflix levels of influence
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