Jean Butler and Tere O’Connor

DAY – WORLD PREMIERE

• Venue: Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage
• Dates: Wednesday 19 - Saturday 22 May
• Nationality: USA/Ireland
• Time: 8.00pm (Saturday matinee 2.30pm)
• Duration: 40 mins (no interval)
• Tickets: €22 (Full Price) / €18 (Concession) Matinee: €20 (Full Price) / €17 (Concession)

Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre are delighted to co-present Jean Butler in an engaging new work by Tere O’Connor.

Jean asked Tere to create this solo for her, one which departs from her long history and training in Irish Dance. Entitled DAY, the piece explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/her life. It questions how much we can really know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the actual truth.

Tere O’Connor’s work Rammed Earth was seen at DDF 2008, the same year that Jean Butler remounted her first contemporary solo, does she take sugar?, for the Festival.

Choreography: Tere O’Connor
Performer: Jean Butler
Composer: James Baker
Designer: Michael O’Connor

DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre.

Abbey Theatre

US Embassy