The Abbey Theatre presents Liz Roche Company in the first ever commissioned dance work for the Abbey stage, honouring WB Yeats on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
As part of the programme, Dublin Dance Festival also presents the experimental dance show, Built to Last, performed by Meg Stuart’s company, Damaged Goods/Münchner Kammerspiele.
These performances on the Abbey stage will mark Stuart’s first visit to Ireland. "What is it that music releases in us?" is the question posited by the renowned dance choreographer.
She has created a time machine for five performers, confronting them with a tidal wave of monumental classical and contemporary music which has significantly influenced music history. Acting and reacting to works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Xenakis, Schönberg, and other seminal composers, the cast journeys through the history of dance – and possibly into its future.
German newspaper Wiener Zeitung called Built to Last. “Absurd, ironic, sombre, funny, colourful, engaging and thrilling at the same time (...) The human desire for eternity couldn’t be represented better.”
Meg Stuart’s Built to Last can be seen on May 19 and 20 on the Abbey stage.
A major Irish premiere from Liz Roche Company, entitled Bastard Amber, can be seen from May 25 to 27 on the Abbey Stage. Taking inspiration from W.B. Yeats’ seminal poem, Sailing to Byzantium, and the meditative golden paintings of the late Patrick Scott, Roche moves her explorations of the body into the realm of the soul with this provocative piece.
Israel Galván brings his award-winning show of cutting-edge contemporary flamenco, La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age) to the Abbey for performances from May 28-30.
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