A Call To You
A compelling and hopeful coming together through music and dance to face a turbulent world
Dance
Dances Like a Bomb
A powerful and uplifting duet exploring ageing and care.
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The Island of Saints – A Film by Eric Fraad
A sumptuously-costumed, beautifully shot feature-length film of the music of Anakronos’ The Red Book of Ossory – medieval meets jazz – and its historical backstory of a notorious witch hunt in 14th century Kilkenny.
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Anima Fatima
Anima Fatima is a series of short art films made by Philip Connaughton and Luca Truffarelli, in collaboration with eight women from Fatima Groups United.
Evolutions
EVOLUTIONS, by John Scott, is a dance celebration based on the idea that no member of the same species is alike.
Dance Double Bill : New works by David Bolger & Lucyna Zwolinska
Dance Limerick is proud to present They Started Chanting Too by David Bolger (IRL), and Gafa Cois Farraige by Lucyna Zwolinska (PL/DE), as part of the STEP UP 2021 Irish Tour.
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The Here Trio
Liz Roche Company open 2021 with a dance film of The Here Trio, a brand new full digital dance piece. Navigating what it means to connect in the midst of a pandemic, post-Brexit, the work confronts the tension between our sense of boundaries and belonging. As performers challenge preconceived ideas about the right to belong, the piece explores how
IN LiMBO
The four live musicians and ensemble of six dancers have taken the basics of what makes the tradition of Irish Step Dancing so attractive and translated it into a new but still recognizable language of music and dance.
Double Bill: The River + Pidgin’
THE RIVER (premiere) is Flora Fauna Projects latest work – a large scale dance piece performed by 20 women primarily from Sheriff Street and Ballybough.
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Endling
An endling is an individual that is the last of its species. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. ENDLING uses dance, vocals, music and design to reimagine tales of funerary and mourning rituals of Scottish and Irish Gaels.
Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids with Donal Dineen (A very Christmassy special)
Let’s dance and be merry! It’s time for the kids to throw some shapes and bust out their best moves as DJ Donal Dineen hits the decks for a very special Christmassy musical rollercoaster ride.
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Champions of Dance
Bombastic and fantastically flamboyant dancing duo Famous Seamus and Sean-tastic have teamed up with comedy powerhouse National Lampoon to create a dance-fantasy-opera of pure comic mayhem! In this farcical origin story the brothers transcend time and theatre convention with hilarious and surreal physical comedy.
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Walls Talk
Walls Talk is a dance piece for solo dancer and singer. The work considers the notion of memory being recorded in the material world around us: all our actions, our feelings and thoughts, frozen in matter and energy, every material akin to magnetic recording tape, the disturbances we create remaining there for eternity.
Mamafesta Memorialising
My mum has senile dementia. I made my last piece about her. But it wasn’t enough.
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Double Bill: ‘Visible and Invisible’ and ‘Too’
Croi Glan, Ireland’s leading Integrated Dance Company presents an evening of two brand new, contrasting duets that celebrate diverse dancing bodies.
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Sorry Gold
If aerial is the dance of industrial technology, what will the dance of biotechnology be?
Dancer from the Dance: Festival of Irish Choreography
A unique showcase of Irish and Irish-American choreography, featuring work by top Irish and Irish-American choreographers representing a wide perspective on modern Irish identity and varying influences on Irish dance, from traditional to contemporary.
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MERLIN
A furry monster, a headstrong child-woman, a jumping shamanic devil, a crumbling statue… Simultaneously wise man and wild man, Merlin dances at the interface of law and nature: we are moving animals, longing for meaning.
The Bystander
What makes us help someone and what makes us simply stand by? An intriguing and adventurous production by multi-award winning dance theatre innovators, Junk Ensemble. Inspired by the ‘bystander effect’ phenomenon of the murder of Kitty Genovese.
Assisted Solo by Philip Connaughton
Three performers dance their memories and hopes in this raw allegory of life. It’s about people using whatever they can to make their own perfect solo.
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AFTER by Liv O’Donoghue
This is it. It’s over. The end of days. Humanity and the world as we know it are ending and we’ve stared deep into the abyss to make a documentary for you. Using live-stream film, physicality and performance, we see the stages of the breakdown, the fallout, all that passed.
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FABLE by HUMAN COLLECTIVE
A sinister dance-theatre production for young adults. An all-male cast of highly physical street dancers dissect modern life, from the unanticipated consequences of new technologies to political conspiracy and manmade horrors and drawing on classic dystopian cinema and cautionary tales.
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A Life of Play by Emma O’Kane
A LIFE OF PLAY is a creative dance and play project from the CoisCéim BROADREACH Project, for children aged 5 -10 and their older family members aged 50+. Commissioned by Bealtaine Presented in partnership with Dublin Dance Festival.
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Dublin Dance Festival 2018
Ireland’s leading dance event, the Festival brings together dance artists and choreographers from across the world to share vibrant contemporary dance with audiences in Ireland.
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