First Looks is a chance to see new works-in-development by dance artists in Ireland including work by Lucia Kickham, Deirdre Griffin with Craig Cox and CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Collective release, worlds collide, everybody moves. Explore the 2019 Dubin Dance Festival edition at Project Arts Centre. A world of party, politics and power.

On a sparse and open stage five performers, ranging in age from 30 to 76, share a journey of interactions that lays bare their strengths, efforts and possibilities. Light and poignant in equal measure, Ensemble is a joyous physical expression of togetherness among a group of different ages.

Inventions centres around two extraordinary women: Belfast-based Oona Doherty, one of Europe's most gifted dance artists, and 84-year-old American dance legend Valda Setterfield, winner of a Herald Angel Award for her portrayal of Lear at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017.

Dr Jenny Roche hosts a panel discussion with Dr Linda Murray, Curator of the Dance Archive at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts; Dr Finola Cronin, Lecturer in Drama Studies at University College Dublin; and Val Bourne CBE, Founder/Artistic Director, Dance Umbrella, London and Founding Board Member, Dublin Dance Festival.

This piece for drones and dancers evokes two opposing realities – one of innocent childhood play, the other of deadly modern warfare.

‘We go around at night consumed by fire’, by controversial Italian choreographer Roberto Castello, explores a life engulfed by endless desire. Fusing cinema, dance and theatre, four dancers move together, yet apart.

DRAFF have teamed up with Dublin Digital Radio (ddr.) to host a night of music by two of Ireland’s most adventurous sound designers for dance and theatre: Kevin Gleeson will make his first appearance as Sour Blood, his new music project peddling drone-haunted pop songs, while Luca Truffarelli will play his alternative deep house set developed during Oona Doherty’s Hope Hunt tour.

This year’s Dance on Film sees a carefully curated programme of six short films that includes a selection of Light Moves Festival 2018 Award Winners, some recent French releases, and the premiere of CoisCéim’s How to Sink a Paper Boat.

This documentary is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary artist, whose revolutionary take on modern dance is brilliantly explained in a film that places interviews with the master, and footage of his work, front and centre.