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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.
Performances on the hour by the students of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa and Cork School of Dance.
Cork City Ballet's Artistic Director Alan Foley will teach a boys' open Jazz class at 7.15. All are welcome!
See a range of films on dance and our resident companies
Browse a photographic exhibition on our professional dance programme.
Finish the evening with a Swing Dance!
Even if they only plan to attend a friend’s Big Day, they can shine like a star and astonish everyone with their ‘party piece’!
All they need to do is book tickets for the Cotton Club, and their name will be put in the top hat for the prize draw.
Details on http://www.firkincrane.ie or at 021 450 7487
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.
About the Project:
The piece, created in collaboration with filmmaker Julia Reisen, is an exploration of how fairy tales that we have read to us as children influence our paths towards adulthood. We are adapting European fairy tales for film that will be integrated into an installation with live performance to explore the effect of children's stories on the mindsets of children in Western society.
Fairytales are, at times, extremely dark, attempting to scare us into doing the right thing. In The Little Match Girl we are presented with the last few thoughts that the match girl has before she freezes to death. The Little Mermaid trades in her most prized feature – her voice – for a pair of feet that bleed if she walks too much on them. Little Red Riding Hood is eaten by a wolf. Through accentuating this darkness the piece makes sense of the masked morals that we learn as children, consciously or subconsciously, and shows the cultural reverberations of how we perceive the world as adults today.
Qualifications:
The dancer should have experience with improvisation and collaborative work as well as a strong movement background in contemporary dance. The collaborative process will be based in experimental theater and improvisation with a heavy emphasis on viewpoints and moment work.
The dancer will be compensated €50 for the final performance.
Time Commitment:
March 18: Audition (time TBA)
March 23-27: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
March 29-April 2: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
April 5: 12pm-3pm.
April 6: All day. Final sharing of the work (time TBA)
Location:
The Firkin Crane
Shandon – Cork
Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: 086 8147837
The conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and abroad. Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations, practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations, dance workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance performance contributions.
Proposals include any one of six presentation formats listed below. Only one presentation per applicant is permissible. It is essential that proposals address the theme of the conference and present new insights in the attempt at advancing dance research knowledge and practice. Please submit your proposal form, including your one-page abstract (approximately 250-300 words) of your presentation, detailing your presentation format and outlining your proposed research topic and argument together with a short bibliography and/or videography, and forward it electronically to the Secretary of DRFI, Ms. Carmel McKenna at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). It is more convenient for the programme committee if the proposals are forwarded electronically both within the body of the email and in an enclosed attachment using Rich Text Format.
Please note that potential delegates need not at the stage of proposal submission be members of DRFI. However in order to present at the Conference, delegates must be DRFI members in good standing. Application forms for membership are available on the DRFI website: http://www.danceresearchforumireland.org
Programme Committee:
Dr Catherine Foley, Chair of Programme Committee, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Ms. Sheila Creevey, Dance Artist, Researcher and Consultant, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Dr. Victoria O’Brien, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Dublin.
Mr. Paul McCarthy, General Manager, The Firkin Crane, Cork.
Presentation Formats:
1. Academic-based and/or Practice-based research presentations
These presentations will be programmed for the duration of 20 minutes, including any audio-visual material. A ten-minute discussion period will be allotted after each presentation.
2. Panels
A panel presentation consisting of three or four presenters is also welcome. Panels are co-ordinated by one of the panelists who co-ordinates a panel to address a particular topic at the conference. This topic may or may not address the theme of the conference. The co-ordinator submits a one-page proposal outlining the selected topic and each of the panelists contributes to this topic. In addition, each panelist is required to write a one-page proposal (as in written research-based presentations above) outlining the particular research focus in relation to this topic. The co-ordinator is responsible for co-ordinating all proposals for the panel and these are forwarded together. The panel is assessed as a whole and will be allotted one hour in the programme, including discussion.
3. Lecture Demonstrations
Lecture-demonstrations relating to the theme of the conference are welcome. These will be programmed for the duration of 45 minutes including a 15 minute discussion.
4. Dance Workshops
Proposals for dance workshops concerning any dance genre in Ireland or its diaspora are welcome. These will be programmed for I hour.
5. Student Posters
Students are encouraged to present their theses or current research on a poster for a Dance Poster Exhibition which will be programmed at a particular time during the conference. Posters should be presented on one large sheet, at least A3 size, containing written and illustrative material. Topic of research, theoretical and methodological choices, argument, and conclusion are required to be outlined.
6. Dance Performance Contributions
Dance performance contributions are welcome that address the theme of the conference. These will be programmed for 5 to 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion.
Abstracts of presentations addressing any topic relevant to the theme of the conference should be forwarded electronically in Rich Text Format to Ms. Carmel McKenna, Secretary DRFI, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Deadline for Submission of Proposals is Friday, 29 January, 2010.
This humorous but poignant quartet investigates the disparity between how we view ourselves, and how we are viewed by others through the powerful cocktail of identity, sexuality and politics. David Bolger, Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre, has choreographed a piece which may redefine your perceptions. Premiering at this years Cork Midsummer Festival "with impressive grace" (Irish Times) the work will be performed at the Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September at 6pm.
Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs
Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September, 6pm
Tickets €16/€14
This venue is wheelchair accessible
Street names like Cat Lane, Phair’s Cross, Connor’s Glen are almost gone from living memory. Shawlies and Black & Tans, The Shakespeare of the Northside, Christy Ring with his modern incarnation Seán Óg, Dagenham Yanks and Celtic Cubs: Jimmy gives them life in our imagination, weaving stories about the colourful characters, maritime exploits and daily life in between the ballads and ditties. This is a vibrant dramatization of his lifelong musical expedition as song collector and creator, among the people and places of Cork City, where the musical richness mirror's the city's cultural diversity - a great trad heritage as well as a legacy of both music-hall vaudeville and high art song.
Aug 26-27 - 21:00 (1hr 10mins)
£12.00 (£10.00)
To Book 0131 225 5521 | dancebase.co.uk (no booking fees)
RAW has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award in the Physical/Visual Theatre category.
About RAW
Within the BLANK CANVAS programme, projects may be speculative, where time and space is given to preliminary work in forming a concept or idea; or developmental, where existing material needs further thought or reworking; or may have a specific outcome in mind, e.g. production, publication, etc.
One of the residencies will result in a fully-formed performance, produced with support from the Firkin Crane. The artists undertaking this residency would not normally have the experience or resources to produce a performance on the scale that the Firkin Crane will provide.
Contact the Firkin Crane for application details.
The current dance class ‘menu’ includes:
classical and modern ballet
bellydance
contemporary dance
hip-hop and breakdancing
swing, salsa and tango
Most of the adult dance teachers will let you try one class or workshop at a reduced cost, or even for free, so you can see how much fun each dance form is before you decide which is the best for you.
So whether you want to prepare for that first wedding dance, or make new friends, or simply keep fit - please check individual notices.
The Performers' Academy, in association with the Firkin Crane, present a magical musical adventure for all the family!
Tickets €16
Family ticket (4 people) €60
School Performances: Monday 15th – Friday 19th December at 11.00 am
Special rate of 10 euro per child for School Performances
Running until Tuesday 30th December
View the Performance Listing
Rather than being all about the infamous Jack, the story concentrates on his victims: the murdered prostitutes - the ‘Unfortunates’ as they were called back then; who they were and why they were there….
Too often, with all the salacious tales and gory details, the victims themselves are forgotten and become merely statistics in the background.
This play will give the ladies their voices, their stories and their chance to become three-dimensional.
Following last year's sellout concert, Brazilian trumpeter Tonynho and friends will again bring their eclectic mix of sounds from all over the world. This year's show will feature special guests Tabla Sounds, creating an unique combination of infectious new world groove with Indian classical music.
On Saturday night, jazz masters Georgie Fame and Louis Stewart will deliver an amazing double bill, presenting a wonderful range of music, from chart-topping pop songs to a repertoire of jazz classics.
Sunday is the night to get on your glad rags, shine those shoes and step into the mysterious Shanghai Palace 1937. Dress to impress, act your character, lose yourself on the dance floor to the swing sounds of The Swingin' Bluecats. A complimentary cocktail will get you in the mood and a quick lesson will give you the moves!
If your interest goes deeper, come to the Jazz Festival Workshops: Sitar and Tabla with Unity Drums; Jazz Singing with Ines Reiger; Guitar Magic with Louis Stewart; and, the perennial favourite, Swing Dance with Jessica
To create, rehearse and produce an original double bill in 2012. To commission composer Jesse Ronneau to create an original score. To forge a new partnership with the ConTempo String Quartet, Galway's ensemble in residence.
Galway County Council €25,350
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company
To mount a dance production for Legitimate Bodies Dance Company based in the Irish midlands which marks the fifth anniversary of the company. To create stimulating and practical ties with Dance House Lemesos in Cyprus. To continue to advocate the natural place for dance in rural Ireland.
Offaly County Council €36,500
Martin, Emma
To create a new dance-theatre work that will be performed with an original composition and design. To premiere the work in Dublin as a part of ABSOLUT Fringe 2012, followed by a tour in 2013.
Dublin City Council €48,650
McAtamney, Aoife
To choreograph and produce EMPTY ECHO, a dance piece for five dancers with musician Tom lane, in Dublin in August 2012. To provide professional morning class/dance workshops for the Irish dance community.
South Dublin County Council €20,000
Murphy, Luke
To expand a short duet titled 'Drenched' into an evening-length work. To work with a number of international partner organisations to premiere this work in Ireland and extend its reach through performances in several venues. To reach a broader audience base through clear investigation of a universal idea, employing a vibrant approach to dance theatre with visceral physicality and a fully self-aware theatricality.
Cork City Council €17,500
Bryson, Nicholas Offaly County Council €9,350
Clarke, Ella Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €10,000
Davis, Joan Wicklow County Council €7,500
Fitzgerald, Emma Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €4,800
Giannotti, Elena Limerick City Council €7,850 + €5,850
Herriott, Liadain Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €10,000
Kennedy, Jessica Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €9,950
Martin, Emma Dublin City Council €7,100
McDonagh, Leonie Galway City Council €7,075
Nilsson Waller, Maria Dublin City Council €1,525
Ó Conchuir, Fearghus International €9,000
Quilligan, FionaDublin City Council €10,000
Sibley, Judith Clare County Council €10,000
Vaughan, Mairead Cork County Council €10,000
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The deadline for the next round of Arts Council Bursary Awards is Thursday 19 January, 2012 at 5:30pm.
Dance Bursary Award
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Culture Ireland's principal funding scheme is designed to support the presentation and promotion of Irish arts internationally.
There are four funding rounds each year:
15 February - 15 May - 15 September - 15 December
In very exceptional cases, where high-profile invitations to present work internationally are received too late for the quarterly deadline (e.g. a new film being programmed by a major festival), applications may be considered at short notice.
Culture Ireland also operates the See Here scheme to support Irish Artists and arts organisations to invite international programmers, presenters, curators, promoters or critics to see new Irish work with a view to subsequent international presentation. Applications under this scheme are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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Open Call: E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities - Motion Fund Strand, a European mobility and artistic exchange dance programme
E-MOTIONAL is realised in Ireland by Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland in association with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick
ArtistNe(s)t Residency Programme 2012 Call for proposals
[Romania – Ireland – Latvia – Cyprus – United Kingdom –Turkey]
Established in early summer 2011, the two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is currently launching a new strand of activities – the international ArtistNe(s)t Residencies. The programme aims to offer support to the development of new work by young and mid-career choreographers and is addressed to artists based in the 6 participating countries of the project: Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, and Turkey. The residency programme is inspired from and plans to continue and expand the work started by the ArtistNe(s)t artist-in-residence network in Romania set up by Gabriela Tudor and the Swiss Cultural Program in Romania in 2006, a unique international residency programme for contemporary arts in the region.
What we are looking for, how the residency will proceed
The choreographers, either alone or together with a collaborator of their choice (dancer, visual artist, manager, etc.), will be granted a four-week residency to work on an ongoing project, start a new project or collaborate with local artists. Special attention will be given to projects matching the theme of the project and to collaborations and exchanges with local artistic communities. Travel costs, per diem, accommodation and rehearsal space for the entire residency period are provided, together with a fee per project awarded.
The host organisation will facilitate contacts with the local artistic community, informal presentations and meetings, or the organisation of workshops open to local artists. In exchange, the invited artists will give warm-up classes for local dancers, lead dance workshops for professionals or interested audiences, or hold video-lectures on their own artistic work. Each residency will close with an informal presentation held by participating artists.
Destinations & deadlines for application
Under the current call for proposals, destination countries will host residencies according to the following offer:
IRELAND: 2 residencies in 20 February – 18 March & 03 – 30 September 2012 (Dublin & Limerick)
Host organisations are Dance Ireland (Dublin), The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, and the University of Limerick.
Contact person: Elisabetta Bisaro, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
ROMANIA: 4 residencies in June & September 2012 (Bucharest & Bacau)
Host organisations are Gabriela Tudor Foundation (Bucharest) and ArtistNe(s)t Network of Artist-in Residence Centres / “George Apostu” Cultural Centre in Bacau.
Contact persons: Stefania Ferchedau / Cosmin Manolescu, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
CYPRUS: 2 residencies in August 2012
Host organisation is Dance House Lemesos.
Contact person: Natasa Georgiou, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
LATVIA: 1 residency in September 2012
Host organisations are The Association of the Professional Dance Choreographers of Latvia and Noass Culture and Arts Project (Riga).
Contact person: Ilze Zirina, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
RESTRICTIONS:
Please note that Latvian applicants may only apply for Cyprus, Turkish ones only for Romania, and Romanian ones for all the destinations except Latvia. All the other applicants may choose any of the destinations.
DEADLINES:
16 December - for February residency in Ireland
29 February - for all other residencies
To apply, please fill out the attached application form. Please send the application by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) according to the announced deadlines. Successful candidates will be notified early January 2012 (for February residency in Ireland) and mid-March 2012 (all other residencies).
For more information write to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to the contacts indicated above in each country, or visit http://www.e-motional.eu.
E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is a co-operation between Gabriela Tudor Foundation (RO, initiator & lead organiser), Dublin Dance Festival (IE), The Association of the Professional Dance Choreographers of Latvia (LV), Dance House Lemesos (CY), and body > data > space (UK), as co-organisers, developed with support from the Culture 2007-2013 Programme of the European Union. Associated partners are ArtistNe(s)t Network of Artists-in-Residence Centres / “George Apostu” Cultural Centre in Bacau, and the National Dance Centre in Bucharest (RO), Dance Ireland, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, and the University of Limerick (IE), Rialto Theatre, Limassol (CY), and CATI Dans – Contemporary Dance Artists Association, Istanbul (TR).
The project plans to identify, nurture, attract and sustain talent and creativity at the European level, by connecting artists and dance managers from countries participating in the project through mobility grants, residencies, fellowships, artistic research and performance co-production and exchange. Professional development and artistic experiment represent pillars of the project.
The project is co-funded in Romania by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
For further information:
* Telephone: 01 8558800
* Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Collaboration Grants
The grant scheme provides funding for cultural cross-border activities for organisations working with partners in Europe.
Collaboration Grants fund transnational, cross-sectoral activities by independent cultural and artistic organisations working together or with organisations from other sectors. The main applicant needs to be a cultural organisation based in Europe, while partner applicants can work in sectors outside the cultural field, in Europe.
ECF regards the ideal ‘collaboration’ as one that brings a renewed understanding of Europe to people of all backgrounds, and inspires them to regard the world’s future as a shared enterprise. ECF particularly admires efforts that are daring, different and challenge the status quo. The average award funded is €15,000 with the maximum being €30,000.
You can now submit your Collaboration Grant proposal by using the new online application system which makes applying even easier.
Visit http://bit.ly/eUIgUJ
Deadline: Collaboration Grants are currently closed for application. Collaboration Grants are open for application from mid January 2012, with a deadline of 1 March 2012 (17:00 PM CET).
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The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work collaboratively on arts projects. The scheme covers all art forms -architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts.
The projects can take place in a diverse range of social and community contexts eg arts and health; arts in prisons; arts and older people; arts and cultural diversity. The Scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency.for collaborative arts. For full details and to download application forms, http://www.create-ireland.ie or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Deadlines : 14 March 2011 and 27 June 2011
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Creative Careers - Ireland's jobs and opportunities website for the arts/creative sector includes a Careers Chat Forum, Training, Seminar section, Classifieds section and an RSS feed for the latest jobs and opportunities. You can also place adverts seeking Interns or Volunteers or letting Creative Space. The site covers areas such as Theatre, Performance, Film , Literature, Arts Management, Visual Arts and Design ! Digital Media.
CreativeCareers.ie is now fully automated so your adverts go online in a matter of seconds and all services are completely free.
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RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Cenre, is looking to expand its database of freelance arts tutors. We are looking for tutors across all art forms including visual arts, dance, drama and music.
If you would like us to consider you for future projects run by the centre, please email or post a cv and a description of any specialist
skills to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Opportunities, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
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The Foundation for Community Dance: The National College for Community Dance
The FCD’s National College for Community Dance, now in its 2nd year, offers a wide-ranging programme of events for all dance practitioners working in community dance contexts. They would like to get this information out to dance artists and teachers around the UK and internationally.
The National College delivers an annual programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events and learning opportunities that aim to support, inspire and improve the practice of dance leaders working in community dance contexts. The programme includes workshops; seminars; induction, intermediate and advanced courses; annual 3-day residential Summer School; accredited learning pathways; consultation events; network events and resource books.
See their current programme and further information at: http://www.communitydance.org.uk/nationalcollege
Tel: +44 (0) 116 253 3453 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Foundation for Community Dance is the professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance.
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Croi Glan, Ireland's leading Integrated Dance Company, is looking for athletic men and women with physical disabilities who are interested in coming along to our dance sessions.
All sessions are in Cork City and are free of charge.
For those interested, there is also the possibility that dancing with Croi Glan may lead to paid work with the company and/or free vocational training in Integrated Dance.
Check out our dance on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSc58hbn7gg&feature=related and our website: http://www.croiglan.com
Contact Tara Brandel for more information on 087 311 2899 (text) or by email on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Croi Glan Integrated dance company .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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HEN PARTY DANCE TEACHERS WANTED
Job Description: Charm School is looking for freelance dance instructors to join their nationwide pool of hen party teachers. Our hen party instructors deliver a variety of 2 hour dance experience hen parties such as Charleston, Can Can, Burlesque and 80’s inspired jazz. Sessions are usually delivered on Saturday afternoons. Instructors are not expected to choreograph for these sessions, but will be following a Charm School curriculum.
Job Requirement: Charm School instructors are expected to be versatile dance instructors. We do not need you to have experience in each of our dance styles as we will train you in our syllabus, but a background in musical theatre and/or jazz/commercial dance is useful. Candidates must be out-going, enthusiastic and reliable. Instructors are not expected to have their own insurance.
On occasion we will ask our instructors to travel outside of their base, please state when applying whether/how far from your base you are willing to travel and if you drive whether you have a car at your disposal. Candidates should have access to their own portable music system. Rate of pay: competitive rates
To apply: Please send a CV to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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The Clore Leadership Programme invites applications from exceptional individuals with the potential to take on significant leadership roles within culture.
Sponsored by the Cultural Leadership Programme, these Fellowships are open to candidates with at least 5 years' paid work experience either in employment, self-employed or freelance, usually in the cultural sector. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a knowledge, understanding and passion for culture.
The Fellowship Programme aims to shape emerging creative leaders through in-depth learning, tailored as far as possible to the needs, aspirations and circumstances of about 20 individuals a year. Fellows also benefit from unparalleled access to senior cultural leaders and to extensive networks.
The structure of the programme includes:
residential courses
an extended placement for a period of approximately 3 months
individually-selected training, mentoring and coaching.
Fellows can choose to take a period of six months away from work and receive a bursary while doing their programme, or continue to be attached to their place of work, with their employer being compensated for the sustained periods when they're away.
We welcome applications for general Fellowships from people working across a wide range of creative and cultural activity, and also from those from outside the cultural sector who want to develop as a leader within it. In addition, we also offer some Fellowships focused on particular specialisms or geographical areas. These vary from year to year and can be found on our website http://www.cloreleadership.org.
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Check out this recruitment site: http://www.starnow.com/Casting-Calls/Ireland/Dublin-Region/Dancers-wanted/Dancers/Sort-by-p/
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We welcome appointments from everyone - dancers, performers, users of the Firkin Crane and members of the public.
The Treatment Room is set up especially to welcome clients in a warm and friendly environment, and to promote wellness and relaxation.
- Warmed towels
- Heated massage couch
- Soothing background music
- Privacy screen
Therapeutic Massage benefits most people; from general relaxation, to restoring muscle tone, improving function and circulation, relieving stress & tension or certain symptoms, and can also be preventative as part of a treatment plan. The method is based on Swedish Massage, using a light oil with applied pressure, and gentle but firm, gliding movements amongst others, and whilst some techniques used are deep, the treatment generally focuses on soft tissue. Some minor injuries can benefit from this form of treatment. It is a professional service with effective results.
Staś Bernasiński graduated with distinction from the Natural Healing Centre with a practitioner's diploma in Therapeutic Massage. He is currently broadening his professional skills with advanced massage techniques including Deep Tissue Massage, Sports & Remedial Massage and Trigger Point Therapy, and focusing longterm on specialising in dance related manual therapy and injury prevention. He is a member of the Natural Healing Institute of Ireland (NHII), a registered practitioner with the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA) and an Associate member of the Irish Massage Therapists Association (IMTA), and is fully insured.
Treatments: A 1 hour consultation is tailored to each person's needs, with usually approx. 45 minutes of actual treatment time. A detailed patient history is taken at the first session, and, whilst a treatment requires some degree of undress pertinent to the body part being worked, the client is otherwise draped in towels for discretion, comfort and warmth.
Rates: 1 hour session costs €50.
A loyalty scheme is in place and please feel free to enquire about discounts.
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am to 7pm. Saturdays available by prior arrangement. Home or site visits also available, both daytime and evenings. Usual 24 hour cancellation notice period applies.
Get 10% off your next massage!
Avail of a 10% discount off your next 1 hour session simply by downloading and printing out this flyer (pdf format) and bringing it along with you on the day. This offer is not available together with any other offer or discount scheme.
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Contact: For appointments or enquiries, please call Staś on 086 060 6376
Private Health Insurance: Currently only Aviva recognises massage as a complementary therapy. The IMTA is working with other providers to also support massage as an outpatient benefit. Please ask for an IMTA stamped receipt if you wish to claim.
Always seek professional medical advice regarding health concerns.
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, part-funded by the Cultural Contact Point Ireland (CCP) social and community contexts and Voluntary Arts Ireland is hosting a symposium to discuss the current and future relationship of arts and civil society.
The symposium is an opportunity to participate in a discussion with a national and an international group of artists, community activists and civil society leaders.
The event is aimed at artists, arts officers, arts organisations, voluntary and civil society organisations and policy makers with an interest in arts, culture and social change.
Please visit Create's website for more details and also to register: http://bit.ly/pguPEb
The Arts Council's new Arts Advisers are:
Name and Artform / Arts Practice
Emmett Scanlon, Architecture
Ann O'Connor, Arts and Health
Verena Cornwall, Circus
Aoife McGrath, Dance
Brendan McCarthy, Film
Helen Meany, Literature
Rachel Holstead, Music
Randall Shannon, Opera
Aisling Prior, Public Art
Carina McGrail, Spectacle / Street Arts
Jocelyn Clarke, Theatre
Peter Browne, Traditional Arts
Cliodhna Shaffrey, Visual Arts
Liz Coman, Young People, Children and Education
Check out our Performances for the list of cool tunes and hot steps.
Sunday is the night to get on your glad rags, shine those shoes and step into the notorious Cotton Club. Dress to impress, act your character, lose yourself on the dance floor to the swing sounds of The Swingin' Bluecats.
The announcement of these grants by the Arts Council, which was welcomed by Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, follows the success of the Council's 'Touring Experiment' in 2007 and 2008. The scheme now called the 'Touring and Dissemination of Work' scheme is designed to encourage arts organisations to take their best shows to audiences countrywide.
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NEWS FROM THE ISLAND is a contemporary dance piece choreographed and performed by dance artist Katarína Mojžišová.
Set somewhere between dance and performance art, somewhere between Europe and America; this piece is about what happened on the island.
Music includes; Red Tony, The Day The Arms That Came Out Of The Wall, Haunted Candle, The Art Of Wrecking and Hugs For Buddy from the album Spectre & Crown with kind permission by The Jimmy Cake.
Supported by Limerick City Council, The Arts Council & Daghdha Dance Company
Produced by Katarína Mojžišová and Angie Smalis
Tickets: 10 Euros on the door
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Cork City Ballet presents 'Giselle' at the Cork Opera House opening Thursday 17th November 2011, and touring to the Wexford Opera House and Siamse Tire Theatre, Tralee. Featuring stars of the Kirov Ballet and Irish ballerina Monica Loughman, booking for this magnificent production is on sale now at the Cork Opera House http://www.corkoperahouse.ie
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Details: April 13th – June 15th - ‘Pay As You Go’ complete beginner classes are on in the Firkin Crane Shandon from 8.30pm - 9.30pm. No partner, no booking and no experience of dance is required.
Cost: €10 per class or you can pay for a 10 week course €75.
Swing Dance Cork have been teaching Swing dancing for the past 4 years and offers a wide range of courses and workshops for different levels of dancers.
More info at http://www.swingdancecork.com
Increasingly flexible funding options are being offered by the Arts Council in response to reduced resources, yet they note the considerable increase in the quantity of applications they receive: for example in the first round of Bursaries for 2011 there are 32 applications compared to 13 in 2009. In Projects there were 29 applications in 2010 compared to 10 in 2008 and 14 in 2009.
It is therefore timely to provide an overview and reminder of the funding programmes, how these awards and schemes work and also gain a stronger insight into the criteria and assessment process.
Chaired by Dance Ireland board member Anne Maher, the focus will be on Annual Programming Grant (APG), dance touring, projects and bursary awards. There will be an opportunity for Q&A and also some focus on making an application.
In order to provide a meaningful clinic, the focus will remain on the topics outlined above and it will not be possible to use the Clinic to address individual or unsuccessful funding decisions. Please note places are limited and advance booking is essential.
To book your place contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 01 855 8800.
The draft strategy is now available for comment. Please revert back to this office with observations by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by letter to the Arts Office, Corporate Affairs Department, City hall, Cork by Friday March 19th 2011.
For more information, contact Maeve Dineen, Community Arts Co-ordinator, Arts Office, Corporate Affairs Department, City Hall, Cork
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 Crowell!! 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. 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!
Elaine and Jessica
http://www.swingdancecork.com
All DI professional members: individuals, companies, collectives and/or ad hoc ensembles are eligible to apply. At a time of diminishing resources, this is a proactive means of facilitating the creative process. For further information on Dance Ireland Residency can be found on the website: http://www.danceireland.ie. Please contact either Paul or Elisabetta on 01 855 8800.
Once again, we must make a case for the arts. We must:
lobby to maintain a full cabinet Minister for Arts
promote the role and value of the arts
campaign for continued and increased investment in the arts
advocate for the provision of appropriate social protection for artists and those who work in the arts.
Once again, we need your help. You can help in five simple ways:
1. ATTEND THE HUSTINGS
In Dublin the arts spokespersons from all 5 political parties will attend a meeting to outline their respective arts policies and answer your questions. There will be a similar format in Galway with candidates from Galway East and West constituencies invited to present their local arts policy and answer your questions.
Come along and make the arts an election issue. It's important we show politicians the arts matter!
Monday 14 February
Dublin: 10.45am - 12.15 Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar
Galway: 11.00am Radisson Blu Hotel
2. CHALLENGE AND ADVISE
Let the canvassers know that the arts are an election issue for you. Ask them about their arts policy and tell them about the value of the arts. We're preparing a crib sheet to help you.
3. REGISTER TO VOTE
It's not too late. Check http://www.checktheregister.ie.
4. DISPLAY OUR LOGO AND USE OUR ADS IN YOUR PROGRAMMES
5. FOLLOW OUR CAMPAIGN on Facebook and Twitter
There's one other key area where you can help us. And that's by donating to the NCFA. We need to raise €30,000 to work on your behalf this year. It seems like a huge amount and is a big ask in these difficult times. But, If 300 of you give us €100 each we've hit out target and we'll be able to get on with the work of securing investment in the arts. Help us to help you. Donate now.
If you would like any further information about our activities this year please contact Tania Banotti. Tania Banotti The website will be updated with all relevant information about the campaign by next week.
for the Dublin Flamenco Festival
Tara Brandel to choreograph a new 30-minute piece on five Croi Glan dancers entitled 'In my Body are these Islands' that explores the theme of local landscapes. To perform this piece at six venues. To develop Croi Glan's partnerships and audiences, and create wider exposure for Croi Glan's performances.
Fluxusdance - €32,750
To create a new choreography with disabled dance artists; provide mentoring for Bobby Byrne and Cathy O'Kennedy; enhance the profile of disabled artists; broaden the experience of artists and increase performance opportunities.
Murphy, Deirdre - €20,000
To create an intimate evening length trio using movement, text, and vocalisation. The work will communicate perspectives on pregnancy and birthing. Produce and perform work at the Back Loft Theatre.
Quilligan, Fiona - €31,690
To produce a dance Installation at Wood Quay Venue with eight performances, lunchtime and evening, and seven workshops, public workshops accessing the choreographic process. To develop and access performances for the public, dance audiences, Civic Office staff (1200) and visitors to the Culture Quarter Temple Bar.
Cost € 10... Students and Concession price is now € 5.00.
No previous experience required and Drums are provided.
"We can all derive health benefits from drumming. It gets the heart beating faster, thereby providing beneficial aerobic exercise. We relax, stop worrying about tomorrow, or yesterday - we are in the here and now. We have some fun and smile and laug, and we can connect with a deeper part of ourselves." A message from Elaine Peace (edited):
This year I am delighted to tell you that Julian Rixon will be teaching with me on Wednesdays.
Evening Dance courses:
Jan 26 – Mar 30 - Wednesdays 10 week courses in the Firkin Crane, Shandon.
Beginners 2: 7.30pm - 8.30pm Complete Beginners 1: 8.45pm - 9.45pm
*There is a discount if you bring a man (a lead) to any course this term – pay only €150 for a couple! Otherwise it’s €100* per perso
Private/wedding classes and Hen parties:
For more info please check out http://www.swingdancecork.com or email Elaine at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 087 413 4077.
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).
Culture & Film – allocation of €150 million
· An allocation of €65.2m for the Arts Council which is a 5% reduction on the 2010 allocation will enable it to maintain its major programmes and activities.
· The Irish Film Board allocation of €18.4m will enable it to continue to support indigenous Irish audiovisual industry and attract inward investment from international productions.
· The National Museum allocation of €14.2 million includes €2m capital funding for renovations at the Treasury in the Museum on Kildare Street and the fitting out of the Collections Resource Centre.
· Almost €21m is allocated to the National Library, IMMA, National Concert Hall, Chester Beatty Library and Crawford Gallery.
· An allocation of €9.85m for the National Gallery – a reduction of 3% on 2010.
· Over €4m is provided to support regional and smaller museums, as well as to fund events such as Culture Night 2011 and the major new contemporary art event Dublin Contemporary 2011.
· A carry-over of €3m from 2010 will be used towards the funding of Culture Ireland’s major year-long season of contemporary Irish culture - Imagine Ireland- across the United States in 2011.
Tourism also has a budget of almost £146 million, of which over €62.5m is allocated to Fáilte Ireland to promote home holidays, provide enterprise supports, support festivals and events and assist marketing activity for the industry.
Full details at: http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/publications/release.asp?ID=101020
The report includes reference to participation figures (1.2 million people report they regularly do artistic or creative activities). Further analysis will be carried out on participation in the coming months but the survey covers attendance at:
- Any performance in a theatre ( could be amateur performance, music etc)
- Plays
- Opera
- Ballet
- Contemporary Dance
- Classical music concerts and recitals
- Folk concerts
- Jazz concerts and performances
- Art galleries and exhibitions
CoisCeim Dance Theatre - €36,736
Swimming with my Mother - a tour of a dance film and duet in January and May to six venues.
Dance Theatre of Ireland - €30,000
Block Party! - a tour of six festivals in May and June.
Irish Modern Dance Theatre - €17,000
ACTIONS - a dance duet touring to nine venues in January and February.
O'Kane, Emma - €10,000
The Ballet Ruse - a tour in April, May and June to nine venues of a show produced for the Fringe Festival in 2010.
Rex Levitates Dance Company - €34,000
Fast Portraits - a tour of three works choreographed by Liz Roche to four venues in October 2011
Ríonach Ní Néill is the recipient of the first Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award, managed by Create. The award was designed to support and nurture the professional development of an arts practitioner working in the practice area of arts and older people.
Ríonach Ní Néill is a dancer and choreographer who for the last number of years has been exploring the theme of dance and older people through specific performance and work programmes. Ríonach often integrates professional and non-vocational artists in her work. She believes that "dance can be a form of civic dialogue, creating spaces for us to engage with one another and our surroundings, provoke reflection and allow us to imagine ourselves and others differently."
Jean Butler performing "DAY" a solo dance piece by Jean Butler at the Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 22nd - 24th October 2010 €3,000
Daghdha Dance Company performing "Choreography for Blackboards" at the Hayward Gallery, London from the 26th - 27th November 2010 €4,000
Ballet Ireland presenting a UK tour of Romeo & Juliet, 25th October - 19th November 2010 €22,500
Details on all grant recipients from the last round are here
The next Culture Ireland application deadline is 15 November 2010.
Kevin reports
`On arriving at the Dail on 3rd November alongside Stephen Brown, our chair, Willie White of the National Campaign for the Arts and Anne O’Gorman from the National Youth Council to present at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Sport, Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs, we were greeted like rock stars at the gate by a large and committed group of students. They were of course protesting against the proposed increase in student fees and their sense of frustration was palpable.
We disappeared into the relative calm of the Dail and awaited our turn to present to the committee on the topic of promoting art, craft and culture in Ireland. No less passionate we collectively argued for investing in art, in communities and in creativity.
Anne and a terrific bunch of young people (Lee, Sam and Eimear) led the charge outlining the impact the arts have had on their lives and the importance of sustaining access to the arts for young people. Stephen and I focussed on the contribution made by the voluntary and amateur arts with groups operating at the centre of communities and providing sustainable opportunities for people to participate in the arts. Willie brought the presentations to a close with a clearly articulated case for the value of the arts to Irish society and the Irish economy linking the achievements of the Irish cultural glitterati with the vital foundations that encouraged and nurtured them on the way.
I was struck by the sense of pride in Ireland’s cultural achievements by the assembled group of TD’s and Senators and by their desire to carry our message to the decision making table. They were brutally honest about the likelihood of cuts, but they understood the value and what might be lost if care was not taken. As always it remains to be seen if that desire remains strong in the face of mounting pressures. We might yet need to gather at the barricades like the students earlier in the day – let’s hope, though, that our politicians make decisions based on how we can build a better society – not just a cheaper one`
You can read the Voluntary Arts Ireland brief for this presentation at http://www.vaireland.org/15262
The lack of comprehensive provision for dance education and vocational training has been one of the main barriers to the development of the artform in this country. The Step Up programme has been conceived in order to address gaps in the formal dance education system, and also to improve opportunities for those talented dancers who necessarily move abroad to further their studies each year. Its purpose is to establish a structured environment for achieving three principal aims:
* to support the professional development of young dancers living in Ireland
* to assist the transition to a full-time professional career in dance;
* to form professional connections between dancers who have trained abroad and the dance sector in Ireland.
In general terms, therefore, the Step Up programme aspires to create a means by which dancers can interact with or reconnect into the Irish professional dance scene and to formalise, through support, the process of undertaking professional training. The Step Up programme will also provide an excellent reference for national and international partnerships and play an active role in furthering the development of training and educational initiatives in Ireland, e.g. by perhaps providing assistance in policy and research initiatives in those fields.
Following preliminary discussions, the Arts Council and the University of Limerick have agreed to co-fund a feasibility study to assess the level of demand for this programme, to propose how best to implement any initiatives arising and to identify those key organisations which appear well positioned to assist in realising this plan.
The feasibility study will be carried out by Dr Victoria O’Brien, with an expected completion date of December 2010.
Further information
* For further information contact, Davide Terlingo, Head of Dance on 1850 392492 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
7 AWARDS €95,000 IN TOTAL
1. Hawk's Well Theatre €13,000
To commission an inter-generational dance project for Bealtaine 2011 in collaboration with Sligo Arts Service. To provide an opportunity for the dance artist Liv O Donoghue to create a new choreographic work to be premiered in the theatre in Autumn 2011. To provide a mentor (Liz Roche) for the dance artist-in-residence.
2. Libby Seward, Waterford - €12,000
To contribute to building a network for dance artists practicing in Ireland. To encourage participation in and build informed audiences for dance in Waterford. To promote dance as a major contributor to a full and all encompassing arts programme.
3. Maria Jazmin Chiodi - €15,000
To strengthen and extend the activities of existing South Tipperary Dance Residency by organising: 11 sessions of dance programs for a youth group-school; a two-day dance workshop for school teachers; a dance platform in Excel Centre; 2 performances, 1 workshop, 1 mentoring week and dance video projections.
4. Nicholas Bryson - €15,000
To build on the success of residence in a rural area (Offally), making dance visible and accessible to all. To strenghten and expand artistic remit of engaging in high quality projects. To support initiatives that enrich the dance community at a local and national level.
5. Ríonach Ní Néill - €15,000
To investigate the body in the Irish sub/rural landscape. Research and development and creation of new choreographic work for future production and performance. Interventions to provoke public debate, locating dance as central to current social, cultural dialogue.
6. Siamsa Tire Theatre and Art Centre Tralee- €13,000
To research and develop choreographic work (Making). To develop a dance symposium and ‘Curtain Raiser Projects’ with venues to develop the profile and audiences for dance (Advocacy). To develop local dance programmes built to date with emerging professionals, schools and the active retired (Community).
7. South Dublin County Council - €12,000
To support the development of a dance artist; to give the artist opportunities to access facilities, connect to expertise in order to develop their work and share their practice; to provide a focus for creative participation with dance for audiences and participants in South Dublin County.
Today’s artists—their students and heirs—have been curiously unable to rise to the challenge of their legacy. They seem crushed and confused by its iconoclasm and grandeur, unable to build on its foundation yet unwilling to throw it off in favor of a vision of their own. Contemporary choreography veers aimlessly from unimaginative imitation to strident innovation usually in the form of gymnastic or melodramatic excess, accentuated by overzealous lightening and special effects. This taste for unthinking athleticism and dense thickets of steps, for spectacle and sentiment, is not the final cry of a dying artistic era; it represents a collapse of confidence and a generation ill at ease with itself and uncertain of its relationship to the past.
To continue reading the excerpt
She then invited the audience to go on a short walkabout outside the building to begin the journey of noticing - on return each person wrote their thoughts on paper and some shared their beautiful descriptions aloud.
Mary concluded on a note giving food for thought on this process quoting 'this is what I call choreography'.
Touching the city
“Touching the wall, the concrete of the building, enjoying the rough feel on the skin”
“Noticing the burn of calves down steps”
“A desire to move to walk forward
To push on, to touch off the streets
My baby kicks in my belly”
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Choreographer’s notes:
Seeing the city
“black net curtains framing a view of sand blasted images on the Firkin Crane wall”
“the goldy fish facing south and glinting in the sunshine”
“the clang of the gates and chains blocking my way”
“ Lines of intersection curving around Firkin Crane onto cobblestones, stacked bricks meeting rising upwards,
Centre arteries moving producing and carrying people, produce and cars in motion”
Smelling the city
“taking time out to notice the freshness of the air mixed with the smell from the river, mixed with the smell from the sugar factory”
“noticing a smell that reminds me of childhood”
“ the smell of piss in the alley making my stomach tighten”
Hearing the city
“Red door heavy groans open, sighs shut.
Chains rattle on a bag”
"Hearing the bells ring out from the big clock tower. It is half past two."
Tasting the city
“The Four Liars Bistro
Early Bird €19.95
In the main menu deep fried brie in a raisin and cranberry sauce”
“tasting the fullness of noticing”
This was a very brief “experiment” and in many ways the time spent outside was a little too short. But, that said, I was very touched by what people wrote and so I intend to further develop this choreographic structure in the future.
I really welcomed the opportunity that this event gave me to experiment in this way. The Firkin Crane has a long tradition of supporting artists, to take risks, to try new ideas and because of this it has made an enormous contribution to dance, and particularly contemporary dance practice, in Ireland. I was delighted to return there. It has a special place in the history of dance in Ireland, and in history of Cork City also.
Mary Nunan 29 September 2010
Rhona writes:
A Chara,
I am writing to let you know I have decided to leave Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company. Tara Brandel and I set up the company in 2006 with the support of a lot of people. I have had the most amazing time while in the company and I have danced and worked with the most incredible people, but now I see that my life is moving in a different, but still in a creative way for now, and a wonderful opportunity was presented to me, which I could not refuse, my other love, working in radio.
There are so many people and agencies I would love to thank….
The Irish Arts Council and Mr. Ian Mc Donagh of Cork County Council, both helped so much with funding and support.
The Firkin Crane staff and especially Paul McCarthy who helped make this dream for me a reality and Dance Ireland for their influence and help.
I have been blessed to work with some outstanding choreographers namely Jess Curtis, Kim Epifone, David Bolger & Adam Benjamin. Thank you all so much. Working with you all has been a great joy. To all the dancers I have worked with, you have made my dance experience a beautiful one and I thank you so much for that. I want also to thank CanDoCo Dance Company, Axis Dance Company, Patric Cashman, Sally Edwards (Blue Eyed Soul), Wendy Hesketh and Kate Mansion (aerial dance UK) for being such an inspirations to me, thank you all so much. To all at Cope Foundation and everyone that I have met along the way, while teaching the integrated dance classes which were held in the Firkin Crane, I am blessed to have worked and danced with you all. To every single person who has helped and supported me along the way. I thank you.
I would like to wish every one in Croi Glan the very best with their future projects. I'd like to thank Tara Brandel, Julie O Leary, William O Donavan, Mary Nuggent, Dawn Molloy, Miriam Engel, Skye Reynolds and Chole De Buyl Pisco and also all the people who helped behind the scenes, Ashling Kavanagh, John Moloney, Sarah Smith, Sharon Heffernan and Sarah Cairns.
To any one that I have been connected with, while working in Croi Glan I thank you and you know who you are and finally I want to thank all my family and friends for all their support and love along the way.
If you wish to contact me in the future and I hope you will, please do so, through my personal email address .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or else please add me as a friend on facebook. I look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Rhona Coughlan
The Pines
Sunday's Well
Cork
086 0679101
rhonacoughlan@hotmail
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.
The Guidelines are designed to present clear, concise and user-friendly guidance to those working in the area of participatory arts in healthcare contexts. They were developed through consultation with artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health.
They would appreciate if artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health would take the time to consider and interpret the Guidelines in the context of their own practice, possibly in consultation with peers, partners and clients, and send us feedback by the 31 October 2010. They will review the Guidelines in the light of feedback received.
Further copies of this document can be downloaded from http://www.waterfordhealingarts.com.
May I congratulate Alan Foley and Paul McCarthy and all those involved in this splendid performance of such brilliance, virtuosity, colour and magic. I know I speak for the entire family when I say how deeply moved we are that Alan arranged for a revival of a section of my father’s Golden Bell of Ko for this most special evening, which is part of Cork City Ballet’s contribution to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations of 2010. We thank Yuri for having recreated the dance with such insight, and your beautiful dancers for having performed so exquisitely. Our best thanks to you, Alan, Sinead, Paul, Tim. It is marvellous to see the cooperation between the distinguished guest dancers, the talented dancers of Cork City Ballet, of the Cork School of Dance, the Irish Youth Ballet and of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa. It is I suppose that spirit which makes such miracles possible even in these dire times.
I cannot think of anything which would have given Miss Moriarty and my father more joy than to have seen the wonderful production this evening and to know that Domy Reiter-Soffer has travelled from Tel Aviv by circuitous routes over Britain and Ireland to get here today in time to open our exhibition The Music for the Ballet. The material for the exhibition was selected by my sisters Anne and Maeve (who spent the best part of two years going through the Fleischmann papers containing perhaps 200,000 items); it was designed by Aloys Fleischmann`s grandson, Max Fleischmann, who has digitised 20,000 documents from the collection. The Cork Lyons Club very kindly sponsored the exhibition, which will be open until the end of the week, will then travel to Cork City Library and from thence to Kerry School of Music in Tralee. When we began the work we had intended to focus on the five ballets written by our father for Miss Moriarty`s companies. But when we realised the highly significant role she played in providing a forum for Irish musicians to compose for a new genre, commissioning 18 new works and using in all the works of 30 Irish composers for the hundred ballets she created, we felt we had to widen our perspective.
It is my special privilege tonight to introduce to you Domy Reiter-Soffer, the Israeli dancer, choreographer, play producer, opera producer and painter, who has just returned from a most successful production of Beauty and the Beast in Denver USA. Domy had a close friendship with Joan Denise Moriarty and with my father for thirty years. He first came to Cork in 1962 as a dancer with Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland’s first professional ballet company, when he travelled to every town in Ireland north, south, east and west that had a stage big enough for the company to perform on. From 1973 he was artistic advisor and choreographer to Miss Moriarty’s second professional company, the Irish Ballet Company, later called Irish National Ballet, and he created some of the most wonderful works in the company’s repertoire. I think dancers of all three of Miss Moriarty`s companies are with us here tonight. Domy shared the work, the struggle, the anxieties and the triumphs of the late 1970s and 1980s. Very many of the works he created for Miss Moriarty’s companies were revived by him for dance companies all round the world. The one ballet he has not revived is the swan song of Irish National Ballet: his magnificent ballet Oscar, the last work performed by INB, set to The Garden of Fand by Arnold Bax, a composition Miss Moriarty herself had hoped to choreograph.
Domy, we are deeply grateful to you for having honoured this event with your presence in tribute to the memories of Miss Moriarty and Aloys Fleischmann – may I call on you to officially open the exhibition The Music for the Ballet?
Dance is discipline, work, teaching, communication. With it we save on words that perhaps others would not understand and, instead, we establish a universal language familiar to everyone. It gives us pleasure, it makes us free and it comforts us from the impossibility we humans have to fly like birds, bringing us closer to heaven, to the sacred, to the infinite.
It is a sublime art, different each time, so much like making love that at the end of each performance it leaves our heart beating very hard and looking forward to the next time.
English translation by Marcia De La Garza (Original in Spanish)
The following successful projects were selected:
* Admit One - Choreographer John Scott, Director Steve Woods and Producer Catherine Lyons.
* Deependance - Choreographer David Bolger, Director Conor Horgan and Producer Martha O’Neill.
* Her Mother’s Daughter - Choreographer Cindy Cummings, Director Oonagh Kearney, Composer Denis Clohessy and Producers Rachel Lysaght and Steven Davenport.
* Mo MhórChoir Féin - Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchuir, Director Dearbhla Walsh, Composer Iarla Ó Lionaird and Producer Maggie Breathnach.
The completed short dance films will be premiered on RTÉ Television during this year’s Dublin Dance Festival which runs from 8-23 May and then screened in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square [tbc].
Speaking about the scheme, Fionnuala Sweeney, Head of Film and International Arts, at the Arts Council said: “Dance on the Box provides a unique opportunity for film and dance artists to collaborate and the Arts Council is delighted with the response to the third round of the scheme. We would like to congratulate all of the successful applicants and look forward to seeing four imaginative and engaging dance films on RTÉ Television as part of the Dublin Dance Festival in April”.
David McKenna, RTÉ Television's Executive Producer Arts & Cross-Media, added: “The exceptional quality of this year’s applications highlights the value placed on this scheme by film and dance artists. We are particularly grateful to the short-listed creative teams who met us and are very much looking forward to premiering these films on RTÉ during the Dublin Dance Festival.”
An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012 is now available for download from the Arts Council website. This paper outlines how the Arts Council intends to build on its review of Partnership for the Arts concluded in June 2008. Feedback from ongoing discussions with dance artists and organisations contributed directly to the shaping of the ideas in this document, which offers a developed and integrated overview of how the Council envisages dance provision in the future.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Integrated-dance-strategy-2010-2012.pdf
Giving Body to Dance
Giving Body to Dance, a summary report of the review of building based infrastructures for dance in Ireland is now available for download from the Arts Council website. The review involved a nationwide consultation with dance artists, companies, organisations and spaces. The document contains findings which relate to the quality of spaces that are currently available to professional dance practitioners countrywide. The report outlines comprehensively, the recommended health and safety standards for dance spaces. This is the first time that such a list of recommendations has been compiled for dance in Ireland.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Giving-body-to-dance-report-2010.doc
Online services was developed to more efficiently manage funding applications and payments. This new website means that you can:
- Download application forms and guidelines;
- Create a profile for banking, tax and contact details (which you can reuse for other applications);
- Upload the completed application form(s) and up to 20MB of electronic supporting materials;
- Avail of a one-week deadline extension to complete online applications;
(Where successful), submit a payment request or payment schedule with supporting documentation.
Applications for the Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme 2010 will be also be open via online services. Details of the scheme will be published on http://www.artscouncil.ie shortly.
Read more: http://www.relais-culture-europe.org/fileadmin/fichiers/4_Monter_son_projet/manuel2-E-BD.pdf
..And if you are looking to make a start at making links and contacts in Europe read Voluntary Arts Network briefing at: http://www.voluntaryarts.org/uploaded/map12513.pdf
In its overall approach, the Council sought to ensure that organisations can continue to bring the best of the arts to audiences across Ireland. Emphasis was given to achieving a regional balance, on enabling the arts to reach more people, and on supporting artists to make work.
While the value of the allocations has decreased across the artforms, the relativity of allocation between the artforms (with the exception of Opera), has remained broadly similar to previous years.
Theatre Forum has provided an analysis of the funding
In any case, the site is now up and running - somewhat of an empty house - at http://www.corkarts.org. To get things rolling, we have put up a few relevant topics on the forum. Anyone can register and contribute / start new topics. Possibly of biggest concern at the moment is reaction to funding decisions by The Arts Council. If you have something to say, then make a contribution at http://corkarts.org/forum/topic.php?id=2
There are a number of people working on getting the website populated with useful information on what's going on and regular updates will start over the next few weeks.
Collaborators and contributors to the website are more than welcome. To join in, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Angeliki Smalis performing a solo dance piece at the International Dance Festival "ABUNDANCE" in Karlstad, Sweden from the 15 - 17th June 2010 €500
Liadain Herriott presenting "Two" at the Smriti Nandan Cultural Center, Bangalore, India €500
Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at Festival Antipodes, Brittany 4 - 6 March and at a number of venues in Northern France from the 4th - 25th April 2010 €5000
Dance Theatre of Ireland performing "Block Party" at the Busan International Dance Festival, Korea from the 3rd - 8th June and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, UK from the 7th – 22nd May 2010 €38,000
New time: 9.45-10.45am
New venue: St. Joseph's Community Association (the building next to the library, behind the bus stop & up a small flight of steps, on the Old Youghal Road
New payment system: 20 Euro for X4wk Block, paid at the class week one.
New emphasis: There will be less of a bias placed towards a creative element and more focus geared towards toning, stretching, balance work and learning gentle fun routines in a variety of dance styles – to suit the group’s taste.
Same day: Thursdays’
The class is for woman aged 50 years plus. Individuals are encouraged to work at their own level of fitness with no previous dance experience or partner necessary. Wear comfy clothes with non-slip flat soled shoes and bring a bottle of water to sip through the class. New comers’ are very welcome to try their first class for free.
For further information, please contact: Jo Nichols 087 77 87 320
This is the republic’s first and only dedicated Circus space and will be providing a training and creation space for performers all over the country and also for international professionals.
To perform high skill circus shows Circus performers need to train everyday in order to perform in daredevil activities such as aerial trapeze and human pyramids. This space is the perfect place for such enterprises as it houses the specialist equipment needed for intensive training and performing.
Many performers have left the country in previous years, travelling to countries such as France or the UK, where Circus is more developed. By having such a space in Cork the performers are hoping to attract more Circus performers to the area and also develop the skills of those already living here. There are many advantages to having this innovative and creative circus centre in the heart of Cork city; it will add another level of diversity to Cork culture and make circus more open and accessible to the greater community, therefore improving the quality of circus performance and nurturing new and potential talent.
The centre will also be offering workshops in 2010 to a variety of different levels from local beginners to international professionals.
The circus community is a collaboration of 6 Cork based groups and they are currently coming up with ideas for a name and would love if the public could send suggestions to any of the following contacts:
E-mail:- .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Facebook:- CircusSpace Cork
In December the Arts Council received its budget allocation of €69.15 million for 2010. This level of funding, despite the enormous pressure on public resources, underscores the commitment to the arts of the Government and, in particular, of the Minister for the Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen TD.
The allocation does represent a significant reduction in funding, and its impact, along with previous reductions, will be felt hard across the sector. In 2009, with a final grant-in-aid of €73.35 million, the Arts Council did everything possible to minimise the effect of the reductions in its grant to artists and organisations and get best value for public money. The Council used savings from previous years and even allocated some of 2010 its budget in advance. While this meant we were able to invest almost €78 million in 2009, simple arithmetic dictates that the drop to 2010 levels will be all the more difficult.
Nonetheless, the Arts Council is best placed to invest this money wisely, and we will redouble our efforts to ensure that people right across the country have access to the best of the arts in 2010.
The full statement from our Chairman, Pat Moylan, is available to read in this month’s newsletter.
Consensus of many comments so far is that the National Campaign for the Arts was instrumental in reducing the severity of the cuts. The campaign will continue in the coming year. For some details, check here:
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan's full speech:
http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/budget2010/speech/
To celebrate the 2009 residencies and look forward to BLANK CANVAS 2010, Phluxus Dance Collective, from Brisbane, Australia, presented a taste of their award-winning repertoire and raised the temperature for a delighted audience at a sharing on Monday 30 November 2009.
Arts workers throughout the city and county are coming together to ensure the place of the arts in our country’s recovery. For more information, visit http://www.corkarts.org
The primary concern of the Campaign is to protect arts funding in the forthcoming budget from recession-inspired slash & burn recommendations made by the McCarthy Report. The aim is to raise support at a grassroots level for The National Campaign for the Arts, which is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations in visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music, literature, architecture and collaborative arts.
The National Campaign for the Arts asserts the fundamental importance of the arts to economic recovery and calls for:
The Campaign calls for:
* Retention of Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide
* Retention of The Irish Film Board, development agency of the Irish film industry
* Maintenance of existing levels of funding to the Arts Council
* Retention of the artist's income tax exemption scheme
* Commitment to retain the arts portfolio at cabinet as part of a senior ministerial portfolio
Dancing in the street - an extra special event took place last Saturday – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY5bOjT73XU&feature=player_embedded
Cork artists and arts workers are proud of their contribution to Cork's designation in the Lonely Planet Best of 2010 Guide as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit and the significance that this has had to the local economy. It is hoped that with the maintenance of current levels of Arts Council funding, the arts in Cork will continue to draw visitors to the area and that Cork can capitalise on the spending power of these visitors.
for details of Firkin Crane performance.
DAGHDHA SPACE, ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, JOHN’S SQUARE, LIMERICK, IRELAND
FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2009 8PM
AS PART OF DAGHDHA’S GRAVITY & GRACE PERFORMANCE SERIES 17 – 22 NOVEMBER AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAMUSKA NIGHTS
CALLS FOR SUBMISSION: DEADLINE FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Mamuska Limerick is back – Daghdha Dance calls local and national artists to participate in the upcoming Mamuska Limerick, as part of the Gravity & Grace performance week in November.
This will be a great opportunity to present and view evolving works, raw ideas, unrehearsed visions, trials and errors, short masterpieces, playful nonsense, first steps... all in the context of an informal environment where like minded people meet and receive feedback from the audience. So come and be a part of it.
This time around, we dedicate this evening to each sense with special focus on allegories, illusion, sensitivity, intuition and sensations. So please contact the Programme Curator Angie Smalis with your proposals as a maximum of ten artists will be chosen to present live work, complimented by installation pieces and a unique sound environment.
Mamuska Limerick - dedicated to all the ‘senses’... offers a sensation of tingling, pricking, itching, momentum, depth and brightness. So join in and be part of this evening of dance, performance, film sound art and music.
Produced by Daghdha Dance Company this event is supported by the Arts Council and in partnership with Mamuska Nights.
To submit your work, please contact the Programme Curator:
ANGIE SMALIS: +353 (0) 830067394 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Submission criteria:
• Open to works in the fields of dance, live performance, live installation, sound and video art.
• All works must be under 10 minutes long.
• All works must have very simple technical set up and requirements.
• Send title, duration and brief description of work submitted.
• Send short CV of people involved.
• Inclusion of supporting material is recommended.
• Closing Date Friday 13th November 2009.
For more information about Mamuska Nights please visit: http://mamuskanights.net
DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY: Artistic Director Michael Klien
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Supported by The Arts Council, RTÉ lyric fm, Limerick City Council, FÁS, Shannon Development, Fáilte Ireland and Culture Ireland.
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Dance mapping shows that popular culture has helped raise the profile of dance. TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Billy Elliot the Musical captured the public’s imagination, leading to classes across the country filling up with dance accounting for more than one in 10 of all adult learning classes.
Despite England becoming home to a dance sector that is the envy of the world, the research shows that though the dance workforce is highly educated (62% hold degrees) they are underpaid; 38% of people who make a living from dance only earned £5,000- £20,000 in 2008/09 and almost a quarter (23%) earned under £5,000. The Arts Council fears that the low levels of pay may affect the sustainability of careers, leadership within the sector and the ability of potential champions to emerge.
Find out more as well about New Stream - a three year corporate investment venture in Irish arts and culture between Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Business to Arts -
http://www.businesstoarts.ie/newstream.html
To be in with a chance of winning one of five sets of tickets to this delightful ballet, download this picture, colour it in and send to Cork City Ballet at The Firkin Crane by 13 November 2009.
For the whole summer The Big Wash Up has been attracting attention in the Shandon area from residents and tourists alike. This project by Cork Community Art Link features a series of temporary images that have been power-washed onto walls and buildings in Shandon bringing stories and memories of the area back to life.
“The Big Wash Up is a participative and community based arts project that was undertaken in partnership with the wider community. The project set out to gather memories and stories relating to Shandon in order to inspire a series of images. Consultations were held in St Mary’s Road Library with the assistance of the Northside Folklore Project and a wealth of local knowledge was recorded. During the course of the project we listened to stories of shawlies and corner boys, crubeens and messenger boys as well as characters that were unique to the area.”
The memories shared with Artlink have inspired over fifty temporary images that were washed onto walls and buildings in and around Shandon. From the buttera (Butter Exchange Brass Band ) circa 1885 to knitwear making in the butter exchange in the late twenties, corner boys playing pitch and toss or delivery boys taking a rest, each wall is set to tell a story. The Firkin Crane and the Butter Exchange feature as two of the principal locations and host some of the more spectacular temporary murals relating the past uses of each building.
Artist Philippe Chevrinais from Artitillerie Nantes France joined Cork Community Art Link for part of the project. Artitillerie specialise in developing public space arts project and have undertaken some spectacular large scale wall washing and paper pasting projects in France .
The Big Wash Up remains on display until Sept 28 2009. Mural trail maps can be found at St Mary’s Road Library, the Firkin Crane and shops around Shandon during July and August.
The project was undertaken with the support and participation of St Mary’s road Library, The Shandon Street Festival, Northside Folklore Project, Firkin Crane , Artist Philippe Chevrinais, Artitillerie, Shandon Youth Club and all those participants who gave their time, memories, materials and even their buildings as canvas
The Big Wash Up is part of the What if… public space arts programme and Cork Community Art Link's programme of community based participative art making for 2009.
Cork Community Art Link is a multidisciplinary arts organisation that develops participatory arts projects with communities and groups in Cork City . It prioritises working with groups who are disadvantaged or socially marginalised in their access to the arts and in their participation in the making of local and national culture.
As a multi-disciplinary arts organisation working with people in various social contexts it believes that access to the arts, not just as a spectator but both as participant and creator is a fundamental right to which every person should be entitled, regardless of their personal circumstances
Cork Community Art Link uses a range of artistic mediums from street spectacle and celebration using the street as a forum and stage for a collective community purpose, to visual arts based projects in more secluded contexts, performances, exhibitions, music and sound
Lady Mayoress Tanya Murphy, Cllr. Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork, Ann Rea, Paul O'Donoghue, Marie Lynch, Paul McCarthy, Michelle Whelan
ITI’s Information Toolbox is a key networking event aimed specifically at the needs of new and emerging theatre and dance companies/artists. This half-day event provides an ideal environment for new and emerging Irish companies and artists to promote their shows, pitch work to venues and festivals and begin dialogue with key funding agencies and support organisations. The objective is for these companies and artists to investigate the possibility of re-mounting their shows following the Dublin Fringe Festival or, indeed, to create new work in the future. The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland support this event.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment:
http://www.irishtheatreinstitute.com/event_info_toolbox_09.html
The exhibition, now on view in Bishopstown Library Gallery, features rare photographic works and personal artefacts of both the person and of the ballet company she left as a legacy to the arts and particularly to ballet and dance in Cork and in Ireland. The memorabilia of a bygone age is fascinating to behold, highlighting the multi layered involvement Miss Moriarty had in music and the arts and the wonderful links she made locally and nationally. Though Joan Denise had a national profile she was based first and foremost in Cork and the City and County owe her a debt of gratitude that has yet to be properly recognised. The exhibits show generations of dancers, musical and dance companies and the links the Cork Ballet Company had with the Irish Ballet Company, the Firkin Crane, City Hall and the Arts generally.
The exhibition was opened by the Lord Mayor Cllr. Brian Bermingham, in the presence of invited guests on Wednesday June 3 and runs until June 30. Lovingly put together by fans and friends devoted to her memory it is well worth a visit. The exhibition is open to the public and is free of charge, don’t miss it.
Clarke, Ella, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €8,525
Fitzgerald, Emma, South Dublin County Council €13,700
Giannotti, Elena, Limerick City Council, €14,000
Mc Crory, Tanya, Galway City Council, €10,000
Vaughan, Mairead, Cork County Council, €15,000
Deadline for the next round is 5 November 2009
Malcolm X was a dedicated lindyhopper before he became an incendiary civil rights leader, a fact which was featured in the eponymous Spike Lee film starring Denziel Washington. Learn to be a leader at the Swing class every Wednesday.
11 Oct 2008 -
08.00 pm
Tickets: €12/10 concession
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company presents a completely new work, featuring three highly skilled dancers: Christina Goletti, Aine Stapleton, Federica Esposito.
This work deals with touch between human beings as well as the dynamics within relationships. Touching Distance portrays real people on stage in a dance work able to touch a wide audience.… Touching distance of our dreams shared with the audience, of where we think we want to be. Allow this work to take you by surprise to question why you might want to watch a dance performance. To laugh, to get to know each other, to open up to your feelings, allow them to dance.
Choreography: Nicholas Bryson
Dance: Aine Stapleton, Cristina Goletti, Federica Esposito
Music: Michael Fleming, Mo Benison
Workshop for 12 - 17 year-olds on Friday 10th
presents
Roddy Doyle’s
Hilarious Comedy
BROWNBREAD
A Gun, a Kidnapped Bishop, Three Lads from Barrytown, the American Marines, and Two Days the Residents Of Barrytown will never forget.
Ao Farrell, John Murray and Donkey have been best friends for years. During another day wondering the streets of Dublin looking for something to pass the time, the lads make a find any young fella would dream of, a browning 9mm handgun.
What better way to put it to use then to kidnap the Bishop during the Confirmations, it was either that or watch the snooker or Live at Three. What ensues is one of the funniest stand offs you will see on stage this year. Hulled up in Donkey’s Mammy’s bedroom the lads and the Bishop settle in for a long stay as in Donkey’s own words "Can yis Imagine it!? - Walkin’ ou’. – With our hands up, yeh Know. – The fuckin slaggin we’d get!!!"
Unfortunately for the lad’s and the Bishop, his Grace was born in New York, queue the American Marines and President Ronald Regan into what has now become an international situation. On top of all that Mr Farrell hasn’t even had his dinner.
Culture Night 2011
Date: 15 Sep 2011
Kick start Culture Night 2011 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.
Performances on the hour by the students of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa and Cork School of Dance.
Cork City Ballet's Artistic Director Alan Foley will teach a boys' open Jazz class at 7.15. All are welcome!
See a range of films on dance and our resident companies
Browse a photographic exhibition on our professional dance programme.
Finish the evening with a Swing Dance!
THE Wedding Day is also World Dance Day!
Date: 28 Apr 2011
To celebrate both occasions, the Firkin Crane, home of dance in Cork, will offer FREE private dance lessons to one couple who plan to marry in the next 12 months. Even if they only plan to attend a friend’s Big Day, they can shine like a star and astonish everyone with their ‘party piece’!
All they need to do is book tickets for the Cotton Club, and their name will be put in the top hat for the prize draw.
Details on http://www.firkincrane.ie or at 021 450 7487
BLANK CANVAS 2011 - DEADLINE EXTENDED !!!
Date: 24 Sep 2010
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.
BLANK CANVAS - open audition for one female dancer
Date: 27 Jan 2010
American Choreographer Micheline Heal is seeking one female dancer to work with during her BLANK CANVAS residency at The Firkin Crane in Cork from March 23 to April 6, 2010.About the Project:
The piece, created in collaboration with filmmaker Julia Reisen, is an exploration of how fairy tales that we have read to us as children influence our paths towards adulthood. We are adapting European fairy tales for film that will be integrated into an installation with live performance to explore the effect of children's stories on the mindsets of children in Western society.
Fairytales are, at times, extremely dark, attempting to scare us into doing the right thing. In The Little Match Girl we are presented with the last few thoughts that the match girl has before she freezes to death. The Little Mermaid trades in her most prized feature – her voice – for a pair of feet that bleed if she walks too much on them. Little Red Riding Hood is eaten by a wolf. Through accentuating this darkness the piece makes sense of the masked morals that we learn as children, consciously or subconsciously, and shows the cultural reverberations of how we perceive the world as adults today.
Qualifications:
The dancer should have experience with improvisation and collaborative work as well as a strong movement background in contemporary dance. The collaborative process will be based in experimental theater and improvisation with a heavy emphasis on viewpoints and moment work.
The dancer will be compensated €50 for the final performance.
Time Commitment:
March 18: Audition (time TBA)
March 23-27: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
March 29-April 2: Rehearsal 10am-3pm with an hour lunch break.
April 5: 12pm-3pm.
April 6: All day. Final sharing of the work (time TBA)
Location:
The Firkin Crane
Shandon – Cork
Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Tel: 086 8147837
Dance Research Forum Ireland - call for papers
Date: 22 Jan 2010
Dance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) invites proposals for its 3rd International Conference: Capturing Composition: Improvisation in Dance Research and Practice, which will be hosted this year by the Firkin Crane, home of dance in Cork.The conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and abroad. Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations, practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations, dance workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance performance contributions.
Proposals include any one of six presentation formats listed below. Only one presentation per applicant is permissible. It is essential that proposals address the theme of the conference and present new insights in the attempt at advancing dance research knowledge and practice. Please submit your proposal form, including your one-page abstract (approximately 250-300 words) of your presentation, detailing your presentation format and outlining your proposed research topic and argument together with a short bibliography and/or videography, and forward it electronically to the Secretary of DRFI, Ms. Carmel McKenna at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). It is more convenient for the programme committee if the proposals are forwarded electronically both within the body of the email and in an enclosed attachment using Rich Text Format.
Please note that potential delegates need not at the stage of proposal submission be members of DRFI. However in order to present at the Conference, delegates must be DRFI members in good standing. Application forms for membership are available on the DRFI website: http://www.danceresearchforumireland.org
Programme Committee:
Dr Catherine Foley, Chair of Programme Committee, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Ms. Sheila Creevey, Dance Artist, Researcher and Consultant, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Dr. Victoria O’Brien, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Dublin.
Mr. Paul McCarthy, General Manager, The Firkin Crane, Cork.
Presentation Formats:
1. Academic-based and/or Practice-based research presentations
These presentations will be programmed for the duration of 20 minutes, including any audio-visual material. A ten-minute discussion period will be allotted after each presentation.
2. Panels
A panel presentation consisting of three or four presenters is also welcome. Panels are co-ordinated by one of the panelists who co-ordinates a panel to address a particular topic at the conference. This topic may or may not address the theme of the conference. The co-ordinator submits a one-page proposal outlining the selected topic and each of the panelists contributes to this topic. In addition, each panelist is required to write a one-page proposal (as in written research-based presentations above) outlining the particular research focus in relation to this topic. The co-ordinator is responsible for co-ordinating all proposals for the panel and these are forwarded together. The panel is assessed as a whole and will be allotted one hour in the programme, including discussion.
3. Lecture Demonstrations
Lecture-demonstrations relating to the theme of the conference are welcome. These will be programmed for the duration of 45 minutes including a 15 minute discussion.
4. Dance Workshops
Proposals for dance workshops concerning any dance genre in Ireland or its diaspora are welcome. These will be programmed for I hour.
5. Student Posters
Students are encouraged to present their theses or current research on a poster for a Dance Poster Exhibition which will be programmed at a particular time during the conference. Posters should be presented on one large sheet, at least A3 size, containing written and illustrative material. Topic of research, theoretical and methodological choices, argument, and conclusion are required to be outlined.
6. Dance Performance Contributions
Dance performance contributions are welcome that address the theme of the conference. These will be programmed for 5 to 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion.
Abstracts of presentations addressing any topic relevant to the theme of the conference should be forwarded electronically in Rich Text Format to Ms. Carmel McKenna, Secretary DRFI, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Deadline for Submission of Proposals is Friday, 29 January, 2010.
Croi Glan at Absolute Fringe
Date: 07 Sep 2009
Croi Glan are delighted to announce that they will be performing as part of Dublin Fringe Festival which takes place from the 5th - 20th September, 2009. This show is a double bill which also features Legitimate Bodies/Arno Schuitemaker with R-ated while Ella Clarke’s dance film ‘Two Hundred Feet’, with live score composed by Dara Smith, will also be screened at this performance.This humorous but poignant quartet investigates the disparity between how we view ourselves, and how we are viewed by others through the powerful cocktail of identity, sexuality and politics. David Bolger, Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre, has choreographed a piece which may redefine your perceptions. Premiering at this years Cork Midsummer Festival "with impressive grace" (Irish Times) the work will be performed at the Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September at 6pm.
Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs
Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September, 6pm
Tickets €16/€14
This venue is wheelchair accessible
Songs from the Beautiful City
Date: 26 Aug 2009
Jimmy Crowley, Cork’s own troubadour, has created a new piece of musical theatre for summer at the Firkin Crane, where he will present Songs from the Beautiful City every Wednesday and Thursday from 15 July. Street names like Cat Lane, Phair’s Cross, Connor’s Glen are almost gone from living memory. Shawlies and Black & Tans, The Shakespeare of the Northside, Christy Ring with his modern incarnation Seán Óg, Dagenham Yanks and Celtic Cubs: Jimmy gives them life in our imagination, weaving stories about the colourful characters, maritime exploits and daily life in between the ballads and ditties. This is a vibrant dramatization of his lifelong musical expedition as song collector and creator, among the people and places of Cork City, where the musical richness mirror's the city's cultural diversity - a great trad heritage as well as a legacy of both music-hall vaudeville and high art song.
RAW at the Edinburgh Fringe 2009
Date: 26 Aug 2009
Dance Base @ Out of The Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, EdinburghAug 26-27 - 21:00 (1hr 10mins)
£12.00 (£10.00)
To Book 0131 225 5521 | dancebase.co.uk (no booking fees)
RAW has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award in the Physical/Visual Theatre category.
About RAW
"In terms of technique and expressiveness, RAW excels. It is spectacular, fast, daring and dangerous. The four aerialists have exquisite skill, and the high wires are integral to the characterisation. A sequence on ropes is a perfect symbol of the ups and downs of the chemical rollercoaster. A Matrix-style fight scene injects humour and action. The finale, a peaceful arrival at a place of holiness and wisdom, resolves the desperate energy of the early scenes. It is almost a masterpiece, a showcase for aerisalism as a vibrant, important medium." - Scotland on Sunday
"Dance is springing up in new and unexpected places all over the Fringe this year. Halfway down Leith Walk at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, a Fringe community has popped up and there's a genuine buzz about the place. RAW, by Ireland's leading aerial dance troupe, Fidget Feet, is a thrilling ticket to clubland, opening with four dancers bouncing to the beats while they queue, and a DJ playing house music from on high. There are neon lights, ropes snaking down, and the atmosphere induces the jitters you feel before a big night out. If you fancy a night out clubbing on the Fringe, this is the show to get you in the mood." - CHITRA RAMASWAMY
Blank Canvas
Date: 14 Jul 2009
The Firkin Crane’s BLANK CANVAS residency provides Irish-based and international dance artists with an opportunity to explore their creative work processes, which may include research across various artforms.Within the BLANK CANVAS programme, projects may be speculative, where time and space is given to preliminary work in forming a concept or idea; or developmental, where existing material needs further thought or reworking; or may have a specific outcome in mind, e.g. production, publication, etc.
One of the residencies will result in a fully-formed performance, produced with support from the Firkin Crane. The artists undertaking this residency would not normally have the experience or resources to produce a performance on the scale that the Firkin Crane will provide.
Contact the Firkin Crane for application details.
New for 2009
Date: 08 Jan 2009
Most of the dance teachers will let you try one dance class or workshop at a reduced cost, or even for free, so you can see how much fun each dance form is before you decide which is the best for you.- please check.Spring Dance Classes
Date: 01 Jan 2009
If variety is the spice of life, the Firkin Crane has something for every taste and range of ability.The current dance class ‘menu’ includes:
classical and modern ballet
bellydance
contemporary dance
hip-hop and breakdancing
swing, salsa and tango
Most of the adult dance teachers will let you try one class or workshop at a reduced cost, or even for free, so you can see how much fun each dance form is before you decide which is the best for you.
So whether you want to prepare for that first wedding dance, or make new friends, or simply keep fit - please check individual notices.
Give a Gift of Family Fun!
Date: 12 Dec 2008
Babes in the Wood like you’ve never seen it before - limited to 12 performances.The Performers' Academy, in association with the Firkin Crane, present a magical musical adventure for all the family!
Tickets €16
Family ticket (4 people) €60
School Performances: Monday 15th – Friday 19th December at 11.00 am
Special rate of 10 euro per child for School Performances
Running until Tuesday 30th December
View the Performance Listing
Jack the Ripper - Voices of the Victims
Date: 28 Oct 2008
This is an original play, based on the deeds of Jack the Ripper, performed on Hallowe’en by the Luvius Theatre Group. Rather than being all about the infamous Jack, the story concentrates on his victims: the murdered prostitutes - the ‘Unfortunates’ as they were called back then; who they were and why they were there….
Too often, with all the salacious tales and gory details, the victims themselves are forgotten and become merely statistics in the background.
This play will give the ladies their voices, their stories and their chance to become three-dimensional.
Jazz at the Firkin Crane
Date: 15 Oct 2008
This will be the best and biggest Jazz Festival at the Firkin Crane!Following last year's sellout concert, Brazilian trumpeter Tonynho and friends will again bring their eclectic mix of sounds from all over the world. This year's show will feature special guests Tabla Sounds, creating an unique combination of infectious new world groove with Indian classical music.
On Saturday night, jazz masters Georgie Fame and Louis Stewart will deliver an amazing double bill, presenting a wonderful range of music, from chart-topping pop songs to a repertoire of jazz classics.
Sunday is the night to get on your glad rags, shine those shoes and step into the mysterious Shanghai Palace 1937. Dress to impress, act your character, lose yourself on the dance floor to the swing sounds of The Swingin' Bluecats. A complimentary cocktail will get you in the mood and a quick lesson will give you the moves!
If your interest goes deeper, come to the Jazz Festival Workshops: Sitar and Tabla with Unity Drums; Jazz Singing with Ines Reiger; Guitar Magic with Louis Stewart; and, the perennial favourite, Swing Dance with Jessica
Arts Council Project Award, 2012 Round 1
Date: 04 Jan 2012
Chrysalis DanceTo create, rehearse and produce an original double bill in 2012. To commission composer Jesse Ronneau to create an original score. To forge a new partnership with the ConTempo String Quartet, Galway's ensemble in residence.
Galway County Council €25,350
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company
To mount a dance production for Legitimate Bodies Dance Company based in the Irish midlands which marks the fifth anniversary of the company. To create stimulating and practical ties with Dance House Lemesos in Cyprus. To continue to advocate the natural place for dance in rural Ireland.
Offaly County Council €36,500
Martin, Emma
To create a new dance-theatre work that will be performed with an original composition and design. To premiere the work in Dublin as a part of ABSOLUT Fringe 2012, followed by a tour in 2013.
Dublin City Council €48,650
McAtamney, Aoife
To choreograph and produce EMPTY ECHO, a dance piece for five dancers with musician Tom lane, in Dublin in August 2012. To provide professional morning class/dance workshops for the Irish dance community.
South Dublin County Council €20,000
Murphy, Luke
To expand a short duet titled 'Drenched' into an evening-length work. To work with a number of international partner organisations to premiere this work in Ireland and extend its reach through performances in several venues. To reach a broader audience base through clear investigation of a universal idea, employing a vibrant approach to dance theatre with visceral physicality and a fully self-aware theatricality.
Cork City Council €17,500
Arts Council Bursary Recipients 2011
Date: 04 Jan 2012
The following list is just of those who received Bursaries in relation to dance. Decisions are routinely published in the Arts Council newsletter, and historical decisions are recorded in the Arts Council's annual reports which are available online in the publications section. For a full list of Bursary recipients in all disciplines, check here.Bryson, Nicholas Offaly County Council €9,350
Clarke, Ella Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €10,000
Davis, Joan Wicklow County Council €7,500
Fitzgerald, Emma Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €4,800
Giannotti, Elena Limerick City Council €7,850 + €5,850
Herriott, Liadain Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €10,000
Kennedy, Jessica Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €9,950
Martin, Emma Dublin City Council €7,100
McDonagh, Leonie Galway City Council €7,075
Nilsson Waller, Maria Dublin City Council €1,525
Ó Conchuir, Fearghus International €9,000
Quilligan, FionaDublin City Council €10,000
Sibley, Judith Clare County Council €10,000
Vaughan, Mairead Cork County Council €10,000
Opportunities
Date: 04 Jan 2012
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The deadline for the next round of Arts Council Bursary Awards is Thursday 19 January, 2012 at 5:30pm.
Dance Bursary Award
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Culture Ireland's principal funding scheme is designed to support the presentation and promotion of Irish arts internationally. There are four funding rounds each year:
15 February - 15 May - 15 September - 15 December
In very exceptional cases, where high-profile invitations to present work internationally are received too late for the quarterly deadline (e.g. a new film being programmed by a major festival), applications may be considered at short notice.
Culture Ireland also operates the See Here scheme to support Irish Artists and arts organisations to invite international programmers, presenters, curators, promoters or critics to see new Irish work with a view to subsequent international presentation. Applications under this scheme are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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Open Call: E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities - Motion Fund Strand, a European mobility and artistic exchange dance programme
E-MOTIONAL is realised in Ireland by Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland in association with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick
ArtistNe(s)t Residency Programme 2012 Call for proposals
[Romania – Ireland – Latvia – Cyprus – United Kingdom –Turkey]
Established in early summer 2011, the two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is currently launching a new strand of activities – the international ArtistNe(s)t Residencies. The programme aims to offer support to the development of new work by young and mid-career choreographers and is addressed to artists based in the 6 participating countries of the project: Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, and Turkey. The residency programme is inspired from and plans to continue and expand the work started by the ArtistNe(s)t artist-in-residence network in Romania set up by Gabriela Tudor and the Swiss Cultural Program in Romania in 2006, a unique international residency programme for contemporary arts in the region.
What we are looking for, how the residency will proceed
The choreographers, either alone or together with a collaborator of their choice (dancer, visual artist, manager, etc.), will be granted a four-week residency to work on an ongoing project, start a new project or collaborate with local artists. Special attention will be given to projects matching the theme of the project and to collaborations and exchanges with local artistic communities. Travel costs, per diem, accommodation and rehearsal space for the entire residency period are provided, together with a fee per project awarded.
The host organisation will facilitate contacts with the local artistic community, informal presentations and meetings, or the organisation of workshops open to local artists. In exchange, the invited artists will give warm-up classes for local dancers, lead dance workshops for professionals or interested audiences, or hold video-lectures on their own artistic work. Each residency will close with an informal presentation held by participating artists.
Destinations & deadlines for application
Under the current call for proposals, destination countries will host residencies according to the following offer:
IRELAND: 2 residencies in 20 February – 18 March & 03 – 30 September 2012 (Dublin & Limerick)
Host organisations are Dance Ireland (Dublin), The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, and the University of Limerick.
Contact person: Elisabetta Bisaro, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
ROMANIA: 4 residencies in June & September 2012 (Bucharest & Bacau)
Host organisations are Gabriela Tudor Foundation (Bucharest) and ArtistNe(s)t Network of Artist-in Residence Centres / “George Apostu” Cultural Centre in Bacau.
Contact persons: Stefania Ferchedau / Cosmin Manolescu, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
CYPRUS: 2 residencies in August 2012
Host organisation is Dance House Lemesos.
Contact person: Natasa Georgiou, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
LATVIA: 1 residency in September 2012
Host organisations are The Association of the Professional Dance Choreographers of Latvia and Noass Culture and Arts Project (Riga).
Contact person: Ilze Zirina, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
RESTRICTIONS:
Please note that Latvian applicants may only apply for Cyprus, Turkish ones only for Romania, and Romanian ones for all the destinations except Latvia. All the other applicants may choose any of the destinations.
DEADLINES:
16 December - for February residency in Ireland
29 February - for all other residencies
To apply, please fill out the attached application form. Please send the application by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) according to the announced deadlines. Successful candidates will be notified early January 2012 (for February residency in Ireland) and mid-March 2012 (all other residencies).
For more information write to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to the contacts indicated above in each country, or visit http://www.e-motional.eu.
E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is a co-operation between Gabriela Tudor Foundation (RO, initiator & lead organiser), Dublin Dance Festival (IE), The Association of the Professional Dance Choreographers of Latvia (LV), Dance House Lemesos (CY), and body > data > space (UK), as co-organisers, developed with support from the Culture 2007-2013 Programme of the European Union. Associated partners are ArtistNe(s)t Network of Artists-in-Residence Centres / “George Apostu” Cultural Centre in Bacau, and the National Dance Centre in Bucharest (RO), Dance Ireland, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, and the University of Limerick (IE), Rialto Theatre, Limassol (CY), and CATI Dans – Contemporary Dance Artists Association, Istanbul (TR).
The project plans to identify, nurture, attract and sustain talent and creativity at the European level, by connecting artists and dance managers from countries participating in the project through mobility grants, residencies, fellowships, artistic research and performance co-production and exchange. Professional development and artistic experiment represent pillars of the project.
The project is co-funded in Romania by the Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
For further information:
* Telephone: 01 8558800
* Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Collaboration Grants
The grant scheme provides funding for cultural cross-border activities for organisations working with partners in Europe.
Collaboration Grants fund transnational, cross-sectoral activities by independent cultural and artistic organisations working together or with organisations from other sectors. The main applicant needs to be a cultural organisation based in Europe, while partner applicants can work in sectors outside the cultural field, in Europe.
ECF regards the ideal ‘collaboration’ as one that brings a renewed understanding of Europe to people of all backgrounds, and inspires them to regard the world’s future as a shared enterprise. ECF particularly admires efforts that are daring, different and challenge the status quo. The average award funded is €15,000 with the maximum being €30,000.
You can now submit your Collaboration Grant proposal by using the new online application system which makes applying even easier.
Visit http://bit.ly/eUIgUJ
Deadline: Collaboration Grants are currently closed for application. Collaboration Grants are open for application from mid January 2012, with a deadline of 1 March 2012 (17:00 PM CET).
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The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work collaboratively on arts projects. The scheme covers all art forms -architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts.
The projects can take place in a diverse range of social and community contexts eg arts and health; arts in prisons; arts and older people; arts and cultural diversity. The Scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency.for collaborative arts. For full details and to download application forms, http://www.create-ireland.ie or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Deadlines : 14 March 2011 and 27 June 2011
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Creative Careers - Ireland's jobs and opportunities website for the arts/creative sector includes a Careers Chat Forum, Training, Seminar section, Classifieds section and an RSS feed for the latest jobs and opportunities. You can also place adverts seeking Interns or Volunteers or letting Creative Space. The site covers areas such as Theatre, Performance, Film , Literature, Arts Management, Visual Arts and Design ! Digital Media.
CreativeCareers.ie is now fully automated so your adverts go online in a matter of seconds and all services are completely free.
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RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Cenre, is looking to expand its database of freelance arts tutors. We are looking for tutors across all art forms including visual arts, dance, drama and music.
If you would like us to consider you for future projects run by the centre, please email or post a cv and a description of any specialist
skills to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or Opportunities, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
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The Foundation for Community Dance: The National College for Community Dance
The FCD’s National College for Community Dance, now in its 2nd year, offers a wide-ranging programme of events for all dance practitioners working in community dance contexts. They would like to get this information out to dance artists and teachers around the UK and internationally.
The National College delivers an annual programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events and learning opportunities that aim to support, inspire and improve the practice of dance leaders working in community dance contexts. The programme includes workshops; seminars; induction, intermediate and advanced courses; annual 3-day residential Summer School; accredited learning pathways; consultation events; network events and resource books.
See their current programme and further information at: http://www.communitydance.org.uk/nationalcollege
Tel: +44 (0) 116 253 3453 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Foundation for Community Dance is the professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance.
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Croi Glan, Ireland's leading Integrated Dance Company, is looking for athletic men and women with physical disabilities who are interested in coming along to our dance sessions.
All sessions are in Cork City and are free of charge.
For those interested, there is also the possibility that dancing with Croi Glan may lead to paid work with the company and/or free vocational training in Integrated Dance.
Check out our dance on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSc58hbn7gg&feature=related
Contact Tara Brandel for more information on 087 311 2899 (text) or by email on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Croi Glan Integrated dance company .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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HEN PARTY DANCE TEACHERS WANTED
Job Description: Charm School is looking for freelance dance instructors to join their nationwide pool of hen party teachers. Our hen party instructors deliver a variety of 2 hour dance experience hen parties such as Charleston, Can Can, Burlesque and 80’s inspired jazz. Sessions are usually delivered on Saturday afternoons. Instructors are not expected to choreograph for these sessions, but will be following a Charm School curriculum.
Job Requirement: Charm School instructors are expected to be versatile dance instructors. We do not need you to have experience in each of our dance styles as we will train you in our syllabus, but a background in musical theatre and/or jazz/commercial dance is useful. Candidates must be out-going, enthusiastic and reliable. Instructors are not expected to have their own insurance.
On occasion we will ask our instructors to travel outside of their base, please state when applying whether/how far from your base you are willing to travel and if you drive whether you have a car at your disposal. Candidates should have access to their own portable music system. Rate of pay: competitive rates
To apply: Please send a CV to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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The Clore Leadership Programme invites applications from exceptional individuals with the potential to take on significant leadership roles within culture.
Sponsored by the Cultural Leadership Programme, these Fellowships are open to candidates with at least 5 years' paid work experience either in employment, self-employed or freelance, usually in the cultural sector. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a knowledge, understanding and passion for culture.
The Fellowship Programme aims to shape emerging creative leaders through in-depth learning, tailored as far as possible to the needs, aspirations and circumstances of about 20 individuals a year. Fellows also benefit from unparalleled access to senior cultural leaders and to extensive networks.
The structure of the programme includes:
residential courses
an extended placement for a period of approximately 3 months
individually-selected training, mentoring and coaching.
Fellows can choose to take a period of six months away from work and receive a bursary while doing their programme, or continue to be attached to their place of work, with their employer being compensated for the sustained periods when they're away.
We welcome applications for general Fellowships from people working across a wide range of creative and cultural activity, and also from those from outside the cultural sector who want to develop as a leader within it. In addition, we also offer some Fellowships focused on particular specialisms or geographical areas. These vary from year to year and can be found on our website http://www.cloreleadership.org.
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Check out this recruitment site: http://www.starnow.com/Casting-Calls/Ireland/Dublin-Region/Dancers-wanted/Dancers/Sort-by-p/
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The Treatment Room
Date: 08 Oct 2011
Remedy Massage - http://www.remedymassage.ieWe welcome appointments from everyone - dancers, performers, users of the Firkin Crane and members of the public.
The Treatment Room is set up especially to welcome clients in a warm and friendly environment, and to promote wellness and relaxation.
- Warmed towels
- Heated massage couch
- Soothing background music
- Privacy screen
Therapeutic Massage benefits most people; from general relaxation, to restoring muscle tone, improving function and circulation, relieving stress & tension or certain symptoms, and can also be preventative as part of a treatment plan. The method is based on Swedish Massage, using a light oil with applied pressure, and gentle but firm, gliding movements amongst others, and whilst some techniques used are deep, the treatment generally focuses on soft tissue. Some minor injuries can benefit from this form of treatment. It is a professional service with effective results.
Staś Bernasiński graduated with distinction from the Natural Healing Centre with a practitioner's diploma in Therapeutic Massage. He is currently broadening his professional skills with advanced massage techniques including Deep Tissue Massage, Sports & Remedial Massage and Trigger Point Therapy, and focusing longterm on specialising in dance related manual therapy and injury prevention. He is a member of the Natural Healing Institute of Ireland (NHII), a registered practitioner with the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA) and an Associate member of the Irish Massage Therapists Association (IMTA), and is fully insured.
Treatments: A 1 hour consultation is tailored to each person's needs, with usually approx. 45 minutes of actual treatment time. A detailed patient history is taken at the first session, and, whilst a treatment requires some degree of undress pertinent to the body part being worked, the client is otherwise draped in towels for discretion, comfort and warmth.
Rates: 1 hour session costs €50.
A loyalty scheme is in place and please feel free to enquire about discounts.
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am to 7pm. Saturdays available by prior arrangement. Home or site visits also available, both daytime and evenings. Usual 24 hour cancellation notice period applies.
Get 10% off your next massage!
Avail of a 10% discount off your next 1 hour session simply by downloading and printing out this flyer (pdf format) and bringing it along with you on the day. This offer is not available together with any other offer or discount scheme.
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Contact: For appointments or enquiries, please call Staś on 086 060 6376
Private Health Insurance: Currently only Aviva recognises massage as a complementary therapy. The IMTA is working with other providers to also support massage as an outpatient benefit. Please ask for an IMTA stamped receipt if you wish to claim.
Always seek professional medical advice regarding health concerns.
Arts and Civil Society Symposium in Cork
Date: 03 Oct 2011
Arts and Civil Society Symposium Cork 20 and 21 OctoberCreate, the national development agency for collaborative arts, part-funded by the Cultural Contact Point Ireland (CCP) social and community contexts and Voluntary Arts Ireland is hosting a symposium to discuss the current and future relationship of arts and civil society.
The symposium is an opportunity to participate in a discussion with a national and an international group of artists, community activists and civil society leaders.
The event is aimed at artists, arts officers, arts organisations, voluntary and civil society organisations and policy makers with an interest in arts, culture and social change.
Please visit Create's website for more details and also to register: http://bit.ly/pguPEb
Arts Advisers at the Arts Council
Date: 03 Oct 2011
The Arts Council recently sought proposals via http://www.etenders.gov.ie from practitioners wishing to provide services as Arts Advisers in a broad range of artforms and arts practice areas. While there are different requirements for each role, many include assisting in the appraisal and assessment of funding applications and in the provision of critical advice to the Arts Council on artistic work.The Arts Council's new Arts Advisers are:
Name and Artform / Arts Practice
Emmett Scanlon, Architecture
Ann O'Connor, Arts and Health
Verena Cornwall, Circus
Aoife McGrath, Dance
Brendan McCarthy, Film
Helen Meany, Literature
Rachel Holstead, Music
Randall Shannon, Opera
Aisling Prior, Public Art
Carina McGrail, Spectacle / Street Arts
Jocelyn Clarke, Theatre
Peter Browne, Traditional Arts
Cliodhna Shaffrey, Visual Arts
Liz Coman, Young People, Children and Education
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2011
Date: 26 Sep 2011
This will be the best and biggest Jazz Festival at the Firkin Crane!Check out our Performances for the list of cool tunes and hot steps.
Sunday is the night to get on your glad rags, shine those shoes and step into the notorious Cotton Club. Dress to impress, act your character, lose yourself on the dance floor to the swing sounds of The Swingin' Bluecats.
Congratulations to Ballet Ireland!
Date: 03 Aug 2011
Grants of over €1.2 million in additional funding for touring of work in Ireland in theatre, music, traditional arts, literature, visual arts, young people's programming and dance have been announced by the Arts Council. The funding will enable 38 individual artists and organisations to take their shows on the road from July 2011 to July 2012 to all corners of Ireland.The announcement of these grants by the Arts Council, which was welcomed by Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, follows the success of the Council's 'Touring Experiment' in 2007 and 2008. The scheme now called the 'Touring and Dissemination of Work' scheme is designed to encourage arts organisations to take their best shows to audiences countrywide.
Dates for your Diary
Date: 27 May 2011
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NEWS FROM THE ISLAND is a contemporary dance piece choreographed and performed by dance artist Katarína Mojžišová.
Set somewhere between dance and performance art, somewhere between Europe and America; this piece is about what happened on the island.
Music includes; Red Tony, The Day The Arms That Came Out Of The Wall, Haunted Candle, The Art Of Wrecking and Hugs For Buddy from the album Spectre & Crown with kind permission by The Jimmy Cake.
Supported by Limerick City Council, The Arts Council & Daghdha Dance Company
Produced by Katarína Mojžišová and Angie Smalis
Tickets: 10 Euros on the door
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Cork City Ballet presents 'Giselle' at the Cork Opera House opening Thursday 17th November 2011, and touring to the Wexford Opera House and Siamse Tire Theatre, Tralee. Featuring stars of the Kirov Ballet and Irish ballerina Monica Loughman, booking for this magnificent production is on sale now at the Cork Opera House http://www.corkoperahouse.ie
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Join The National Campaign for the Arts - details
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Swing Dance Class - pay as you go
Date: 13 Apr 2011
Want to learn to dance like they did in the Jazz era? Why not come along and try Swing dancing? It’s the dance that’s popular around the world and danced in Cork in the cool locations to live Jazz! Details: April 13th – June 15th - ‘Pay As You Go’ complete beginner classes are on in the Firkin Crane Shandon from 8.30pm - 9.30pm. No partner, no booking and no experience of dance is required.
Cost: €10 per class or you can pay for a 10 week course €75.
Swing Dance Cork have been teaching Swing dancing for the past 4 years and offers a wide range of courses and workshops for different levels of dancers.
More info at http://www.swingdancecork.com
Arts Council Funding Clinic for dance
Date: 16 Mar 2011
In response to members’ requests, and queries about funding possibilities, Dance Ireland are hosting a Funding Clinic in collaboration with the Arts Council dance team: Head of Dance Davide Terlingo and Dance Advisor Jenny Roche on Wednesday 23 March from 3 to 5pm.Increasingly flexible funding options are being offered by the Arts Council in response to reduced resources, yet they note the considerable increase in the quantity of applications they receive: for example in the first round of Bursaries for 2011 there are 32 applications compared to 13 in 2009. In Projects there were 29 applications in 2010 compared to 10 in 2008 and 14 in 2009.
It is therefore timely to provide an overview and reminder of the funding programmes, how these awards and schemes work and also gain a stronger insight into the criteria and assessment process.
Chaired by Dance Ireland board member Anne Maher, the focus will be on Annual Programming Grant (APG), dance touring, projects and bursary awards. There will be an opportunity for Q&A and also some focus on making an application.
In order to provide a meaningful clinic, the focus will remain on the topics outlined above and it will not be possible to use the Clinic to address individual or unsuccessful funding decisions. Please note places are limited and advance booking is essential.
To book your place contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 01 855 8800.
Cork City Council Arts and Cultural Strategy 2010- 2015
Date: 10 Mar 2011
Cork City Council has published a draft of its Arts and Cultural Strategy 2010- 2015. The draft strategy is now available for comment. Please revert back to this office with observations by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by letter to the Arts Office, Corporate Affairs Department, City hall, Cork by Friday March 19th 2011.
For more information, contact Maeve Dineen, Community Arts Co-ordinator, Arts Office, Corporate Affairs Department, City Hall, Cork
Cotton Club News
Date: 14 Feb 2011
Would you like to perform in the decadent cabaret? Shine like a star at this night reminiscent of the original Cotton Club? 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 Crowell!! 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. 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!
Elaine and Jessica
http://www.swingdancecork.com
DanceHouse Residencies
Date: 08 Feb 2011
Ailish Claffey, Aoife McAtamney, Catherine Young, Chloe de Buyl-Pisco, Deirdre Murphy, Emma Meehan, Fergus Byrne, Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company, Joke Verlinden, Katrin Neue, Laura Dannequin, Laura Murphy, Liadain Speranza Herriott, Lisa McLoughlin, Maria Nilsson-Waller, Maurice Kelliher, Michael Cooney, Monika Bieniek, Nick Bryson, Sarah-Jane Scaife, Joan Davis/Maya Lila, Emma Martin and Liv O’Donoghue. All DI professional members: individuals, companies, collectives and/or ad hoc ensembles are eligible to apply. At a time of diminishing resources, this is a proactive means of facilitating the creative process. For further information on Dance Ireland Residency can be found on the website: http://www.danceireland.ie. Please contact either Paul or Elisabetta on 01 855 8800.
National Campaign For the Arts update
Date: 01 Feb 2011
The election has been called and a new government is imminent. That means new policies and new priorities - with no guarantees for funding and continued investment in the arts. Once again, we must make a case for the arts. We must:
lobby to maintain a full cabinet Minister for Arts
promote the role and value of the arts
campaign for continued and increased investment in the arts
advocate for the provision of appropriate social protection for artists and those who work in the arts.
Once again, we need your help. You can help in five simple ways:
1. ATTEND THE HUSTINGS
In Dublin the arts spokespersons from all 5 political parties will attend a meeting to outline their respective arts policies and answer your questions. There will be a similar format in Galway with candidates from Galway East and West constituencies invited to present their local arts policy and answer your questions.
Come along and make the arts an election issue. It's important we show politicians the arts matter!
Monday 14 February
Dublin: 10.45am - 12.15 Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar
Galway: 11.00am Radisson Blu Hotel
2. CHALLENGE AND ADVISE
Let the canvassers know that the arts are an election issue for you. Ask them about their arts policy and tell them about the value of the arts. We're preparing a crib sheet to help you.
3. REGISTER TO VOTE
It's not too late. Check http://www.checktheregister.ie.
4. DISPLAY OUR LOGO AND USE OUR ADS IN YOUR PROGRAMMES
5. FOLLOW OUR CAMPAIGN on Facebook and Twitter
There's one other key area where you can help us. And that's by donating to the NCFA. We need to raise €30,000 to work on your behalf this year. It seems like a huge amount and is a big ask in these difficult times. But, If 300 of you give us €100 each we've hit out target and we'll be able to get on with the work of securing investment in the arts. Help us to help you. Donate now.
If you would like any further information about our activities this year please contact Tania Banotti. Tania Banotti
Arts Council Small Festivals Award 2011 Round 1 Dance
Date: 20 Jan 2011
Pena Flamenca El Indalo - €3,000for the Dublin Flamenco Festival
Arts Council Project Award 2011 Round 1 Dance
Date: 20 Jan 2011
Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company - €36,940Tara Brandel to choreograph a new 30-minute piece on five Croi Glan dancers entitled 'In my Body are these Islands' that explores the theme of local landscapes. To perform this piece at six venues. To develop Croi Glan's partnerships and audiences, and create wider exposure for Croi Glan's performances.
Fluxusdance - €32,750
To create a new choreography with disabled dance artists; provide mentoring for Bobby Byrne and Cathy O'Kennedy; enhance the profile of disabled artists; broaden the experience of artists and increase performance opportunities.
Murphy, Deirdre - €20,000
To create an intimate evening length trio using movement, text, and vocalisation. The work will communicate perspectives on pregnancy and birthing. Produce and perform work at the Back Loft Theatre.
Quilligan, Fiona - €31,690
To produce a dance Installation at Wood Quay Venue with eight performances, lunchtime and evening, and seven workshops, public workshops accessing the choreographic process. To develop and access performances for the public, dance audiences, Civic Office staff (1200) and visitors to the Culture Quarter Temple Bar.
Unity Drums African Drumming restarts
Date: 19 Jan 2011
Unity Drums - African Drumming started again last night after the break in the Firkin Crane. ( 7.00pm - 8.30pm )Cost € 10... Students and Concession price is now € 5.00.
No previous experience required and Drums are provided.
"We can all derive health benefits from drumming. It gets the heart beating faster, thereby providing beneficial aerobic exercise. We relax, stop worrying about tomorrow, or yesterday - we are in the here and now. We have some fun and smile and laug, and we can connect with a deeper part of ourselves."
Swing Dance Cork courses for 2011
Date: 18 Jan 2011
A message from Elaine Peace (edited):This year I am delighted to tell you that Julian Rixon will be teaching with me on Wednesdays.
Evening Dance courses:
Jan 26 – Mar 30 - Wednesdays 10 week courses in the Firkin Crane, Shandon.
Beginners 2: 7.30pm - 8.30pm Complete Beginners 1: 8.45pm - 9.45pm
*There is a discount if you bring a man (a lead) to any course this term – pay only €150 for a couple! Otherwise it’s €100* per perso
Private/wedding classes and Hen parties:
For more info please check out http://www.swingdancecork.com or email Elaine at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 087 413 4077.
‘Ready for this?’ perfect present ...
Date: 20 Dec 2010
Maeve Higgins returns to the Firkin Crane Theatre with ‘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!!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).
2011 Budgetary allocation for Culture and Film
Date: 15 Dec 2010
Current funding for the Department’s three sectors is €296 million, a reduction of 6.5 % overall on current spending on 2010. This includes the current funding of €8 million provided for the National Gallery. A further €96 million is available for capital projects across the tourism, culture and sport sectors in 2011. In addition, a further €8m of unspent capital funding from 2010 is being carried forward into 2011.Culture & Film – allocation of €150 million
· An allocation of €65.2m for the Arts Council which is a 5% reduction on the 2010 allocation will enable it to maintain its major programmes and activities.
· The Irish Film Board allocation of €18.4m will enable it to continue to support indigenous Irish audiovisual industry and attract inward investment from international productions.
· The National Museum allocation of €14.2 million includes €2m capital funding for renovations at the Treasury in the Museum on Kildare Street and the fitting out of the Collections Resource Centre.
· Almost €21m is allocated to the National Library, IMMA, National Concert Hall, Chester Beatty Library and Crawford Gallery.
· An allocation of €9.85m for the National Gallery – a reduction of 3% on 2010.
· Over €4m is provided to support regional and smaller museums, as well as to fund events such as Culture Night 2011 and the major new contemporary art event Dublin Contemporary 2011.
· A carry-over of €3m from 2010 will be used towards the funding of Culture Ireland’s major year-long season of contemporary Irish culture - Imagine Ireland- across the United States in 2011.
Tourism also has a budget of almost £146 million, of which over €62.5m is allocated to Fáilte Ireland to promote home holidays, provide enterprise supports, support festivals and events and assist marketing activity for the industry.
Full details at: http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/publications/release.asp?ID=101020
Arts Attendance in Ireland: Attendance by artform
Date: 08 Dec 2010
Arts Audiences has published the latest audience report drawn from the Target Group Index. This report looks at attendance by artform and area. See http://artsaudiences.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Arts-Attendance-in-Ireland-final-November-2010.pdfThe report includes reference to participation figures (1.2 million people report they regularly do artistic or creative activities). Further analysis will be carried out on participation in the coming months but the survey covers attendance at:
- Any performance in a theatre ( could be amateur performance, music etc)
- Plays
- Opera
- Ballet
- Contemporary Dance
- Classical music concerts and recitals
- Folk concerts
- Jazz concerts and performances
- Art galleries and exhibitions
2011 Arts Council Touring Awards
Date: 06 Dec 2010
DANCE TOURING AWARDSCoisCeim Dance Theatre - €36,736
Swimming with my Mother - a tour of a dance film and duet in January and May to six venues.
Dance Theatre of Ireland - €30,000
Block Party! - a tour of six festivals in May and June.
Irish Modern Dance Theatre - €17,000
ACTIONS - a dance duet touring to nine venues in January and February.
O'Kane, Emma - €10,000
The Ballet Ruse - a tour in April, May and June to nine venues of a show produced for the Fringe Festival in 2010.
Rex Levitates Dance Company - €34,000
Fast Portraits - a tour of three works choreographed by Liz Roche to four venues in October 2011
Congratulations to Ríonach Ní Néill!
Date: 30 Nov 2010
Arts and Older People Bursary Award (Artist in the Community Scheme)Ríonach Ní Néill is the recipient of the first Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award, managed by Create. The award was designed to support and nurture the professional development of an arts practitioner working in the practice area of arts and older people.
Ríonach Ní Néill is a dancer and choreographer who for the last number of years has been exploring the theme of dance and older people through specific performance and work programmes. Ríonach often integrates professional and non-vocational artists in her work. She believes that "dance can be a form of civic dialogue, creating spaces for us to engage with one another and our surroundings, provoke reflection and allow us to imagine ourselves and others differently."
Culture Ireland funding grants
Date: 10 Nov 2010
Culture Ireland's principal funding scheme is designed to support the presentation and promotion of Irish arts internationally. In the last funding round dance applicants received €30,000. Jean Butler performing "DAY" a solo dance piece by Jean Butler at the Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 22nd - 24th October 2010 €3,000
Daghdha Dance Company performing "Choreography for Blackboards" at the Hayward Gallery, London from the 26th - 27th November 2010 €4,000
Ballet Ireland presenting a UK tour of Romeo & Juliet, 25th October - 19th November 2010 €22,500
Details on all grant recipients from the last round are here
The next Culture Ireland application deadline is 15 November 2010.
Joint Oireachtas Committee Presentation by VAI
Date: 09 Nov 2010
Voluntary Arts Ireland made a representation to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Sport, Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs earlier in the month.Kevin reports
`On arriving at the Dail on 3rd November alongside Stephen Brown, our chair, Willie White of the National Campaign for the Arts and Anne O’Gorman from the National Youth Council to present at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Sport, Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs, we were greeted like rock stars at the gate by a large and committed group of students. They were of course protesting against the proposed increase in student fees and their sense of frustration was palpable.
We disappeared into the relative calm of the Dail and awaited our turn to present to the committee on the topic of promoting art, craft and culture in Ireland. No less passionate we collectively argued for investing in art, in communities and in creativity.
Anne and a terrific bunch of young people (Lee, Sam and Eimear) led the charge outlining the impact the arts have had on their lives and the importance of sustaining access to the arts for young people. Stephen and I focussed on the contribution made by the voluntary and amateur arts with groups operating at the centre of communities and providing sustainable opportunities for people to participate in the arts. Willie brought the presentations to a close with a clearly articulated case for the value of the arts to Irish society and the Irish economy linking the achievements of the Irish cultural glitterati with the vital foundations that encouraged and nurtured them on the way.
I was struck by the sense of pride in Ireland’s cultural achievements by the assembled group of TD’s and Senators and by their desire to carry our message to the decision making table. They were brutally honest about the likelihood of cuts, but they understood the value and what might be lost if care was not taken. As always it remains to be seen if that desire remains strong in the face of mounting pressures. We might yet need to gather at the barricades like the students earlier in the day – let’s hope, though, that our politicians make decisions based on how we can build a better society – not just a cheaper one`
You can read the Voluntary Arts Ireland brief for this presentation at http://www.vaireland.org/15262
Step Up programme announced
Date: 29 Oct 2010
The Arts Council and the University of Limerick has announced plans to undertake a feasibility study targeted at the development of dance education and professional training in Ireland. The joint initiative is being undertaken to investigate the creation of a new framework called the 'Step Up programme'. This programme arises in the context of ongoing implementation of Partnership for the Arts 2006-2010 and the policy paper, An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012, which the Arts Council published earlier this year. 'Step Up' has the potential to represent a milestone development in the advancement of dance in Ireland. The lack of comprehensive provision for dance education and vocational training has been one of the main barriers to the development of the artform in this country. The Step Up programme has been conceived in order to address gaps in the formal dance education system, and also to improve opportunities for those talented dancers who necessarily move abroad to further their studies each year. Its purpose is to establish a structured environment for achieving three principal aims:
* to support the professional development of young dancers living in Ireland
* to assist the transition to a full-time professional career in dance;
* to form professional connections between dancers who have trained abroad and the dance sector in Ireland.
In general terms, therefore, the Step Up programme aspires to create a means by which dancers can interact with or reconnect into the Irish professional dance scene and to formalise, through support, the process of undertaking professional training. The Step Up programme will also provide an excellent reference for national and international partnerships and play an active role in furthering the development of training and educational initiatives in Ireland, e.g. by perhaps providing assistance in policy and research initiatives in those fields.
Following preliminary discussions, the Arts Council and the University of Limerick have agreed to co-fund a feasibility study to assess the level of demand for this programme, to propose how best to implement any initiatives arising and to identify those key organisations which appear well positioned to assist in realising this plan.
The feasibility study will be carried out by Dr Victoria O’Brien, with an expected completion date of December 2010.
Further information
* For further information contact, Davide Terlingo, Head of Dance on 1850 392492 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Dance Artist Residency Scheme 2010
Date: 20 Oct 2010
Dance Artist Residency Awards 20107 AWARDS €95,000 IN TOTAL
1. Hawk's Well Theatre €13,000
To commission an inter-generational dance project for Bealtaine 2011 in collaboration with Sligo Arts Service. To provide an opportunity for the dance artist Liv O Donoghue to create a new choreographic work to be premiered in the theatre in Autumn 2011. To provide a mentor (Liz Roche) for the dance artist-in-residence.
2. Libby Seward, Waterford - €12,000
To contribute to building a network for dance artists practicing in Ireland. To encourage participation in and build informed audiences for dance in Waterford. To promote dance as a major contributor to a full and all encompassing arts programme.
3. Maria Jazmin Chiodi - €15,000
To strengthen and extend the activities of existing South Tipperary Dance Residency by organising: 11 sessions of dance programs for a youth group-school; a two-day dance workshop for school teachers; a dance platform in Excel Centre; 2 performances, 1 workshop, 1 mentoring week and dance video projections.
4. Nicholas Bryson - €15,000
To build on the success of residence in a rural area (Offally), making dance visible and accessible to all. To strenghten and expand artistic remit of engaging in high quality projects. To support initiatives that enrich the dance community at a local and national level.
5. Ríonach Ní Néill - €15,000
To investigate the body in the Irish sub/rural landscape. Research and development and creation of new choreographic work for future production and performance. Interventions to provoke public debate, locating dance as central to current social, cultural dialogue.
6. Siamsa Tire Theatre and Art Centre Tralee- €13,000
To research and develop choreographic work (Making). To develop a dance symposium and ‘Curtain Raiser Projects’ with venues to develop the profile and audiences for dance (Advocacy). To develop local dance programmes built to date with emerging professionals, schools and the active retired (Community).
7. South Dublin County Council - €12,000
To support the development of a dance artist; to give the artist opportunities to access facilities, connect to expertise in order to develop their work and share their practice; to provide a focus for creative participation with dance for audiences and participants in South Dublin County.
Is Ballet Dead? Jennifer Homans in The New Republic: Books & Arts 10/14/10
Date: 20 Oct 2010
In the years following the Balanchine’s death his angels fell, one by one, from their heights. Classical ballet, which had achieved so much in the course of the twentieth century, entered a slow decline. It was not just New York: from London to St. Petersburg, and Copenhagen to Moscow, ballet seemed to grind to a crawl, as if the tradition itself had become clogged and exhausted. In part this could be explained by generational change: by the turn of the twenty-first century the artists who had made ballet so vibrant were dead and retired. Balanchine, Robbins, and Tudor; Stravinsky and Kirstein; Ashton, Keynes, and de Valois; Lupokhov, Larovsky, and Vaganova—they were all gone, and the dancers who had brought their ballets and so many others to life had left or retired from the stage.Today’s artists—their students and heirs—have been curiously unable to rise to the challenge of their legacy. They seem crushed and confused by its iconoclasm and grandeur, unable to build on its foundation yet unwilling to throw it off in favor of a vision of their own. Contemporary choreography veers aimlessly from unimaginative imitation to strident innovation usually in the form of gymnastic or melodramatic excess, accentuated by overzealous lightening and special effects. This taste for unthinking athleticism and dense thickets of steps, for spectacle and sentiment, is not the final cry of a dying artistic era; it represents a collapse of confidence and a generation ill at ease with itself and uncertain of its relationship to the past.
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By The Artist - Intimate Cities
Date: 29 Sep 2010
Mary Nunan's talk, Intimate Cities, was given to a full audience in the Musgrave Theatre at the Firkin Crane. Having inspired her viewers with an outline of the various techniques and artists that had influenced her career and pathway to dance making, Mary spoke of how 'noticing' had become an integral part of how she maintained the ability to return to herself and her practice despite all the other concerns in her life and work.She then invited the audience to go on a short walkabout outside the building to begin the journey of noticing - on return each person wrote their thoughts on paper and some shared their beautiful descriptions aloud.
Mary concluded on a note giving food for thought on this process quoting 'this is what I call choreography'.
Touching the city
“Touching the wall, the concrete of the building, enjoying the rough feel on the skin”
“Noticing the burn of calves down steps”
“A desire to move to walk forward
To push on, to touch off the streets
My baby kicks in my belly”
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Choreographer’s notes:
In recent years I have been interested in trying to set up situations where the focus of my choreography is on the people/audiences and their experience, rather than on the “work of art”. This is tricky and a bit difficult to pull off not least because it means in many way downplaying the artist/performer as the central point of focus in a performance and in order to create space for a different relationship between audience and the artist and the work to emerge.
So when I was invited to talk about my relationship with Cork city for the Points of View public Lecture Series I decided that rather than giving a talk about my work and my relationship with Cork city I would like to set up a situation where I could invite people to join me to take some time to sense, through this work, their own relationship to the city.
I set this up by first of all talking about some of the people whose works/reflections have influenced, and continue to influence, my work as an artist. In doing so I wanted to stimulate reflection on our senses and sensuousness.
I referred to a US choreographer Erick Hawkins’ (1909 -1994) “revolution” against what he saw as a subtle Puritanism underlying approaches to those dance training techniques that are driven by a desire to “make” movement happen or to dominate movement. He felt that although this kind of attitude or effort can result in movement obviously perceived by the senses it is not sensuous. He reckoned that “sensuousness is always effortless- that through sensuousness the body becomes a clear place”.
I am intrigued by his suggestion that effortless sensuousness might be a “revolutionary” act. I think I could join that revolution.
Seeing the city
“black net curtains framing a view of sand blasted images on the Firkin Crane wall”
“the goldy fish facing south and glinting in the sunshine”
“the clang of the gates and chains blocking my way”
“ Lines of intersection curving around Firkin Crane onto cobblestones, stacked bricks meeting rising upwards,
Centre arteries moving producing and carrying people, produce and cars in motion”
I feel even more motivated to “join up” when I read French philosopher Julia Kristeva’s views on the word “revolt”. It is her view the invasion of spectacle in performance may cause great works of art to remain invisible and that the only way that we can provide for the possibility of their appearance is by keeping our ‘intimacy in revolt” By revolt she intends, return/turning back/displacement/change. Mind you I have some questions as to what she may intend by “great works of arts” so I look forward to returning to reflect on this again and again.
But in the meantime I am very curious as to what might happen, to ourselves, our relationships, and our cities if we all keep our “intimacy in revolt”.
Smelling the city
“taking time out to notice the freshness of the air mixed with the smell from the river, mixed with the smell from the sugar factory”
“noticing a smell that reminds me of childhood”
“ the smell of piss in the alley making my stomach tighten”
The word intimacy comes from the Latin word intimus, the superlative of interior, thus the most interior.
A lot of dancers and choreographers now use Somatic practices in their own practices/ dance training/choreography. Somatics is a term that roughly translated means “the body as perceived from within”.
Hearing the city
“Red door heavy groans open, sighs shut.
Chains rattle on a bag”
"Hearing the bells ring out from the big clock tower. It is half past two."
As choreographer I’m interested in asking, through my work, how I can invite a return to intimacy, and in exploring what that might mean.
And so in Intimate Cities (1) Cork 2010, I wanted to explore what a return to intimacy might mean for people in the audience, and for their relationship with the city. So having set the context I invited the members of the audience to walk outside and notice what they noticed and to come back and write their experience. Extracts from their writings are included here.
Tasting the city
“The Four Liars Bistro
Early Bird €19.95
In the main menu deep fried brie in a raisin and cranberry sauce”
“tasting the fullness of noticing”
This was a very brief “experiment” and in many ways the time spent outside was a little too short. But, that said, I was very touched by what people wrote and so I intend to further develop this choreographic structure in the future.
I really welcomed the opportunity that this event gave me to experiment in this way. The Firkin Crane has a long tradition of supporting artists, to take risks, to try new ideas and because of this it has made an enormous contribution to dance, and particularly contemporary dance practice, in Ireland. I was delighted to return there. It has a special place in the history of dance in Ireland, and in history of Cork City also.
Mary Nunan 29 September 2010
Rhona Coughlan announces departure from Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company
Date: 30 Aug 2010
Rhona writes:A Chara,
I am writing to let you know I have decided to leave Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company. Tara Brandel and I set up the company in 2006 with the support of a lot of people. I have had the most amazing time while in the company and I have danced and worked with the most incredible people, but now I see that my life is moving in a different, but still in a creative way for now, and a wonderful opportunity was presented to me, which I could not refuse, my other love, working in radio.
There are so many people and agencies I would love to thank….
The Irish Arts Council and Mr. Ian Mc Donagh of Cork County Council, both helped so much with funding and support.
The Firkin Crane staff and especially Paul McCarthy who helped make this dream for me a reality and Dance Ireland for their influence and help.
I have been blessed to work with some outstanding choreographers namely Jess Curtis, Kim Epifone, David Bolger & Adam Benjamin. Thank you all so much. Working with you all has been a great joy. To all the dancers I have worked with, you have made my dance experience a beautiful one and I thank you so much for that. I want also to thank CanDoCo Dance Company, Axis Dance Company, Patric Cashman, Sally Edwards (Blue Eyed Soul), Wendy Hesketh and Kate Mansion (aerial dance UK) for being such an inspirations to me, thank you all so much. To all at Cope Foundation and everyone that I have met along the way, while teaching the integrated dance classes which were held in the Firkin Crane, I am blessed to have worked and danced with you all. To every single person who has helped and supported me along the way. I thank you.
I would like to wish every one in Croi Glan the very best with their future projects. I'd like to thank Tara Brandel, Julie O Leary, William O Donavan, Mary Nuggent, Dawn Molloy, Miriam Engel, Skye Reynolds and Chole De Buyl Pisco and also all the people who helped behind the scenes, Ashling Kavanagh, John Moloney, Sarah Smith, Sharon Heffernan and Sarah Cairns.
To any one that I have been connected with, while working in Croi Glan I thank you and you know who you are and finally I want to thank all my family and friends for all their support and love along the way.
If you wish to contact me in the future and I hope you will, please do so, through my personal email address .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or else please add me as a friend on facebook. I look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Rhona Coughlan
The Pines
Sunday's Well
Cork
086 0679101
rhonacoughlan@hotmail
The Best of The Firkin Crane
Date: 15 Jun 2010
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.
Guidelines for Good Practice for Participatory Arts in Healthcare Contexts
Date: 14 Jun 2010
Last year, WHAT and the Health Service Executive South (Cork) Arts + Health programme, with financial support from the Arts Council of Ireland published Guidelines for Good Practice for Participatory Arts in Healthcare Contexts. These were written by the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University.The Guidelines are designed to present clear, concise and user-friendly guidance to those working in the area of participatory arts in healthcare contexts. They were developed through consultation with artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health.
They would appreciate if artists and healthcare professionals working in the field of arts and health would take the time to consider and interpret the Guidelines in the context of their own practice, possibly in consultation with peers, partners and clients, and send us feedback by the 31 October 2010. They will review the Guidelines in the light of feedback received.
Further copies of this document can be downloaded from http://www.waterfordhealingarts.com.
Music for The Ballet - an exhibition to honour Aloys Fleischmann’s contribution to ballet
Date: 06 May 2010
Ruth Fleischmann said:May I congratulate Alan Foley and Paul McCarthy and all those involved in this splendid performance of such brilliance, virtuosity, colour and magic. I know I speak for the entire family when I say how deeply moved we are that Alan arranged for a revival of a section of my father’s Golden Bell of Ko for this most special evening, which is part of Cork City Ballet’s contribution to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebrations of 2010. We thank Yuri for having recreated the dance with such insight, and your beautiful dancers for having performed so exquisitely. Our best thanks to you, Alan, Sinead, Paul, Tim. It is marvellous to see the cooperation between the distinguished guest dancers, the talented dancers of Cork City Ballet, of the Cork School of Dance, the Irish Youth Ballet and of Colaiste Stiofain Naofa. It is I suppose that spirit which makes such miracles possible even in these dire times.
I cannot think of anything which would have given Miss Moriarty and my father more joy than to have seen the wonderful production this evening and to know that Domy Reiter-Soffer has travelled from Tel Aviv by circuitous routes over Britain and Ireland to get here today in time to open our exhibition The Music for the Ballet. The material for the exhibition was selected by my sisters Anne and Maeve (who spent the best part of two years going through the Fleischmann papers containing perhaps 200,000 items); it was designed by Aloys Fleischmann`s grandson, Max Fleischmann, who has digitised 20,000 documents from the collection. The Cork Lyons Club very kindly sponsored the exhibition, which will be open until the end of the week, will then travel to Cork City Library and from thence to Kerry School of Music in Tralee. When we began the work we had intended to focus on the five ballets written by our father for Miss Moriarty`s companies. But when we realised the highly significant role she played in providing a forum for Irish musicians to compose for a new genre, commissioning 18 new works and using in all the works of 30 Irish composers for the hundred ballets she created, we felt we had to widen our perspective.
It is my special privilege tonight to introduce to you Domy Reiter-Soffer, the Israeli dancer, choreographer, play producer, opera producer and painter, who has just returned from a most successful production of Beauty and the Beast in Denver USA. Domy had a close friendship with Joan Denise Moriarty and with my father for thirty years. He first came to Cork in 1962 as a dancer with Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland’s first professional ballet company, when he travelled to every town in Ireland north, south, east and west that had a stage big enough for the company to perform on. From 1973 he was artistic advisor and choreographer to Miss Moriarty’s second professional company, the Irish Ballet Company, later called Irish National Ballet, and he created some of the most wonderful works in the company’s repertoire. I think dancers of all three of Miss Moriarty`s companies are with us here tonight. Domy shared the work, the struggle, the anxieties and the triumphs of the late 1970s and 1980s. Very many of the works he created for Miss Moriarty’s companies were revived by him for dance companies all round the world. The one ballet he has not revived is the swan song of Irish National Ballet: his magnificent ballet Oscar, the last work performed by INB, set to The Garden of Fand by Arnold Bax, a composition Miss Moriarty herself had hoped to choreograph.
Domy, we are deeply grateful to you for having honoured this event with your presence in tribute to the memories of Miss Moriarty and Aloys Fleischmann – may I call on you to officially open the exhibition The Music for the Ballet?
International Dance Day 2010
Date: 29 Apr 2010
International Dance Day - Message from choreographer Julio BoccaDance is discipline, work, teaching, communication. With it we save on words that perhaps others would not understand and, instead, we establish a universal language familiar to everyone. It gives us pleasure, it makes us free and it comforts us from the impossibility we humans have to fly like birds, bringing us closer to heaven, to the sacred, to the infinite.
It is a sublime art, different each time, so much like making love that at the end of each performance it leaves our heart beating very hard and looking forward to the next time.
English translation by Marcia De La Garza (Original in Spanish)
Dance on the Box
Date: 31 Mar 2010
Over fifty applications were received from producers, directors and choreographers across the country and twelve applicants were short-listed for interview. This is the third round of the RTÉ Dance on the Box scheme with awards of €22,000 for each project chosen. The following successful projects were selected:
* Admit One - Choreographer John Scott, Director Steve Woods and Producer Catherine Lyons.
* Deependance - Choreographer David Bolger, Director Conor Horgan and Producer Martha O’Neill.
* Her Mother’s Daughter - Choreographer Cindy Cummings, Director Oonagh Kearney, Composer Denis Clohessy and Producers Rachel Lysaght and Steven Davenport.
* Mo MhórChoir Féin - Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchuir, Director Dearbhla Walsh, Composer Iarla Ó Lionaird and Producer Maggie Breathnach.
The completed short dance films will be premiered on RTÉ Television during this year’s Dublin Dance Festival which runs from 8-23 May and then screened in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square [tbc].
Speaking about the scheme, Fionnuala Sweeney, Head of Film and International Arts, at the Arts Council said: “Dance on the Box provides a unique opportunity for film and dance artists to collaborate and the Arts Council is delighted with the response to the third round of the scheme. We would like to congratulate all of the successful applicants and look forward to seeing four imaginative and engaging dance films on RTÉ Television as part of the Dublin Dance Festival in April”.
David McKenna, RTÉ Television's Executive Producer Arts & Cross-Media, added: “The exceptional quality of this year’s applications highlights the value placed on this scheme by film and dance artists. We are particularly grateful to the short-listed creative teams who met us and are very much looking forward to premiering these films on RTÉ during the Dublin Dance Festival.”
Arts Council publications re dance
Date: 31 Mar 2010
An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012An Integrated Dance Strategy 2010-2012 is now available for download from the Arts Council website. This paper outlines how the Arts Council intends to build on its review of Partnership for the Arts concluded in June 2008. Feedback from ongoing discussions with dance artists and organisations contributed directly to the shaping of the ideas in this document, which offers a developed and integrated overview of how the Council envisages dance provision in the future.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Integrated-dance-strategy-2010-2012.pdf
Giving Body to Dance
Giving Body to Dance, a summary report of the review of building based infrastructures for dance in Ireland is now available for download from the Arts Council website. The review involved a nationwide consultation with dance artists, companies, organisations and spaces. The document contains findings which relate to the quality of spaces that are currently available to professional dance practitioners countrywide. The report outlines comprehensively, the recommended health and safety standards for dance spaces. This is the first time that such a list of recommendations has been compiled for dance in Ireland.
* The document can be downloaded here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/Publications/Giving-body-to-dance-report-2010.doc
Arts Council online services
Date: 24 Mar 2010
You can now apply online for Projects and Travel and Training awards using the Arts Council online services website - http://onlineservices.artscouncil.ie.Online services was developed to more efficiently manage funding applications and payments. This new website means that you can:
- Download application forms and guidelines;
- Create a profile for banking, tax and contact details (which you can reuse for other applications);
- Upload the completed application form(s) and up to 20MB of electronic supporting materials;
- Avail of a one-week deadline extension to complete online applications;
(Where successful), submit a payment request or payment schedule with supporting documentation.
Applications for the Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme 2010 will be also be open via online services. Details of the scheme will be published on http://www.artscouncil.ie shortly.
Resource Focus: How to Develop a European Cultural Project
Date: 07 Mar 2010
Are you thinking of adding a European dimension to your work? This manual for 'European Cultural Operators' helps you to get started.Read more: http://www.relais-culture-europe.org/fileadmin/fichiers/4_Monter_son_projet/manuel2-E-BD.pdf
..And if you are looking to make a start at making links and contacts in Europe read Voluntary Arts Network briefing at: http://www.voluntaryarts.org/uploaded/map12513.pdf
Arts Council funding announced
Date: 01 Mar 2010
The Arts Council, the government agency for funding and developing the arts, has made its major grant allocations for 2010, distributing in excess of €49m to more than 350 arts organisations. In its overall approach, the Council sought to ensure that organisations can continue to bring the best of the arts to audiences across Ireland. Emphasis was given to achieving a regional balance, on enabling the arts to reach more people, and on supporting artists to make work.
While the value of the allocations has decreased across the artforms, the relativity of allocation between the artforms (with the exception of Opera), has remained broadly similar to previous years.
Theatre Forum has provided an analysis of the funding
Cork Arts Network
Date: 08 Feb 2010
At a meeting of various artists and arts workers in December, it was felt by most participants that a web site for a cork arts network was an important step. There were various suggestions as to what it might / could / should do.In any case, the site is now up and running - somewhat of an empty house - at http://www.corkarts.org. To get things rolling, we have put up a few relevant topics on the forum. Anyone can register and contribute / start new topics. Possibly of biggest concern at the moment is reaction to funding decisions by The Arts Council. If you have something to say, then make a contribution at http://corkarts.org/forum/topic.php?id=2
There are a number of people working on getting the website populated with useful information on what's going on and regular updates will start over the next few weeks.
Collaborators and contributors to the website are more than welcome. To join in, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Culture Ireland Funding
Date: 20 Jan 2010
Dance received €44,000 for:Angeliki Smalis performing a solo dance piece at the International Dance Festival "ABUNDANCE" in Karlstad, Sweden from the 15 - 17th June 2010 €500
Liadain Herriott presenting "Two" at the Smriti Nandan Cultural Center, Bangalore, India €500
Colin Dunne performing "Out of Time" at Festival Antipodes, Brittany 4 - 6 March and at a number of venues in Northern France from the 4th - 25th April 2010 €5000
Dance Theatre of Ireland performing "Block Party" at the Busan International Dance Festival, Korea from the 3rd - 8th June and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, UK from the 7th – 22nd May 2010 €38,000
Mayfield Fun Dance
Date: 14 Jan 2010
There have been a few changes made for this year:New time: 9.45-10.45am
New venue: St. Joseph's Community Association (the building next to the library, behind the bus stop & up a small flight of steps, on the Old Youghal Road
New payment system: 20 Euro for X4wk Block, paid at the class week one.
New emphasis: There will be less of a bias placed towards a creative element and more focus geared towards toning, stretching, balance work and learning gentle fun routines in a variety of dance styles – to suit the group’s taste.
Same day: Thursdays’
The class is for woman aged 50 years plus. Individuals are encouraged to work at their own level of fitness with no previous dance experience or partner necessary. Wear comfy clothes with non-slip flat soled shoes and bring a bottle of water to sip through the class. New comers’ are very welcome to try their first class for free.
For further information, please contact: Jo Nichols 087 77 87 320
Cork Circus Centre
Date: 21 Dec 2009
The Circus community in Cork have joined forces to set up and run a space in the Old Courthouse on Camden Quay, bringing Circus to the banks of the Lee. This space is part of a larger project, which is being run by Camden Palace Hotel Ltd., a local arts group. This is the republic’s first and only dedicated Circus space and will be providing a training and creation space for performers all over the country and also for international professionals.
To perform high skill circus shows Circus performers need to train everyday in order to perform in daredevil activities such as aerial trapeze and human pyramids. This space is the perfect place for such enterprises as it houses the specialist equipment needed for intensive training and performing.
Many performers have left the country in previous years, travelling to countries such as France or the UK, where Circus is more developed. By having such a space in Cork the performers are hoping to attract more Circus performers to the area and also develop the skills of those already living here. There are many advantages to having this innovative and creative circus centre in the heart of Cork city; it will add another level of diversity to Cork culture and make circus more open and accessible to the greater community, therefore improving the quality of circus performance and nurturing new and potential talent.
The centre will also be offering workshops in 2010 to a variety of different levels from local beginners to international professionals.
The circus community is a collaboration of 6 Cork based groups and they are currently coming up with ideas for a name and would love if the public could send suggestions to any of the following contacts:
E-mail:- .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Facebook:- CircusSpace Cork
Budget News
Date: 18 Dec 2009
From the Arts Council's Newsletter:In December the Arts Council received its budget allocation of €69.15 million for 2010. This level of funding, despite the enormous pressure on public resources, underscores the commitment to the arts of the Government and, in particular, of the Minister for the Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen TD.
The allocation does represent a significant reduction in funding, and its impact, along with previous reductions, will be felt hard across the sector. In 2009, with a final grant-in-aid of €73.35 million, the Arts Council did everything possible to minimise the effect of the reductions in its grant to artists and organisations and get best value for public money. The Council used savings from previous years and even allocated some of 2010 its budget in advance. While this meant we were able to invest almost €78 million in 2009, simple arithmetic dictates that the drop to 2010 levels will be all the more difficult.
Nonetheless, the Arts Council is best placed to invest this money wisely, and we will redouble our efforts to ensure that people right across the country have access to the best of the arts in 2010.
The full statement from our Chairman, Pat Moylan, is available to read in this month’s newsletter.
Consensus of many comments so far is that the National Campaign for the Arts was instrumental in reducing the severity of the cuts. The campaign will continue in the coming year. For some details, check here:
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan's full speech:
http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/budget2010/speech/
BLANK CANVAS 2009 final phase
Date: 01 Dec 2009
The Firkin Crane received a remarkable 52 applications from artists across the world for the dance residency programme BLANK CANVAS 2010. In 2009, eleven dance artists were supported through the residency programme. We hope to be in a position to support a similar number of artists in the coming year.To celebrate the 2009 residencies and look forward to BLANK CANVAS 2010, Phluxus Dance Collective, from Brisbane, Australia, presented a taste of their award-winning repertoire and raised the temperature for a delighted audience at a sharing on Monday 30 November 2009.
National Campaign For the Arts
Date: 08 Nov 2009
Here's your chance to take action in support of the National Campaign for the Arts. The action is open to anyone - including artists, arts workers, their families, friends, patrons etc. so please forward this information on to everyone in your personal and professional address books - it's vital to get as many people as possible to sign up for this. The main objectives are to raise awareness and inform people of what’s at stake for the Arts in the forthcoming budget and to ask people to add their signatures to an online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petition.html) in support of the cause.Arts workers throughout the city and county are coming together to ensure the place of the arts in our country’s recovery. For more information, visit http://www.corkarts.org
The primary concern of the Campaign is to protect arts funding in the forthcoming budget from recession-inspired slash & burn recommendations made by the McCarthy Report. The aim is to raise support at a grassroots level for The National Campaign for the Arts, which is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers and representative organisations in visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music, literature, architecture and collaborative arts.
The National Campaign for the Arts asserts the fundamental importance of the arts to economic recovery and calls for:
The Campaign calls for:
* Retention of Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide
* Retention of The Irish Film Board, development agency of the Irish film industry
* Maintenance of existing levels of funding to the Arts Council
* Retention of the artist's income tax exemption scheme
* Commitment to retain the arts portfolio at cabinet as part of a senior ministerial portfolio
Dancing in the street - an extra special event took place last Saturday – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY5bOjT73XU&feature=player_embedded
Cork artists and arts workers are proud of their contribution to Cork's designation in the Lonely Planet Best of 2010 Guide as one of the top ten cities in the world to visit and the significance that this has had to the local economy. It is hoped that with the maintenance of current levels of Arts Council funding, the arts in Cork will continue to draw visitors to the area and that Cork can capitalise on the spending power of these visitors.
Nemian Danza Ireland Tour
Date: 05 Nov 2009
for details of Firkin Crane performance.
Mamuska Limerick: Gravity & Grace
Date: 27 Oct 2009
MAMUSKA LIMERICK: SENSESDAGHDHA SPACE, ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, JOHN’S SQUARE, LIMERICK, IRELAND
FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2009 8PM
AS PART OF DAGHDHA’S GRAVITY & GRACE PERFORMANCE SERIES 17 – 22 NOVEMBER AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAMUSKA NIGHTS
CALLS FOR SUBMISSION: DEADLINE FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Mamuska Limerick is back – Daghdha Dance calls local and national artists to participate in the upcoming Mamuska Limerick, as part of the Gravity & Grace performance week in November.
This will be a great opportunity to present and view evolving works, raw ideas, unrehearsed visions, trials and errors, short masterpieces, playful nonsense, first steps... all in the context of an informal environment where like minded people meet and receive feedback from the audience. So come and be a part of it.
This time around, we dedicate this evening to each sense with special focus on allegories, illusion, sensitivity, intuition and sensations. So please contact the Programme Curator Angie Smalis with your proposals as a maximum of ten artists will be chosen to present live work, complimented by installation pieces and a unique sound environment.
Mamuska Limerick - dedicated to all the ‘senses’... offers a sensation of tingling, pricking, itching, momentum, depth and brightness. So join in and be part of this evening of dance, performance, film sound art and music.
Produced by Daghdha Dance Company this event is supported by the Arts Council and in partnership with Mamuska Nights.
To submit your work, please contact the Programme Curator:
ANGIE SMALIS: +353 (0) 830067394 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Submission criteria:
• Open to works in the fields of dance, live performance, live installation, sound and video art.
• All works must be under 10 minutes long.
• All works must have very simple technical set up and requirements.
• Send title, duration and brief description of work submitted.
• Send short CV of people involved.
• Inclusion of supporting material is recommended.
• Closing Date Friday 13th November 2009.
For more information about Mamuska Nights please visit: http://mamuskanights.net
DAGHDHA DANCE COMPANY: Artistic Director Michael Klien
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Supported by The Arts Council, RTÉ lyric fm, Limerick City Council, FÁS, Shannon Development, Fáilte Ireland and Culture Ireland.
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New research on the Dance Sector in England
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Dance mapping: a window on dance - the largest piece of research of its kind - offers a deep insight into the breadth and range of dance in England. The overwhelming message is that dance is an artform in growth with more than 40,000 people currently working in dance, and the amateur sector accounting for a fifth of all arts participation in England. Dance mapping shows that popular culture has helped raise the profile of dance. TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Billy Elliot the Musical captured the public’s imagination, leading to classes across the country filling up with dance accounting for more than one in 10 of all adult learning classes.
Despite England becoming home to a dance sector that is the envy of the world, the research shows that though the dance workforce is highly educated (62% hold degrees) they are underpaid; 38% of people who make a living from dance only earned £5,000- £20,000 in 2008/09 and almost a quarter (23%) earned under £5,000. The Arts Council fears that the low levels of pay may affect the sustainability of careers, leadership within the sector and the ability of potential champions to emerge.
Business to Arts
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Check out the new-look website of Business to Arts and the services the organisation offers.Find out more as well about New Stream - a three year corporate investment venture in Irish arts and culture between Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Business to Arts -
http://www.businesstoarts.ie/newstream.html
The Nutcracker Colouring Competition
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Cork City Ballet, in conjunction with its forthcoming production of The Nutcracker, is running a colouring competition for children.To be in with a chance of winning one of five sets of tickets to this delightful ballet, download this picture, colour it in and send to Cork City Ballet at The Firkin Crane by 13 November 2009.
The Big Wash Up
Date: 26 Sep 2009
The Big Wash Up is a community based participative arts project and collaboration between Cork Community Art Link and French company Artitillerie Travaux Publics from Nantes, France, supported by the Firkin Crane, St Mary's Road Library and the Northside Folklore Project. The project initiated social dialogue based on local memory and reflection, to enable participation in the making of local culture and to produce a pertinent temporary in situ work of art. The Big Wash Up is part of CCAL's What if ... public space exploration programme.For the whole summer The Big Wash Up has been attracting attention in the Shandon area from residents and tourists alike. This project by Cork Community Art Link features a series of temporary images that have been power-washed onto walls and buildings in Shandon bringing stories and memories of the area back to life.
“The Big Wash Up is a participative and community based arts project that was undertaken in partnership with the wider community. The project set out to gather memories and stories relating to Shandon in order to inspire a series of images. Consultations were held in St Mary’s Road Library with the assistance of the Northside Folklore Project and a wealth of local knowledge was recorded. During the course of the project we listened to stories of shawlies and corner boys, crubeens and messenger boys as well as characters that were unique to the area.”
The memories shared with Artlink have inspired over fifty temporary images that were washed onto walls and buildings in and around Shandon. From the buttera (Butter Exchange Brass Band ) circa 1885 to knitwear making in the butter exchange in the late twenties, corner boys playing pitch and toss or delivery boys taking a rest, each wall is set to tell a story. The Firkin Crane and the Butter Exchange feature as two of the principal locations and host some of the more spectacular temporary murals relating the past uses of each building.
Artist Philippe Chevrinais from Artitillerie Nantes France joined Cork Community Art Link for part of the project. Artitillerie specialise in developing public space arts project and have undertaken some spectacular large scale wall washing and paper pasting projects in France .
The Big Wash Up remains on display until Sept 28 2009. Mural trail maps can be found at St Mary’s Road Library, the Firkin Crane and shops around Shandon during July and August.
The project was undertaken with the support and participation of St Mary’s road Library, The Shandon Street Festival, Northside Folklore Project, Firkin Crane , Artist Philippe Chevrinais, Artitillerie, Shandon Youth Club and all those participants who gave their time, memories, materials and even their buildings as canvas
The Big Wash Up is part of the What if… public space arts programme and Cork Community Art Link's programme of community based participative art making for 2009.
Cork Community Art Link is a multidisciplinary arts organisation that develops participatory arts projects with communities and groups in Cork City . It prioritises working with groups who are disadvantaged or socially marginalised in their access to the arts and in their participation in the making of local and national culture.
As a multi-disciplinary arts organisation working with people in various social contexts it believes that access to the arts, not just as a spectator but both as participant and creator is a fundamental right to which every person should be entitled, regardless of their personal circumstances
Cork Community Art Link uses a range of artistic mediums from street spectacle and celebration using the street as a forum and stage for a collective community purpose, to visual arts based projects in more secluded contexts, performances, exhibitions, music and sound
Lord Mayor’s visit
Date: 13 Sep 2009
Cllr. Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork, visited the Firkin Crane on the occasion of the final night of Songs from the Beautiful CityLady Mayoress Tanya Murphy, Cllr. Dara Murphy, Lord Mayor of Cork, Ann Rea, Paul O'Donoghue, Marie Lynch, Paul McCarthy, Michelle Whelan
Irish Theatre Institute Information Toolbox
Date: 23 Aug 2009
Friday, 11 September 2009 11am-3pm, Spiegeltent, Georges DockITI’s Information Toolbox is a key networking event aimed specifically at the needs of new and emerging theatre and dance companies/artists. This half-day event provides an ideal environment for new and emerging Irish companies and artists to promote their shows, pitch work to venues and festivals and begin dialogue with key funding agencies and support organisations. The objective is for these companies and artists to investigate the possibility of re-mounting their shows following the Dublin Fringe Festival or, indeed, to create new work in the future. The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland support this event.
Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment:
http://www.irishtheatreinstitute.com/event_info_toolbox_09.html
Merce Cunningham 1919 - 2009
Date: 09 Aug 2009
Merce Cunningham died at his home in New York City on July 26, 2009, at the age of 90. He was one of the most important modern dance choreographers of the 20th century. Born near Seattle in 1919, his career spanned the postwar era: He made his first dance in 1944 and directed his own troupe, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, for over 50 years from 1953 until his death last week. He created over 200 dances for his company, many of which are now performed by companies worldwide; he also mounted works on the New York City Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet. Over the years, Cunningham worked with an impressive range of contemporary artists and composers, from John Cage and David Tudor to Radiohead and (most recently) Sonic Youth; from Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol to Frank Stella.
Joan Denise Moriarty Exhibition
Date: 15 Jun 2009
Cork Ballet Company has put together a unique exhibition celebrating over sixty two years of ballet in Cork and highlighting its driving force in focusing on the life and work of Dr Joan Denise Moriarty. The exhibition, now on view in Bishopstown Library Gallery, features rare photographic works and personal artefacts of both the person and of the ballet company she left as a legacy to the arts and particularly to ballet and dance in Cork and in Ireland. The memorabilia of a bygone age is fascinating to behold, highlighting the multi layered involvement Miss Moriarty had in music and the arts and the wonderful links she made locally and nationally. Though Joan Denise had a national profile she was based first and foremost in Cork and the City and County owe her a debt of gratitude that has yet to be properly recognised. The exhibits show generations of dancers, musical and dance companies and the links the Cork Ballet Company had with the Irish Ballet Company, the Firkin Crane, City Hall and the Arts generally.
The exhibition was opened by the Lord Mayor Cllr. Brian Bermingham, in the presence of invited guests on Wednesday June 3 and runs until June 30. Lovingly put together by fans and friends devoted to her memory it is well worth a visit. The exhibition is open to the public and is free of charge, don’t miss it.
Arts Council Bursary Awards 2009 Round 1
Date: 07 Jun 2009
The purpose of an Arts Council bursary is to support professional artists at all stages in their careers and in the development of their arts practice. The aim of the award is to allow artists, working in any context or in any artform, to buy space and freedom to concentrate on a body of work and provide the equipment, facilities and third party expertise to develop practice.Clarke, Ella, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €8,525
Fitzgerald, Emma, South Dublin County Council €13,700
Giannotti, Elena, Limerick City Council, €14,000
Mc Crory, Tanya, Galway City Council, €10,000
Vaughan, Mairead, Cork County Council, €15,000
Deadline for the next round is 5 November 2009
Odd Facts
Date: 18 Mar 2009
If you are visiting London, you can see a (black) Swan Lake tutu worn by Margot Fonteyn at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Free entry.Malcolm X was a dedicated lindyhopper before he became an incendiary civil rights leader, a fact which was featured in the eponymous Spike Lee film starring Denziel Washington. Learn to be a leader at the Swing class every Wednesday.
Touching Distance
Date: 30 Sep 2008
Touching Distance11 Oct 2008 -
08.00 pm
Tickets: €12/10 concession
Legitimate Bodies Dance Company presents a completely new work, featuring three highly skilled dancers: Christina Goletti, Aine Stapleton, Federica Esposito.
This work deals with touch between human beings as well as the dynamics within relationships. Touching Distance portrays real people on stage in a dance work able to touch a wide audience.… Touching distance of our dreams shared with the audience, of where we think we want to be. Allow this work to take you by surprise to question why you might want to watch a dance performance. To laugh, to get to know each other, to open up to your feelings, allow them to dance.
Choreography: Nicholas Bryson
Dance: Aine Stapleton, Cristina Goletti, Federica Esposito
Music: Michael Fleming, Mo Benison
Workshop for 12 - 17 year-olds on Friday 10th
Brown Bread
Date: 09 Aug 2008
Damien Tracey in association with the Firkin Crane presents
Roddy Doyle’s
Hilarious Comedy
BROWNBREAD
A Gun, a Kidnapped Bishop, Three Lads from Barrytown, the American Marines, and Two Days the Residents Of Barrytown will never forget.
Ao Farrell, John Murray and Donkey have been best friends for years. During another day wondering the streets of Dublin looking for something to pass the time, the lads make a find any young fella would dream of, a browning 9mm handgun.
What better way to put it to use then to kidnap the Bishop during the Confirmations, it was either that or watch the snooker or Live at Three. What ensues is one of the funniest stand offs you will see on stage this year. Hulled up in Donkey’s Mammy’s bedroom the lads and the Bishop settle in for a long stay as in Donkey’s own words "Can yis Imagine it!? - Walkin’ ou’. – With our hands up, yeh Know. – The fuckin slaggin we’d get!!!"
Unfortunately for the lad’s and the Bishop, his Grace was born in New York, queue the American Marines and President Ronald Regan into what has now become an international situation. On top of all that Mr Farrell hasn’t even had his dinner.
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