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Emily Kilkenny Roddy: 'With social media, AI and post-Covid disconnection, it's hard to know where and what is the real.'

Choreographer Emily Roddy on Ruining The Act and keeping it real

'In a world where we can be constantly entertained and disconnected from society in the same breath, where does the need for performance live now?'

Dance • 30 May 23

36 ways of looking at The Sudden: Pan Pan's eureka moment

Nicholas Johnson, dramaturg with Pan Pan Theatre Company, introduces their 'experiment in live direction, authorship and choreography', coming to this year's Dublin Dance Festival.

Dance • 18 May 23

The Archivist - choreographer Luke Murphy reimagines Greek myth

Award-winning Irish choreographer and Dublin Dance Festival Artist in Residence Luke Murphy tells us about The Archivist, the first installment of The Prometheus Project.

Dance • 15 May 23

Kindred: Liz Roche's digital dance for the natural world

Dublin Dance Festival preview: Liz Roche, Choreographer and Artistic Director at Liz Roche Company, introduces Kindred, an innovative digital dance installation exploring nature and human connection

Dance • 15 May 23

Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan's MÁM (Pic: Ros Kavanagh)

MÁM returns - acclaimed dance spectacular comes to Dublin's BGET

Following a sell-out Irish tour in Autumn 2022, choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan and his company Teaċ Daṁsa bring their acclaimed dance production MÁM back to Dublin this July

Dance • 30 May 23

Dublin Dance Festival: letting go, taking heart & beginning again

Jazmin Chiodi, Artistic Director of Dublin Dance Festival, tells us about this year's edition, which will runs from 16th - 28th May.

Dance • 08 May 23

Weathering, and exploring our relationship to our ancient past

Director/choreographer Mary Wycherley and some of her artistic collaborators introduce Weathering, a work of film, dance, poetry, live music and song

Dance • 26 Mar 23

Choreographer and dancer Nora Ní Anluain Fay

Something For the Weekend: Nora Ní Anluain Fay's cultural picks

Nóra Ní Anluain Fay is a contemporary choreographer and dancer educated at Fontys University Tilburg, the Netherlands, and artistic director of NAF Dance.

Something For The Weekend • 15 Feb 23

Watch: Astraphene - a unique cross-Atlantic dance collaboration

The unique project was born out of the worldwide Covid-19 shutdown, when travel and in-person work were restrained and discouraged and artists were searching for innovative ways to connect and create together.

Dance • 03 Feb 23

The Dance - watch Pat Collins' acclaimed documentary

The Dance is an observational feature documentary by the director Pat Collins that follows the staging of MÁM from the first day of rehearsal to the opening night performance at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2019.

Documentaries • 03 Feb 23

Love Songs: 'Between the familiar and the unknown, trying to understand love, loss, and my place in this world'.

Another Love Song - Philip Connaughton on his new dance show

Dance • 14 Dec 22

Watch: Abú - where dance and sport come together

Fearghus Ó Conchúir, choreographer and curator of the Step Up Dance Project, introduces a new film that fuses dance and sport...

Dance • 08 Dec 22

Aki Iwamoto and James O'Hara in 'MÁM' (Pic: Ros Kavanagh)

A tradition carried forward - Michael Keegan-Dolan's MÁM reviewed

Dance • 15 Nov 22

Yes and Yes - choreographer Liz Roche on dancing to Ulysses

Dance • 30 Oct 22

Deirdre Griffin in Soup (Pics: Luca Truffarelli)

In the soup - Deirdre Griffin on dancing through grief

Dance • 23 Sep 22

Dublin Fringe: Dancer Mufutau Yusuf goes back to his roots

Dance • 13 Sep 22

Edris Stannus, AKA Dame Ninette de Valois

The Irish woman behind the British National Ballet

On March 8th, 2011, the legendary ballet dancer, director and teacher, Ninette de Valois, passed away at her home in London aged 102.It is fitting that the anniversary of her death should fall on International Women's Day...

international womens day • 05 Aug 22