Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
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: King | Shrine combines sweaty, swaggering choreography with a reflective audio-visual installation
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Even amid the pandemic, the festival is about ‘new pathways, inspiration and discovery’
Six works on album sounds disarmingly home-spun
Master classes, talks, public interviews and recitals in Cork, Kilkenny and Galway
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Paul Lewis plays the NCH, while opera Orfeo ed Euridice tours the country
Mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty takes full possession of Orfeo’s wide range of emotions
Sharon Carty, Celine Byrne and Danielle de Niese are all performing in Ireland this week
This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts
Emma Martin is stepping out of the dance world to direct Irish National Opera’s new production of ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’
Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020
Whelan has moved from wind section to the podium as artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
Part of her ‘Belfast prayer’ is a ‘big tough hug for all those dads, sons and brothers’
Emma Martin’s new show seeps into the consciousness long after leaving the theatre
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
Ballet Ireland changes direction, after 20 years in business
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
Ann Mulrooney’s penchant for understatement and natural materials was brought to bear when she renovated a coach house, working with its idiosyncrasies
Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’
Its creators sometimes worry that modern dance will be lost on many people. So what does a first-timer make of Emma Martin’s ‘Tundra’, the opening show at Dublin Dance Festival?
Emma Martin, whose ‘Tundra’ opens this year’s Dublin Dance Festival, says dance is about working with ‘things that are beyond words’ – even if that means venturing into some very bleak territory
Feminism, genetics, marine science, anti-capitalism: Galway Dance Days proves that dance artists can be intellectual equals to the sciences and humanities
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