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We understand that the issues will be rectified by the close of business today and apologise for any inconvenience caused to you.

Just having a stretch, you know yourself…

Anyone seen where my toddler nipped off to??

We’re just waiting for coffee…

Is anyone else feeling a bit dizzy??

Catch more (In)Visible Dancing today, tomorrow and Friday. Grand Finale is on Sunday May 20 at 4pm. Bring your kids, your granny and the dog!

All photos above taken by Laura Speedwing, DDF volunteer.

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The recordings capture different facets of life in Israel, by turns modern, traditional, military, religious, commercial, bucolic and urban, and the movement changes to reflect these shifting audio backdrops. Composer Bertrand Larrieu has worked the soundbites into a score that surges and recedes with the lub-dub of the heartbeat of a country that Pick describes as one of “‘high-tension’ energy with strong emotions shaped by survival and emergencies and raw, unmitigated feelings”.

Against these shifts in the style of the movement, the marked ferocity that characterises it remains constant. There is nothing hesitant or half-hearted in the performance – the tightly-wound choreography doesn’t allow for any hint of doubt. The virtuosity and athleticism of these three dancers (Lazare Huet, Anna Massoni and Antoine Roux-Briffaud) is astounding, the opening segment in particular a marvel of complexity as they pulse together in a single hinged, alternately collapsing and expanding unit.

While certain sequences towards the close of the piece tended slightly towards the meandering and overly-repetitive, this is a minor criticism that doesn’t detract from the impact of a performance that received a near-full standing ovation. This is one of the most affecting things I’ve had the pleasure of viewing in dance recently – go see it!

A film projection of a desolate corridor (calling to mind an asylum) loomed behind the four dancers, an extension to the stage housing recorded ghosts of the live performers. Body and Forgetting is full of fragments, physical objects and tropes of movement that are both echoes of memory and touchstones of comfort. Whilst the recorded performers dance in the ghostly corridor, the ones on stage struggle to catch up with their past selves. Dense with signals and steeped in atmosphere thanks to geometric lighting by Sinead Wallace and a mournful, almost western, score by Denis Roche, Body and Forgetting is an exquisite elegy to the broken, stuttering and insistent memories that form the backdrop to our lives.

This elegiac tone continued with the second, shorter piece of the evening, Sarah Dowling’s The Wake. A sparse stage-set (plain wooden chair, scrubbed wooden table, metal bowl) was the scene for an elegant duet by two Royal Ballet soloists. The melancholy lines of the dance were reinforced by live musical accompaniment from two traditional Irish musicians, framing this sure-footed and pared-down portrayal of grief comingled with joyful remembering in the aftermath of a death.

A sombre and understated beginning to this year’s programme, but one that was rich with meaning and exemplary of a particular brand of Irish choreography that is beautiful in its direct simplicity. There is important dance here – if you can get a hold of one of the remaining tickets for tonight’s performance, it’s not to be missed!

View the full programme listing and book tickets here.

Our Box Office is now open at Filmbase, on Curved Street in  Temple Bar, Dublin 2. The Box Office will be open from 10am-6pm, Monday – Saturday and from 12pm-3pm on Sundays. You can pick up information, buy tickets and ask questions of our wonderful Box Office Supervisor, Andrea.

What’s more, from tomorrow, May 3, you can also purchase our beautiful 2012 DDF T-shirts – they’re just €10, so treat someone (or yourself) today!

You can still book tickets online here and you can phone Andrea at the Box Office on +353 1 672 8815.

There are now only regular priced tickets available for Klaus Obermaier’s Apparition on Wednesday May 23. Early Bird rate is still available for Tuesday May 22. Tickets for junk ensemble are close to their Early Bird limit. The Opening Night performance is also close to selling out its Early Bird allocation.

All other performances still have Early Bird availability – and all shows have availability at regular prices.

Book NOW to avoid disappointment. Early Bird deals are only available until midnight on Sunday April 1.

And you can jump straight into the programme and purchase tickets here.