Oona Doherty

Luca Truffarelli: ‘We are using immigrants as slaves, to keep the market running. But what is the cost?’

In The Weight, his first dance piece, the Dublin-based Italian photographer appeals to his audience to help solve urgent problems

Tue Nov 07 2023 - 05:15

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

Mon May 29 2023 - 11:08

Rachmaninov at 150: ‘These are some of the most incredible examples of artistry in performance’

Four devotees talk about what the great Russian composer means to them

Thu Mar 30 2023 - 06:00

Dublin Dance Festival 2021: The unbearable lightness of being apart

Watching this year’s programme online was frustrating but also brought new intimacies

Tue May 25 2021 - 05:00

Demos at Dublin Dance Festival: Learning new moves in restricted spaces

For Liz Roche, creating a sense of connection in a year of separation was a big challenge

Sat May 15 2021 - 05:00

Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events

Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights

Thu May 13 2021 - 06:00

Borderless art: Belfast festival’s Richard Wakely prefers frictionless collaborations

If Brexit deadline holds, Belfast International Arts Festival will begin in the EU and end beyond it

Sat Oct 12 2019 - 17:15

Fear and apathy at the end of the world

Dance cast moved to Arctic cabin to experience heightened sense of isolation

Mon Apr 29 2019 - 05:00

Prime Cut double bill review: A grim struggle couched in defiant humour

Despite, or perhaps because of, their differences ‘Every Day I wake Up Hopeful’ and ‘East Belfast Boy’ share several attributes

Wed Feb 06 2019 - 12:33

Reveal-ed: How investment helped the arts in the North

A three-day showcase of new work by northern artists highlights the work of a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Sat Jan 12 2019 - 05:00

In the new theatre space, there’s no room for an emotional vacuum

We’re seeing a revolution in form in theatre, but content is what keeps audiences engaged

Sat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00

Inventions review: lingering hope resides in self-desctruction

John Scott’s blends choreographed madness with an 83-year-old calming presence

Mon Aug 20 2018 - 09:41

‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work

Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival

Tue Aug 14 2018 - 05:00

Gig of the Week: Kilkenny Arts Festival

As always, Kilkenny’s strong musical tradition is paramount

Sat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00

Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu

Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August

Mon Jun 18 2018 - 13:48

Jesse Jones: On My Culture Radar

The artist on her love of historical culture, Olwen Fouéré and her guilty TV pleasure

Sat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00

Dublin Dance Festival: Female choreographers step up

Female choreographers and their dancers possess the hearts and minds of audiences

Tue May 22 2018 - 10:00

Dublin Dance Festival: there's a movement going on

Highlights include ‘Giselle’, Robyn Orlin, ‘Ion’ and, of course, dancing AI

Sat May 05 2018 - 05:00

Men in pieces: Raw displays of vulnerability

After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health

Wed Jan 31 2018 - 10:00

Abbey Theatre reveals new season

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Wed Nov 29 2017 - 05:00

Oona Doherty takes on Belfast’s hardest men

Part of her ‘Belfast prayer’ is a ‘big tough hug for all those dads, sons and brothers’

Wed Oct 25 2017 - 10:11

Watch this beautiful short film set in the social clubs and streets of Belfast

Oona Doherty and ‘Heartbreak’ director Dave Tynan collaborate on ‘A Concrete Song’

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 10:15

Dublin Dance Festival to hold mirror to our ‘obscene’ times

Dancers from 11 countries to perform in 40 events over 10-day programme

Wed Mar 22 2017 - 18:45

Abbey rejuvenates Peacock and Fiona Shaw comes to Wexford

A version of ‘The Tempest’, set in west Kerry, called ‘A Shitstorm’, is slated for theatre

Wed Mar 01 2017 - 13:08

Enda Walsh: Brexit result reflects British ‘inferiority complex’

Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’

Fri Jul 08 2016 - 21:28

Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

Mon May 23 2016 - 18:00

Review: Tundra

Dublin Dance Festival’s opening show has the style and pace of a Nordic noir thriller

Wed May 21 2014 - 14:00

Dancers in the dark

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

Sat May 17 2014 - 01:00