Festival Archive

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The 2024 Edition welcomed dance that dared to take a stand, ditch convention and claim their strength. With a vibrant programme of important and relevant works by leading dance artists DDF2024 invited audiences and artists to DANCE OUT LOUD.

• Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan (Taiwan)
• Nach (France)
• Botis Seva (UK)
• Marco da Silva Ferreira (Portugal)
• Olivier Dubois (France)
• Emma Martin / United Fall (Ireland)
• Mufutau Yusuf (Ireland)
• CoisCéim Dance Theatre & Waterways Ireland (Ireland)
• Roser López Espinosa (Spain), Vorpommern tanzt an (Germany)
• Collectif FAIR-E and guests (France / Ireland)
• Laura Murphy (Ireland)
• Amir Sabra | Luke Murphy – Attic Projects | Junk Ensemble (Ireland)
• Croí Glan | John Scott Dance | Off the Rails Dance (Ireland)

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Let Go. Take Heart. Begin Again. The 2023 Edition invited audiences to discover dance from world-renowned artists. Dance that invites us to be open and courageous and to celebrate love and our shared humanity.

• Trajal Harrell / Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble (Switzerland)
• Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects (Ireland)
• Compagnie Catherine Gaudet (Canada)
• Marc Brew (UK)
• Liz Roche & Lightscape (Ireland)
• Liz Roche Company (Ireland)
• Oona Doherty (Northern Ireland)
• Pan Pan (Ireland)
• Emma Martin / United Fall (Ireland)
• Taneli Törmä - LOCATION X (Denmark)
• Marco D’Agostin (Italy)
• Emanuel Gat Dance Company (France)
• Magdalena Hylak | Mufatau Yusuf | Jessie Thompson (Ireland)
• Junk Ensemble | Monica Muñoz | Isabella Oberländer | FLORA FAUNA PROJECT (Ireland)
• Sustainable Connections – a Collaborative Exploration

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The 2022 Edition burst onto Dublin's stages and streets with a programme of boundary-breaking, energetic, and thought-provoking works explored the power of the collective and championed diversity in all its facets.

• Amala Dianor (Senegal / France)
• Lia Rodrigues (Brazil)
• Catherine Young Dance (Ireland)
• Rocío Molina (Spain)
• Junk Ensemble (Ireland)
• Jan Martens / GRIP & Dance On Ensemble (Belgium / Germany)
• Silvia Gribaudi (Italy)
• Áine Stapleton (Ireland)
• Onai Tafuma | Jessie Thompson | Jessie O’Reilly (Ireland)
• Gilles Viandier (France)
• Laura Murphy (Ireland)
• Robyn Byrne | Fearghus Ó Conchúir & Isabella Oberländer | Luca Truffarelli (Ireland)
• Liz Roche | Emma Martin | Luke Murphy | Sibéal Davitt (Ireland)
• (Senegal / France)
• Capturing dancemaking through writing

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The Winter 2021 Edition invited audiences back into the theatre to experience three long-awaited premieres from leading Irish artists as well as an iconic work by renowned French choreographer Maguy Marin.

• Catherine Young Dance
• Liz Roche Company & Crash Ensemble (Ireland)
• Compagnie Maguy Marin (France)
• Junk Ensemble (Ireland)

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In May 2021, we brought fresh, daring and courageous dance online. We presented new and pioneering dance performances, glimpses behind the scenes and moments for families, artists and communities to connect.

• Justine Doswell (Ireland)
• Ali Chahrour (Lebanon)
• Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler’s Wells (Germany / Senegal / UK)
• Ginevra Panzetti (Italy), Enrico Ticconi (Germany)
• Lyon Opera Ballet (France)
• Lyon Opera Ballet (France)
• Emilio Belmonte (Spain)
• Second Hand Dance (UK)
• Cassiel Gaube (Belgium)

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During an unprecedented period of restriction and physical distancing, the DDF Digital Capsule offered a space to continue to experience dance. To watch, discuss, listen, reflect and move together, from a distance.

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Due to the Covid-19 crisis, DDF2020 was cancelled.

• Tzeni Argyriou (Greece)
• Oona Doherty (Northern Ireland)
• David Bolger / CoisCéim Dance Theatre (Ireland)
• Aurélien Bory (France), Shantala Shivalingappa (India)
• Tânia Carvalho / Dançando com a Diferença (Portugal)
• Junk Ensemble (Ireland)
• Léo Lérus / Compagnie Zimarel (Guadeloupe / France)
• Salva Sanchis , Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas (Belgium)
• Catherine Young Dance
• Company Philip Connaughton (Ireland)
• Ronan Brady & Aisling Ní Cheallaigh (Ireland)

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Collective release, worlds collide, every body moves. From 1-19 May 2019 we celebrated our 15th Edition - a world of party, politics and power.

Opening with RIOT starring the Queen of Ireland Panti, and closing with master of contemporary dance Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, our 2019 Edition spanned a series of conversations worth having:

Power of Party
Dedication to Dance
The Shifting World
Moving Every Body

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English National Ballet (UK)
Oona Doherty (Northern Ireland)
Robyn Orlin (South Africa)
Junk Ensemble (Ireland)
Yvonne Rainer (USA)
Patricia Guerrero (Spain)
A Life of Play (Ireland)
Top 8 Hip Hop Dance Battle (Ireland)
Christos Papadopoulos (Greece)
Dancing Artificial Intelligence (Switzerland)
Lea Moro (Switzerland / Germany)
Liz Roche (Ireland)
Ali Chahrour (Lebanon)

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Colin Dunne (Ireland)
Christos Papadopoulos / Leon & the Wolf (Greece)
Balletto di Roma (Italy)
Emanuel Gat / Awir Leon (France)
Top 8 Hip Hop Dance Battle (Ireland)
Moveable Feast (Ireland)
Maguy Marin (France)
Maria Nilsson Waller (Ireland / Sweden)
Mithkal Alzghair (Syria / France)
Liquid Loft / Chris Haring (Austria)
Company Philip Connaughton (Ireland)
Pere Faura (Spain)
Liz Roche Company (Ireland)
DANCE! The NELKEN–Line (Germany)

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Aerites Dance Company (Greece)
Cristiana Morganti (Italy)
Alonzo King LINES Ballet (USA)
Siamsa Tíre (Ireland)
Kidd Pivot/ Electric Company Theatre (Canada)
Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre (Northern Ireland)
Akram Khan Company (UK)
Liz Roche / Katherine O’Malley (Ireland)
Fernando Belfiore (Netherlands)
Liadain Herriott / Justine Cooper (Ireland)
Ioannis Mandafounis & Aoife McAtamney (Switzerland / Ireland)
Euripides Laskaridis (Greece)
Cie 14 :20 (France)
Embodied (Ireland)
Moveable Feast (Ireland)

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Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods (Germany / Belgium)
Liz Roche Company (Ireland)
Israel Galván (Spain)
Willfredd Theatre / Emma O'Kane (Ireland)
Eva Meyer Keller (Germany)
Robbie Synge (UK)
Sylvain Emard Danse (Canada)
Renegade (Germany)
La Macana (Spain)
Company B (Ireland)
Meytal Blanaru (Belgium)
Claudia Catarzi (Italy)
Thomas Haurt (Belgium / Switzerland)
Maria Nilsson Wallet (Ireland / Sweden)
Tabea Martin (Switzerland)
Bokko (Netherlands)
Dublin Youth Dance Company (Ireland)
Aoife McAtamney & Nick Roth (Ireland)
Barrowland Ballet (UK)
Celestine Hennermann (Germany)

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Emma Martin Dance (Ireland)
Russell Maliphant Company (UK)
Cie. Willi Dorner (Austria)
Andersson Dance (Sweden)
Compagnie Non Nova (France)
Arcane Collective (Ireland / USA)
Ponydance (Ireland)
Alexis Vassiliou (Cyprus)
Dan Caham (UK)
Sonia Sanchez (Spain)
Clément Dazin (France)
Fishamble (Ireland)
Pan Pan Theatre Company / Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland)
Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland)
Gandini Juggling (UK)

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Tero Saarinen Company (Finland)
Jean Butler (Ireland / USA)
Ultima Vez (Belgium)
Aoife McAtamney (Ireland)
Fearghus Ó Conchúir (Ireland)
Ros Warby (Australia)
Stephanie Lake / Larissa McGowan (Australia)
Lucy Guerin Inc. (Australia)
CoisCéim (Ireland)
Philip Connaughton (Ireland)
Jon Kinzel (USA)
Daniel Linehan (Belgium / USA)

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Liz Roche Company (Ireland)
Trisha Brown Dance Company (USA)
Aracaladanza (Spain)
Brokentalkers (Ireland)
Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion (UK)
Klaus Obermaier (Austria)
Sarah Dowling (UK)
CCNR Yuval Pick (France)
Mette Edvardsen (Norway)
Liv O’Donoghue (Ireland)
Howool Beak (Germany / South Korea)
Dmitrijs Gaitjukevich (Latvia)
Alexander Andriyashkin (Russia)
Junk Ensemble (Ireland)
Aakash Odedra (UK)
Divya Kasturi (UK / India)
Luca Silvestrini (UK)

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Main Acts

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan (Taiwan)
Ponydance (Ireland)
Eiko & Koma (Japan / USA)
Jérôme Bel (France)
José Navas (Canada)
Koncentrat (Poland)
Fearghus O’Conchuir (Ireland)
De Stilte (Netherlands)
Erik Kaiel (Netherlands)
Balbit Singh Dance Company (UK)
Compagnie Sui Generis (France)
Mugiyono Kasido (Indonesia)
Hiroaki Umeda (Japan)
Jodi Melnick & Burt Barr (USA)
Yasuko Yokoshi (Japan / USA)

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Raimund Hoghe (Germany)
Vicky Shick (USA)
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca (Spain)
David Bolger (Ireland)
Jean Butler & Tere O'Connor (USA / Ireland)
Junk Ensemble (Ireland)
Yvonne Rainer (USA)
NNChalance (Italy)
Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy)
Caterina Sagna (France / Italy)
Silvia Gribaudi (Italy)
Carlotta Sagna (Italy)
Helen Herbertson & Ben Cobham (Australia)
Rex Levitates (Ireland)
Beppie Blankert Danceconcert (The Netherlands)
La BaZooKa (France)

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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Belgium)
Evidence A Dance Company (USA)
Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland)
Wendy Houstoun (UK)
Daghda Dance Company (Ireland)
Daniel Léveillé Danse (Canada)
Rachid Ouramdane (France)
José Navas (Canada)
Ioana Mona Popovici (Romania / Czech Republic)
Lucy Guerin Inc. (Australia)
David Zambrano (The Netherlands)
Cas Public (Canada)

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Main Acts

The Forsythe Company (Germany)
Jenny Roche (Ireland)
Colin Dunne (Ireland)
Ballet Preljocaj (France)
Sarah Skaggs (USA)
Risa Jaroslow (USA)
Jean Butler (Ireland)
Ioana Mona Popovici & Nanohach (Romania / Czech Republic)
Betontanc (Slovenia)
Reykjavik Dance (Iceland)
Kitt Johnson X-Act (Denmark)
Tere O’Connor Dance (USA)
Girl Jonah (UK)
Philippe Saire (Switzerland)

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Les Ballets C de la B (Belgium)
Jérôme Bel & Pichet Klunchun (France / Thailand)
Nigel Charnock (UK)
Willi Dorner (Austria)
Raimund Hoghe (Germany)
Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland)
John Jasperse Company (USA)
Charles Linehan (UK)
Montalvo-Hervieu (France)
Seosamh O Neachtain (Ireland)
Jenny Roche (Ireland)
Shen Wei Dance Arts (China / USA)
TPO (Italy)

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Aracaladanza (Spain)
Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion (UK)
Dance Theatre of Ireland (Ireland)
Danstheater Dee (Netherlands)
Mark Morris Dance Group (USA)
Rosas (Belgium)
Rex Levitates (Ireland)
Stephen Petronio Company (USA)
New Art Club (UK)
Thomas Lehman (Germany)
Sonia Sabri (UK)
Josef Nadj (France)
Deja Donné (Czech Republic)

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Abbondanza-Bertoni (Italy)
Ballet Freiburg / Pretty Ugly (Germany)
Jérôme Bel (France)
Rosemary Butcher Company (UK)
The Michael Clark Company (UK)
CoisCéim Dance Theatre (Ireland)
Cindy Cummings (Ireland)
Merce Cunninghan Dance Co. (USA)
Daghda Dance Company (Ireland)
Akram Khan (UK)
Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland)
Vincent Mantsoe (S. Africa)
Austin McQuinn (Ireland)
Mary Nunan (Ireland)