Dancehall Blues: Dark odyssey oscillates between 20th-century Europe and the post-Covid era
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The ‘great reset’ provides the backdrop for an enigmatic show brought to life by Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill
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Palimpsest review: Emigration, Charvet shirts and the Anglo tapes – CoisCéim powerfully evokes Ireland’s past and present
Dance: David Bolger and his company turn events and people from Irish political and social history into a layered overview of 100 years of the Republic
‘That’s the job for the choreographer: read the room and keep everyone involved’ – David Bolger on 30 years of CoisCéím
The dance company’s artistic director has drawn audiences by focusing on pure drama. But he has also paired visceral movement with conceptual ballast
CoisCéim’s Bench: ‘There are so many characters from the canal making their way into the piece’
Jessie Thompson and Favour Odusola hope their solos by the Grand and Royal Canals next week will encourage passersby to pause and reflect
The Piece with the Drums: David Bolger’s CoisCéim show is immediate, endearing and subtle
The jazz drummer Conor Guilfoyle’s jittery beats set the dancer Alex O’Neill convulsing around the dance floor
Performing from home: The strange new world of summer arts festivals
Events from West Cork Chamber Music Festival to Friday Opera Sessions are migrating online
More than 2m people use website that shows lockdown distance limits
Hastily assembled 2kfromhome site has been a huge hit
The Cherry Orchard: Druid’s Hiberno-Russian cocktail spills over
This staging of Tom Murphy’s Chekhov adaptation should resonate more with contemporary Irish audiences
Dublin Dance Festival 2019: stunningly artistic and utterly uplifting
Dance and technology combined to show the benign and darker sides of humanity
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Body Language review: An ambitious show that scratches our surfaces
Every person has a distinct way of moving as this cross-discipline show illustrates with a startling level detail
'It’s on, it’s gone. And that’s the glory of it, actually'
The renowned designer and frequent Druid collaborator Francis O’Connor onthe subtle art of stage design
Jean Butler: ‘It’s very exposing for both of us’
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
Culture Shock: Sparks fly in ‘Swan Lake/Loch na hEala’ and ‘These Rooms’
Dublin Theatre Festival is staging thrilling blends of dance and drama by Michael Keegan-Dolan, Anu and CoisCéim
Invitation to a Journey review: A complicated portrait of Eileen Gray
A genre-shifting affair reveals Gray’s intellectual prowess and human failings
Review | The Wolf and Peter: A super cool wolf lends some edge to the magic
Coiscéim’s new dance show takes Prokofiev’s classic into more modern territory with thrilling results
Not all children are afraid of the dark or the so-called big bad wolf
An exhibition dealing with the darker side of books for youngsters, and a complex reworking of Peter and the Wolf, highlight the sophistication of children’s cultural tastes
Review: DruidShakespeare
Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong
Agnes Bernelle: dancer, director, singer, spy
The extraordinary life of Agnes Bernelle, and her bitter-sweet songs about life and its trials, are celebrated in CoisCéim’s new dance show
Three become one – and dance lovers get a trio of premieres
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?
Heartbeat of Home
A whirl of thunderous energy from the producers of ‘Riverdance’ that occasionally threatens to blow off course
Dance extravaganza gets in step with ‘Ireland of today’
Riverdance founders hope to also bring Heartbeat of Home around the world
The naked truth about dance
In Greek mythology, the gods were depicted nude to show their higher status, but these days little inflames indignation like the sight of the naked human body. For some artists, and dancers in particular, it’s an essential, everyday part of their work
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