Dublin Dance Festival

We've loved having Nach in town over the last two weeks as part of the Navigate Residency, an initiative by DDF and Maison de la Danse / La Biennale de Lyon. Hope to see you and the whole crew again soon, !

Want to know more about this programme and hear about what Nach has to say about her experience so far? Check out the DDF blog or click the link in our bio.

DDF Artist in Residence Luke Murphy- Attic Projects just completed a wildly successful tour of his profound and captivating work "Volcano" at the Brisbane Festival.

It's wonderful to see Irish work of such a high calibre receiving international attention and success, and we couldn't be more thrilled for Luke and all involved in the work.

"Serialised live performance Volcano crosses the boundaries of experimental theatre, contemporary dance and psychological sci-fi thriller – perfect fare for Brisbane Festival" – InReview

Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4ghoBeU

Strap yourself in! Weird things are erupting at Briz Fest Serialised live performance Volcano crosses the boundaries of experimental theatre, contemporary dance and psychological sci-fi thriller - perfect fare for Brisbane Festival

The city is about to burst with performances, talks, tours, workshops and more with Culture Night 2024.

Part of the line up are some innovative and creative dance events, including 'Dancehall Blues' by David Bolger and ‘Dancing With Strangers: From Palestine to Ireland’, presented by Instant Dissidence. There is so much to explore in this year's programme so go check out Culture Night Dublin.

Dublin Theatre Festival returns once again to bring world-class theatre to Dublin. In venues all across the city from 26 September to 13 October with more than 30 productions exploring stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, and conflict and its resolution, be sure to book your tickets at dublintheatrefestival.ie or contact their box office at +353 1 677 8899.

Included in the line-up are these stand out shows:

D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER

What would the world be like if there had been no colonisation? In D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER, Cherish Menzo and Camilo Mejía Cortés disentangle their bodies from fixed patterns and preconceptions, in search of a new, futuristic environment.

📅 1–2 Oct
📍 Samuel Beckett Theatre
🎟️ €25

NOBODADDY

Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa presents Nobodaddy | An affecting large-scale dance/theatre ritual for a company of nine dancers and six musicians including Sam Amidon.

📅 25 Sep–5 Oct
📍 O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College
🎟️ €15-€45

Find Your Eyes

A striking and surreal blend of photography, choreography and theatre, Benji Reid explores vulnerability, tragedy and triumph in Find Your Eyes.

📅 10 – 12 Oct
📍 O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College
🎟️ €18-€22

What a fantastic occasion to come together for the Business to Arts Awards last night to celebrate collaboration, creativity and purposeful partnerships!

DDF is thrilled and honoured to have won the Jim McNaughton/ Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice with our partners Group for 'Kindred', an innovative digital dance installation exploring nature and human connection by celebrated Irish choreographer Liz Roche and Lightscape, award-winning specialists in projection and interaction design.

This free, public artwork was installed on LED screens in the courtyard of ESB’s new sustainable headquarters on Fitzwilliam Street during DDF's 2023 Edition. It created a dynamic and charged space where audiences, ESB employees and the local community could connect with nature as an intense force and consider their role, individually and collectively, in creating a liveable future together.

Congratulations to all the winner and nominees and huge thanks to Business to Arts, TileStyle and, of course, to our partners ESB for their brilliant collaboration and generous support of this project.

Here’s to more inspiring and impactful partnerships ahead!

Read more about the awarded projects at https://bit.ly/4d0uJWh

Photography: Conor McCabe, Andres Poveda & DDF.


Liz Roche Company Lightscape Visuals LuailDance

It's almost time to get our glam on and celebrate all the fantastic projects and collaborations at this evening's Business to Arts Awards. 🎉

And of course, we're particularly excited to be sharing the evening with ESB Networks, Liz Roche Company and Lightscape Visuals to mark the nomination we received for the Jim McNaugton/Tile Style Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice for KINDRED.

Sending all good vibes to DDF Artist in Residence Luke Murphy as he heads off to Brisbane Festival with his remarkable work, Volcano, following rave reviews at Galway International Arts Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival in 2023.

In this multi-award-winning show, audiences are invited into a voyeuristic journey played out across four performances full of surprise and intrigue.

"So, I dreamed it all, right? Or did it dream me? Luke Murphy's ravishing Volcano... is a mind-warping, lost-in-space time capsule steeped in futurist nostalgia for a collective past. Nearly 4 molten hours; I could've stayed all night." The New York Times

Volcano runs 30 Aug – 14 Sept BRISBANE POWERHOUSE.

Luke Murphy- Attic Projects

Did you see Kindred at ? This digital dance installation exploring nature and human connection was created by celebrated Irish choreographer Liz Roche and Lightscape, award-winning specialists in projection and interaction design.

Commissioned by DDF & ESB, and created for the courtyard at ESB’s new sustainable headquarters on Fitzwilliam Street, this free, public installation stunned audiences and has now earned us a shortlisting for the Business to Arts Awards.

Find out more about this project from the creators, and hear what audiences had to say about the experience in a behind-the-scenes video available on the DDF blog: bit.ly/2024BtoAAwards

Business to Arts Liz Roche Company

Images: Mark Stedman

The world premiere of "Impasse" at DDF2024 was met with sold-out performances and rapturous standing ovations.

And we are so thrilled to see this incredibly poignant and beautifully crafted work begin its international tour, taking to the stage at Edinburgh Festival Fringe next week. If you are in Edinburgh or you can hop across, go support the incredibly talented choreographer and performer Mufutau Yusuf.

13 – 25 Aug, Assembly @ Dance Base

World premiere of "Impasse" at DDF2024 supported by Dunne and Crescenzi

📸 Romain Tissot

Our friends at Dublin Fringe Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival have cooked up incredible festival programmes, with stand-out dance performances that we think you'll love...

Read more here: bit.ly/3AcauHc

From the glitz and glam of opening night at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre to behind-the-scenes glimpses in the rehearsal room... catch it all in our DD20204 Photo Gallery.

bit.ly/DDF2024_PhotoGallery

In a special celebration of hip hop culture, DDF invited trailblazing French hip hop artists from Collectif FAIR-E to host DanceScapes 2024. During the Festival, members of this renowned French collective came together with leading Irish hip hop artists Jessie Thompson, Jessie O’Reilly and Tobi Balogun for a week of creative labs, collaboration and community sharings at Dance Ireland.

This intensive exchange culminated in a day and night of public workshops, cyphers and hip hop performances at Project Arts Centre on 18 May, spotlighting French-Irish exchange and marking the first time that Breaking is to be included in the Olympic Games (Paris 2024).

Here’s what the artists had to say about the experience…

https://youtu.be/k0jopNOLNrA

Supported by Ambassade de France en Irlande and INSTITUT FRANÇAIS

DanceScapes 2024 – A celebration of hip hop culture To celebrate hip hop culture, French-Irish exchange, and the first time that Breaking is to be included in the Olympic Games (Paris 2024), DDF invited trailb...

We support an increase in Arts Council funding to €160m in .

A higher level of investment would enable Dublin Dance Festival to:

🔹 Present more brilliant dance
🔹 Generate more opportunities for dance artists
🔹 Share dance with the widest possible audience

See www.artscouncil.ie/Budget2025 for more!

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

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Frame 2: An icon of a hand holding a bar chart sits above text on a blue background. The text reads: Total funding requested from the Arts Council in 2023 was 245% the level of 2019 . The Arts Council logo in white sits in the bottom right hand corner.

Frame 3: An icon of three figures with speech bubbles sits above text on a purple background. The text reads: Record shortfall Arts Council can now meet only 51% of eligible funding requests. . The Arts Council logo in white sits in the bottom right hand corner.

Frame 4: An icon of a rising graph and magnifying glass sits above text on an green background. The text reads: Escalating costs. Given inflation, current Arts Council funding levels would need to be €153.2m to match 2021 funding in real terms. . The Arts Council logo in white sits in the bottom right hand corner.

🌈🎉 HAPPY PRIDE! 🎉🌈

Turnstile, Jazmin Chiodi's last choreographic collaboration with Alexandre Iseli before joining Dublin Dance Festival as Artistic Director in 2021, will be performed at the South Tipperary Arts Centre this weekend.

A live performance and visual arts installation, Turnstile combines dance, video and original music and was commissioned by Tipperary Museum of Hidden History in memory of the 1920 events known as Bloody Sunday.

📅 Sat 29 June, 6pm
📍 South Tipperary Arts Centre Chapel
🎟 tipperarydance.com/event/turnstile-3/

Tipperary Dance

📸 Alexandre Iseli

Congratulations to the 2024 Step Up participants!

2024 Step Up Dance Limerick participants announced Following a competitive Open Call last year, Dance Limerick are delighted to announce the Step Up 2024 participants

We're finishing the festival TODAY with a flurry of works from leading Irish artists at venues across the city... where will you be to get your fix of dance?

Bench #3 by CoisCeim Dance Theatre & Waterways Ireland
1:30pm at Grand Canal Dock

Originate Performance Showcase
2pm & 4pm at Project Arts Centre

This is it | 8 dance portraits by Laura Murphy
4:30pm at Irish Film Institute

Night Dances by Emma Martin / United Fall
7:30pm at the Abbey Theatre

Impasse by Mufutau Yusuf
7:30pm at Project Arts Centre

Get all the details: bit.ly/DDF2024Edition

SOLD OUT 📣🌟

We're set for a full house for tomorrow's world premiere of Mufutau Yusuf's new work, Impasse!

In this powerful work, two performers confront the biased narratives etched onto Black bodies throughout history. Impasse goes beyond mere exploration and invites a reshaping of our sense of self and community. It reclaims our humanity and celebrates the autonomy and self-determination of Black bodies.

"When the charismatic Mufutau Yusuf is on stage, it's hard to look anywhere else." The New York Times

SOLD OUT – Returns on the door only!

📅 24 & 25 May, 7:30pm
📍Project Arts Centre
🎟 bit.ly/ShowProgramme_Impasse

Mufutau Yusuf Liz Roche Company Project Arts Centre Dunne and Crescenzi

📸 Romain Tissot

Dublin, prepare for a wild and raucous night of dance and entertainment with Olivier Dubois, an icon of dance and a performer extraordinaire!

Final tickets for tonight's performance can be snapped up at the door, or book online now to secure your seat for tomorrow's show.

Olivier Dubois
My Body of Coming Forth by Day
Project Arts Centre
Tues 21 & Wed 22 May, 7:30pm

"The exceptional life of this dancer is manifested in each movement of his body, sometimes fragile, ... joyful or painful." ResMusica

🎟: bit.ly/DDF2024_MyBody

Olivier Dubois Project Arts Centre Ambassade de France en Irlande

A few clips from the recent performance of Marco da Silva Ferreira’s CARCAÇA in Vilnius just to give you a flavour of the joy and beauty of this piece that comes to the Abbey Theatre tomorrow!

Don’t miss out - there are just 2 performances so get those tickets now!

Book Now: bit.ly/DDF2024_CARCAÇA

CARCAÇA by Marco da Silva Ferreira
Tues 21 & Wed 22 May, 7:30pm
Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey stage
Tickets €15 – €42

Big Pulse Dance