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Mary Wycherley's Invisible Histories - coming to Tipperary Dance Festival (Pic: Maurice Gunning)

Tipperary Dance Festival - on the good foot

The 10th International Tipperary Dance Festival kicks off on Monday, October 7th, with the theme Dance & Tradition, Dance & Community, and featuring performances, exhibitions, seminars, masterclasses, workshops and screenings...

Dance • 04 Oct 19

Alessandra Ruggeri and Ailish Maher in INIT: The Warm Up Project by Lucia Kickham (Pic: Luca Truffarelli)

Choreographer Lucia Kickham: warming up the Dublin Fringe

Dancer and choreographer Lucia Kickham writes for Culture about Init, The Warm Up Project, which runs at this year's Dublin Fringe, and creating a dance work 'filled with vitality and honesty, movement and sweat and head-bopping music

Dublin Fringe • 13 Sep 19

David Donohoe live at The Funnel, circa 2000

The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music's coming of age

Writer and DJ Kate Butler and The Golden Maverick write about one of Dublin's legendary music venues, The Funnel, home to a golden age of Irish electronic music - listen to their accompanying mix, to boot.

Music • 01 Aug 19

Actor Evanna Lynch as Lucia Joyce (Pic: Mella Travers, after Berenice Abbott's original 1928 image)

Reclaiming Lucia Joyce's legacy - The Lyric Feature

In the aftermath of Waking the Feminists, Deirdre Mulrooney's remarkable new radio documentary Dancing with Lucia reassess the artistic significance and legacy of Lucia Joyce as an artist in her own right,

Rté Lyric Fm • 22 Jul 19

Something For The Weekend: Marguerite Donlon's Cultural Picks

Longford-born Marguerite Donlon is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, theater and opera director.

Something For The Weekend • 05 Jul 19

Something For The Weekend: Oona Doherty's Cultural Picks

One of Europe's most gifted dance artists, multi-award-winning choreographer Oona Doherty brings her new work Almost Blue - described as 'a goodbye dance, a farewell' - to John Scott's new festival Dancer from the Dance...

Something For The Weekend • 26 Jun 19

A Different Wolf: 'What is the wolf at your door? What are you trying to escape? What does the wolf mean to you?'

A Different Wolf - Junk Ensemble on their new dance opera

A Different Wolf, the new dance opera by multi-award winning Junk Ensemble and innovative music-theatre company Dumbworld, receives its world premiere at Cork Opera House as part of this year's Cork Midsummer Festival.

Dance • 17 Jun 19

'W.A.M. We Are Monchichi' features at this year's Dublin Dance Festival

Dublin Dance Festival - 5 shows to see

Dublin Dance Festival's Artistic Director Benjamin Perchet talks about some of the highlights of this year's edition, which takes place from 1-19 May.

Dance • 30 Apr 19

Live Collision - dancing to the Kindness Of Strangers

Dancer & performer Lisa McLoughlin writes for Culture about the inspiration behind her new show, The Kindness Of Strangers, a collaboration with mathematician Professor John McLoughlin to be performed as part of this year's Live Collision festival.

Dance • 23 Apr 19

Liz Roche's latest work 'I/Thou' plays at this year's Dublin Dance Festival

Liz Roche: Why Dublin Dance Festival matters

Choreographer Liz Roche writes for Culture about her latest Dublin premiere I/Thou and how Dublin Dance Festival has created an important space for dance, strengthening dance's position as a respected art form in Ireland.

Dance • 24 Apr 19

Matt Szczerek, Director of Dance2Connect, is coming to this year's First Fortnight festival

First Fortnight: Cathy Coughlan on movement and mental health

First Fortnight preview: Cathy Coughlan, a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, outlines why dance could help men manage their mental health ahead of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, her co-curated symposium on men, movement and mental health.

First Fortnight • 13 Dec 18

Soldier-turned-dancer Tom Clonan talks to Tubridy

Security analyst and former captain in the Irish Army, Tom Clonan has taken a bit of a different direction in life with his new hobby – dancing!

Dance • 22 Nov 18

Mufutua Yusuf and Salma Ataya star in John Scott's Cloud Study (Pic: Ewa Figaszewski)

Cloud Study - John Scott on his new dance work

Choreographer John Scott talks to RTÉ Culture about his latest production, Cloud Study, which plays at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre from November 21.

Dance • 12 Nov 18

Assisted Solo, revisited - try a little tenderness

Jools Gilson, Professor of Creative Practice at UCC, writes about Philip Connaughton's acclaimed dance work Assisted Solo, nominated for Best Production at this year's Dublin Fringe and set to tour in 2019.

Dance • 07 Nov 18

Ex-Army Captain Dr Tom Clonan features in Junk Ensemble's new production Soldier Still

Soldier Still - Junk Ensemble on their acclaimed dance work

Megan and Jessica Kennedy, founders and Artistic Directors of acclaimed dance company Junk Ensemble, write for Culture about their latest production, Soldier Still, which tours venues nationwide from 1-22 November.

Dance • 01 Nov 18

Loosysmokes' Night of the Shifting Bog - something in the air

For this year's Bram Stoker Festival, aerial acrobatic troupe Loosysmokes' new show, Night of the Shifting Bog draws inspiration from the landscapes of Stoker's imagination. Choreographer Jonah McGreevy writes for Culture about the production...

Dance • 16 Oct 18

Fragments - the fragility of memory explored through dance

Dublin Fringe preview: Choreographer Jessie Keenan writes for Culture about Fragments, her new dance piece about the fragility of memory, and the childhood experience of her grandfather's dementia, currently playing at the Complex, Dublin.

Dublin Fringe • 11 Sep 18

Liv O'Donoghue on dancing at the end of the world

Dublin Fringe preview: Exploring the stages of a post-apocalyptic breakdown, Irish-Norwegian dance artist Liv O'Donoghue writes for Culture about her new show, AFTER, a 'live documentary film for the end of the world'.

Dublin Fringe • 07 Sep 18

Philip Connaughton and long-time collaborator Lucia Kickham feature in Assisted Solo

Assisted Solo - decoding dementia through dance

Dublin Fringe Preview: Dancer and choreographer Phillip Connaughton writes for Culture about his new show, Assisted Solo, a 'raw allegory of life' inspired by his mother's struggle with dementia.

Dublin Fringe • 03 Sep 18

Mary Wycherley's Invisible Histories premieres at Limerick City Gallery of Art this weekend.

Invisible Histories - exploring the space between dance and art

Invisible Histories is a new dance work created specifically for galleries by dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Mary Wycherley.

Dance • 13 Jul 18

From Pilgrimage, by Liz Roche (Photo: Luca Truffarelli)

Pilgrimage to West Cork - where art and dance collide

Miranda Driscoll, Director of the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Co Cork, writes for Culture about a unique collaborative project involving a pair of unique Irish talents.

Dance • 08 Jun 18

WRoNGHEADED - choreographer Liz Roche on her new show

Choreographer Liz Roche writes for RTE Culture about cross discipline collaboration in the world of dance, building creative communities for contemporary dance in Ireland and her latest show WRoNGHEADED.

Dance • 03 May 18

Deirdre Griffin and Julie Koenig in Junk Ensemble's Dolores, part of this year's Dublin Dance Festival

Dublin Dance Festival preview - on the good foot

Benjamin Perchet, Artistic director of Dublin Dance Festival, previews this year's event, which kicks off on May 2nd at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre with the English National Ballet production of Akram Khan's Giselle.

Dance • 01 May 18

The ensemble of Catherine Young's new dance work State of Exception

Why we need to celebrate our dance artists

'This is Irish dance making at its best; political, urgent and intelligent.' Professor Jools Gilson writes for Culture about Catherine Young's new work State Of Exception, and the urgent need to champion our dance talent.

Dance • 18 May 18

Watch: Akram Khan's Giselle - behind the music

The English National Ballet will open this year's Dublin Dance Festival with their production of Giselle, the first full-length ballet choreographed and directed by celebrated dancer Akram Khan.

Dance • 17 Apr 18