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ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 30th August 2019 6pm

Price:
€10

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Step Up Dance Project, now in its ninth year, once again plays host to some of Ireland’s most promising contemporary dance graduates. Step Up 19 brings a new outlook, curated by Marguerite Donlon (Ireland / Germany), International choreographer and Director of Donlon Dance Collective, based in Berlin.

Six promising young dancers have been chosen following a competitive open call and audition process: Ambre Twardowski, Juliana Tarumoto, Aliina Lindroos, Claudia Gesmundo, Rosie Mullin & Ginvera Cecere.

The Step Up 2019 participants have worked with Marguerite Donlon, Emanuele Soavi (Germany / Italy) and Francesco Vecchione (Italy / Spain) over a period of ten weeks to create 3 exciting dance works which tour Limerick, Longford, Cork and Dublin. 

Lost in Translations by Marguerite Donlon (Ireland, Germany). Lost in Translations is the story of ten days, six dancers, five languages, years of experiences, millions of emotions, thousands of questions, hundreds of opinions, one passion, one life. Marguerite says of the work ‘The stories are true and belonging to the dancers. Using these stories as a base we weaved this piece together. Language played a big role in in many ways in the process, hence the title Lost in Translations.’ 

The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Francesco Vecchione(Italy, Spain). Inspired by the poetry of Amanda Lovelace, Francesco Vecchione wanted to present and verbalise through movement the opinions of 6 young women on their personal role in our present society. With the dancers coming from different cultural and religious backgrounds, the piece depicts how they feel, sometimes stereotyped and always questioning their position in this so called ever evolving society.

Six Hidden Variations by Emanuele Soavi (Germany, Italy). In this interplay six dancers appear and vanish into the dark: an empty space remote from traditional aesthetics and their beautiful bodies. The puzzling sounds that arise are equally without any clear location or reference. Creaking, clattering and cawing. Appearing to take place in a melting, hidden space over multiple times, the performers appear to dissipate, splintering into infinitesimal fragments right in front of our eyes. The piece unfolds like a baroque scenery set.

Step Up Dance Programme is a partnership between the Arts Council Ireland, Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick and the Irish World Academy at University of Limerick, which aims to bridge the gap between dance education and professional contemporary dance practice in Ireland.

www.stepupdanceproject.ie

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 1st September 2019 1pm

Tickets:
€20

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

The NBFI are Irelands largest and only Natural Bodybuilding Federation. This years show has all the makings of been our biggest yet with increased memberships and sponsorship. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you, your family and friends to the Firkin Crane where we once again go in search for Ireland’s best physiques.

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 6th September 2019 8pm

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Prices:
€14 / €12 concession
€10 early bird until Friday 23rd August

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

The performance starts with a contemporary vertical dance film “The Walls of Limerick” followed by a short break before the main performance in the auditorium.

Physically exhilarating, touching and poignant By A Thread is the new hybrid vertical dance show by award winning Kat and Dawg Productions.

This daring show celebrates women who have come forward to tell their truth. By a Thread weaves stories of an Irish “fallen” woman’s journey to find her voice with the charming feat of flying beings finding their place in the world. It’s not just an aerial dance work, but rather it is imbued with a story we can all relate to, one of courage, of heartbreak but most importantly one that realises the value of our lives.

Inspired by stories from the Magdalene laundries, this emotionally charged show is interwoven with aerial dance, song and live music performed by Emma Langford – Best Emerging Folk Artist – RTE Radio 1 Folk Awards 2018 and BBC award winning Bodhrán and Percussion artist Cormac Byrne.

Máire Dee and Kathryn Cooley are a vertical dance collective who make up “Kat and Dawg Productions”. They have recently released Ireland’s first ever vertical dance film “Walls of Limerick”. Now they bring you their latest choreographic mission “By a Thread” funded by the Arts Council Ireland.

They are versatile performers who blend the worlds of dance and aerial to create a movement style that is distinctly their own. Drawing from a wide range of sources has gifted the duo with an expressive movement quality that is striking, fierce and emotionally charged. Their latest work “Walls of Limerick” has been described as incomparably soulful and electrifying. 

By a Thread is both exciting and devastating, a must see for a whole generation.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 8th September 2019 12pm – 4pm

Tickets: €15

Booking (021) 4507487 (Opening hours 1pm – 4pm Tuesday to Friday)

Contact Improvisation Workshop with Steve Batts – A compositional approach

Programmed by Junk Ensemble, Cork City Dance Artists in Residence at Firkin Crane

This workshop is open to anyone who is interested and designed for all levels of experience. My approach is to give clear practical and conceptual proposals as a basis for shared exploration, improvisation and composition.

I will guide participants into improvising alone and into physical contact to discover some of the endless possibilities offered when we commit to improvising with a partner. We will roll and crawl, fall and climb, lift and slide, walk and stand, according to each person’s interest and desire and ability. The only requirement is to have the desire to explore your poetic potential in movement, alone and in close physical contact with other people.

For me Contact Improvisation is quite a simple proposal. Dancing in close proximity, including in physical contact, with other people is wonderfully enriching. This is “Contact”. Dancing with no fixed plan is a magical challenge. This is “Improvisation”. In this workshop we will embrace the idea: “maybe this is watched”.

Steve Batts has been dancing and teaching Contact Improvisation for over thirty years. He is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer and teacher of the Alexander Technique. He is Artistic Director of Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company from Derry-Londonderry in Northern Ireland. He teaches internationally. Some of the places he has been teaching recently are Ireland, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Italy, Sweden, Romania and England. He teaches all sorts of people… professional dancers, actors, children with and without their parents, older people, and people with disabilities. His main interest in teaching is to have the opportunity to discover the natural poetic-movement worlds of other people, whether they consider themselves to be dancers or not, and to enjoy these worlds as enrichments of his own artistic practice.

After the workshop there will be a short information session where workshop participants can learn about the bursary programme for support to attend the 7th Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement, 5th – 16th November 2019. Bursaries are open to participants of this workshop and of workshops in Dublin 5th September/Galway 6th September/Tralee 7th September/Belfast 8th September/Carrick-on-Shannon 14th September. See www.echoechodance.com/projects/festival-workshop-tour-2019 for details.

You can find out about Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company at: www.echoechodance.com

Monday 7th October 2019 10am

Monday 7th October 2019 12pm

Monday 7th October 2019 2pm

Tuesday 8th October 2019 10.30am

Tuesday 8th October 2019 12.30pm

Tickets:
€14 per student (teachers go free!)

For bookings contact Ann Rea at ann@firkincrane.ie or calling 021 4507487

Léiríonn Fíbín ‘An Triail’ le Máiréad Ní Ghráda, an dráma clasaiceach Nua-Ghaeilge. Seo leagan ar leith de ‘An Triail’ i stíl Fíbín! Téann Fíbín i ngleic le ceisteanna a ardaíonn múinteoirí agus scoláirí araon, trí phlota a bhreathnaíonn as dáta a thabhairt isteach i gcomhthéacs sochaí nua-aimseartha ag baint úsáid as puipéid, maisc, radhairc tharraingteacha agus léirithe daonna chun lucht féachana óg, ach go háirithe a mhealladh ar bhealach a thagann le saol na linne seo agus gur féidir teacht ar seó go héasca. Téann an léiriú seo i bhfad lasmuigh den nádúr dubh agus bán atá sa chaint agus cuidíonn an seó na constaicí san fhoghlaim a shárú le seó fuinniúil, mealltach agus greannmhar. 

Fíbín presents its highly acclaimed version of the modern Irish classic, ‘An Triail’ by Máiréad Ní Ghráda as you have never seen it before! Fíbín addresses issues highlighted by both teachers and students alike, by bringing a seeming outdated plot into the context of modern society using, puppets, masks, engaging visuals and physical performances to appeal particularly to a younger audience, making it current and more accessible. This production goes beyond the black and white nature of the dialogue and helps to overcome these obstacles to learning in a snappy, engaging and humorous show.