Built to Last: a dance that takes Beethoven back from the NazisThe historical baggage isn’t a natural fit for choreographer Meg Stuart’s aesthetic, but she finds a new approachMon May 11 2015 - 05:00
Ballet, reinventedWilliam Forythe, whose work comes to Ireland this weekend, has challenged fundamental assumptions about choreography and dance, influencing visual artists, architects and designers along the waySat Mar 28 2015 - 01:00
Dance in Dublin’s docklands sees potential amid the derelictionIn Mind Your Step, choreographers and dance artists will stage four works along a walking trail in the docklands, highlighting the ‘eerie mix of old, new and stunted’ in the built environmentWed Mar 04 2015 - 01:00
It’s a marvellous week for a screendanceLimerick is hosting a festival focused on the mixed media of film and movementThu Nov 06 2014 - 01:00
Review: SourcePrivate hope faces up to public reality in this illuminating dance showThu Sept 18 2014 - 12:00
Review: Ajax, Little IliadThe lure of war is giving an artful examination in these two piecesWed Sept 17 2014 - 12:00
Review: ChaosThis show will change your life: or at the very least make you laugh. What more could you want?Thu Sept 11 2014 - 12:00
Review: TardigradeInteresting fact: Taridgrades can suspend their metabolism for up to 10 years. Expect this show to similarly ensnare your attentionThu Sept 11 2014 - 12:00
Review: The Whistle/TurfDramatic trickery can go Whistle, while Turf gives up its secrets slowlyWed Sept 10 2014 - 12:00
Tardigrade: Keeping the audience on their toes with a riot of colour and movementVideo screens, singers in stilettos, a team of dancers and a lot of body paint: mind your steps at ‘Tardigrade’, Philip Connaughton’s latest workMon Sept 08 2014 - 01:00
‘I have played men before but King Lear is a new departure’Valda Setterfield, now 79, is enjoying tackling one of the stage’s meatiest characters in choreographer John Scott’s dance based on Shakespeare’s playThu Aug 07 2014 - 01:00
Democratic dance with the audience as partnerLiv O’Donoghue confronts audiences with themselves and is keen to include non-dancers in the processWed Jul 02 2014 - 01:00
A juggling act of flashes, flourishes and flamenco at Dublin Dance FestivalBodies change like the weather, play with audience expectations and are lit to perfectionFri May 30 2014 - 16:00
Review: Return to AbsenceThis show draws on the rich imagery, pure language and mordant comedy of Beckett’s work to find hope within despairThu May 22 2014 - 14:00
Dancers in the darkEmma Martin, whose ‘Tundra’ opens this year’s Dublin Dance Festival, says dance is about working with ‘things that are beyond words’ – even if that means venturing into some very bleak territorySat May 17 2014 - 01:00
Imaginative Maliphant moves with the timesT’ai chi, massage, lighting innovation and martial arts: dancer and choreographer Russell Maliphant is not content to sit stillThu May 15 2014 - 01:00
Smart move: dance gets intellectual in GalwayFeminism, genetics, marine science, anti-capitalism: Galway Dance Days proves that dance artists can be intellectual equals to the sciences and humanitiesWed Mar 26 2014 - 01:00
Agnes Bernelle: dancer, director, singer, spyThe extraordinary life of Agnes Bernelle, and her bitter-sweet songs about life and its trials, are celebrated in CoisCéim’s new dance showFri Mar 14 2014 - 13:00
Dark collaboration: four artists, four disciplines, one show‘Visitant’, a work by composer Trevor Knight, visual artist Alice Maher, Butoh dancer Gyohei Zaitsu and musician Áine O’Dwyer, is more than the sum of its partsThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
Ten/With Raised ArmsThese two works show Liv O’Donoghue confident in her creativityMon Feb 03 2014 - 17:13
Actions: An Evening of Men in MotionIt may lack focus, but this performance of past dances side by side is razor-sharpWed Jan 29 2014 - 16:29
Antonia Baehr: ‘I need to be able to say something when the taxi driver asks me what I do’The German artist’s aesthetic probably lies most easily in choreography, albeit in dragMon Nov 18 2013 - 01:00
Damn the circus: It’s tough at the circus topDamn the Circus makes you laugh and gasp, and there’s no doubting the graft in the craftThu Sept 19 2013 - 11:00
Hard truths beneath the humourFit/Misfit has a social conscience beneath its flinty exteriorSat Sept 14 2013 - 12:00
This pony needs reining inGood moves and cheesy sounds can’t make up for leaden gags and vanilla materialThu Sept 12 2013 - 12:15
Dancing in the dark: Junk Ensemble brings on the blindfolds‘Dusk Ahead’ asks its dancers to step into the unknown – ‘they genuinely don’t know what is ahead’Mon Aug 19 2013 - 01:00
Irish aerial dance: ‘It’s taking off’Shows at the Project and in Derry are raising the bar for the art form hereWed Aug 07 2013 - 01:00
Irish aerial dance: ‘It’s taking off’Shows at the Project and in Derry are raising the bar for the art form hereWed Aug 07 2013 - 01:00
Irish aerial dance: ‘It’s taking off’Shows at the Project and in Derry are raising the bar for the art form hereWed Aug 07 2013 - 01:00
Dublin Dance Festival’s opening night shows the rite way to do itVaslav Nijinsky’s choreography became a victim of the success of the music in Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A century later, choreographers are still trying to get to grips with the danceTue May 14 2013 - 02:00
The naked truth about danceIn Greek mythology, the gods were depicted nude to show their higher status, but these days little inflames indignation like the sight of the naked human body. For some artists, and dancers in particular, it’s an essential, everyday part of their workTue May 14 2013 - 02:00
Dancing from Down Under to DublinThe Dublin Dance Festival returns next week with a distinctly Australian flavourFri May 10 2013 - 02:00
The Bolshoi and the fractured state of Russian balletAn acid attack at the world’s most famous ballet company has shone a spotlight on an institution in crisisTue Apr 09 2013 - 06:00
Ingrid Nachstern: ‘I’m just at a stage in my life when I want to try new things’Choreographer Ingrid Nachstern is stepping out of the classroom and on to the stageThu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00
Hip hop trips from the margins to the mainstreamKyle Abraham’s distinctive hip-hop choreography is a merger of influences that mines dancers’ sensibilitiesSat Dec 01 2012 - 00:00
Dancing on the edge of vertigoCLIMBING MIGHT be a sport and a pastime, but for some it is a purely aesthetic experience, bordering on the spiritualThu Oct 11 2012 - 01:00
Devising a chaotic world for dance to live inFOR ALMOST 50 years, Trisha Brown’s dances have been seen in New York lofts, on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses…Wed May 16 2012 - 01:00
