ALL PERFORMANCES

Friday 1st September 6pm

FREE but pre-booking is required

Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Step Up: Dance Project is a partenership between Dance Limerick, Dance Ireland, the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick and the Arts Council, which aims to bridge the gap between dance education and professional contemporary dance practice in Ireland. This year five exceptional dancers have been selected to work with renowned choreographer and Dance Artist Gary Clarke (UK) on the creation and performance of a new dance piece culminating in performances in Dance Limerick, Firkin Crane, and DanceHouse, Dublin.

The successful dancers, selected from a competitive Open Call earlier this year are:

Bianca Paige Smith, from NJ, USA, currently living in Limerick, has just completed her MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the University of Limerick, she also holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience. Bianca recently created Two Can Do, which premiered at 2017 Limerick Fringe Festival where it was awarded the Most Innovative Show, she has also received Arts Council Funding to train in Brussels to continue evolving the work.

Celina Jaffe received a dual BA from Indiana University in French and International Studies with a minor in Contemporary Dance, she also studied contact improvisation under Nancy Stark-Smith and Charlie Morrissey. Celina is on a full scholarship from Enterprise Ireland pursuing and MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at UL. Her recent work includes dancing, acting and singing  and choreographing solos and films for her MA.

Sarah Greene, from Kildare, living in Scotland is a 4th year student at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance. She is a strong, creative, technically trained dancer with an interest in physical theatre and improvisation and has recently worked as a rehearsal director, assistant choreographer and soloist in Rite of Spring as part of Aspire Dundee Project.

Niamh Kelly, a graduate from the BA Voice and Dance at the University of Limerick is based in Cork. She recently received a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland to take part in an intensive 3 week workshop with the Aerial Creation Centre in Clare. She has worked as an assistant choreographer with Cork based dance company New Moon Youth Dance Co.

Oran Leong, half Chinese, half Irish, but calls Dublin home and has been an Irish dancer for nearly 19 years, obtaining his TCRG (teaching credentials) in 2016. He was introduced to contemporary dance by Mariam Ribón and the Dublin Youth Dance Company and is now completing an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick

Now in it’s 7th year, Step Up aims to enhance the dancers’ professional networks by connecting them to the Irish contemporary dance community, thereby improving their professional opportunities in Ireland. The programme includes different elements carefully devised to help dance artists to progress and grow in their practice including learning and performing, entrepreneurship, creation and personal development.

The Dust We Raised ONLINE BOOKING 
At The Granary Theatre

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with Radio Hermitage Preview  ONLINE BOOKING

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with Radio Hermitage Premiere   ONLINE BOOKING

Thursday 7th September 9.30pm

Friday 8th September 9.30pm

Saturday 9th September 9.30pm

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Seeing Double Joint ticket with Radio Hermitage:
Preview Friday 8th September
€32 full/ €28 unwaged/ €24 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Premiere Saturday 9th September
€34 full/ €26 unwaged/ €26 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

It’s revolutionary! We’ll alter mosquitoes to eliminate malaria, we’ll cure cancer, we’ll guarantee your child will be blonde. In this brand new work, award-winning international choreographer and Cork native Luke Murphy examines both our giant leaps forward and the backs we stepped on to get there. Quiet yet furious, sharp yet blunt, full of contradictions but starkly exposed, The Dust We Raised invites the audience into a haunting world of sound, film, dance and theatre in which three lost souls wade through the fog, maybe searching for answers, maybe escaping questions.

Originally from Cork, Luke is one of Ireland’s most prolific and successful performers in contemporary dance, performing with acclaimed international companies including: Ultima Vez (Belgium), Martha Clarke (New York), and Punchdrunk’s hit shows in New York, London and Shanghai. With his unique blend of unexpected theatre, explosive dance and rich visual worlds.

“Murphy’s fierce, fine solo is full of that hapless schism between past and present and though there’s humour in what he shows, there’s an ache too, in being your own man. ****”
The Herald, Scotland, August, 2016

May contain strong language, some graphic imagery and flashing lights

MADE IN FIRKIN CRANE supported by an Ardán production residency

Radio Hermitage Ksenia Parkhatskaya

Preview:   ONLINE BOOKING

Premiere:  ONLINE BOOKING 

Preview: Friday 8th September 8pm
Premiere: Saturday 9th September 8pm

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with The Dust We Raised Preview   ONLINE BOOKING

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with The Dust We Raised Premiere ONLINE BOOKING

Preview Prices:
€20 full
€18 unwaged
€16 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Premiere Prices:
€22 full
€20 unwaged
€18 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with The Dust We Raised
Preview: €32 full/ €28 unwaged/ €24 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Premiere: €34 full/ €30 unwaged/ €26 early bird (for bookings before 24th August)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

“To us, life with its rhythms and cycles is dance, and dance is life” – A.M Opoku

Created by David Duffy and Ksenia Parkhatskaya, Radio Hermitage is a one woman show with a live jazz quartet that combines dance and theatre in a unique new setting. The culmination of 6 years research, the show intertwines a history of jazz dance with the personal story of a Russian girl escaping a tragic moment in her life through a radio station. It is here she discovers jazz and embodies its many faces. Traveling the milestones of Jazz from its roots to Bebop, through Charleston, Blues and Swing, she reveals the timeless power, depth and raw energy of African American dance and music.

Graceful, eccentric, and full of character, Ksenia is one of the most interesting and versatile artists in the dance world today. Since her arrival on the jazz scene in 2010, her energy and style has quickly led her to becoming an international star and the most viewed Charleston dancer on the Internet.

Radio Hermitage is created by David Duffy, an Irish composer and bassist and Ksenia Parkhatskaya, a Russian dancer and choreographer. David and Ksenia have worked together since meeting in 2015, looking to create a show that blurred the lines between theatre, music and dance. A show like no other for solo dancer and live jazz quartet. The duo teamed up with American dramaturg and choreographer Johnny Loyd and began collaborating to achieve this goal.

A hit of the 2016 Cork Jazz Festival!

MADE IN FIRKIN CRANE supported by an Ardán production residency. Kindly supported by a Cork City Council Project Award.

radiohermitage.com
kseniaparkhatskaya.com   
davidduffymusic.com 

The Dust We Raised Luke Murphy/Attic Projects

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 27th October 8pm

Saturday 28th October 8pm

Price:
€22.50

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

On Valentine’s Day 1920, Mamie Smith stepped up to the microphone in the Okeh Company in New York and shouted out “That Thing Called Love”, making the first recording by a black female vocalist. Since then artists like Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and Billie Holiday, amongst others have helped transform the Blues from a folk art to a global music form.

Ladies in the Blues pays homage to these women and that tradition, from the earliest days to the present. The show features Flo McSweeney of Moving Hearts fame; guitar playing Ciara Rose, Ireland’s songstress of rockin’ blues; Wicklow singer, Emma Nicolai and Dun Laoghaire Queen of Vaudeville, Jhil Quinn on washboard and vocals.

The House Band features Ireland’s top blues’ sidemen including the legendary, Ed Deane on guitar and James Delaney on keys.

Part of the 2017 Cork Jazz Festival

http://www.ladiesintheblues.com

Thursday 2nd November to Tuesday November 28th
11am – 4pm Monday to Friday

FREE

Lenore is based on a poem of the same title written in 1774 by Gottfried Bürger. While the poem tells a Death and the Maiden tale, this dance for video work interprets that theme as the individual’s struggle against change, by looking at how expectations are associated with everyday objects. The work draws from the 17th century Dutch still life pictorial tradition of “Vanitas” – each object proposes a future by representing something Lenore longs for and feel due, however unlikely.

Lenore was created and performed by Angie Smalis and Colin Gee, with music by Jennifer Walshe. It screens throughout November and accompanies their live performance of John’s Query on November 25th

“We were gifted a moment here, in the artificial light, a chance to colour in the outlines. We were given a portrayal of something ineffable, enacted but then taken away” Theatre of Noise on Lenore, 2016

Funded by the Arts Council under the Dance Project Award.

ONLINE BOOKING

Thursday 9th November 7pm

Prices
€19 (Family of 4 €66)

Booking fee online €1.50
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Suite Española ( Spanish Suite )

This is a show that lasts for approximately two hours, during which time we take you on a journey all over Spain using Spanish classical, folkloric and the most pure flamenco types of dance . We use the repertory of Spain’s classical music whilst introducing various touches of contemporary styles to infuse different and exciting ideas. 

And of course, the amazing passion and talent of our musicians live on stage, taking you through their world of flamenco, respecting the authenticity of their art. The visual impact is guaranteed by the stunning vibrant costumes and amazing lighting of this fantastic stage . 

The public will experience an unforgettable night with the Compañia de Danza de Vicente Renero. Staging the show has involved 8 dancers and 3 musicians who are top of their profession . Even an inexperienced member of our audience will be blown away by their exciting performance. 

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ONLINE BOOKING 

Saturday 18th November 8pm

Plus post-show discussion

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 4th November)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Now in it’s second year, Firkin Crane on Tour presents exciting and new independent dance to audiences across Ireland.

In TOST, Eniskillen-based choreographer Dylan Quinn collaborates with German dance artist Jenny Ecke, renowned Irish artist Paddy McCann, and UK composer and vocal artist Andy Garbi, to explore the space between the two noises, two happenings, two places, two people. With hundreds and thousands of people trapped in the space of nothingness, having been forced from one place to another, TOST is a piece of its time. TOST, which means silence, questions of the empty void between, where the screams of anguish are as deafening as the silence of action.

In You and Me, and You, Laura Murphy and Rob Heaslip rekindle the fire in their performance through a series of misfires and misadventures, eventually discovering that persistence is the only inspiration they need. In an intimate setting, they invite you to become a witness as they search to redefine their existing relationship by opening up to everything that can be right or wrong. The duet unfolds – sometimes playful, sometimes pushing beyond into moments of aggression – but maintaining a closeness of contact throughout.

Dx2 is a Firkin Crane on Tour production, performing in Project Arts Centre, Ballina Arts Centre, Town Hall Theatre, Firkin Crane and Siamsa Tíre.

Tickets available in due course

Saturday 25th November 8pm

Prices:
€14 full
€12 unwaged
€10 early bird (for bookings before 11th November)

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with John’s Query:
€20 full / €18 unwaged / €16 early bird (for bookings before 11th November)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Nacera Belaza’s singular vision, an approach to choreography as an acute sensibility of movement originating in emptiness, has brought the self-taught Algerian dance artist global recognition. She was awarded the title of Chevalier des Ordes des Arts et Lettres for her services to dance in 2015, and in 2017 her company was recognised as a French Ministry of Culture ‘national company with international reach’.

In this international co-production with Ríonach Ní Néill/Galway Dance Days and Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Irish dancers join Nacera’s company in a new ensemble work – a dialogue between rituals, sacred dances and writing, in search of a sacred memory in the body.

“How to be anchored in the most singular being and open infinitely to the other, to the world?” In her new solo, “L’infime” et Création 2018: première impression, also an Irish premiere, Nacera Belaza explores a new and perilous space – the individual, alone on the stage.

John’s Query _ Angie Smalis

Tickets available in due course

Saturday 25th November 7.30pm

Prices:
€10 full
€8 unwaged
€6 early bird 

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with Creation 2018 – Première Impression/ L’infime
€20 full / €18 unwaged / €16 early bird (for bookings before 11th November)

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 11am – 2pm Tuesday to Friday)

Angie Smalis, Mark Carberry, and Colin Gee perform personae based on historical figures, all of whom inhabited St. John’s Square Limerick, between 1700 and 1950. This anachronistic framing of communal life seeks a new understanding of what public life means in the context of twenty-first century connectivity and interdependence. As the lives of the characters intertwine in a farcical narrative, the question is posed: Will people always betray others for the sake of their own interests?

Ultimately, John’s Query is about pursuit of (and sympathy for) the perspective from which the other can be understood, through humour, grace, longing, and melancholy. It also proposes a path for a return to narrative in dance, and addresses an opportunity to engage with a new kind of storytelling within dance.

Limerick-based Greek dance artist Angie Smalis (Daghdha Dance Company, Volk Oper Wien), and American Colin Gee (Cirque de Soleil, 2012 Rome Prize recipient, founding Whitney Live artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum), have collaborated on performance and film since 2007. John’s Query brings them together with Irish community dance artist and improviser, Mark Carberry.

Funded by the Arts Council under the Dance Project Award.

Lenore: a dance for video

“L’infime” et “Création 2018: première impression”