Scorched Earth review: An individual tragedy and a national malaise
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Luke Murphy tackles Ireland’s obsession with land and the exclusion it leads to
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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Magical performance explains why show still enchants so many
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this ballet has earned its recognition as one of the most beloved Swan Lake interpretations of all time
Re:Incarnation review: A vibrant celebration of the eternal cycle of living
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: What speaks loudest in this show by 10 Q-Dance Company dancers is the immediate physicality onstage
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: In Somnole, Boris Charmatz drifts like the mind before sleep. The result is compulsively unpredictable
The choreographer wanted to physicalise the workings of the mind. What has emerged is a rattle-bag of ideas full of whimsy and humour
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: In Oona Doherty’s Specky Clark, the body never lies
The choreographer’s fantastical take on the life of her great-great-grandfather will be woven into her family’s already rich oral history
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: At Chora, generations of choreographers, dancers and producers witness an auspicious debut
Luail resists the temptation of a slick, easy-to-digest premiere, instead presenting three dances that celebrate the intangible
Ireland’s land obsession: ‘There’s something about having and owning. I see a fixation on that, and I feel it in myself’
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Luke Murphy on his new show, Scorched Earth, inspired by John B Keane’s play The Field
The Guide: Tate McRae, International Literature Festival Dublin and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
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Irish Swan Lake star Stephen Murray: ‘After the show you’re emotionally drained. Leaving it on the stage is a big challenge’
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Matthew Bourne’s version of the ballet ushered in a groundbreaking new era in dance. After 30 years it’s as exhilarating, and demanding, as ever
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
Dublin Dance Festival 2024 week two: Reviews of Carcaça, Impasse, My Body of Coming Forth by Day, Bench #3, This Is It and Night Dances
Theatre: Productions by Marco da Silva Ferreira, Mufutau Yusuf, Olivier Dubois, CoisCéim, Luke Murphy, Amir Sabra, Laura Murphy and Emma Martin/United Fall
Dublin Dance Festival 2024 week one: Reviews of Cellule, Blkdog and 13 Tongues
For its 20th iteration, the festival has programmed a line-up that includes work by Botis Seva, Nach and, for its opening show, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
Impasse choreographer Mufutau Yusuf: ‘I can’t have fixed ideas. Difference often opens up into something completely better than I imagined’
Dublin Dance Festival 2024: The dancer and choreographer has always valued collaboration, but it has been key to the creation of his new work
The Guide: Girls Aloud, Eric Clapton, Muldoon’s Picnic and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
May 11th-17th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Cloud Gate: The Taiwanese treasure opening Dublin Dance Festival 2024
In 13 Tongues, the renowned company blends traditional themes such as harmony and balance with explosive reflections on contemporary life
Irish dance confronts the national question
The Arts Council is moving with impressive speed to establish a new all-Ireland company, but questions remain
Dublin Dance Festival 2023: From the remarkable Navy Blue to joyously unpredictable Lovetrain2020
Theatre: Performances choreographed by Oona Doherty and Emanuel Gat provided five-star highlights of the second week of this year’s festival
Dublin Dance Festival 2023 week 1: The artistic confidence is palpable
Whichever style a choreographer was working within, the message of the festival’s first week seemed to be: ‘We are who we are and are not afraid to say it’
Emma Martin: ‘Dance can expand our hearts. That’s where I find my sense of spirituality’
Dublin Dance Festival 2023: King | Shrine combines sweaty, swaggering choreography with a reflective audio-visual installation
‘I never want to make political references in my work about, for example, the conflict in the Middle East. For me that’s too small’
Emanual Gat’s LOVETRAIN2020 is a joyous exaltation of the physical, complete with flamboyant costumes, to a soundtrack of songs by 1980s duo Tears For Fears
The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book and the ones to catch before they end
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘I couldn’t stand up or dance the way I used to, but I still wanted to express myself’
Dublin Dance Festival 2023: Mark Brew, director of The Race, has set out to be a role model for young disabled people who want to be in the performing arts
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