Dublin Dance Festival

Artist Talks

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All post-show discussions are free of charge. No booking needed except for Meet the Makers at the Abbey Theatre. Phone Abbey Theatre Box Office on 01 878 7222.

Yvonne Rainer
In conversation about Dance on Film:
Light House Cinema, Smithfield Sunday May 9. Find out more information about Dance on Film.

In conversation about her choreography: Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs Wednesday 12. Find out more information about Yvonne Rainer and her works RoS Indexical and Spiraling Down.

junk ensemble
Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs Sunday May 9. Find out more information about junk ensemble and Five Ways to Drown.

Vicky Shick
Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs Friday May 14. Find out more information about Vicky Shick and Repair.

Carlotta Sagna
Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs Saturday May 22. Find out more information about Carlotta Sagna and AD VITAM.

In association with the Abbey Theatre
Meet the Makers: Jean Butler and Tere O’Connor in conversation Thursday 20 (approx. 8.45pm) on the Peacock stage. Find out more information about Jean Butler, Tere O’Connor and DAY.

Beppie Blankert
Samuel Beckett Theatre Sunday 23 – after the 1pm performance. Find out more information about Beppie Blankert and Double Track.

Flamenco workshop with Soledad Barrio

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Soledad Barrio, the electrifying star of Noche Flamenca, will lead workshops in flamenco dance. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from an award-winning Spanish dancer and choreographer - to gain a greater insight into the soulful earthiness of flamenco at its finest.

Sessions for Beginner/Improvers & Intermediate/Advanced.

For further details see flamencoindalo.com or dublindancefestival.ie. Book at 087 75 60 978 or
natalia@flamencoindalo.com

Rare Tapes by Grand Union with special guest Yvonne Rainer

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Featuring excerpts from extremely rare tapes documenting a series of 1972 performances, this is a unique opportunity to experience the work of the groundbreaking New York performance collective Grand Union (1970-76) in the company of Yvonne Rainer, one of its core founding members.

Composed of choreographers/performers Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer, Grand Union created lively group improvisations that fiercely interrogated the nature of performance using movement, spoken text, and props, demystifying the act of dancing and deconstructing the very notion of “choreography”. Their work influenced a generation of artists in the US in the 1970s and is now the focus of much choreographic research in France and elsewhere.

Yvonne Rainer will introduce the footage and will hold a short Q&A session afterwards.

Dance Fitness

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Pall Gale, legendary fitness guru to the stars, is back for his third year at Dublin Dance Festival. Straight from NYC, Pall’s classes combine a high energy aerobics workout with a bit of musical theatre spice. If you’re looking for the perfect bikini body this summer, or just want to have some fun while you break a sweat, then Pall’s class is for you. You don’t need any prior dance training to get the best from his workout, just a good sense of humour!

To book classes: call in to Trinity College Sports Centre reception desk or phone 01 896 1812 with your credit card details.

For more information on Pall Gale’s classes phone Dublin Dance Festival on 01 679 0524.

Aerowaves Double Bill: Se nn ricordo male / Your girl

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Se nn ricordo male

Se nn ricordo male is a monologue recited by two voices. Dancing the traces that memories leave in the body, it is an expansion in movement of the instant when memories begin. NNChalance was established in 2007 by Eleonora Gennari and Valeria Fiorini, with the intent of researching a personal choreographic language. Se nn ricordo male won a prize at the Giovane Danza D’Autore Emilia Romagna competition.

Choreography and performance: Eleonora Gennari, Valeria Fiorini

Your girl

Your girl is a performance about desire. Downstage a woman slowly feeds her clothes into an industrial hoover, while whispering ‘he loves me, he loves me not’. Upstage, a man makes a hanging sculpture of socks. Posing questions about how we view desire and love, your girl, based on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, invites us to look again at the character of Emma Bovary and at the body of actor Chiara Bersani to see the tenderness that can exist between a man and a woman in this moment. Having trained with Lenz Rifrazioni, Alessandro Sciarroni undertook his first independent creations in 2007. Your girl was selected for the Dro International Performance Prize, Centrale Fies.

Creation: Alessandro Sciarroni
Performers: Chiara Bersani and Matteo Ramponi

Performance contains nudity.

Both of these works are presented at Dublin Dance Festival as part of Aerowaves, a European network that provides showcasing opportunities for emerging choreographers.

Master Class - Yvonne Rainer

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A once in a lifetime opportunity to take class with Yvonne Rainer, the world famous dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. Yvonne will teach parts of her 1966 signature work, Trio A. If you missed her the last time she was in Ireland (at University of Limerick in 2001), now’s your chance to learn from a living legend!

This master class is open to professional dancers and those studying dance.

Book at 01 855 8800 or reception@danceireland.ie

Master Class – Vicky Shick

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Vicky Shick is renowned as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. This class seeks to prepare an articulate, alert and neutral body, ready for precise dancing with intricate co-ordinations that will be worked on collectively. Beginning with a continuous warm-up that relies on the use of release, alignment and momentum, the goals will be to achieve clarity, simplicity of movement and attention to detail.

This master class is open to professional dancers and those studying dance.

Book at 01 855 8800 or reception@danceireland.ie

Re-Presenting Ireland: Mixed Bills

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Now in its third year, Re-Presenting Ireland will again showcase the work of six companies whose work is representative of the strength and diversity of contemporary choreography in Ireland. The Mixed Bills serve as a platform for Irish and Ireland-based choreographers to introduce their work to a local and international audience and continue to be an important way in which DDF and Dance Ireland nurture home-grown talent. With such a variety of dance work on offer, we’re sure you’ll find something to ignite your interest in dance!

A panel discussion will take place on Saturday 15 at 4.30pm, following Mixed Bill 2. Featuring Irish choreographers and international programmers, the panel will explore perspectives on international touring. The panel will be moderated by Madeline Boughton of Culture Ireland.

Mixed Bill 1

Liv O’Donoghue - This Woman I Met
Choreography and performance: Liv O’Donoghue

Dance Theatre of Ireland - Handle With Care
Choreography: Robert Connor and Loretta Yurick

Elena Giannotti - The Crow
Choreography and performance: Elena Giannotti

Mixed Bill 2

Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company - >Me Seeing You<
Choreography and performance: Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli

Angie Smalis - The Lightly Fragranced Solo
Choreography and performance: Angie Smalis

Irish Modern Dance Theatre - Actions
Choreography: John Scott

The work presented in the Mixed Bills has been selected by the following peer panel: John Ashford (Aerowaves); Madeline Boughton (Culture Ireland); Angela Conquet (Mains d’OEuvres, France); Kajo Nelles (Tanzmesse, Germany) and Laurie Uprichard (Dublin Dance Festival).

Double Track (preshow performance by Crash Ensemble)

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A man waits on a railway platform. Trains pass but never stop. The audience sits in front of a mirror and sees themselves and the dancer on a stage behind them. A woman appears on the platform next to him, they seem to embrace each other. Sometimes she disappears suddenly, reappearing elsewhere on the platform. When the last train rushes past both dancers have vanished.

Based on Samuel Beckett’s Text for Nothing #7, Double Track is a dance performance about waiting. Listening and seeing are separated and a unique perspective on the performance environment is created using video projections and mirroring techniques. Originally created in 1986, Double Track is set to a commissioned score by Dutch compser Louis Andriessen. The 2009 version was recreated by Blankert for the occasion of Andriessen’s receipt of the Johan Wagenaar Prize.

Dublin’s own Crash Ensemble perform the 12 minute Double Track score immediately before the dance performance.

Since its first sold-out concert in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in the autumn of 1997, Crash Ensemble has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics. The music for this inaugural concert included a performance of Dubbelspoor (Double Track) by Andriessen in honour of his attendance on the night. Crash Ensemble is delighted to be back 12 years later to perform the piece in the Beckett.

Please use Lincoln Place or Nassau Street entrances to Trinity College for Saturday evening performances.

Choreography: Beppie Blankert
Music: Louis Andriessen
Text: Samuel Beckett
Performers: Hillary Blake Firestone, John Taylor

Double Track is a co-production of Beppie Blankert Danceconcerts, Johan Wagenaar Stichting, Grand Theatre Groningen and Holland Dance Festival.

RTÉ Dance on the Box

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Over 900,000 viewers were attracted to the eight dance films commissioned by the Arts Council and RTÉ’s Dance on the Box initiative and premiered on RTÉ television during Dublin Dance Festival in 2006 and 2008. Also screened in the open air in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, the films went on to travel to festivals in Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and the USA.

Following up on that success, the Arts Council and RTÉ are delighted to come together again for a third season of RTÉ Dance on the Box. Four short films have been commissioned, by the choreographer/director teams of David Bolger & Conor Horgan, Cindy Cummings & Oonagh Kearney, Fearghus Ó Conchúir & Dearbhla Walsh and John Scott & Steve Woods.

RTÉ Dance on the Box – bringing the best of Irish contemporary dance and film artists to a national audience.