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Dublin Fringe: Sibéal Davitt on embracing your inner goat

Dance • 17 Aug 21

Golden Opportunities: Tea, ballet and Cork Cultural Connections

Golden Opportunities • 26 Jul 21

The Culture File Debate: We Will Dance Again

Culture File • 07 Jul 21

Dance from the Dance 2021 - choreographer John Scott steps up

Dance • 05 Jul 21

Inside Dublin Dance Festival 2021 - on the good foot

Dance • 13 May 21

Stephanie Dufresne features in this year's Wicklow Screendance Laboratory

Footloose - inside the Wicklow Screendance Laboratory

Dance • 26 Mar 21

The Parting Dance by David Bolger (Pic: Luca Truffarelli)

Dancing in the Shower - David Bolger on surviving lockdown

The Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre writes about the challenges of surviving - and thriving - under lockdown...

Wellness • 12 Mar 21

Ériu's Threshold: Body & Soul celebrate Celtic female energy

The team behind popular boutique festival Body & Soul have shared a brand-new multi-disciplinary project created entirely during the Stage 5 Lockdown - watch Éiru's Threshold...

Film • 17 Feb 21

Prix de Lausanne 2021 - meet ballet's future superstars

The final of the 49th Prix de Lausanne has arrived! After five days of hard work and emotion, the jury of experts come together to decide who will win the prizes for 2021 at this prestigious international competition for young dancers...

arte • 16 Feb 21

Emma O'Kane in Anu's These Rooms, a collaboration with CoisCeim Dance Theatre

Death announced of dancer and choreographer Emma O'Kane

Tributes have been paid to dance artist and choreographer Emma O'Kane, who has died aged 44, following a short illness.

In Memoriam • 11 Feb 21

Dublin Dancers & Dreams - dance, poetry and photography collide

Books • 05 Feb 21

First Fortnight preview - a collective moment through movement

We explore the series of online events focused on dance and wellbeing offered by Dance Ireland in partnership with choreographer Áine Stapleton...

First Fortnight • 11 Jan 21

Alternately Terrific & Gentle: Liz Roche on dancing long-distance

Choreographer Liz Roche writes for Culture about new ways of seeing things and experiencing connections beyond our computer screens to the wider world...

Dance • 08 Dec 20

I Am Ireland - watch RTÉ's Culture Night dance spectacular

Producer Vanessa Gildea previews RTÉ's new Culture Night commission...

Culture Night 2020 • 18 Sep 20

Culture Night 2020: Take an Irish Dancing Masterclass!

As part of Culture Night 2020, world champion Irish dancers and Riverdance stars Michael and Matthew Gardiner (The Gardiner Brothers) are serving up a quick masterclass in Irish dancing!

Culture Night 2020 • 18 Sep 20

Kévin Coquelard in Emma Martin's Birdboy

Dublin Fringe: Birdboy's Emma Martin - venturing into the unknown

'Once there was a boy who wished he was a bird. He wished he could just fly away and be free of all his worries...' Choreographer Emma Martin writes for Culture about Birdboy, her new show for this year's Dublin Fringe...

Dublin Fringe • 01 Sep 20

Mufutau Yusuf is one of the performers at this year's Dancer from the Dance: Festival of Irish Choreography

Dancer From The Dance - John Scott's festival steps online

Festivals • 23 Jun 20

Cruinniú na nÓg: Dancing By Distance

To celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg 2020, Dance Ireland were delighted to produce an original film showcasing young dancers in Ireland...

Cruinniú na nÓg • 14 Jun 20

Dance on: "What I'm really doing is appreciating Irish culture"

Virginia native Morgan Bullock took up Irish dancing 10 years ago at the Baffa Academy of Irish Dance in Midlothian, Virginia, USA, as she told Joe Duffy on Liveline.

Culture • 26 May 20

Watch Liz Roche's stunning Bastard Amber online - see below

The Daily Distraction - stuff to watch, read and sing along to

From cutting-edge Irish dance to free comic books, don't panic - we've got your daily dose of choice Cultural stimulation...

Things to Do • 25 Mar 20

Breandán de Gallaí and singer Gina Boreham rehearsing Walls Talk (Pics: Declan English)

Dancer Breandán de Gallaí - why sad songs say so much

Breandán de Gallaí writes for Culture about creating 'an abstract assemblage of fragments which give meaning to all of our lives'.

Dance • 20 Feb 20

Gloria Ros Abellana in The Here Trio (Pics: Luca Truffarelli)

Choreographer Liz Roche on Brexit, boundaries and belonging

Choreographer Liz Roche writes for Culture about dance, Brexit, boundaries and belonging, and her latest work, The Here Trio, which premieres in Belfast this February.

Dance • 08 Feb 22

Áine Stapleton's new work is a 'creative investigation' of Lucia Joyce (pictured)

First Fortnight preview: Dancer Áine Stapleton on Lucia Joyce

Dancer Áine Stapleton talks about her creative investigation of Lucia Joyce in advance of her work-in-progress showing of Horrible Creature, exploring Lucia's life, at Dublin's DanceHouse later this month.

First Fortnight • 08 Jan 20

Divine Madness will run in the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.

Step into the Divine Madness where opera and dance merge together

Artistic director, choreographer and operatic tenor, John Scott talks about merging his two loves, opera and dance, in his latest production with Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Divine Madness.

Dance • 05 Nov 19

Coisceim's Francis Footwork is coming to Irish theatres this autumn

Francis Footwork - David Bolger imagines a world without dance

Choreographer David Bolger of CoisCéim Dance Theatre writes for Culture about his latest production, Francis Footwork, a brand new story for young people told through dance, that envisages a world without being able to dance...

Dance • 15 Oct 19