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Nerida Matthaei Workshop

Australian award winning Choreographer Nerida Matthaei is offering a one-off workshop at the Firking Crane. She is currently doing a BLANK CANVAS Residency developing a new work Donts for Dancers with composer and musician Nicole Canham.

This workshop will include contemporary dance technique and repertoire from Nerida's performance work. All are welcome.

Please register by 1pm Monday 22 August to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 021 450 7487

For more information on Nerida please visit http://www.neridance.com or for information on the new work in progress visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/Donts-For-Dancers/184944034904186

Your Body is Your Instrument

A workshop led by Andrea Pastorella, director of the Movita Dance Theatre in New York.

This is an exploration of how we use our physicality through movement, rhythm and shape. All people are welcome, performers, actors, dancers and anyone who wants to explore these ideas. Previous experience is not necessary to benefit from thie work.

Movita is a modern dance company dedicated to inspiring unity among people through dance and the arts.

Contact: 087 264 5074 0r 087 063 9959

MA in Contemporary Dance Graduation 2010 Performance

A free lunchtime performance to celebrate the Firkin Crane’s BLANK CANVAS Exchange Programme and its growing recognition by the dance community in Ireland and abroad.

The performance offers a wonderful opportunity to see original contemporary dance performance and to witness the emerging talent of dancers in Ireland.
The dancers are Lisa Cahill, Patric Cashman, Erika Charters, Karen Gleeson, Katrin Neue and Kasia Voetter. Some were based in Ireland, whilst others have traveled from America, Germany, England and Holland to work and study together, sharing their passion for contemporary dance. All are students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, based at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick.
The MA programme offers advanced tuition in dance and somatic training techniques, with daily classes and intensive workshops under the directorship of Mary Nunan, a pioneer of contemporary dance in Ireland.

The performance of original ensemble and solo works was choreographed by Blarney resident Mairead Vaughan, who is artistic director of Shakram Dance, and Liz Roche, artistic director of Dublin-based Rex Levitates. Mairead and Liz have worked with internationally known dance artists such as Elena Gianotti, Mary Wycherley and Colin Dunne.

Tea and sandwiches will be served beforehand (suggested donation €5)

Further details contact Jane Kellaghan at the Firkin Crane Tel: 086 8147837

Re-opening

The Firkin Crane is pleased to announce that normal operations will resume on Monday 30 November.
We wish to express our gratitude and appreciation for the support of all our dancers, teachers and dance students during this last week and look forward to welcoming you back to the home of dance in Cork.
Do come to the special sharing scheduled for 1.00 pm

If you have any queries, please contact 021 450 7487 - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Rhithim Rhythm

Printz Dance Project, in collaboration with Siamsa Tire, the Irish National Folk Theatre, return to the Firkin Crane with a heady mix of traditional and contemporary dance.
Choreographed by Artistic Directors, Stacey Printz (PDP) and Jonathan Kelliher (NFT), Rithim Rhythm is crammed with Irish step, beat boxing and funky moves. Eleven dancers take to the stage in an exhilarating 70 minutes of vignettes, culminating in a unique collaboration which sees Irish step and modern dance effortlessly fuse and sizzle.
PDP, founded in 1998 by Stacey Printz, takes a fresh approach to blending movement styles, seamlessly unifying intense athleticism with fluid articulation. Based in San Francisco, PDP have performed and toured throughout the US and Europe, in addition to their annual home season at the Cowell Theatre in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. In 2007 they undertook a short tour in Ireland, performing to hugely enthusiastic audiences in Cork and Galway and West Kerry.
Siamsa Tíre, most widely known for its performances investigating traditional artforms, has been involved in a number of collaborative works in recent years, and has worked with contemporary choreographers such as Mary Nunan, Cindy Cummins and Sue Ellen McCarthy. Rithim Rhythm demonstrates the Irish National Folk Theatre’s commitment to the ongoing development of its practice.

The collaboration between the two companies began over two years ago when PDP travelled to Ireland to work with the NFT’s performing company with a view to creating a piece of work which fused the distinct styles of both traditions. Subsequent visits by the Irish group to the US, culminated in the premiere of Rithim Rhythm (funded by Culture Ireland) in the Cowell Theater in San Francisco last November, where the work was greeted with acclaim by both audience and media.

Audience members are also invited to attend a post-show discussion at each of the venues, where the members of both companies discuss the genesis of the collaboration and what the experience has brought to their individual practices.



The Irish Premiere of Rithim Rhythm kicks off in Tralee as part of Culture Night on 25 September at 8.30pm, before touring to Cork (Firkin Crane), Belfast (Grand Opera House), and Limerick (Daghdha Space).

Tour Details:

Siamsa Tíre
Town Park, Tralee
Friday 25 September 8.30pm
Ticketline: 066 712 3055
€17/15 conc.
http://www.siamsatire.com

Firkin Crane, Cork
Saturday 26 September 8.00pm

Baby Grand at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Victoria Street, Belfast
Monday 28 September 8pm
Ticketline: (028) 9024 1919
£15/12.25 conc
http://www.goh.co.uk

Daghdha Space
Daghdha Space, St. John’s Church, John’s Square, Limerick.
Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th September 8pm
Ticketline: 066 712 3055 (Siamsa Tire Box Office)
€16/13 conc
http://www.daghdha.ie

“The evening sizzled to an end with the two companies exchanging genres…. Modern, hip hop and step dancing all together in one big frenzy of sound and dramatic movement, a truly exhilarating experience.” San Francisco Chronicle

Lifelong Learning Festival 2012

With some of the country’s best dance teachers, the Firkin Crane provides a wide programme of dance, performance and theatre classes for all ages. From three-year-olds toddling their first steps, and teenagers preparing for a school show or a career in dance, to professionals preparing for performance and teaching examinations, everyone will find a class or workshop to fit the bill.

Even if you have never tripped the light fantastic before, now's your chance to test your toes - and legs and arms and back ...
At lunch time each day this week, come have a look at the unique Firkin Crane building and sample our menu of dance classes: every day a different style.

Whatever your age, agility or interest, this is the place to try out your steps.

No need to book - and you could have a salad and soup in the nearby Buttercup Café or relax afterwards with lunch and a glass of wine at the Four Liars Bistro

Commercial Pop Dance

Thursday A mix of jazz lyrical and Commercial Dance.
Bring your towel and prepare to sweat.
Brand new routine.
All are welcome.

Year of the Dragon 2012

The Chinese New Year Gala, performed by Arts Troupe of Shanghai University and Irish Students.

Doors open 6.30 pm
No booking required but numbers are limited.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare's beloved fairytale, presented by Cork Dance Company

Queens and Dukes, actors and lovers - this is a magical story!

Tickets: Є14 available at (087) 2912079

The Wizard of Oz

Follow the Yellow Brick Road over the rainbow and into the Firkin Crane Theatre for a brand new production by the Performers' Academy ...

Come and join Dorothy, Lion, Tinman and Scarecrow on this fabulous adventure for all the family.

Starring the cream of Cork's up and coming young talent, this exciting production is a must see and will feature all of the well known, much loved songs from the original, all of the favourite characters and iconic moments, plus a few surprises along the way !
 
Suitable for children aged 4 to 94 !
 
Directed by Killian Collins & Irene Warren
 
Dates and Times:
Thursday 16 February 7.30pm,
Friday 17 February 7.30pm,
Saturday 18 February 7.30pm,
Sunday 19 February 3pm

Booking details : Tickets on sale from Tuesday 24 January
Box Office (021- 4507487), Tuesday to Friday 10am to 2pm.
 

Jazz Dance

Monday /Thursday Term 15 weeks

Monday 23 January
Mirror room 7.30pm- 8.30pm Senior Jazz Dance
Mirror room 8.30pm - 9.30pm Senior Jazz Dance, Advanced

Thursday 26 January
Chandelier room 5pm - 6pm Junior Jazz Dance Class
Chandelier room 6pm - 7pm Intermediate Jazz Dance Class

Contact: Dane O' Sullivan, 087-7988079

Contemporary Dance

Wednesday The classes are a combination of yoga, released dance technique, relaxation, some elements of walking meditation, and dynamic dance sequences including rolls down and up off the floor, arm and leg swings, some basic elements of movement improvisation and some elements of contact improvisation. All of the classes aim to gain your own body’s energy back, to get the body's alignment in order, to move effortlessly for everyday life.
Classes will make you aware of the way you walk, of your posture, and how to correct if it necessary in order to be more efficient at work/life, to pay attention to the breath as you move/walk, to learn to disconnect from the mind in order to let the body talk, and to take control of your own body and explore its abilities.

Level: Intermediate.

6 weeks from Wednesday 25 January until 29 February 2012.
Fees: €60

Inma's Beginners' classes are open to people who want to learn more about their bodies and even the connection of the body and the mind, not necessarily for dancers, actors, performers, or people in the Arts, but anyone who never actually thought they could dance or move their bodies in a space without feeling that they were being judged.

These classes can help you to be more confident about yourself as you gain strength in your body, suddenly you will start to feel good about yourself, you will be taught some dance sequences to move to music, so you will be challenged mentally in a creative way, you will also learn to get out of your mind and let the body take the control.

Please bring very comfortable clothing for dancing, nothing tied, something very comfortable is the best. No shoes, bring socks and PLENTY OF WATER.

Group ages are diverse from 16 years-old until 100 years-old Please feel free to ask any questions anytime by email or phone at  087-779-19-11
 
BEGINNERS  on THURSDAYS  7:30pm-9pm  starting thursday 26 January in the Mirror Room at The Firkin Crane.The Mirror Room is a lovely spacious room, with dance floor, heaters and mirrors.

Please take note of the 6 weeks course:
Week 1- 26th of January.
Week 2- 2nd of February.
Week 3- 9th of February.
   Week off MID TERM
Week 4- 23rd of February.
Week 5- 1st of March.
Week 6- 8th of March

All at a reduced price of 60euros!!!!!!!!!!

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PLEASE FOR THOSE WHO ALREADY CONTACTED ME ABOUT INTERMEDIATE CLASSES PLEASE SEE SMALL CHANGE OF THE TIME, NOW THE CLASSES WILL BE STARTING AT 7:30PM AND FINISH AT 9PM.i HOPE IT IS STILL OK FOR THAT SMALL CHANGE OF HALF HOUR.

 
 
INTERMEDIATE  on WEDNESDAYS 7:30pm-9pm    6 WEEKS TERM (No mid term break)
STARTING WEDNESDAY  THE 25TH OF JANUARY in THE CHANDELIER ROOM at The Firkin Crane also.
This room is a big space with heaters,mirrors,wooden sprong floor.
These classes are for those who have more dance experience, and also want to learn more and be challenged to a dynamic contemporary dance.The same elements as the beginners class but without spending time in the basics of body alignment,these classes are for those who have done Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Asthanga Yoga, Martial Arts,and wish to combine new elements into their knowledge.
Please bring comfortable clothing and plenty of water too.
The price as above, €60 for 6 weeks.

For more information please contact teacher Inma Pavon at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/087-779-19-11/ http://inmapavon.wordpress.com/

For beginners classes please contact Inma as there could be a possibility on Tuesdays at 6:30pm

Image by Photographer Shanney Mulcahy

 

Joan Denise Moriarty Centenary Gala

08.00 pm

Born in Mallow Co. Cork, Joan Denise Moriarty (1912 – 1992) was a dancer, teacher, choreographer, founder of the Cork Ballet Company, of two professional companies, and of the Firkin Crane Dance Centre.

Directed by Alan Foley, this Gala features a new adaptation of Miss Moriarty’s most famous ballet The Playboy of the Western World, choreographed by former Irish National Ballet ballerina Patricia Crosbie. Excerpts from her ballets, including Lugh of the Golden Arm and Degas, are also on the programme, as well as a show-stopping Pas de deux from Don Quixote, the seafaring Le Corsaire and the Polovtsian Dances from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor.

As a precursor to the November 2012 tour by Cork City Ballet with a new production of The Sleeping Beauty, a suite from that ballet will be presented at the Gala, featuring the prima ballerina of the Royal Swedish Ballet, Marie Lindqvist, and international ballet star Dragos Mihalcea.

In addition, Anton Dolin’s Pas de Quatre will be reproduced for the Gala by Joanna Banks, who trained at the Royal Ballet School in London, and learned the ballet from Dolin himself when he came to Cork in 1978 to stage it for INB. (Footage of Dolin himself will be on display at the Firkin Crane.) With a beautiful score by Pugni and stunning costumes made at the Kirov theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, this exquisite quartet promises to be one of the highlights of the show.

Speaking at the recent launch of this event, Artistic Director of Cork City Ballet Alan Foley said, "I am delighted that we at Cork City Ballet are in a position to celebrate the work of the most iconic figure in ballet in Ireland - Dr. Joan Denise Moriarty. As one of only two professional ballet companies in Ireland presenting the full-length classics, we are very proud to continue the legacy of this remarkable woman from Cork”.

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

7.30 pm

The story is based on Lewis Carroll’s tale of a young girl who follows a rabbit, falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself on an extraordinary adventure.
Where will Alice end up? Who will Alice meet? Maybe the grinning Cheshire Cat or a strange dancing caterpillar? Will she be invited to the Mad Hatter’s tea party? What will happen when she meets the Queen of Hearts?
The show is filled with toe tapping music, innovative visual and lighting designs and stunning vibrant costumes. There are dancing fish, hedgehogs and flamingos, collapsing cards, a magical tea party and lots more besides.
An utterly enchanting show….. children will be captivated.
Emma Teahan dances the role of Alice,with Molly Ward as the austere Queen of Hearts. Other dancers include Lucy Crowley as the sinuous Caterpillar, Saoirse O’ Connor as the White Rabbit, Sarah Stanley as the Mad Hatter, Sinéad McGee as the sleepy Doormouse and Linnea Lagerqvist as the March Hare. Aaron Murphy is the Knave who steals the tarts and Craig Barrett of Colaiste Stiofáin Naofa’s Diploma in Dance course dances the role of the King.

Friday 9 December 7.30pm
Saturday 10 December 7.30pm
Sunday 11th December at 2.30pm

Friday 16 December 7.30pm
Saturday 17 December 7.30pm
Sunday 18 December 2.30pm.

Box Office: (021) 4507487 - 10.00 - 2.00 Tuesday - Friday

Aladdin

Check details

Montfort College of Performing Arts

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 7.30 pm
Saturday at 2.30 pm

Booking: 021 450 7487

Box Office hours over Christmas:
Mon 19: 2.00 - 5.00 pm
Tue 20: 10am - 2pm, 2.00 - 6.00 pm
Wed 21: 10am - 2pm, 2.00 - 5.00 pm
Wed 28: 2.00 - 6.00 pm
Thur 29: 2.00 - 6.00 pm
Fri 30: 2.00 - 6.00 pm
Mon 2: 11am - 2pm, 2.00 - 6.00 pm
Tue 3: 11am - 2pm, 2.00 - 6.00 pm
Wed 4: 10am - 2pm, 2.00 - SHOWTIME!

Booking fee will apply when booking over the phone, using a credit card

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

10.30, 12.00

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?
Meet good old Santa Claus and enjoy all your favourite Christmas songs wrapped together in this timeless story of how being different can really make a difference. So sit back, relax and see how Rudolph went down in history! The children will love it!

Show running time is approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.
This show is ideal for children age 3+.

One teacher free with every 10 child tickets sold.
Early booking is suggested for this popular festive show.
Bookings: Olga at 087 - 6363075

Aerial Dance Works

03.00 & 08.00 pm

Fidget Feet and Raised Aerial Dance in association with the Firkin Crane present a triple bill from Ireland's foremost aerial dance companies.

FIDGET FEET presents Hang On
This piece mixes aerial dance trapeze with a live musical performance in a thrilling struggle between the sexes.
Will everything be lost in the battle or can love be found? Can they Hang On?

RAISED AERIAL DANCE presents Sisters
Directed by Melissa Baker
Aerialist and dancer siblings Shaena and Tara Brandel tell their tale of Sisters Nell and Julia Levis in this heartwarming true story.

THE FLYING DANCE COMPANY presents an extract from Your Story
By Chloe de Buyl-Pisco
An aerial dance about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, (O.C.D) and the things we do to stay sane.

Box Office 021 4507487

A Winter Wonderland

07.30 pm

Annual End of Year Showcase

Footdreams School of Dance, classes in modern, lyrical ,hiphop, movement to music, disco freestyle and slowdance.

Mrs Tracey O Donovan (U.T.D.M:U.T.D.F:M.A.I.D.F) 086-0202483.

Box Office: (021) 4507487 - 10.00 - 2.00 Tuesday - Friday

Irish Ballet Forum Masterclass

various

With Guest teacher Amy Lawson.

11:00AM – 12:30PM – Session 1 (9-11yrs)
1:30PM – 3:00PM – Session 2 (12-14yrs)
3:30PM – 5:00PM – Session 3 (15yrs+)

Classes are €10 per individual per class payable at the door.

Students can register on Facebook or by emailing .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Amy Lawson: trained at the Central School of Ballet, London where she won the Molly Lake Performance Award. She completed her training at the Ecole National Superieure de Dance Marseille.
She has danced with Atlanta Ballet, European Ballet, National Ballet de Marseille and English National Ballet, performing Swan Lake and Romeo & Juliet at The Royal Albert Hall. Amy played a feature ballet dancer in the film The Phantom of the Opera and worked on the fourth Harry Potter film The Goblet of Fire. In addition Amy has performed in The Great Waltz and The Magic of Vienna, two Jim Molloy productions at the Gaiety Theatre and National Concert Hall, Dublin.
She joined Cois Ceim in staging the opening Ceremony for the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club, Co Kildare.
Amy has performed in recent productions with CruX Dance Theatre and is a principle dancer with Chrysalis Dance. She is also currently a soloist with Cork City Ballet with whom she has performed a wide range of repertoire since 2004.
Amy has just gained her professional dancers teaching diploma from the world renowned Royal Academy of Dance.

MotionCapture

08.00 pm

Shakram Dance Company curates a selection of short Irish contemporary dance films alongside the premiere of their new work Stone and Form set in Kanturk Castle and Ballybeg Priory, Co. Cork.
In recent times, Ireland has seen a rapid growth in the genre of short dance film/choreography for camera. MotionCapture presents a selection of this new wave of work as part of this year's Corona Cork Film Festival. The following films will be screened:

Shakram Dance Company - Stone & Form (premiere)
Irish Modern Dance Theatre - Eternal
3 Angle Production - Evelyn Tables
Mary Wycherley - Warp & Weft
Elena Gallotta - Story of One
Patrick Cashman - Flicker
Liz Roche - Solo Portrait

Free Admission: Ticketed Event, available from Cork Film Festival
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Professional Dance Class

Tuesday

10.00 - 12.00

Laura Murphy presents a series of Professional Dance Classes for experienced and professional dancers, and advanced level dance students.

Please spread the word. These classes are made possible by the kind support of The Firkin Crane

For further details please contact: Laura Murphy 087 698 2532 | Firkin Crane 021 450 7487.

Photo: ConnollyCleary

Maeve Higgins Can’t Stop Doing Comedy

08.00 pm

The adorable and hilarious comedian from Cobh is playing; for one night only.

Last October, in a little room over the International Bar in Dublin, Maeve recorded her first stand-up album. It’s called Maeve Higgins Can’t Stop Doing Comedy and captures a great hour of fun and banter - it’s a snapshot of where she is at and is her first release since the much loved RTE series Fancy Vittles. The album is available to download on itunes from 14th November, and the Cork show marks the official launch of the CD.
There is no crooning, singing or humming on the album, just jokes and over-sharing, Higgins style!
Come help her celebrate the launch at this very special show. Expect new material, old favourites and flowery language.
See you there!

Maeve Higgins has performed in comedy festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Adelaide and Kilkenny. She rapidly rose to an uncomfortable level of notoriety on Irish television in the past few years, on the most watched comedy show in the country, RTE's Naked Camera and subsequently starred, with her sister, in their alternative cooking show.

Please book early to avoid disappointment, as it was a sell out last year.
Tickets from the Firkin Crane (021) 4507487 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).


"Higgins is rarer than a blessing of unicorns…she is original and relatively calm, her observations are pithy, her wit delicate, her persona oddly alluring and deftly honest." The Irish Times, September 2009
“Throughout the whole hour the room is filled with laughter at Maeve’s risqué and highly intelligent act." The Irish Independent,
‘Charming and iconoclastic Irish stand-up’ The Age, Melbourne 2008
"Higgins is a great relief from the big loud boys and will win many people over with her quietly charming quality of comedy." The Skinny, 2007
"Maeve Higgins is here to demonstrate how to do Irish charm. She’s not daft, she doesn’t lay it on with a trowel, dimpling and twinkling away, hers is probably the most natural and uncontrived performance you could wish for." Chortle, 2007

Journeying through Sound

10.00 - 5.00 pm

An introduction to sound as a form for exploring our deep inner space; a place to share the human experience through voice, sound, drum, poetry and gentle movement, with Mary Doherty and Caroline Flavin
 
With a number of years of shamanic training, spiritual artist and singer Caroline has years' experience of holding sacred space using the drum to create, in the moment, a tapestry of voice and sound. Her joy is to enable a connection to the inner fountain of creativity in a spontaneous expression, a flow of voice in celebration and song.

Mary’s focus, as a singer, therapist and healer, is to assist in recognising and strengthening our inner Witness, dissolving self-created restrictions, into creative and aware self-love, forgiveness and expression. She has over 20 years' experience in facilitating, teaching, healing and creative fields and is currently part of the Naked Voice Choral and Training Programme.
“When you do things from your Soul
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
-Rumi

To book call Mary 087 297 0858 or Caroline 085 222 7557

Lindy Hop Workshop

various

Don’t miss this opportunity to develop your dancing skills in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with Ryan and Jenny, widely regarded as the top Lindy Hop couple in the world today.

Hot from the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Ryan and Jenny are the jazziest dance couple in town! They will be teaching classes over the weekend and are starring in The Cotton Club on Sunday night. Credits include NBC’s Dancing with the Stars, films Malcolm X and Swing Kids, and a host of competition wins. They starred in the original Broadway Musical “Swing”, which was nominated for 6 Tony Awards. And, guess what, they are amazing teachers and you’ll learn loads!
Register.

Friday 9pm – 10pm Jazz Routine “The Jitterbug Stroll” €18*:
Bring your happy feet and learn this fun and stylish jazz chorus. If you have learned the routine before pick up some tips from the man who created it! We will be dancing this to the original music The Woodchoppers Ball. No need to book. No experience needed.
Saturday 10.15am-11.45am The building blocks of Lindy Hop €25*:
For Lindy Hoppers who know the value in ripping things up and going back to basics to get a seamless connection. Pre-booking and Experience required. Intermediate level.
Saturday 12.00pm-1.30pm Cross rhythms, syncopations and happy feet €25*:
For Lindy Hoppers looking to inject some sharpness and spontaneity into their dancing. Pre-booking and Experience required. Intermediate level
Saturday 3.00pm-4.00pm Beginners Swing Dance FREE:
Put a swing in your step and take to the floor at this fun beginners swing dance class directed by Ryan and Jenny. Always a festival hit and no need to book. No experience required.
Sunday 11-12pm Frankie Tribute class €18*:
Frankie Manning, an original swing dancer from the 1930’s, inspired thousands with his dancing and generous spirit. Pick up some tips from two of his star pupils! Pre-booking and Experience required. Intermediate level.
Sunday 12.15-1.15pm Up tempo Lindy €18*:
use Fast Lindy technique to make your dancing look easy and feel effortless (with practice that is!!) Pre-booking and Experience required.  Intermediate level.
Monday 11.00am-12.00pm Mini Aerials €18*:
For Lindy Hoppers seeking the thrill and excitement of their feet leaving the floor. Pre-booking and Experience required. Intermediate level.
Monday 12.15pm – 1.15pm Strictly Come Charleston €18*:
Learn this high energy dance that was all the rage in the Roaring Twenties. No need to book. No experience needed.

Full weekend workshop pass €130
Intermediate level workshop Pass €100
Jazz and Charleston Pass €35

Levels:
No experience needed: You might never have danced before and this will be a new and fun experience for you as well as a great opportunity to learn from TV personalities Ryan and Jenny. If you have already been dancing Swing you will pick up new ideas and be able to apply them in your social dancing with a bit of flair!
Jazz and Charleston no experience needed: This workshop has something for everyone. Ryan and Jenny are masters in Charleston and Jazz and this is your chance to feel like you are a ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant!
Intermediate level: You have been dancing Lindy Hop for about a year and are familiar with the basics of lead and follow. You are gaining confidence socially on the dance floor and are able to take on technical information in class and apply it within the lesson.If in doubt call me, this is a wonderful opportunity!

Swing Time at the Buttercup Café: Tucked in behind the Firkin Crane Theatre in Shandon, this delightful café will be the coolest joint in town over the festival weekend. Bring your dance shoes, push back the tables, roll up the carpet and “cut a rug” whenever the mood takes your fancy.


Firkin Crane Box office http://www.firkincrane.ie/ 021 450 7487 Tuesday to Friday 9.30 - 1.00 pm

Pilates

Monday

6.00 - 07.00 pm

"Develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong posture, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind and elevates the spirit." - Joseph Pilates

Strength / Flexibility / Control

6 weeks course: beginning Monday 16th January

Mondays 6pm – 7pm is a Pilates Toning Class

Bring a mat, towel and water.

For more information please contact Fabiola Reyes 085 205 2449

Aerial Hoop Workshop

01.30 - 05.00 pm

This workshop is presented by Shaena Brandel in association with The Firkin Crane.

What you will learn – moves and techniques on the Aerial Hoop, from Static positions to Dynamic Moves.

The class will include learning ways of building a spin using the floor and the challenge of taking this into the air!

Maximum 12 places available.
Booking deposit ESSENTIAL – Please contact Shaena on (0044) 7771 998181or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Please note a deposit of €20 is required to secure a place, to guarantee covering costs.

Culture Night 2011

05.00 - 09.30 pm

Once again, the Firkin Crane, the home of dance in Cork, will open its doors for a series of free events from early evening to late night throughout the city.

We aim to fill the studios and theatres in this unique building, demonstrating the variety, imagination and vibrancy of dance in Cork, and proving that, no matter what a visitor's age, experience, or level of agility, there will be something to try, as participant or audience.

Come along and join in the fun.


programme designed by Marica Limongelli



Cork City Council Arts Office is co-ordinating Culture Night, which is presented in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport. Culture Night has been growing and developing over the last three years and has always been a great success thanks to the amazing work the arts and cultural organisations in Cork put into it each year. In 2010 there were 64 venues, with in excess of 27,000 individual visits, in Cork City. This level of attendance and engagement by the public is a testament to the range and the quality of the programme presented.

listing pic: John Downes

Songs from the other side

08.00 pm

Two of Ireland's most loved and best known vocalists collaborate to bring you an evening of music inspired by their love and appreciation of some of the greatest songs ever written. It is a soulful fusion of blues, contempory, original and rock'n'roll with each bringing her own style and experience to this unique pairing.

With an eclectic mix of styles and their relaxed, friendly nature on stage, prepare to be thoroughly enthralled and entertained! Honor and Leslie have assembled a group of great musicians to accompany them on their new musical venture.

This is a unique opportunity to see them perform like you’ve never seen them before.


James Delaney, piano. Paul Moore, bass. Kevin Brady, drums and Conor Barry, guitar.

Booking: 021 450 7487

Ballet - Elementary/Intermediate

Every Wednesday

06.00 pm

Class open to all interested dancers and first-time students, with Patricia Crosbie.

Contact Cork City Ballet for details: 087 296 7180

Jamila Johnson-Small & Alexandrina Hemsley

1.00 pm

Jamila Johnson-Small wanted to be in a rock band but can't play any instruments, so made a band of dancers instead. She wanted to be an English Literature Professor but got stuck at the London Contemporary Dance School for five years, completing her BA (hons), touring with EDge and is currently working on her MA in Contemporary Dance.
Jamila’s practice almost always involves collaborating in some way and she is one of the six founding members of Hiru Dance, is part of the BELLYFLOP Magazine executive team, performs with Trumpet Creepers improvisation ensemble and in summer 2011 will join BLOOM! Dance Collective for their next project. She makes an annual solo for herself and sometimes performs in other people’s pieces.
Her own choreographic work is about developing a practice that is fuelled by the dancers' desire to dance and bodily knowledge, the urge for physical play that is simultaneously intimate and exhibitionist, internal and external. She wants to use her work to present different ways of being that can exist in one body, different ways of attributing value in dance performance and outside of it, testing what it means to be virtuosic, to create spectacle and to make theatre without words.
In summer 2011 she will be performing at several UK festivals with Hiru, in residence at Yorkshire Dance Centre, Leeds, a participant in the Sadler’s Wells Summer University and taking a work to Stockholm Fringe Festival.
Alexandrina Hemsley started training at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and graduated from Laban with a First Class Honours in Dance Theatre. Whilst at Laban, she worked with Struan Leslie and Matteo Fargion.
She has choreographed work for Future Shorts film festival, “Dances with Love" as well as having collaborated with visual artists Eddie Peake and Marnie Hollande. In 2009, she was an apprentice with Rosemary Lee for the crossgenerational piece Common Dance. In 2010 she was member of EDge, the post-graduate company of London Contemporary Dance School, and was awarded an Arts Humanities and Research Council Studentship to fund her place. Currently, Alexandrina can found having conversations and dances with visitors in production by Xavier Le Roy and Märten Spängberg and doing silent battle with books as she completes her MA in Contemporary Dance.
As a performer and choreographer, she is interested in integrating her jumbled up heritage into current circumstances, questioning how a performer presents themselves, watching the audience play, and crafting all that bewildering space in-between.

Extracts from Jamila Johnson-Small on Vimeo.

Karen Bernard

1.00 pm

As the culmination of her BLANK CANVAS professional dance residency, New York City-based soloist Karen Bernard will present some of her work in progress on Friday 9 September at 1.00 pm. As this will take place in the Firkin Crane's smallest studio, confirmation of attendance is advised. Tel: 021 450 7487.

Karen began studying dance at age three with her father, Steven Bernard, a company member with the 20th century pioneer Charles Weidman. She grew up in a household that incorporated her father’s dance school on a day-to-day level, with students crossing through the family space. Her sense of performance and performance art stems from this familiar blend of living and presenting.
Karen is the Founder and Director of New Dance Alliance, a non-profit arts service organization that produces the annual Performance Mix Festival, now in its 25th year. Bernard is a 2006 BAX10 award recipient for the founding and development of New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival. She is committed to nurturing an ongoing social dialogue among U.S. and international artists, one that exemplifies her lifelong commitment to performance. She is a recipient of a Bogliasco Fellowship and serves on advisory panels across the U.S., Canada and Europe. Bernard facilitates Fieldwork and is a board member of Earthdance.

In her recent work, Ouette, using a laptop and projector, different spaces evoke the imagined and real experiences are created. With video footage of floor tiles, patterned fabrics and human silhouettes, Karen creates a heightened film noir that is quickly fractured by the non-performative technical tasks of manipulating the laptop and projector. Ouette is loosely based on the François Ozon movie Swimming Pool. Karen’s character parallels the film’s protagonist, an elderly English novelist who becomes involved in a dangerous sexual fantasy that is part her fiction and part her desire.

The Shakespeare Sessions

10.30 am + 1.30 pm

The Hamlet Session:
The Hamlet Session:

“An Excellent production, engaging throughout, one of the best performances I’ve seen to date.” - Teacher, Co. Cork

Right from the start Hamlet grabs the audience from the jugular with an action packed take on the bard’s greatest play! With brilliant pacing, humour and pathos The Hamlet Session weaves a tapestry that aims to aid the students with analysis, discussion and breaking down of themes of this masterpiece.

Topics and themes introduced and/or analyzed in The Hamlet Session: The Source, Revenge Tragedy Genre. Hamlet’s Frame of Mind at Play’s Beginning, Appearance vs. Reality, Poetic Language, Action & Inaction, The Role of Women, Death/Mortality, Madness, Corruption, The Character of Hamlet

See our YouTube Video on the Hamlet Session following this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAl1os5bSBI&feature=related

The Macbeth Session:

The mystery and magic of The Scottish Play as you’ve never seen it before! Hecate joins the actors analysing the bards’ goriest play. A riddle is put forward to the students which, once answered, will aid them understanding how to dissect bloody Macbeth for their exams.

Topics and themes introduced and/or analyzed in The Macbeth Session: The Source, The Scottish Play (The Macbeth Curse), The Porter’s Speech, Appearance vs. Reality, Conscience/Guilt, Corruption/Ambition, Blood, Evil vs. Good, Tropes, Manhood and Lady Macbeth’s Motivation, Free Will vs. Fate

See our YouTube Video on the Macbeth Session following this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmKcdJ6ufVw

The Merchant Session:

“Brilliant, enjoyable and thought-provoking.” Tracy Irish, Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Education Department.

A hilarious take of one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies. A group of actors deconstruct the play looking at the main themes through comic arguments and debates that clarify issues such as character motivation, complicated dialogue and confusing plot elements. Even the audience are asked to help with their opinions and participation.

Topics and themes introduced and/or analyzed in The Merchant of Venice Session: Friendship and Loyalty, Nazism & The Merchant, Launcelot’s Conscience, Mercy and Justice, The Role of Religion, The Pound of Flesh, Father and Child Love, Romantic Love, Significance of Tubal, Isolation, Money & Wealth, The Function of the Caskets, Women’s Appearance & Reality

The Romeo and Juliet Session

“Excellent show, well structured analysis of key themes and issues which students could clearly understand.” – Cork Teacher.

The Romeo & Juliet Session starring William Shakespeare! Yes, Shakespeare comes to life in The Romeo & Juliet Session! The bard directs a group of modern actors in his great romantic tragedy. However, problems arise as Mr. Shakespeare’s sixteenth century attitudes and demeanour clash with those of the modern performers. Arguments, discussion and enlightenment ensue!

Topics and themes introduced and/or analyzed in The Romeo and Juliet Session:
The Main Source, The Passage of Time in Romeo and Juliet, Nature of Love, Love as a Religious Experience/Courtly Love Poetry, Benvolio’s Function, Fate, Romeo’s Transformation, Love vs. Lust, Conflict, Historical Context of the Capulet/Montague Feud, Lack of Women Performers in Elizabethan Theatre, Attitudes to Homosexuality in Shakespeare’s Time, Parental Authority, Storytelling in Shakespeare’s time

What teachers have said of previous Cyclone Shakespeare shows:
An Excellent production, engaging throughout, one of the best performances I've seen to date - Teacher, Co. Cork
The company who put on the play are absolutely fantastic and the best I've seen for Junior Cert students. – West Cork School Teacher on Merchant of Venice
Excellent – a refreshing and fun approach to a brilliant play.  Your production was accessible, informative and very educational.  Keep up the good work. – Teacher of Limerick School

For more info and bookings, please contact Maev O'Shea 085 - 8585502

Shandon Sunday

1.00 - 5.00 pm

The Firkin Crane building was designed by Sir John Benson and opened in 1855. The unique rotunda formed part of Cork's original Butter Exchange, with the former butter market buildings in the Shandon area.
The butter trade originating from Cork City in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stretched to Great Britain, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and the West Indies. Indeed the building's name derives from Danish words pertaining to measures of butter. Firkin is a Danish word meaning quarter barrel and in former times these firkins or casks were tarred and weighed on a balance known as a crane.
The building is also of archaeological significance as it was constructed on the site of medieval Shandon Castle. This site was occupied by the Dominicans, who had a chapel and convent here from 1784 until 1840.
When the Butter Market closed in 1924 James Daly and Sons occupied the building until the 1970’s when they moved their margarine manufacturing business to new premises.
The Firkin Crane was completely destroyed by fire in 1982. It reopened in 1992 and continues to be a focal point for dance in Ireland. With four dance studios and two performance spaces, it is a unique building for dance in Ireland. Performances run throughout the year along with a range of regular classes and workshops across a spectrum of dance styles.

Cork Heritage Open Day 2011

11.00 - 4.00 pm

The Firkin Crane has gone through many guises since it was erected as part of the Butter Market in the 19th century: the current rotunda building has been a dedicated cultural centre since the 1980’s.

This unique building will be open all day as part of Cork Heritage Open Day organised by Cork City Council with support from the Heritage Council and DoEHLG.
In all, 38 buildings will open their doors free of charge, and members of the public are allowed a glimpse of some of Cork’s most fascinating buildings, ranging from the Medieval to the Military, the Civic to the Commercial and the Educational to the Ecclesiastical.
There are also 34 free themed events happening throughout the day all over the city! There is something of interest for everyone and a fun and entertaining day is guaranteed so we invite you to come along and enjoy Cork City’s Heritage Open Day experience!

This event is an action from the Cork City Heritage Plan 2007-2012.

Organised by Cork City Council, Cork Heritage Open Day celebrates Ireland’s architecture and heritage by enabling free access to properties & events of interest to the public that are either not usually open to the public, or would normally charge an entrance fee. Details of this year’s events and participating buildings appear on the website http://www.corkheritageopenday.ie

Further information is available at: Tel. No.: (021) 4924757

Nerida Matthaei & Nicole Canham

1.00 pm

Awarding-winning Australian artist Nerida will lead a first stage creative development exploring the 1925 text “Don’t’s for Dancers” through a collaborative process incorporating new dance and music with her partner. Nicole is a performing artist and artistic director whose work explores the understanding and interpretation of music and the place the arts hold in people’s lives.
This original work offers interesting commentary on the social conventions of that time, reflecting quite a rigid, supressive attitude towards what many regard as an enjoyable and carefree kind of past time by today’s standards.

Lisa Cahill & Erika Charters

1.00 pm

Lisa Cahill and Erika Charters met in 2009 whilst completing the MA in Contemporary Dance performance at the University of Limerick. Each artist has emerged from a unique dance experience and developed an individual identity which they wish to continue to question and explore.
This residency would be utilized as an opportunity to create a duet which questions individual identity in a collaborative context.
To bring this idea into physical existence they plan to explore methods to help comprehend our own authentic selves and others. The aim of the project is for both artists to investigate, examine and reflect upon their unfolding collaborative process, while exploring Identity and Integration.

Sustain your Ability to Satisfy

08.00 pm

Today sees the launch of his first book by Cork-based punk poet Wasps Vs Humans. The work contains over fifty poems, extracts from two screenplays and song lyrics.
Wasps vs Humans debuted as a performance poet at the Cork MidSummer Festival in 2009 and went on to support Jinx Lennon on a number of dates around Ireland, including a performance in Dublin with Christy Moore and Captain Moonlight. Last year also saw him perform at The Glór Sessions in Dublin, sharing the stage with poets Dermot Bulger and Stephen James Smith.
Originally a playwright, the man behind Wasps vs Humans has written plays for theatre, all produced, including a UK national tour taking in the Brighton International Arts Festival. Musically, he released an L.P and Single with UK-based 80s avant garde/experimental band, 4,000,000 Telephones, with a tour in Germany, previously gaining interest from national UK press and making the playlist of Radio One’s John Peel show.
Wasps vs Humans will be promoting the book with an Irish tour, which will kick off at the Firkin Crane, and will include dates in Dublin, Dundalk, Clonakilty, and a special UK launch in his home town of Lincoln in the UK. (more dates to be announced)
Since Wasps Vs Humans entered the scene eighteen months ago, the punk poet has caught the attention of national and local media and recently performed on RTE Radio 1’s Arena programme as well as a couple of spots on Cork’s 96FM.
The book is released through Troubadour Publishing in the UK. It will also be available in eBook format.
For further information contact http://www.myspace.com/waspsvshumans
e. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) m. 086 3805108

Release/Limon Technique Classes

6 - 7.30, 7.30 - 9

This technique involves releasing the tension from the body, allowing the weight of the limbs and the use of breath to carry you fluidly from one movement to the next, and works in harmony with the body. Influences are also drawn from martial arts and yoga. 

Debbie Shine is a graduate of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa and Middlesex University. Since graduating she has been teaching dance in London to people of all ages and abilities, from beginners to professionals, from children as young as 10 to men and women in their eighties. She also works with teenagers with special educational needs. She has been teaching at Pineapple Dance Studios since 2004, and also works with the Royal Academy of Dance, Greenwich Dance Agency, and Cloud Dance Festival. She has choreographed and performed all over London.

Beginners class 6:00-7:30pm - suitable for all ages and abilities, everyone is welcome to come and give it a try! Debbie is experienced in dealing with people whose physical strength or abilities require adaptations to movements, so if floor work or jumps might be a problem for you, don't worry!
Intermediate/Advanced class 7:30-9:00pm - suitable for those with a solid background in dance, this class will be more physically challenging and much faster paced than the first class. A must for all serious dance students!

Class prices:
€8 per person per class
€12 to do both classes in one evening back to back
€12 to do 2 classes of the same level if you pay on the first night for both
€22 to do all 4 classes if you pay on the first night
The more you do, the cheaper it is!

Please respond to Debbie directly at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you would like to attend, and indicate which class you would be interested in doing, so that we can get an idea of numbers. If places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, so get in there quickly!

FISHHEAD’S ACOUSTIC TOUR

08.00 - door 7.00 pm

Fish's music defies trends and fashion and is a brave statement in these days of banal musical small talk. He is a consummate performer whose act is both dramatic, comedic and hugely entertaining on all levels
In 2011, Derek W Dick, better known as Fish, will rack up 30 years as a singer since joining Marillion in Aylesbury in 1981. His powerfully identifiable Scottish presence on and off stage was a major factor in their worldwide success and when he left them in '88 to pursue a solo career and return to live in his home country, establishing himself in Haddington, East Lothian, and building his own recording studio where he still lives today, it seemed a perfectly natural move for someone so passionate about his roots.
Prior to the release of his first solo album on EMI Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors in 1990 he embarked on an extensive tour of Scotland, his first dates across the country outside the major cities since 1982 when he booked the first ever Marillion Scottish tour before they signed to EMI records for their first album Script for a Jester's Tear.
This summer will see the writing and recording of his next studio album A Feast of Consequences and some of this new material will debut on the current tour, which includes is first ever gig in Cork.
It's a newly energised and dynamic Fish hitting the stages after fully recovering from an operation on his vocal chords in December '09 which removed a cyst that had been plaguing him for a long time and had been thought to carry a far darker threat that threatened the end of his career as one of the finest front men and maverick singer songwriters that Scotland has produced.
He returned to live performances last Summer with acoustic shows featuring his long term friends and musicians, Frank Usher on guitar and Foss Paterson on keyboards, playing stripped down acoustic versions of songs from throughout his career in preparation for the writing sessions for his new studio album.
By the time he begins the Scottish tour he will have completed over a 100 shows in a format which had originally intended to be a reintroduction to live work but which has captured the imagination of his fans and taken him across Europe followed by rave reviews and a re-examination of his work as a singer and writer as well as a consummate performer whose act is both dramatic, comedic and hugely entertaining on all levels.
Backed by Frank and Foss , who have both played in John Martyn's celebrated line ups, the deconstruction of songs from the Marillion era like Fugazi and Incubus and Jigsaw stand well together in an acoustic format with classics Kayleigh and Lavender while the solo years are represented with State of Mind, A Gentleman's Excuse Me, Brother 52, Just Good Friends, Zoe 25 and the epic Vigil in a set that embraces a recording career which traverses 13 studio albums.
The acoustic versions take on a new majesty and intimacy, shining a new light on his songwriting talents and, together with Fish's stories and anecdotes, come together to make a fascinating and rewarding evening of entertainment that shouldn't be missed.
More information can be found on his web site http://www.fish-thecompany.com/ and on his Facebook page Fish (Musician/Band) where you can find his updates and posts from his touring activities.

for further details, contact the Firkin Crane +353 (21) 450 8787

Aerial Dance

Ring for details

06.30/08.00 pm

It's dance in Flight!
Get those natural endorphins flowing and come have heaps of Fun

Chloe de Buyl Pisco founder and director of The Flying Dance Company, will tailor the course to the individual needs of a student, from the development of professional acts to total beginners who want to feel the thrill of dance in flight!.
You will train for strength and flexibility on the ground and then move onto technique - learn how to dance suspended above the ground in a variety of aerial equipment - silks, rope (corde lisse), hoop and static trapeze. Also wall running, dance and performance skills. Marrying the technical skills of traditional circus aerial acrobatics together with dance and its wide range of movement quality and capacity for expression.

Open to all levels of fitness and a wide range of ages, we train to have the skills to be safe in aerial equipment as safety is the first priority, building gradually with each student to develop their skills at their own pace. These skills then allow us to explore and play with performance quality, dance, expression and creation in the air.
Providing a fun, non competitive, creative environment, this course will focus on having each participant work on their own routine or sequence and making it their own, regardless of experience.

Exciting guest teachers and more surprises in store!
Monday 06.30 pm
Tuesday 08.00 pm
Details subject to change.

€20 per class / € 15 unemployed or student
Length of class is 2 to 3 hours, (schedule and stamina depending)

Contact: Chloe de Buyl Pisco 089 444 05 97 - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Adrienne Westwood

09.30 - 05.30 pm

Adrienne Westwood is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. In 2003, she co-founded VIA Dance Collaborative and was awarded an eight-month Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute.
With Katie Swords, she is involved in an exploration of time, memory and childhood objects. This duet attempts an embodied investigation of simulacra, and it centers around the two dancers and numerous hand-crank music boxes sewn into our clothing.  As they engage in an intricately crafted give add take, alternately turning the cranks to play their own and their partner’s music boxes, they attempt to embody the production of sound from the mechanical toys, calling attention to the origination/ reproduction of this sound and the human effort needed to produce the it.
The resulting duet will create its own uncanny score as it navigates the relationship between the two dancers and between the mechanics and the embodiment of their gestures.  

Mary Wycherley

09.30 - 05.00 pm

Mary Wycherley is a dance artist whose practice spans choreography, live performance, and screendance.
Her engagement with the medium of screendance has received particular recognition, with works screened at dance and film festivals nationally and internationally. Most recently, she was the recipient of a range of awards including the 2011/12 European Modul-Dance carte-blanche programme and Arts Council Project funding for The Dance of Making.
Her performance and film collaborators include: choreographers Mary Nunan, Yoshiko Chuma; composers Jürgen Simpson and Steve McCourt; artists Maria Kerin, David Stalling and Anthony Kelly; and photographer Maurice Gunning.
Mary received an M.A in Contemporary Dance Practice from the University of Limerick and now lectures and tutors at the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance on that MA, the BA in Voice and Dance and the Arts Practice PhD programme.
During her weeklong BLANK CANVAS residency, Mary will investigate technical and creative questions pertaining to her current screendance project, The Dance of Making. Examining the language of film from a dance making perspective she will investigate the illusory qualities of film exploring the tensions between its ability to portray both reality and abstraction. As both and choreographer and cinematographer, her camera techniques are informed by dance practice, exploring the privilege of camera/camera person to negotiate space, extrapolate movement detail and assume role as a performer.

The Cotton Club 2011

07.30 - midnight

 
Wanna dance? Gotta dance? Get the rhythm – bring your spats and two-tones. stylish, funny, strange, evocative, sophisticated …. guaranteed to delight and entertain - anyone who is anyone wants to be there – the famous, the aspirational, the flamboyant, the thrill seeker

Evoking the fantastic spirit of the original Cotton Club in Depression era Harlem, this night will take you on an odyssey of music, cabaret and delicious jazz era entertainment.

Dress to impress and bring your alter ego to this up town sophisticated Saturday night. Prizes for the best dressed!

If you want to untangle your two left feet, arrive early to learn some jazz era dance steps. A Swing dance lesson opens the evening to get you In the Mood and a heady mix of Swing DJs will leave you on a high !

The stylish live band The Swingin Bluecats will provide the oscillating rhythms. . DJs Jumpin Jools and the Divine Miss P will keep you in the mood all night long.

The Brown Sugar Revue cabaret will delight you with dancers, comics and performers, headlined by Ryan Francois and Jenny Thomas from Broadway. This charming duo have a deep passion for the dances of the jazz era. Their unique and elegant performances will evoke the drama and atmosphere of Harlem.


Dance Classes with Ryan and Jenny. Over the weekend you can learn the dances of the jazz era with the stars of the show!

more info http://www.swingdancecork.com or call Elaine on 087 413 4077.

Theatrix Theatre Summer Showcase

07.30 pm

Theatrix Theatre

The 9th Annual musical theatre summer showcase directed by Irene Warren and Bryan Flynn

This musical theatre course has become an annual event for many of Cork's young performers. Tonight, they will present the results of two weeks of intensive workshops in music, singing, drama and dance.

Tickets from Irene on 087-630 9804

The Reich Effect: Phases

06.00 pm

This concert features musicians Ciara Moroney, Michael Joyce and Elizabeth Cooney. All three musicians hail from Cork: Elizabeth Cooney has been described by Tully Potter of the Strad magazine as 'a talent to watch', by Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet as 'exceptionally musical' and credited for her 'remarkable virtuosity' by Ian Fox, Sunday Tribune.
Cork Opera House has also commissioned Nic Gareiss to choreograph and perform Clapping Music –“the human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being...Gareiss is more fleet of foot than an Olympian sprinter and more buoyant than a helium-filled balloon...his restraint is palpable and freeform flight is inevitable.” Siobhán Long, The Irish Times.

Piano Phase, for two pianos, uses a repeating pattern made up of the first six notes of the major scale. 'As the pianists move in and out of sync, a surprisingly eventful and colorful narrative unfolds, replete with modulations, transitions, and climaxes. In this and other pioneering processs driven works, a distinctive personality emerges — lean in form, detached in mood, logical in movement, yet marked by some indefinable mixture of beauty and sadness. The music has a soul of its own, which may fascinate and mystify the composer as much as it does the rest of us.' Alex Ross 2006

REICH:
Come Out
Piano Phase
Clapping Music
Violin Phase

Tickets from Cork Opera House

The Reich Effect: Counterpoint

06.00 pm

Features Carolyn Goodwin, Fiona Kelly, Niwel Tsumbu and Kate Ellis, and a specially commissioned dancework choreographed by David Bolger, artistic director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre.
Carolyn Goodwin (saxaphone) is well known as part of Cork based pop group Fred, while Kate Ellis (cello) is co-curator of both The Reich Effect and Kaleidoscope, musician in residence at Cork Opera House, and a member of Crash Ensemble.
Niwel Tsumbu (guitar), a native of Democratic Republic of Congo, has been active on the Irish music scene since 2004.
Fiona Kelly is a native of Cork and is currently studying flute at Juilliard in New York.
REICH:
New York Counterpoint
Vermont Counterpoint
Electric Counterpoint
Cello Counterpoint

Tickets available from Cork Opera House

Irish Performing Arts Festival 2011

10.00 - 04.00 pm

The COPE Foundation and Cork City are hosting the third Irish Performing Arts Festival on 29 June 2011.

Supported by Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Health Service Executive and ETS Electrical Contractors, the festival venues are the Firkin Crane, Cork School of Music and Cork City Library.

The Irish Performing Arts Festival will highlight the importance of the arts in working with people with intellectual disabilities and will present the finest performers in the realms of Song, Dance, Instrumental Performance and Drama. It is anticipated that over three hundred performers will take part in the three day festival and more will visit Cork to support the Performances. All performances will take place on Wednesday June 29rd, are free and open to the public.

Drama Competition Timetable:
10.00 COPE Foundation, Cork
10.20 Aisling Day Centre, The Brook Centre, Douglas, Cork
10.40 The Vicar's Players, Togher Drama Group
11.00 Co. Action, Slip, Bantry
11.20 Kaleidoscope, Mallow, Co. Cork
11.40 Break
11.50 BRUACH, Rehabcare, Batchelors Quay, Cork
12.10 St. Raphael's Centre, Youghal, Co. Cork
12.30 Brothers of Charity Services, Belmont Park, Ferrybank, Waterford
12.50 St. Mary's Drumcas, St. John of God, Co. Louth
1.10 HRC, Mullingar Resource Centre, Co. Westmeath
1.30 Break
2.00 Dreamtime Studios, S.O.S Kilkenny Ltd.
2.20 Kerry Parents & Friends Assoc. Training Centre, Listowel
2.40 Respite Supports Project, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
3.00 MIDWAY
3.20 Roamini Resource Centre, Brothers of Charity, Bandon
3.40 Team Products, Abilit West, Tuam, Co. Galway

Festival Director and Music Therapist with COPE Foundation Eoin Nash is encouraging people to attend the performances:
Cork School of Music between 10.00 am & 3.20 pm,
The Firkin Crane between 10.00 am and 4.30 pm,
Grand Parade Plaze outside Cork City Library: Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 June 12.00 pm to 3.00 pm

An exciting performer line-up includes: COPE Foundation, Cork; Ability West, Galway; CoAction, West Cork; St. Christopher’s Services, Longford; Moore Abbey, South Kildare; Kare, Kildare; Midway Leighsbrook Local Service, Navan; Peamount, Co. Dublin; SOS Kilkenny; Stewarts Hospital Service, Dublin; Re Nua, St. John of Gods, Kildare; Brennan Sevices, Co. Kerry; Brothers of Charity, Co. Limerick; Respite Support Project & KBS, Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, Co, Offaly; St. John of Gods, North East Services, Co. Louth and more. The standard of performers was excellent last year and festival organisers are anticipating that this year will be just as good.

Irish Performing Arts Festival.

Billie-jean’s Annual Showcase!

07.00 pm , 2.30 pm

This amazing showcase of talent is one you don't want to miss, presented by the Rhythm Dance Company and Billie-jeans East Cork Stage School.

Dance, singing, music and video multimedia performances that will knock your sock's off. Pushing the frontier year by year. Presenting work choreographed by Patric Cashman, Billie Milton Sargent and others.

Friday 1 July and Saturday 2 July at 7.00 pm
Sunday 3 July at 2.30 pm.

Special offer for students for 2.30pm performance on Sunday, €10
Tickets from 0867966124

Seats Available on the Bus travelling to and from the Theatre also.

Love ...

3.00, 8.00 pm

The Gaiety School of Acting Cork present a series of plays about love.

The Youth Performance Workshop present Not crazy, just talented. A devised play concerned with the isolation young people experience when they are extraordinarily talented - in science, sports or the arts. Although they have gifts, these may come with an unlovable downside.

Next the Youth Theatre Company will show their understanding of A Midsummer Nights Dream. These 13-18 year old students have very different ideas of what love is, from ‘feeling safe’ to ‘it’s not convenient’. It is not surprising that their discussion is held on Facebook (befriend Helena Hogan, Hermia Hegarty, Lysander Lyons or Demetrius Dempsey to join in), and cyber reality is also playing a part in their performance.

Finally the Adult Theatre Company will perform Measure for Measure. One of Shakespeare’s lesser performed plays, it approaches love with little innocence: a rigorous leader of a country falls for a nun, whose brother he sentenced to death. Is this love, passion, power? Whatever it is, it binds the lives of people in a spiral of destruction and resurrection.

As part of this series of “lovely” shows, we have asked people for their definition of love. There must be more to it than ‘doing the dishes without being asked’. So we have come to the conclusion that it’s very personal. What is your definition? Connect on facebook, post your definition of love, or your love story, and you could win a summer class of your choice at the Gaiety School of Acting in Cork.

17th June , 19th June 2011 – 3pm daily – Not crazy, just talented
17th June – 19th June 2011 – 8pm nightly – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
24th June – 26th June 2001 – 8pm nightly – Measure for Measure

Booking Info: http://www.firkincrane.ie – (021) 450 7487

For further information please contact Stella Majewsky on 087 277 2029 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
http://www.facebook.com/gaietyschool

Aerial Dance Showcase

Doors open 05.00 pm

The Firkin Crane puts great importance on its support of aerial dance and was delighted to learn that Come And See Circus Arts, which is funded by Culture Europe, is to commence its next UK/Ireland tour in Cork. To celebrate, we will present an informal showcase of aerial dance artists from all over the world, hosted by The Flying Dance Company, directed by Chloe de Buyl-Pisco.

Overseas performers include Rachel Strickland from Seattle, USA, Dawn Pascoe of Perth, Australia and Ruth Battle, also from Australia but living in the UK.
Notable among the Irish contingent are two Munster women, Tash Bourke from Cork and Jessica O’Connor from Limerick.
Steve B is also Irish but based in Turin, Italy.
As well as demonstrations from some of the best performers in the country, there will be an opportunity to chat with them about their amazing discipline and skill.
This typical Firkin Crane Sharing, full of enthusiasm and informality, will start at 5.30 pm.

The doors will open at 5.00 pm and there will be information points about the work of the artists.

a typical Firkin Crane Sharing with all the enthusiasm yet informal atmosphere you will be familiar with.

Old Father Story

11.00 am

Tangle Theatre present storytelling, puppetry, magic and clowning in a delightful family show to start the holidays.

A programme to tickle young and old alike:


The Father of Stories involves everyone in what he loves best: telling tales, dressing up, face-painting and going on treasure hunts!

For group bookings: Jane Twomey 021 421 5134
Please note that students must be supervised by teachers at all times.

Tickets also available at the door on the day of each performance

“Thanks very much for your wonderful performance this morning. The children and adults really loved it.”
Executive Librarian Cork Libraries Oct 2010.

DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!

07.30 pm

The Joan Denise Moriarty School of Dance - directed and choreographed by Maeve Kelleher.

This promises to be a magical and exciting performance including, of course, ballet (which the foundations of the school are built on) - but also modern dance, Musical Theatre and a fusion of Celtic dance. An unique piece - 'The Swan, danced to the music of Saint-Saens by senior student Julia Coughlan, will feature well-known Cork actor Kevin Power, accompanied by cellist Avril Crotty and pianist Ian Hendrick - all combine to give a very special performance.

The school was founded by that great lady of dance in Ireland, Joan Denise Moriarty, in 1945 - making it the oldest ballet school in Cork. Today the school continues to go from strength to strength, honouring her wonderful legacy. As well as the studio in Cork City - it continues to bring dance on a weekly basis to 5 branches of the school in Cork County.

The students have had a very busy year and have danced in Cork Culture Night, St.Patricks Festival and performed at a number of charity events. The Firkin Crane show is the culmination of the ballet school year for all the students and will be performed by dancers from age two-and-a-half right up to young adults, continuing that wonderful tradition of dance in Cork.

Contact: 021 450 4689

In My Body Are These Islands

06.00 pm

As Irish culture rapidly shifts and changes how does this affect our internal landscape? And how does a dance piece that involves a changing group of community members change from environment to environment?

These are questions explored by Tara Brandel in a new work for Cork-based integrated dance company Croi Glan.
Featuring Dawn Mulloy, Mary Nugent and Tara Brandel and James O’Shea (ex CanDoCo dancer and recent winner of BBC 3’s Dancing on Wheels), In My Body Are These Islands looks at our relationship to the environment we live in, the places we are from and the stories and associations which bind us to them. Inspired by John O'Donoghue writings on landscape and beauty, this dance piece examines how our environment influences what he calls 'the internal landscape': our cultural attitudes, thoughts and feelings. In doing this, Islands creates a space for community discussion and reflection on our post-Celtic Tiger surroundings, reflecting on our essential human relationship to our landscape and environments.
In a daring new move by the company, the work will continue to evolve as it incorporates local people into the choreography at each venue. As a result the piece will constantly shift and change as the non-professional performers bring their own experiences and movement.
In My Body Are These Islands will premiere at the Firkin Crane and will incorporate members of the Cork IWA.
This project is generously supported by the Firkin Crane and the Arts Council.
The work will tour to Clonmel Junction Festival on 9th July and Callen Arts Festival 22nd – 24th July, continuing in the Autumn with Dublin venues including Draoicht Arts Centre.
All performance venues are wheelchair accessible.
National tour in collaboration with local community groups

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Web: http://www.croiglan.com

Image: Tara Brandel and Mary Nugent of Croi Glan overlooking Roaring Water Bay, West Cork. Photographer: Holger Lonze

CROI GLAN has wowed audiences since 2006 while receiving critical acclaim for its work. The company has earned a reputation for its commitment to integrated innovative dance both in its performance and education. It has broken down the barriers for disabled dancers in Ireland, working with esteemed choreographers from Ireland and abroad.

Tara Brandel, current artistic director of CROI GLAN, is a choreographer and dancer with a strong international background.
Mary Nugent who has danced with CROI GLAN since 2007, is just finishing a law degree and DJ's regularly in Cork.
Dawn Mulloy, who trained at SEED, has been dancing with CROI GLAN since 2009.
James O'Shea was winner of the first BBC 3's 'Dancing on Wheels' in 2010. Having previously worked with CanDoCo with whom he toured two award-winning pieces internationally (Fin Walkers The Journey and Athena Vahla's In praise of Folly), James took a break from dancing. His return dance was in Brain Game for the Anna Rothslisburger Company in Switzerland. He is currently in training with the UK Swim team for the Paralympics 2012

View work by Croi Glan on youtube by going to: http://www.youtube.com/user/croiglan

CruX Youth Dance Gala Performance 2011

05.00 pm

This years CruX Youth Dance Gala Performance offers an exciting mix of innovative danceworks ranging in style from Modern, Jazz, Hip-Hop & Contemporary dance, created by both the staff and the dancers themselves.

Our performers include: All students of CruX Youth Dance and students from CSN Diploma in Dance. This year you will see the inclusion of student choreography showing a flair for emerging talent in the art of dancemaking.

CruX Dance Director: Jane Kellaghan
Teachers: Jane Kellaghan, Amy O’ Flaherty, Eadaoin Kelleher & Phillipha Davidson

Contact 086 8147837 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


Photos: Andy Fereria
Dancers: Ursula Chapman
Amy Lawson, Michael Johnson, Kevin Hayes

Like The Stars Above

8.00 pm

New Moon Youth Dance Company “dancing stars”

Director and choreographer Tina Horan and the New Moon Dance Company present a dance performance and visual art work combined.

“The dancers reflect the beauty and power of a star lit sky, bringing hope and light where darkness prevails” says Director Tina Horan

This year the dancers worked with visiting Colombian Artist Julian Urrego and Irish Artist Jessica Carson. The subject matter of dance and visual art dealt with ”cosmic love, planets, stars and the interconnectivity between us all”

Tickets from Firkin Crane at 021 4507487

For further information contact Tina Horan on 086 8101860
Photos: Herman Marbe

Freaks & Gleeks

2.30, 7.30

It's going to be gleektastic!

Superstars Stage School is a performing arts school offering classes in drama, dance and musical theatre.
Classes are run from Gurraneabraher Community centre and the Glen Resource centre. Catering for students aged 3 to 18 years in a fun and professional environment.

Contact Kate Gaffney

Box office: (021) 4507487

Old Father Story

12.00 2.30 pm

Tangle Theatre present storytelling, puppetry, magic and clowning in a delightful family show to start the holidays.

A programme to tickle young and old alike: ideal for children of 5 to 12 year-olds


The Father of Stories involves everyone in what he loves best: telling tales, dressing up, face-painting and going on treasure hunts!

Tickets available at the door on the day of each performance


“Thanks very much for your wonderful performance this morning. The children and adults really loved it.”
Executive Librarian Cork Libraries Oct 2010.

Prapto’s Last Visit

10.00 am - 05.00 pm

Suprapto is an internationally respected, pioneering Movement artist and teacher with over 35 years professional experience and expertise. He created Amerta Movement, meaning ‘the movement of the nectar of life’, as a way of developing awareness and presence of body, mind and being. It is a simple, profound and revealing practice, enjoyed by practitioners of yoga, meditation, tai chi, psychotherapy, the healing arts, as well as dancers, actors and artists, in fact anyone wishing to develop more embodied presence.
His work is based in particular on:
* His lifelong study of different types of movement, including traditional Javanese dance and martial arts.
* Buddhist (Vipassana) and Javanese (Sumarah) meditation techniques.

According to Prapto, in 1970, while working as an arts administrator, he started ‘to practise movement with the approach of exploring like a child…’ He practised ‘in many conditions of time and space, in nature, in temples exploring the qualities of freedom and limitation’. In 1986, he set up his own movement school (Padpokan Lemah Putih.) in Solo, Java. He now teaches both there and in Bali, as well as worldwide.
He prefers the idea of being a movement ‘gardener’ rather than a movement teacher and his approach includes the notion of movement ‘reading’ which develops the capacity for embodied awareness through movement.
Prapto gives equal attention to the environment and to the body-in-movement.
The changing environment and being-in-movement are interdependent in his view and workshop participants are guided to develop an awareness of how the changing moment is constantly re-creating itself and of the influence of one’s position/transition in that flux.

Prapto’s stated intention is:
“…to lessen the sense of identification through the practice of movement arts. Hence, it is more than an approach to improvisation; Joged Amerta is a practice cultivating an attitude towards life.”

Contact: Claire Osborne 086 2134080 / 021 7332927
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Details of full Irish programme: http://www.yogaandmovement.com

More information about Suprapto Suryodarmo and his European schedule (May-September 2011): http://www.lemahputih.com U-tube clip of Suprapto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzAJh12jNXQ

About Suparapto Suryodarmo:
Suprapto (Prapto) is a highly respected and pioneering movement master from Indonesia, teaching internationally for over 25 years. He created Amerta Movement as a way of developing awareness and presence of body, mind and being. Amerta Movement means ‘the movement of the nectar of life’ & was created by Prapto from his back-ground in Buddhism and Sumarah meditation, from traditional Javanese & modern movement forms & from watching children playing. It is a simple, profound & revealing practice, enjoyed by practitioners of yoga, meditation, tai chi, psychotherapy, the healing arts, and dancers, actors and artists: in fact anyone who wishes to develop more embodied presence. This is his last visit to Europe so we encourage you to take this opportunity to work with a unique & gifted teacher

Three Little Pigs

10.00, 11.15 am

Join our three little heroes as they build their houses, first with straw, then with sticks and finally with bricks in their quest for a home that will truly keep the wolf from the door! But watch out! The big bad wolf has other ideas! Find out what really happened in one of their most popular shows ever, full of laughter, fun and audience participation! Everyone is sure to oink and squeal to their heart’s delight! (And nobody gets eaten!)

One teacher free with every 10-child tickets sold.
Show running time 60 minutes approximately.
Age Recommendation: Ideal for Ages 3+
Booking early is suggested for this popular show!
To reserve seats please call Olga at our dedicated booking line: Tel:087 6363075

Easter Intensive Hip Hop and Jazz

11.00 am - 2.00 pm

Come and enjoy this amazing two day intensive course for the second week of midterm.

Day 1. Tues 26th 11 am till 2pm
A three hour intensive Commercial jazz/Hip Hop workshop.

Day 2. Wednesday 27th 11 am till 2pm
A three hour Jazz/lyrical workshop.

Prices 20 euros one day/3 hours or
30 euros two days/6 Hours.

Please let me know to hold your place.

David O’ Connor 0862011766

I am currently working as a choreographer but also have worked as a dancer and vocalist in the past. In May this year I will be representing Ireland at the Eurovision song contest in Dusseldorf.

Easter Treats

various - see detail

Storytelling, puppetry, magic and clowning to be found in a delightful series of family shows this Easter holidays.


A programme to tickle young and old alike:

Old Father Story
The Father of Stories involves everyone in what he loves best: telling tales, dressing up, face-painting and going on treasure hunts!

The Sunflower Show Using clowning and suitcase puppetry, a gardener opens the lid of her wheelbarrow to reveal a world where seeds grow into the most extraordinary plants.

A Trunk of Tricks presented by Lungi the Puppeteer
Ancient entertainment from India; string puppetry, traditional magic, juggling and storytelling. Take a chance to travel far away and away back when.

Tues 26th
3.30pm Trunk of Tricks (45mins, for families, €5)

Weds 27th
3.00pm The Sunflower Show* (25mins, for 3 to 5 yr olds, €4)
4.00pm Old Father Story* (45mins, for families, €5)

*stay for both shows for €7

Tickets available at the door on the day of each performance


“Thanks very much for your wonderful performance this morning. The children and adults really loved it.”
Executive Librarian Cork Libraries Oct 2010.

Easter Treats

various - see detail

Storytelling, puppetry, magic and clowning to be found in a delightful series of family shows this Easter holidays.


A programme to tickle young and old alike:

Old Father Story
The Father of Stories involves everyone in what he loves best: telling tales, dressing up, face-painting and going on treasure hunts!

The Sunflower Show Using clowning and suitcase puppetry, a gardener opens the lid of her wheelbarrow to reveal a world where seeds grow into the most extraordinary plants.

A Trunk of Tricks presented by Lungi the Puppeteer
Ancient entertainment from India; string puppetry, traditional magic, juggling and storytelling. Take a chance to travel far away and away back when.

Tues 19th
3.30pm Old Father Story (45mins, for families, €5)

Weds 20th
3.00pm The Sunflower Show* (25mins, for 3 to 5 yr olds, €4)
4.00pm Trunk of Tricks* (45mins, for families, €5)

Tues 26th
3.30pm Trunk of Tricks (45mins, for families, €5)

Weds 27th
3.00pm The Sunflower Show* (25mins, for 3 to 5 yr olds, €4)
4.00pm Old Father Story* (45mins, for families, €5)

*stay for both shows for €7

Tickets available at the door on the day of each performance


“Thanks very much for your wonderful performance this morning. The children and adults really loved it.”
Executive Librarian Cork Libraries Oct 2010.

In Motion

2.30, 7.30

Cork School of Dance presents it’s annual showcase to highlight the talent and the enthusiasm of the students.

From beginning to end, the show will bring you on a journey from the world of digital technology, to the grandeur and grace of Vienniese ballrooms. The students will take you back to the 1960’s, then bring you in to the magical and enchanting world of Princess Tianna ( Princess and the Frog ) and Rapunzel (Tangled).

The dance styles range from classical ballet to jazz dance and lyrical modern and the music crosses a broad spectrum from Daft Punk, Strauss Tchaikovsky, Josh Groban, Kraftwerk, John Barry, Adele and much more.

Directed and choreographed by the school director Sinead Murphy with lighting and visual design by Tim Feehily.

The show will also feature students Molly Ward and Lucy Crowley, who have recently competed in the Imperial Ballet Award competition in the UK. As a result of their performances in the competition, the two girls have been invited to become scholars of the I.S.T.D. in the UK.

Come along and be entertained by the students from Cork school of Dance.

Friday 15th April, Saturday 16th April at 7.30p.m.
Sunday 17th April at 2.30p.m.

Booking at the Box office Firkin Crane : 021 4507487
€15 Family ticket ( 4 people ) €50

Classes for Cork School of Dance are based at the Firkin Crane.
For more information please contact Ms. Sinead Murphy at (086) 8459252

World Dance Day 2011

2.00 - 10.00 pm

On the 29 of April, as every year since 1982, Dance Day, an initiative of the International Dance Council [CID] UNESCO, is celebrated all over the world by the world-wide community of dancers and dance enthusiasts. We have invited dancers, choreographers, organisations and individuals, as well as anyone who is simply curious ... to celebrate the natural impulse to dance, with everyone in the city!

FREE taster workshops offer an opportunity to try out a huge range of dance styles, such as: hip hop, zumba, salsa, tango, bellydance, contemporary or ballet. Relax with Moving Meditation or Inner Dance. Or be part of the Charleston Mob! Whatever your age, ability or agility, go along and to have a look or give it a go.



This year, for the first time, the Firkin Crane is inviting Facebook Friends to send links for their dance videos.
Videos and film showing snippets of work from many of the dance artists, practitioners and companies that use the Firkin Crane as their base will be projected on screens inside and outside the building.

And this year, we go nationwide, with dancing on the radio!

RTE lyric FM’s Liz Nolan wants to find the nation’s favourite dance music. What makes you tap your toe, sway in your seat, or waltz round the kitchen?
For the week leading up to Dance Day, during her Lunchtime Classics programme, listeners are asked to nominate their favourite piece of music-to-dance-to. Text 51551 with the keyword "Lunch", e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or voicemail 1850 715144.
Then, at 1.30 pm on 29 April, the most requested tune will be played and all across the nation, people will be invited to swing or sway, tap or tango in a brief 'time to dance'.
Catch the disco fever, bop and boogie in your backroom, trip the light fantastic, grab your friends and start a conga in your workplace, pirouette on the promenade, give a twirl, whatever takes your fancy, just step out and dance!

Watch and listen out for the programme of special events, on radio and in local press.


Prof. Alkis Raftis, President of the International Dance Council, UNESCO, Paris.

CID holds to the philosophy that everyone can dance. Let us include all members of society into our classes and our performances.
Dance, being a central part of every culture, constitutes the ideal means for bringing together people from different countries.
Festivals promote in the most lively manner reciprocal knowledge and respect of diversity; there are hundreds of millions attending international dance festivals each year.
Teachers offering classes in foreign countries provide immediate bridges of understanding ingrained into the bodies of dancers; there are tens of thousands of dance teachers crossing national borders yearly.
Congresses and open conferences provide opportunities to showcase one's work to an audience of peers; there are dozens of international meetings of dance researchers, historians
and critics in any given year.
Even outside festivals, classes or conferences, simply watching on television a dance from a foreign country offers the most striking, appealing and convincing image of another ethnic group.
For vividly illustrating cultural diversity, for embodying rapprochement, there is no better means than dance.

Performing Arts - Dance: National Certificate - FETAC (NCVA) Level 5

Daily

10.00

Final auditions for the one year full-time (with option of second year), the Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa Diploma is the first step to a fascinating and rewarding career in dance.

• Modern Jazz Dance Technique
• Singing/Drama
• Anatomy
• Dance History
• Production/Media Skills
• Administration/Communication Skills
• Performance Skills

The course is based at the Firkin Crane, Ireland’s premier dance facility, where you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of international dance companies and choreographers.

In March 1998 the Arts Council of Ireland published a comprehensive study on vocational dance training in Ireland.
The Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, PLC Course at the Firkin Crane was described by the authors of the report in the following terms -
“Few institutions have strong links with the profession, a clear rational supporting course development and a structural course that values educational elements of the training process. Only the course at the Firkin Crane currently has these essential elements in place”.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Leaving Certificate standard. A high degree of motivation and a passionate interest in dance. Entry to the course is by audition and interview.

QUALIFICATIONS
• National Certificate - FETAC (NCVA) Level 5 in Performing Arts - Dance (NCVA award code:EPAXX)
• Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (I.S.T.D.): Ballet, Modern Dance, Tap Dance, Anatomy & Physiology

PAST GRADUATES INCLUDE:
• Jane Kellaghan; Choreographer - Cork City Ballet
• Edward Neary; Chicago, West Side Story - West End, London
• Avril Murphy; National Youth Dance Company - London
• Darragh O’Leary; Fame - West End, London
• Keith Walsh; Director Riverside Dance Studios, Wexford
• Sarah Gash, Chloe de Buyl,
• Ursula Chapman, Dancers - Cork City Ballet
• Robert Foley; Cats, Saturday Night Fever - West End, London

COURSE DIRECTOR - Alan Foley

Apply on line at http://www.csn.ie or phone 021-496 1020 for more information.

Fiddler on the Roof

07.30

Produced by Irene Warren

Directed by Bryan Flynn and Irene Warren

To purchase tickets, contact Box Office on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday afternoon: 021 450 7487

please note: Family ticket is for 2 adults and 2 children

Annie Junior

see details

Presented by Performers' Academy

Special guest appearance by Sandy the Dog

Produced by Irene Warren

Directed by Bryan Flynn and Irene Warren

Friday 25 March - 07.30 pm
Sunday 27 March - 02.30 pm

To purchase tickets, contact Box Office on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday afternoon: 021 450 7487

please note: Family ticket is for 2 adults and 2 children

TRY FOR FREE Acting Class

05.00, 07.00 pm

Free Taster Classes for all:

Introduction to Drama:
A taster of what the course is about before you sign up for the term. Current students are particularly invited to spread the word so their friends and families can see what's all it out.

5.00 - 7.00 pm Children
7.00 - 9.00 pm Adults

Spread the word to your friends and families and try out something new!
Contact: - Stella Majewsky, Artistic Director Cork - 087/2772029

The Cotton Club - get ready to be part of it!

06.30 pm

Would you like to perform in the decadent cabaret? Do you have anything (stylish, funny, strange, evocative, sophisticated….) that you would like to perform to an audience of around 250 people? Would you like to put something together for it?
Typically, the piece should be about 3 minutes long and able to be performed on stage in an area of about 3 meters long and 2 metres wide. Each piece can have up to 6 performers - or a solo piece if you’ve got the pizzazz! There is a vocal mic available if you need it and sound equipment for any pre-recorded music you might use.
You might want to dance, sing, recite, amuse, mime……The only stipulation is that you keep your clothes on (if the removal of items of clothing is central to your piece, please talk to me before you start rehearsing!)

You are invited to show us what you’ve prepared on Wednesday 30th March in the Firkin Crane from 6.30pm - 7.15pm….. The Xtra - factor without Simon Cowell!! Good-humoured “Judges” will be Jessica Peel-Yates, Elaine Peace, Jools Rixon and Stef Mc Sherry…….. and your fellow auditioners! Be ready to perform your piece twice. Following the feedback, you’ll have a month to fine tune your piece so that you can WOW the crowds on the big night. A night to be entertained and be entertaining! Shine like a star at this night reminiscent of the original Cotton Club. There is space in the cabaret for about three pieces, so make it slick!

To celebrate your night in the lime light, you will receive a DVD of the cabaret, some great photos of your performance, a free ticket into the Cotton Club as well as free rehearsal space (when available in the Firkin Crane) in April to fine tune your piece.
You would need to be available for a full cabaret rehearsal 7th May sometime between 6pm and 8pm (exact time to be confirmed nearer the date) and the cabaret will be around 9.15pm - 9.45pm.
Please contact Elaine if you are interested on 087 413 4077. It'll be a blast!
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The Cotton Club 2011

07.30 - midnight

 
Wanna dance? Gotta dance? Get the rhythm – bring your spats and two-tones. stylish, funny, strange, evocative, sophisticated …. guaranteed to delight and entertain.

Evoking the fantastic spirit of the original Cotton Club in Depression era Harlem, this night will take you on an odyssey of music, cabaret and delicious jazz era entertainment.

Dress to impress and bring your alter ego to this up town sophisticated Saturday night. Prizes for the best dressed!
First prize – VIP tickets to the Cotton Club’s Cork Jazz Festival show on 30th October. Includes tickets for 4, VIP table plus a bottle of wine.
Second prize – learn to Swing dance! You and a friend can learn to dance like they did in the jazz era! Includes complete swing dancing course for two people, plus a night out for two at Friday Night Jump in the Spailpín Fánach.

If you want to untangle your two left feet, arrive early to learn some jazz era dance steps. A Swing dance lesson opens the evening to get you In the Mood and a heady mix of Swing DJs will leave you on a high !

The stylish live band The Darktown Strutters will provide the oscillating rhythms. Joining them on stage will be the delightful Karen Underwood, known for her Nina Simone tribute. DJs Jumpin Jools and the Divine Miss P will keep you in the mood all night long.

The Brown Sugar Revue cabaret will delight you with dancers, comics and performers, headlined by Bobby White and Kate Hedin from the USA. This charming duo have a deep passion for the dances of the jazz era. Their unique and elegant performances will evoke the drama and atmosphere of Harlem. Showcasing sophisticated style and quirky rhythms, they will also be teaching open classes over the weekend with Swing Dance Cork.

Cabaret Performers – Bobby White and Kate Hedin (US based dance performers and teachers); Shiny Stockings & Sharp Suits (Irish jazz era performance troupe); Guillaume (Cork based circus performer); Uncle Ramsbottom (comic performer); Foxy P. Cox (saucy seductress); Gary Baus (beat poet).

Cabaret MC – Miss Adventure will be your hostess for the evening.

Tickets: Firkin Crane Box office 021 450 7487 from 11th April

Dance Classes with Bobby and Kate. Over the weekend you can learn the dances of the jazz era with the stars of the show!

more info http://www.swingdancecork.com or call Elaine on 087 413 4077.

Irish Ballet Forum Masterclass

12.00, 1.45 pm

Irish Ballet Forum (IBF) has been established to strengthen the infrastructure of ballet provision in Ireland as a professional, performance centred and tutorial body. We will support and encourage all practitioners within the sector, be they students, teachers, prospective professional performers, accomplished pedagogues or choreographers.
Our programme, launched in 2009, includes a series of masterclasses which are hosted at centres throughout the island of Ireland and which are intended to be as inclusive as possible. The cost of participation for students is minimal and teachers throughout the country, often working as isolated professionals, are warmly encouraged to attend.
We intend to develop a cohesive and collaborative force to bring ballet in Ireland firmly forward into the third millenium, a force in which all involved, be they professional performer, student, established dancing school, production company or isolated teacher, has a voice.
We are delighted that the first masterclasses of 2011 will take place at the Firkin Crane in Cork during the February mid-term break from schools.

The first class, tutored by IBF founding director Alan Foley, will concentrate on the foundation of technique, posture and form. It will be suitable for students currently studying grades three & four. We encourage teachers to attend.

The second class, geared towards students at grade five and above, will be led by Anne Maher, another founding director and currently chairperson of IBF. This class will include complex chains of movement and will re-enforce the lessons regularly taught by their own dance teachers who, again, are warmly invited to attend. Any student presenting at Intermediate or Advanced level will be accommodated and challenged within this class.

The timetable for Sunday 27th February:
12 noon - 1.45pm: Masterclass with Alan Foley, Grades Three & Four.
2-4pm: Masterclass with Anne Maher, Grades Five and above.

The afternoon will be a fun and inspiring addition to the young dancers' routine, enhancing the work they undergo perhaps on a weekly basis with their own teacher; equally the afternoon will be fun and inspiring for teachers, should they be available to attend

The Hamlet, Merchant and Romeo & Juliet Sessions

10.30 am + 1.30 pm

The primary goal of these performances is to help Junior Cert and Leaving Cert learners in their understanding of Shakespeare’s masterpieces.   The Sessions are entertaining and engaging ninety-minute reduced performances of the plays that include a scholarly review clarifying the main themes and topics as well as an invitation for discussion.   These shows are guaranteed to remain with the students long after they have left the theatre. The intelligent and dynamic performances track the plot from the beginning to the finale.
Director: Peadar O’ Donoghue

Topics and themes introduced and/or analyzed:
  ·        Friendship and Loyalty ·        Mercy and Justice · The Role of Religion ·        Father and Child Love, Romantic Love, Love Between Friends ·        Isolation ·        Money & Wealth ·        The function of the caskets · Prejudice ·        Women’s Appearance & Reality ·        Revenge tragedy genre ·        Appearance vs. Reality ·        Poetic Language ·        Action & Inaction ·        The Role of Women in the plays ·        Death/Mortality ·        Madness ·        Corruption ·       
 
What teachers have said of previous Cyclone Shakespeare shows:
The company who put on the play are absolutely fantastic and the best I've seen for Junior Cert students. – West Cork School Teacher on Merchant of Venice
Excellent – a refreshing and fun approach to a brilliant play.  Your production was accessible, informative and very educational.  Keep up the good work. – Teacher of Limerick School

For more info and bookings, please contact Hannah-Rose Farrington 086 373 2556

Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice Sessions

10.30 am + 1.30 pm

The primary goal of these performances is to help Junior Cert and Leaving Cert learners in their understanding of Shakespeare’s masterpieces.   The Merchant and Hamlet Sessions are entertaining and engaging ninety-minute reduced performances of the plays that include a scholarly review clarifying the main themes and topics as well as an invitation for discussion.   These shows are guaranteed to remain with the students long after they have left the theatre. The intelligent and dynamic performances track the plot from the beginning to the finale.
Director: Peadar O’ Donoghue

Topics and themes introduced and/or analyzed:
  ·        Friendship and Loyalty ·        Launcelot’s Conscience ·        Mercy and Justice The Role of Religion ·        The Pound of Flesh ·        Father and Child Love, Romantic Love, Love Between Friends ·        Significance of Tubal ·        Isolation ·        Money & Wealth ·        The function of the caskets · Prejudice ·        Women’s Appearance & Reality ·        Hamlet’s Main Source ·        Revenge tragedy genre ·        Hamlet’s frame of mind at play’s beginning ·        Appearance vs. Reality ·        Poetic Language ·        Action & Inaction ·        The Role of Women in the play ·        Death/Mortality ·        Madness ·        Corruption ·        The Character of Hamlet    
 
What teachers have said of previous Cyclone Shakespeare shows:
The company who put on the play are absolutely fantastic and the best I've seen for Junior Cert students. – West Cork School Teacher on Merchant of Venice
Excellent – a refreshing and fun approach to a brilliant play.  Your production was accessible, informative and very educational.  Keep up the good work. – Teacher of Limerick School

For more info and bookings, please contact Hannah-Rose Farrington 086 373 2556

Romeo & Juliette Sessions

10.30 am + 1.30 pm

Shakespeare comes to life in the Romeo & Juliet Session! The bard directs a group of modern performers in a rehearsal of his great romantic tragedy. However, problems arise as Mr. Shakespeare’s sixteenth century attitudes and demeanor clash with those of the modern performers. Arguments, discussion and enlightenment ensue! Cyclone once again introduces students to one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays with stunning performances, historical background, discussion of major themes and audience interaction.

Cyclone Repertory Company presents an entertaining and informative synthesis of analysis and performance that has the primary goal of helping students in their understanding of this Shakespearean play

Topics and themes analysed:
Shakespeare’s Main Source The Plot The Characters of Benvolio & Mercutio Lack of women performers in Elizabethan Theatre Poetic Language  Shakespeare’s main source  Symbols in the play The passage of time in Romeo and Juliet  Nature of love  Love as a religious experience Benvolio’s function Fate Romeo’s Transformation Love vs. Lust Conflict Historical context of the Capulet/Montague feud  Attitudes to homosexuality in Shakespeare’s time Parental Authority Storytelling in Shakespeare’s time

“****” (Four stars each for Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant Session & The Hamlet Session)- Colette Sheridan, Irish Examiner
Fresh and contemporary...never strays too far from Shakespeare’s emotional core. (Romeo and Juliet) - Brian, O’Connell, Irish Times

This an exciting synthesis of analysis and performance that has the primary goal of aiding learners in their examination.

Director: Peadar O’ Donoghue
 
What teachers have said of previous Cyclone Shakespeare shows:
 I’ve taken the kids to 25 productions of Romeo and Juliet through the years and this was the best production we’ve ever been to. - Cork School Teacher
Excellent – a refreshing and fun approach to a brilliant play.  Your production was accessible, informative and very educational.  Keep up the good work. – Teacher of Limerick School

For more info and bookings, please contact Hannah-Rose Farrington 086 373 2556
50% discount on tickets to all participants of Theatre Forum's Open Space Cork. To avail of this offer, contact Marcus Bale

Behind the Scenes with CruX

1.00 pm

Presented by CruX Dance Theatre, and choreographed by Artistic Director Jane Kellaghan, this exciting new work explores themes relevant to young audiences interests and is specially designed and created to make it easy for the target audience to relate to the content of the work.
“Behind the Scenes” combines the talents of both local and international professional dancers with student dancers from CSN Dance and CruX Youth Dance. The cast includes 16 performers in total, ranging in ages from 9 years to 33 years. This exciting combination of professional and students dancers provides a real time platform for inclusion and diversity of experience. This is a unique parallelling of the talents that are locally-based with those of the professional dance world. In doing same, Crux Dance brings the Arts, via the medium of Contemporary Dance, straight into the lives and expectations of our young students and makes dance a reality for students who may be contemplating a future in the Arts.

CruX Dance Theatre will stage an Informal Preview Sharing of their new work at the Firkin Crane, prior to a tour of the national and secondary schools in Cork County. The company extends a welcome invitation to everyone to see first hand how the combination of professional and amateur dancers can produce a first class professional performance.


Choreographer: Jane Kellaghan
Featuring:
Ursula Chapman
Michael Johnson
Amy Lawson
Lorcan O'Neill

further details to follow

Maeve Higgins: Ready for this?

08.00 pm

Maeve Higgins (me) presents ‘Ready For This?’ - a night of fun with brilliant comedy, a special guest, a couple of baking tips and maybe even some signature cat material!!

Can you wait? Before you answer that – Shhh! [Maeve puts hand over reader’s mouth.] You’ll have to! [She removes hand.]
Also, you’ll need to get tickets. After that, I’ll take care of things - it’ll be amazing.
See you soon!

‘Higgins is rarer than a blessing of unicorns … she is original and relatively calm, her observations are pithy, her wit delicate, her persona oddly alluring and deftly honest.’
The Irish Times

Since beginning stand up five years ago, Maeve Higgins has performed in comedy festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Adelaide and Kilkenny. She rapidly rose to an uncomfortable level of notoriety on Irish television in the past few years, on the most watched comedy show in the country, RTE's Naked Camera.

"Higgins is rarer than a blessing of unicorns…she is original and relatively calm, her observations are pithy, her wit delicate, her persona oddly alluring and deftly honest." The Irish Times, September 2009
“Throughout the whole hour the room is filled with laughter at Maeve’s risqué and highly intelligent act." The Irish Independent,
‘Charming and iconoclastic Irish stand-up’ The Age, Melbourne 2008
"Higgins is a great relief from the big loud boys and will win many people over with her quietly charming quality of comedy." The Skinny, 2007
"Maeve Higgins is here to demonstrate how to do Irish charm. She’s not daft, she doesn’t lay it on with a trowel, dimpling and twinkling away, hers is probably the most natural and uncontrived performance you could wish for." Chortle, 2007

Tickets will be on sale before Christmas and would make a very nice present.
Please book early to avoid disappointment, as it was a sell out last year.
Tickets from the Firkin Crane (021) 4507487 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

10.00, 11.30

A storm is brewing in the North Pole as Santa begins his magic journey around the world.
Excitement, adventure and a few surprises meet him along the way but when the mischievous goblins show up and take all the presents, the fun really begins!
Will Santa’s magic elves help him to find the presents and save Christmas?
The stage is alive with music, sound effects, magic and of course good old Santa himself! The children will love it!

Talisman Theatre Company’s award-winning Christmas productions are renowned for their captivating stories, original music, festive sparkle, laughter and fun and this year’s production of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” promises all that and more.

Join in the fun as heroes and villains alike sing your Christmas favourites as they’ve never been sung before!
Show running time: 60 minutes with no intermission.
Recommended for age 4+
Early booking is suggested for this popular holiday show!
Bookings: 087 - 6363075

The Snow Queen

5.00 pm and 2.30 pm

THE POWER OF THE SNOW QUEEN!

Extra Shows:
Saturday 8 January @ 5.00 pm
Sunday 9 January @ 2.30 pm

This enchanting Hans Christian Andersen fairytale has been adapted for dance and narration by Sinead Murphy, Director, Cork School of Dance, and Trevor Ryan.

Cork actress George Hanover narrates the story of the young boy Kay, who is bewitched by the Snow Queen, who takes Kay on a journey to her palace in the far north.
Upset by Kay's disappearance, his friend Gerda undertakes an unforgettable journey to find him. She travels along a magical river, through an enchanted garden, meets a prince and princesss, encounters creatures in a dark forest and dances with rogue gypsies in her quest to find her friend.
Will she find him? Who else will she meet on her journey?

Molly Ward will perform the part of the Snow Queen.
Eoin Fenton plays Kay
Saoirse O’Connor is Gerda

Choreography is by Sinead Murphy, lighting and visual design by Tim Feehily, and the set design by Lisa Zagone.

The evocative music and the colourful costumes will add to the enchantment and magic of the performance.

Tickets at the Firkin Crane Box Office. Tel: 021 4507487

ThE pURPLe cABAREt

07.00 pm

Hip Circles Bellydance presents a fusion show of Vaudeville Theatre, Music and Dance featuring an amazing cast of over 30 international artists from Ireland and abroad!
Inspired by the tales of Greek mythology, the night will present a collection of stories in narrative style through theatre, dance and live music, detailing the lives and adventures of a wide variety of colourful characters including sailors, flapper girls, mermaids, tribal goddesses, pirates and pigs!

The show will comprise over 25 variety acts, including many different dance styles such as Tribal and Fusion, Egyptian and Lebanese Bellydance, Tango, Irish Dance, Samba and Gypsy Cabaret, displaying a number of student dancers currently attending Hip Circles Bellydance classes from different ages and levels participating in the choreographies along with solos from world renowned dancers, like Olivia Kissel from Zafira Dance Co. (USA).
The show will include live music from an original score composed by the local Cork band Captain Waldemar (Gary Baus) and the Flying Pigs.

Proceeds from tTe pURPLe cABAREt Show will go to Projeto Pilão d'Arte Music, Dance and Theatre Project promoting the arts in Brazil, funding two workshops and a Hafla for girls and women from disadvantaged communities in Sao Paulo (Afro-Brazilian residents of vila Santa Maria in Itapeva).

Do go ahead and be a purple audience too if you fancy wearing purple bits, all purple and anything in between, all purple shades welcome, and we will love you even more for joining us at our purple madness!

Doors open at 5pm (FREE ENTRY) for Cashell Horgan's solo art exhibition A musing Buddha, a collection of inspired images and thoughts on the idea of spiritual enlightenment and mysticism. The paintings reflect an animated and naïve style illustrating Cashell's humorous approach to spirituality and it’s place in our western society.

be there or BE THERE.
And leave your mind behind...

Bookings 086 353 2962
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Singing Jazz with Tina May

03.00 pm

Get the inside track on the art of singing jazz at this special workshop/master class for all corners - presented by one of the UK's top jazz vocalists.
Tina May's pitch-perfect delivery, flawless diction and great jazz voice have her in constant demand as a teacher and clinician.

The Festival Samba School

08.00 pm

Join the Cork Jazz Festival's first ever Samba School.

Enjoy the colourful carnival sounds of Brazil - and be part of a drumming experience that's full of pulse, poly-rhythms, punch and power.
Featuring the world famous samba master Felix Gibbons (Milton Nascimento, Peter Gabriel and more) and renowned drummer Stephen Keogh, founder of the Global Music Foundation.

Open to everyone, Adm free. To register, just email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Journey Through Swing

Saturday 25th October

04.15 - 05.15 pm

Featuring on Strictly Come Dancing, teaching Christian Bale to dance, performing on Broadway - Ryan François and Jenny Thomas have some jazzy tales to tell!
Join them for a fascinating journey through swing. You’ll meet some surprising characters along the way.

No need to book. FREE event

BLANK CANVAS 2011 - DEADLINE EXTENDED !!!

BLANK CANVAS is a professional dance residency programme at the Firkin Crane open to professional dance artists already making their career in dance. The residency provides a platform for incubation time and space to research, develop and explore creative ideas without emphasis on a finished production.

For 2011 BLANK CANVAS is inviting applications with emphasis on exploring duet work. Dance artists may apply to work with an artist from another artistic medium as part of a duet exploration. In this case, we would encourage a physical interactive element be explored as part of the residency. It is also possible to submit an application as an individual artist with an aspiration to work with local professional artists to form a duet. The BLANK CANVAS Dance Team can assist in suggesting suitable collaborators.

BLANK CANVAS works in partnership with each artist to support the needs of their residency subject to resources available and would like to acknowledge the Arts Council of Ireland for its continuous support of the programme.

By The Artist

1.00 pm

Independent artist, choreographer and contemporary dance performer, Mary Nunan, will deliver a lunchtime public talk as part of ‘By the Artist’, a fascinating series of free public talks by emerging and established artists.
Mary’s talk will provide an exploration of the potential for intimate and sensual engagement with the city through creative practice and will include an introductory talk and a surprise participative opportunity.

Mary Nunan started her professional career as a dancer and choreographer with Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre (1981-86). She then went on to become founder member and Artistic Director of Daghdha Dance Company from 1988-1999. During this period she created a substantial body of solo and ensemble choreographies for this company. These works were toured to venues nationally and were also presented at dance festivals in the South Bank Centre, London; Podweil Theatre, Berlin; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Lincoln Centre, New York; and Munich and Gavle, Sweden and Guanajuato, Mexico. In 1999 Mary was appointed course director of the MA in Contemporary Dance performance at the University of Limerick.

In 1997 Mary collaborated with film director, Donal Haughey to produce a screen adaptation of her dance theatre work “Territorial Claims”. This film was selected for screening at the Lincoln Center’s Dance for Camera Festival in New York City. Her most recent works include “Audience (1) Waltzers”, a performance work created in collaboration with sound-artist Michael Mc Loughlin (2007) and “Return Journey”, a performance installation created in collaboration with film producer James Kelly (2008). Mary also performed in both of these installations. In 2010 she collaborated with dance artist Mary Wycherely to produce a short film “ HaH”. Jurgen Simpson composed the music for the film.
In addition to choreographing her own work Mary has been involved since 2002 as a collaborative artist and performer in the Maya Lila collective, under the directorship of Joan Davis. And she also collaborated as a choreographer and performer with New York based artist Yoshiko Chuma and “2×2x5” (2002) and “The Yellow Room”. (2003) and the “Secret Project”, a Half Angel/Firkin Crane production which was completed during a residency and at the Banff Arts Centre in Canada in September 1999.

By the Artist talks are presented by Cork City Council Arts Office, as part of the development of a new cultural strategy for 2010-2015.

Cork City Council is establishing an online presence to help people discuss the lecture series and the direction of Cork’s cultural policy. People can visit http://www.corkcity.ie for information on the speakers, to register their interest and to give their point of view. To join the discussion on arts and culture in Cork, people can visit http://www.facebook.com/corkcityarts or follow @corkcityarts on http://www.twitter.com .
If you would like to contribute your Point of View on what should be included in the Arts and Cultural Strategy 2010-2015. Cork City Council is accepting submissions from the public until October 14th 2010.
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Dublin City Jazz Orchestra

08.00 pm

The Dublin City Jazz Orchestra is a 17 piece big band comprising the best musical talent in Ireland. Led by Ciaran Wilde, its four trumpets, four trombones and five saxophones will blow your mind playing swinging big band hit music from the ‘40s and ‘50s along with some more modern bombastic tunes to mix it up!
There’s nothing quite like a big band, and there’s no big band quite like the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra. Dance and boogie to this superb big band - one of the best dance orchestras in Ireland.
Presented in association with Music Network.

The other part of this superb double bill is the Harry Connolly Band. You'll be knocked out by the jazzy sounds of one of the best bands in the business. Harry and his crew will raise the roof, with their swinging Sinatra numbers, combined with lots of Latin grooves. This group is ever popular at the Cork Derry and Norwegian jazz festivals, and is packed with top players.

The Cotton Club

07.30 - midnight

 Wanna dance? Gotta dance? The high class Swingin’ Blue Cats will provide the rhythm – bring your spats and two-tones. The Brown Sugar Revue cabaret, featuring Snatch Comedy, Vaudeville Vamps, the Hot 6 and Swing Dance Cork, is guaranteed to delight and entertain.

A Swing dance lesson opens the evening to get you ‘In the Mood’ and a heady mix of Swing DJs will leave you on a high – come and be entertained or entertaining!
 
The venue boasts 2 large rooms with cabaret style seating, wine bar, tea and coffee and a cloakroom - live jump jive and swing band, cabaret, dance lesson and Swing DJs.

Tickets from http://www.everymanpalace.com more info http://www.swingdancecork.com or call Elaine on 087 413 4077.

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Culture Night 2010

05.00 - 10.00 pm

Kick start Culture Night with a special children’s hour of fun-filled dance for under 8’s. Come along and join in the fun.
Once again, the Firkin Crane, the home of dance in Cork, will open its doors for a series of free events from early evening to late night throughout the city.

We aim to fill the studios and theatres in this unique building, demonstrating the variety, imagination and vibrancy of dance in Cork, and proving that, no matter what a visitor's age, experience, or level of agility, there will be something to try, as participant or audience.

The following list gives an idea of what will be available on the night


Cork City Council Arts Office is co-ordinating Culture Night, which is presented in partnership with the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism and Temple Bar Cultural Trust.

listing pic: John Downes

Technique for Flamenco Guitar

04.00 - 05.00 pm

Over the last nine years, Juan Antonio Suárez Cano has appeared at theaters throughout the world and composed for important flamenco works. He has also recorded with prestigious artists such as Rafael Jiménez “Falo” on Cante Gitano, with the great guitarist and composter Gerardo Núñez on the Nueva Escuela de Guitarra Flamenca and Epitome, as well as continuing with the trio Caponata Argamacho. This incessant creative activity would culminate with the recording of his first album, “Son de Ayer” in 2008.

Cork Heritage Open Day 2010

11.00 - 4.00 pm

The Firkin Crane has gone through many guises since it was erected as part of the Butter Market in the 19th century: the current rotunda building has been a dedicated cultural centre since the 1980’s.

This unique building will be open all day as part of the event organised by Cork City Council with support from the Heritage Council and DoEHLG and media sponsorship from Cork's 96FM and the Evening Echo. For one day only, over 35 buildings will open their doors free of charge, and members of the public are allowed a glimpse of some of Cork’s most fascinating buildings, ranging from the Medieval to the Military, the Civic to the Commercial and the Educational to the Ecclesiastical.

Cork Heritage Open Day highlights the important link between events and places from Cork’s past, which are marked by a series of plaques, some functional others commemorative, but each telling a unique piece of Cork history. There is also a feature on Cork’s Historic Post boxes. These post boxes demonstrate not only the range of changes in the decorative detail of cast-iron boxes from Victorian times to the latter part of the 20th century, but also chart the political changes in the governance of Cork and Ireland.

This event is an action from the Cork City Heritage Plan 2007-2012.

Further information is available at: Tel. No.: (021) 4924757

Psycho Spaghetti

11.20 am & 02.00 pm

Ger Carey’s brilliant comedy was written specifically for teenagers.

This hilarious one-man show attempts to answer the age-old question: Just what is going on inside the teenage brain? The show is 100 minutes of laugh-out-loud comedy aimed at getting teenagers to view themselves as part of a bigger picture. Book now to guarantee your students a fantastic theatrical experience. The show is perfect for Transition Year students, LCA, Youth Reach and even grown-ups! This is all achieved through Ger's unique blend of comedy and experience.

The show begins at 11.20am with a lunch time finish at 1pm. The second performance time is 2pm to 3.40pm. There are no intervals.

Tickets 10, teachers free, contact Ger Carey for tickets - 087 2794057

Flamenco Workshop

04.30 pm

Level: Beginners / Improvers

Madrid-born Concha Jareño, is, at present, one of the most outstanding Flamenco dancers and has participated in Flamenco Festivals around the world and in the most well known tablaos in Spain.
Certified in Spanish Dance, she gained the National Awards Matilde Coral and Mario Maya on Flamenco Art in Cordoba 2007. She has worked with artists like Rafael de Córdoba, Yolanda Heredia, Belén Maya, Rafaela Carrasco ,Isabel Bayón. She choreographed the work jazz-flamenco "Herencia". In March 2008 she created "Algo" her first own production in the Flamenco Festival "Flamingo" , Helsinki , Finlandia. She participated in “Bienal de Malaga”, “Flamenco viene del Sur” and “ Festival de Jerez” as a guest artist for the "Flamenco XXI: Café, Copa y Puro" of the Compañía Dospormedio. She presented at Sala Triángulo , Madrid "Algo" and "Simplemente Flamenco" that show the artist’s Flamenco versatile skills from more to traditional to more contemporary style. Since 2004 she has been one of the resident teachers at the Amor de Dios school in Madrid, training many professional and non-professional dancers from all over the world. She travels often to other countries to deliver workshops.
Concha Jareño won the Flamenco Choreography Prize “Certamen de Coreografía de Danza Española y Flamenco de Madrid”, and the second position in the prize “Cante Flamenco de las Minas 2008”. In 2009 has presented "Algo" in one of the most prestigious Flamenco Festivals in Spain “Festival de Jerez” She was awarded with the "Premio revelación" at the Festival de Jerez 2009 and getting the most rewarding reviews in media and audience feedback.

Concha Jareño also worked with world-renowned Spanish film director Carlos Saura, perhaps best known outside of Spain for his films Carmen (1983) and Flamenco (1995).

Proudly presented by Peña Flamenca El Indalo with the support of the Instituto Cervantes Dublin and the Agencia Andaluza para el Desarrollo del Flamenco, and funded in part by the Arts Council
photographs Pat Barrett

Time: 4:30pm - 6pm
To book: 021 450 7487 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

See Peña Flamenca El Indalo for information.

Flamenco - six strings for two heels

08.30 pm

Flamenco guitarist and composer Juan Antonio Suárez "Cano" and dancer Concha Jareño, who performed separately in Dublin in 2009, are returning to tour Ireland with a new production, Seis cuerdas para dos tacones, which they premiered in June 2010 at the annual Flamenco Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delighting the audience and earning great critical acclaim.
Recently both artists have worked with world-renowned Spanish film director Carlos Saura, perhaps best known outside of Spain for his films Carmen (1983) and Flamenco (1995).

Don't miss an exceptional flamenco performance with two of Spain's most highly regarded artists! Irish audiences will be offered a unique opportunity to enjoy a level of flamenco artistry normally reserved for the stages of Spain and the more established international flamenco festivals.

Proudly presented by Peña Flamenca El Indalo with the support of the Instituto Cervantes Dublin and the Agencia Andaluza para el Desarrollo del Flamenco, and funded in part by the Arts Council
photographs Pat Barrett

To book: 021 450 7487 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

The Irish tour opens in Galway and will go through Cork before concluding in Dublin. The schedule also includes a number of dance workshops and guitar masterclasses to be held around the country. See Peña Flamenca El Indalo for information.

Did I mention the Free Wine?

07.30 pm

The evening will include poetry performed by Felix Dennis, with free fine French wines and canapés served throughout the evening.

In just eight years, Felix has established himself as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed poets of recent times, entertaining thousands of poetry-lovers on both sides of the Atlantic. His poetry has featured on radio programmes, in the national press, and been the subject of two major television documentaries, as well as receiving critical acclaim from Tom Wolfe, Christopher Rush, Stephen Fry and Sir Paul McCartney, to name but a few.

Felix will be reading a selection of poems from his hugely popular collections, Homeless in My Heart, A Glass Half Full, Lone Wolf, Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times and Island of Dreams, all of which were sell-out books of original poetry. He will also introduce his new collection, Tales From The Woods, in an exclusive preview ahead of the book’s launch in October.

Tickets prices: £10 pre-booked online or £12 on the door, £5 concessions. To book online go to http://www.felixdennis.com

Theatrix Theatre Summer School

10.00am to 4.00pm

Theatrix Theatre

The 9th Annual musical theatre summer course directed by Irene Warren and Bryan Flynn

For two weeks in July the Firkin Crane, in the heart of Cork City, will once again play host to this musical theatre course, which has become an annual event for many of Cork's young performers.
Workshops in music, singing, drama and dance will be facilitated by professional tutors, including:
Irene Warren (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Grease)
Damien Delaney (Cats, Billy Elliott - West End)
Sinead Murphy (Artistic Director of Cork School of Dance)
David O'Connor (Choreographer of West Side Story, Snow White)
Bryan Flynn (Writer/Director Michael Collins, the All Star Wars, Cork Opera House Pantomimes)

The course runs Monday to Friday of both weeks, 10.00 to 4.0 pm daily, and is suitable for persons aged 8 to 18 years.
Places are very limited and early booking is advised.

Contact Irene on 087-630 9804 or Bryan 087 989 6884

Summer at the Gaiety School of Acting

Wednesday/Thursday

07.00 pm - 10.00 pm

This course is a practical, enjoyable and confidence-building introduction to the craft of acting and improvisation. This is is the Gaiety's most popular summer course and is led by experienced professionals, who will establish a strong and supportive group dynamic from which the key aspects of the craft of acting are explored.

The course is useful for those who wish to expand their general communication skills. No previous acting experience is required - only a willingness to participate.

Follow on courses available: Page to Stage and Acting for Camera.

Stella Majewski, Artistic Director of the Gaiety School of Acting, Cork, was trained at the acclaimed Institute for Acting in Bochum, Germany and has worked as an actor, director and teacher across Europe. Since arriving in Ireland she has specialised in theatre directing, completing a Masters in UCD.

Contact Stella at 087 – 2772029

Irish Performing Arts Festival 2010

10.00 - 04.00 pm

The COPE Foundation and Cork City are hosting the second Irish Performing Arts Festival between 22 and 24 June 2010.

Supported by Cork City Council, Cork County Council, HSE, Renault Wilton Motors, ETS Electrical Contractors and RTE Lyric FM, the festival venues are the Firkin Crane, Cork School of Music, Cork City Hall and Cork City Library.

Over the three days, the Irish Performing Arts Festival will highlight the importance of the arts in working with people with intellectual disabilities and will present the finest performers in the realms of Song, Dance, Instrumental Performance and Drama. It is anticipated that over three hundred performers will take part in the three day festival and more will visit Cork to support the Performances. All performances will take place on Wednesday June 23rd, are free and open to the public.

Commenting on the Irish Performing Arts Festival, Cllr Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork City and patron of the festival stated: “I am humbled to be the patron of this festival and it is an honour for our city to host such a prestigious event. I want to wish all the performers the best of luck in their competitions and performances”.

Festival Director and Music Therapist with COPE Foundation Eoin Nash is encouraging people to attend the performances which will take place on Wednesday June 23rd:
Cork School of Music between 10am & 3pm,
The Firkin Crane between 10am and 4pm,
Cork City Library between 11am and 3pm,
Cork City Hall between 7:30pm and 10:30pm.

An exciting performer line-up includes: COPE Foundation, Cork; Ability West, Galway; CoAction, West Cork; St. Christopher’s Services, Longford; Moore Abbey, South Kildare; Kare, Kildare; Midway Leighsbrook Local Service, Navan; Peamount, Co. Dublin; SOS Kilkenny; Stewarts Hospital Service, Dublin; Re Nua, St. John of Gods, Kildare; Brennan Sevices, Co. Kerry; Brothers of Charity, Co. Limerick; Respite Support Project & KBS, Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, Co, Offaly; St. John of Gods, North East Services, Co. Louth and more. The standard of performers was excellent last year and festival organisers are anticipating that this year will be just as good.

Irish Performing Arts Festival.

The Goldilocks Zone

See details

Legitimate Bodies Dance Company n association with Richard Wakely
. Performed and created by Nick Bryson and Damian Punch

Nick and Damian, acclaimed for being trapped in the bodies of peacemaking Northern Ireland politicians in the Spiegeltent during Midsummer Festival 2009, now take even more gigantic steps forward but this time for the benefit of the whole of mankind.
Putting to good use the Irishman’s instinct to think and act selflessly, they set themselves a difficult mission of space travel beyond the confines of their own country and planet. They have plans to communicate unambiguously with aliens and repopulate a distant planet on friendly terms with all life forms they may encounter.
This is their intrepid journey to ‘The Goldilocks Zone’ … not too hot, not too cold but just right ..


Details:
Friday 18 - 6.30 pm
Saturday 19 - 11.00 am + 6.00 pm
Sunday 20 - 1.00 pm

George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan

08.00 pm

Youthful enthusiasm meets ultimate political betrayal – powerfully portrayed by the talent of the Young Gaiety Theatre Company, Cork.

Saint Joan is probably the most intriguing of the Saints, shown in the numerous plays written about her, from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, and films made by such directors as Luc Besson. In 2004 she even got her own computer game. Born ca. 1420, she went out from her little village in France and changed the world, following only her inner voice. At 19 years of age, she met and made the king, and saved her home country. Sadly, she was not politically minded: when the powers to be decided that she had become too famous, they set up a desperate trial to get rid of her. Ultimately, she could only be condemned for the fact that she wore men’s clothing. On the 30th May 1431, she was burned on the stake for being a heretic. In June 1456, the trial was declared false, and Joan’s name was cleared. 464 years later, she became an official saint. The play follows Joan’s success, her courage, her passion, and her final burning at the stake.

The character of Saint Joan is traditionally played by actresses much older than the actual Joan, as it is considered one of the most challenging parts for female actors. The youthfulness of Katie Melia, Katie Oaks and Rachel Feeney in the part of Joan makes it easy to understand why the powerful leaders of the time were enchanted by her.

George Bernard Shaw's play, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc, dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. He wrote in his preface to the play:
"There are no villains in the piece. Crime, like disease, is not interesting: it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all [there is] about it. It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do in spite of their intentions, that really concern us."

Contact: 086 321 5236

The Best of The Firkin Crane

08.00 pm

The Firkin Crane presents a performance to celebrate the professional associations it has created and developed in recent years.

Cork City Ballet (Director: Alan Foley)
Cork City Ballet presents a series of sparkling divertissements, which include Alan Foley’s own ballet Enigma, with CCB star Leigh Alderson and students from Coláiste Stiofán Naofa Dance. Also featured are Irish ballerina Monica Loughman and Robert Gabdullin from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, who will perform the pas de deux from Giselle Act 2.
The company will also present a new jazz ballet Rule The World, choreographed by Phillippa Davison, and The Male Dying Swan solo performed by Leigh Alderson, with music by Saint Saens.
Directed by Alan Foley, this eclectic suite of dances by the company is sure to please every cultural palate, with its fresh and innovative modern choreography, combined with the great classical traditions of Giselle and The Dying Swan.






CruX Dance Theatre (Director: Jane Kelleghan)

A contemporary adnce performance will include extracts from CruX's repertoire, including Infallible Muse 2, Hermaphrodite, Wet Dance and Individual Myth, all choreographed by Jane Kelleghan. This performance celebrates a diverse body of work, creating a medley of choreographic encounters, which includes elements of multimedia.
Dancers include Mark Carberry, Samon Presland and Amy Lawson.





Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company (Director: Tara Brandel)

A new aerial dance solo, Fling, is choreographed and performed by Tara Brandel, and directed by Scottish Dance Theatre's Dance Agent for Change disabled choreographer Caroline Bowditch. Fling evokes the sense of teetering on the edge, a feeling of not being able to let go and walk away - a solo dancer is drawn back.
This will be followed by an extract from Fall, choreographed in 2009 by Tara Brandel, with dancers Dawn Mulloy and William O'Donovan.




Special Guests, The Students and Alumni of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance Programme, University of Limerick (Course Director: Dr Catherine Foley)
The dancers are Renske Burghout; Meabh Felton; Máiréad O'Connor, Anna Shalabudova and Breandán de Gallaí (PhD Arts Practice Research Student). Excerpts performed from the Rite of Spring. Choreography: Breandán de Gallaí. Music Igor Stravinsky.

ME (Mobile Evolution)

08.00 pm

Written and performed by award-winning dancer/choreographer Claire Cunningham, this double bill showcases her exceptional dance technique and impressive power.
ME is a show woven from humorous stories; about doctors and dancing, bikes and ballet; all threaded together and balanced upon, hanging from, spinning on and swinging on crutches. Any possible sentimentality is undercut with a healthy dose of Scottish sarcasm.

Audiences for this critically acclaimed production, seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2009, have been delighted, as well as provoked into questioning their ideas of aesthetics and dance.

Written and performed by Claire Cunningham in association with Jess Curtis/Gravity

Produced by Richard Wakely

Herald Angel Award Winner 2009 (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
Supported by the Scottish Arts Council

NEWS

• 04 Jan 2012 Arts Council Project Award, 2012 Round 1 This award supports specific projects in the field of a particular artform commencing in 2012. The Arts Council received 222 applications for the Project Award 2012 Round 1. 48 awards were made to the value of € 999,942.00. Read full story
• 04 Jan 2012 Arts Council Bursary Recipients 2011 A summary of those who received funding under the Dance heading. Read full story
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EVENTS

• The Wizard of Oz 16 Feb 2012 - 19 Feb 2012 Tickets: € 16 Family (4) €60 + booking fee WE'RE OFF TO SEE....The Most Magical Adventure of all !!!
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• The Shakespeare Sessions 21 Feb 2012 - 24 Feb 2012 Tickets: € 14 students, group rates, teachers free The primary goal of these entertaining and engaging performances is to help Junior Cert and Leaving Cert learners in their understanding of Shakespeare’s masterpieces, clarifying the main themes and topics as well as providing opportunities for participation and discussion.
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• A Midsummer Night’s Dream 02 Mar 2012 - 04 Mar 2012 Tickets: € 14 Queens and Dukes, actors, lovers and fairies - this is a magical story!
  
  Cork Dance Company presents its annual showcase.
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