DDF News — 29 Jul 2024
Daring and theatrical dance coming to Dublin this autumn
Our friends at Dublin Fringe Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival have cooked up incredible festival programmes, with stand-out dance performances from leading artists.
We've pulled together some of our top picks for dance fans looking for a night out (or two... or ten!) this coming September / October. Have a browse...
Dance at DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
8 – 24 September 2024
Terra by Alesssandra Azeviche
6 Sept, 6:30pm (preview)
8 – 11 Sept, 6:30pm
Project Arts Centre
In her immersive debut, Azeviche channels her seductive alter-ego (Rita) and the wisdom of ancestors, infusing modern dance, vogue, and afro-futurism into a breathtaking dissection of intersectionality. Terra offers a perspective on Afro-Brazilian femininity and dance that will resonate deep from the soil leaving audiences touched and inspired.
Dancehall Blues by CoisCéim Dance Theatre
6 & 7 Sept, 7:45pm (preview)
8, 10 – 15, 19 – 21 Sept, 7:45pm
CoisCéim Studio
It's 2024 and the witching hour. As dusk approaches, the doors of the hall are flung wide open. You are invited to enter. Two enigmatic dancers hit the dance floor – quietly questioning their hopes and dreams amongst the surrounding turmoil. As their shadows deepen, they take more chances and dance more dances – “where are we headed to, where does it all end?”
Hyperphysical: A Double Bill by Irish Modern Dance Theatre
12 Sept, 8:15pm (preview)
13 & 14 Sept, 8:15pm
14 Sept, 1:15pm
The Lir Academy
A high-octane double bill featuring new and reimagined contemporary dance works by Abby Zbikowski and John Scott/ Irish Modern Dance Theatre.
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When Lives Touch by Hannah Scully & Safire Hikari
18 Sept, 9pm (preview)
19 – 21 Sept, 9pm
21 Sept, 1:15pm
The Lir Academy
Be ready to shift your perspective and your state as you are taken across planes on an intimate dance to vertical dance journey. Dancing between concepts of what the other (body) can symbolise. Passing through, embracing, rejecting, holding on letting go.
Tearmann Aiteach / Queer Sanctuary by Isabella Oberländer & Fearghus Ó Conchúir
Tearmann Aiteach / Queer Sanctuary dances a welcoming space that supports flourishing, solidarity and spritely sparkle. It has grown out of Fearghus and Isabella's separate practices as artists of different gender, generations and nationalities. Their dancing together celebrates what's possible between their queer bodies and others. You're invited to watch, and if you fancy, to dive in. Dress up or not. Sparkle.
Theatre for dance lovers at DTF
26 September – 13 October
Nobodaddy by Teac Damsa
25 Sept, 7:30pm (preview)
26 – 28 Sept, 30 Sept – 5 Oct, 7:30pm
O'Reilly Theatre
Nobodaddy is an affecting large-scale dance and theatre ritual for a company of nine dancers and six musicians including the renowned folk singer and musician, Sam Amidon. While Nobodaddy is the name of a destructive divinity who appears in several of William Blake’s notebook poems, Teaċ Daṁsa’s Nobodaddy is an ode to the peacemakers and the bringers of good things.
Freefalling by Rough Magic & Lime Tree Theatre
9 – 12 October, 8pm
Draiocht, Blanchardstown
This is an extraordinary true story, brought to life in an exhilarating, adrenaline-filled way. Aerial flight captures the joy of living life to the full, and the terror of being trapped in a body that refuses to function.
Dream Factory by Lords of Strut
24 Sept, 7:30pm (preview)
25 - 26 Sept, 1 - 2 Oct, 7:30pm
27 - 28 Sept, 3 - 4 Oct, 6:30pm
29 Sept & 5 Oct, 2:30pm & 6pm
The Civic
The fantastical story of the town of Ballyplastic which needs to be saved from the domination of a villainous CEO and his maniacally disgusting boss. With spectacular acrobatics, dizzying dance, comical characters and big banging musical numbers, this epic tale will leave you sore from laughing, your feet itching to dance and your heart full of possibility.
0800 Cupid by Thisispopbaby
26 - 27 Sept, 7.30pm (preview)
28 Sept, 1 – 4 Oct, 7.30pm
29 Sept, 6pm
5 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Project Arts Centre
Nightlife gatecrash, raucous cabaret and musical extravaganza; 0800 CUPID is a genre-defying queer countercultural opus from THISISPOPBABY that fizzes between performance and reality.
