ALL PERFORMANCES

ONLINE BOOKING

Thursday 28th February 2019 7.30pm

Tickets: €12

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

Tá ceoldráma na hIdirbhliana faoi lán tseoil ó thuas na bliana agus tá an t-uafás oibre curtha isteach ag na múinteoirí agus ag na daltaí iad féin. Tá sé geallta a bheith ina thaispeántas taitneamhach. Bigí linn!

The fourth year musical has been underway since the start of the school year. A tremendous amount of work has been put in by the teachers and students themselves. It promises to be an entertaining show. Please join us!

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 3rd March 2019 12pm – 4pm

Tickets: €15

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

COME PREPARED
Please prepare a 5-minute performance with consideration of costume, props and action.
Wear flexible, warm and waterproof clothes (we will be outside for sometime)
Bring a handheld mirror
Bring 1 glass for water (no plastic)
Be prepared to perform, draw, photograph and video

Live performances are ever shifting, malleable artworks with four significant elements;
Site, Time, Audience and Performer(s). This workshop will focus on the individual artists
body as art material and explore, through simple exercises, methodologies of
communicating non-verbally with your body, materials and concepts. Using your body as
a material in your practice is a significant formal, emotional and conceptual step for an
artist. With this in mind, the broad discipline of performance studies can be of use in
equipping us with knowledge that crosses disciplines and enriches our practice.
Performance art is a wide and varied form. I outline the core of my practice here and
nodes of work I will be bringing to this workshop.

THE BODY
I am a Visual artist and the centrality of my work is live performance. My work is an
embodied practice, both in form and concept. The activities of the body are core to my live
performances and the body of the artist, my body, is ground zero. That body, it is
important to note, is female, is able-bodied and, in literal-visual terms, has white skin,
blond hair and blue eyes. The fact of presenting a live body publicly necessitates an
awareness of the literal visual reading of that body and the dynamics of perception. We
will begin the workshop considering the literal visual reading of our bodies, centering the
body and exploring where each artists site of embodied communication may be.

TIME/DURATION
My practice is process driven with live durational performance at its core. (Durational
performance, in this context, means so anything over 3 consecutive hours of publicly
presented performance.) The workshop will move on to a number of exercises that will
explore a sense of concentration on the present moment and assist in process of
developing ‘flow’ and deep concentration during performance. These exercises will also
draw our attention to the movement of our body and our control and precision of those
movements.

THE PRACTICAL
The exercises will also facilitate a process of stillness and distillation of ideas that, I
believe, assists in developing new work. Process-based working is an essential
methodology of developing new work. To this end I ask all the participants to prepare a 5
minute performance to show within the workshop. These performances will be the bases
from which we can explore possible structures of further development. I ask you to come
with an openness to re contextualising your performances throughout the workshop and
pushing yourself emotionally and conceptually.
I would like us to learn from each other without hierarchy, therefore the group dynamic of
sharing, exploring and safe risk taking is a key component of the workshop. We will focus
on exploring and experiencing with an eye towards sharpening our awareness and
communication skills. We will be each other’s audience, reflection and collaborators. I ask
everyone to honestly and critically feedback during the workshop with empathy, trust
and love for our fellow artists. The emphasis for this workshop is on process.

COME PREPARED
Please prepare a 5-minute performance with consideration of costume, props and action.
Wear flexible, warm and water proof clothes (we will be outside for sometime)
Bring a handheld mirror
Bring 1 glass for water (no plastic)
Be prepared to perform, draw, photograph and video.

CONSIDER
I will ask you to consider your performance actions under different lenses;
To locate the urgency in your action.
To deconstruct the action and rebuild it.
To be alert to the controlled instability of live action.
To become aware of site and context.
To consider technique, natural and formal, and be prepared to test out different methods.

BIOGRAPHY
Amanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working
across the medias of live art, performance, sculpture and installation. The Irish
Times have said, ‘Coogan, whose work usually entails ritual, endurance and
cultural iconography, is the leading practitioner of performance in the country’.
Her extraordinary work is challenging, provocative and always visually
stimulating. Using gesture and context she makes allegorical and poetic works
that are multi-faceted, and challenge expected contexts. She is one of the most
dynamic contemporary artists practising in live art.
The body, as a site of resistance, is the centrality of Coogan’s work. She
encompass a multitude of media; Objects, Text, moving and still image, all
circulating around her live performances. Her expertise lies in her ability to
condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body.
Time is a key material in Coogan’s practice, building controlled instability into
the fabric of her work. The long durational aspect of her live presentations
invites elements of chaos with the unknown and unpredicted erupting
dynamically through her live artworks. Artforum described her 2015 live
exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town, as ‘performance art at its
best’.
www.amandacoogan.com

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 3rd March 2019 7.30pm

Tickets
€18 (4 for €68)

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

The ACA Performing Arts presents Bring It On The Musical

Director & Choreographer ~ Aileen Coffey 
Musical Director ~ Christiana Underwood
Acrobatic Choreographer ~ Naomi Luttrell 

The Musical tells the story of Campbell Davis, a young cheerleader who dreams of leading her squad to victory at a National competition. The story focuses on the world of competitive cheerleading and the intense rivalries it creates. Campbell’s future is secure: handsome boyfriend, a killer squad, and the newly awarded title of cheer captain. Suddenly, however, she is mysteriously reassigned to another school: the inner-city Jackson High, where she knows hardly anyone and worse: they don’t have a cheerleading squad!

Despite the challenges of fitting in at a new school, Campbell befriends some tough girls on the dance squad and helps them become a powerhouse competitor for the National Cheerleading Championships. Featuring a sassy script and fresh new songs from Tony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights) and Tom Kitt (Next to Normal)

ONLINE BOOKING

Thursday 7th March 7.30pm

Friday 8th March 7.30pm

Saturday 9th March 7.30pm

Tickets: €10

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

Final Year Students from the Department of Theatre, UCC, present their brand-new, devised theatre performances at Firkin Crane from Thursday 7^th – Saturday 9^th March.

The work emerges from a module entitled Final Year Performance Project, where the students are tasked with creating a theatrical adaptation of a pre-existing literary text. A fragment may be taken and expanded, a theme questioned, or the story told from a different perspective.

ROOTS/ROUTES will showcase 4 different, 30-minute performances, all rooted in their original texts, while journeying to new places through adaptation and collaboration.

7.3.600

A castle, a party, a man, a figure?

The clock, the windows, the glass, 3600 seconds, seven rooms, tick tock. 

Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow.

7.3.600, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, follows two party guests who find themselves trapped in a torturous cycle of life. The piece explores the fleeting and transient nature of life, and the inescapable quality of death.

Again?

An adaptation of “The Golden Bird”, a Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale.

This piece looks at the way we tell stories to children; the heroes we create, the characters we dismiss, and the morals we hold high.

Betwixt One Man

A man and his reflection. Outsider and Insider, together in a warped existence. The Insider holds the knowledge; The Outsider must uncover it.

Betwixt One Man is an adaptation of “The Outsider” by H.P. Lovecraft.

Goblin Market

“Come buy, Come buy, Come buy our Orchard Fruit.

All ripe together, in summer weather……”

An adaptation of Christina Rosetti’s “Goblin Market”, this is a piece of physical theatre that explores themes of female experience, sexuality and empowerment.

ONLINE BOOKING

Wednesday 13th March 2019 10am – 1pm

Tickets: €10

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

Mass, Mind and Motion

This Masterclass will play with my ongoing interests in how perception, imagination, physiology and physics are in a constant interplay in human movement. We’ll work with images and exercises that shift the ways in which we can experience movement, and we’ll notice how perception and attention offer us a constantly expanding resource for movement.

The Masterclass will be a combination of practical exercises and improvisational scores. Working individually, with a partner or partners, and as a group, we will build a shared body of information to cultivate an easy interplay between each other and the space we work in.

The imagination will be explored as a physical and evolutionary phenomenon for opening potential in dancing.

This Masterclass is a place for discovery, in which questions can be asked through the dancing. We’ll be at work and at play in engaged and embodied action, and we’ll take a ride on the momentum of our own curiosity.

Charlie Morrissey is a director/choreographer, performer, teacher, and researcher, working in the field of performance for nearly 30 years. He is influenced by ongoing working relationships with Steve Paxton, Siobhan Davies, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Scott Smith, Katye Coe, K.J.Holmes, Katie Duck and others.

Teaching is central to his practice and his classes are laboratories for exploration and discovery. He teaches for dance and theatre companies, institutions, festivals and independent organisations internationally.

Recent and upcoming projects include several collaborations with Siobhan Davies; a new performance for five dancers – If this is it, then what are we going to do with it? –;a solo choreographed by Colin Poole- White Charlie; and he is currently performing in Quarantine’s Wallflower.

Charlie curates an international programme of dance events at Wainsgate Chapel in Yorkshire: Wainsgate Dances: https://www.facebook.com/groups/559122184434991

www.charliemorrissey.com

Estime de Soi et Lâcher Prise
Saturday 16th March 2019 1pm – 5pm
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Upcoming dates:

Self Esteem and Letting Go
Saturday 30th March 2019 1pm – 5pm 
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Saturday 20th April 2019 1pm – 5pm (French)
Saturday 11th May 2019 1pm – 5pm (English)
Saturday 22nd June 2019 1pm – 5pm (English)

 “Art therapy is self development through arts. It releases people’s expression and artistic creativity, freed from the usual patterns. In this workshop, our “right brain” will be the guest star! By the way, our left brain is not “wrong”, it is overstimulated and very talkative. Within the group, we will prioritise creation, expression and intuition. Control and judgement will be turned away at the door !  We will use photolanguage, arts and crafts, voice, creative writing and telling. This workshop is not about performing, it is about being YOU. So, come as you are. To all this, add interaction, listening and caring in the company of a safe and energising group.
Note: A minimum of 5 participants is required for  the workshop to go ahead.

This event will be run by Yasmine Krid, bilingual psychotherapist (english and french). Due to subtitles and expressiveness of one’s native language, there will be 2 versions of the workshop (french and english).

« Creativity is intelligence having fun », welcome and please share!

www.yasminekrid.com

ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 23rd March 7pm

Sunday 24th March 2pm

Tickets:
€18 ( 4 for €68)

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

Rainbow Performing Arts Academy brings you on an epic journey through some of the most well loved musicals of our time with unforgettable scenes and songs from Hairspray, Grease, Annie, The Little Mermaid, Thriller, Singin’ in the Rain, Puttin’ on the Ritz, Anastasia, Cinderella. 

From show-stopping solos to roof-raising ensemble numbers, this show is packed with some of the biggest hits from the West End and Broadway.  We also have enchanting ballet and tap dance numbers together with an energetic performance from our Rainbow Cheer Squad. 

This is a show not to be missed and promises to entertain the entire family. 

ONLINE BOOKING 

Tuesday 2nd April 2019 11am

Tickets: €7
(For school booking teachers are FREE)

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

Energetic, fresh and enjoyable Princesses can be Pirates, playfully questions what is “normal” behaviour for girls and for boys. We follow the hilarious escapades of two extraordinary performers as they journey into the unknown, swapping toys and activities in their quest to defy stereotypes and break the norm. Dynamic and fun – a dance piece created for children but inspiring for young and old alike.

Mónica Muñoz Marín is a dance artist based in Dublin. She graduated from the Folwang University of the Arts in Essen and completed her MA in Contemporary Dance Education at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. She was a long-standing member of Stadtstheater Heidelberg and the Tanztheater Freiburg in Germany. As a freelance performer she has worked extensively throughout Europe for over 20 years. She was a recipient of the mentored Resicency Award (2016) from Dance Ireland and the Docklands Arts Fund from Business to Arts (2018). Her work has been presented at the Dublin Dance Festival, Dance Limerick, Firkin Crane, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Werkraum Theater Heidelberg and has toured nationally. Along with her choreographic practice Monica teaches dance in community and education settings.

Princesses can be Pirates is supported by a Tour and Dissemination Grant from the Arts Council. It will tour nationally to 11 venues across the country.

Saturday 6th April 2019 3pm – 6pm

Price:
€55 / €45 students / OAP, please use discount code STUDENT

max 10 participants

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Somatic Solutions for your neck, jaw and shoulders
Walk with ease and comfort

A two part workshop for all levels

• Releasing tension around the neck, shoulders and jaw

We will work with movements that help us connect the neck to the centre of the body to regain freedom and clarity of movement. Better breathing and easier head movements resurface using rib-freeing pandiculations. Jaw movements will give you a sense of control over tension creeping in with stress

• Walk with ease and comfort

Exploration of hip and spinal movements that make us feel grounded and light on our feet at the same time. Easier rotation, smoother gait and movements simple enough to practice on your own.

You will receive recordings for your home practice.

One scholarship place available – email Katrin at katrin@somadublin.com.

ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 6th April 2019 8pm

Tickets:
€14 / €12 concession
€10 early bird (for bookings before 23rd March)

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

Supported by an original soundtrack, striking costumes and an outstanding international cast, MERLIN is a dark tale instilled by the protean spirit of the eponym character.

Jostling with rational narrative and swimming in the substance of myth, MERLIN dives into body textures to invokes tales, pagan carnivals, dark waters, Orphic themes, monsters, wild animals, a battered queen, a shamanic devil, and a strong-headed child-woman, countless images that resonate in our hearts, the fading of time, and of course, Merlin himself, and his mischievous grin.

Our environment seems increasingly dominated by symbols, images and memes. MERLIN wonders how to reconcile our longing for shapes and narrative with the amorphous turmoil of organic life. MERLIN stands with one foot on each side of the paradoxical rift between substance and shape, nature and law, instinct and culture.

Following the popular and critical success of Fit/Misfit (40+ performances to date), following also the commission by Dublin Dance Festival of a dance solo commemorating the Proclamation of Irish Independence in 2016, and the creation & touring of REVOLVER in 2017, Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company creates MERLIN, a new full-length dance quartet.

Co-directed  by Jazmin Chiodi (Arg/Ire) and Alexandre Iseli (CH), Iseli-Chiodi dance company has been creating contemporary dance works since 2008. Their creative journey is characterized by the emergence of distinct choreographic textures through collaborative processes. Iseli-Chiodi’s pieces have been performed in Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia and Korea. Recent highlights include: Revolver (2017); The Endelss Story of Trying to Make New Out of a Single Self, a solo commissioned by Dublin Dance Festival for ‘Embodied’ to commemorate the Proclamation of Irish Independence (2016); The Moor, an ensemble piece commissioned by Company Le Marchepied in Switzerland (2015); the quartet Fit/Misfit (2013), which continues to tour with over 40 performances to date.

Iseli-Chiodi also direct and produce Tipperary Dance Platform: an integrated year-round programme for the development of dance, that culminates with the week-long TDP’ International Dance Festival, one of Ireland’s leading dance events (10^th edition in 2019). Taking place in October, it is a curated festival, featuring performances by international and Irish-based dance companies, a masterclass programme, laboratories, screen dance, exhibitions, symposiums, and more.

BOOKING (FREE)

Monday 8th April 10am – 1pm

This event is an open discussion with survivors of childhood trauma and professionals working in the Early Years sector, education, health, addiction and criminal justice about the desirability of raising public and political awareness of the prevalence and impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Ireland and the need for a collaborative cross sector trauma-responsive approach for better individual and societal outcomes.

There will be contributions on attachment and Infant Mental Health, supporting parents with experience of interpersonal trauma, manifestations of trauma in the school setting, the health impacts of childhood adversity, being a child of the care system, trauma and prisoners, ACEs and the Travelling Community, the adverse experience of living in a Direct Provision centre.

Irish ACEs And Trauma Informed Forum
Organiser of Towards an ACE-Aware, trauma-responsive Ireland
This group has been created to share ACE related and trauma informed knowledge, practice and initiatives in the Irish context. This group is for everyone – parents, carers, professionals from health, social care, police and education, and anyone else who is interested in working in partnership for a better tomorrow for our children.

ONLINE BOOKING

Wednesday 17th April 2019 7pm

Thursday 18th April. 2019 7pm

Tickets:
€18 ( 4 for €68)

ONLINE BOOKING

Wednesday 22nd May 2019 7pm
(Doors open 6pm)

Tickets:
€12

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

EM Fitness & Nutrition Pole Classes present EM Fitness & Nutrition Pole Showcase 2019!

Jenny from EM Fitness & Nutrition Pole Fitness is proud to announce the second showcase since opening the studio.

This is a time for the students to show off their pole skills to friends, family and anyone else who are interested in seeing the amazingly talented ladies and gent perform.

Guest Performer on the night will be the amazing Leah Aftab.

Refreshments served on the night.

Check EM Fitness & Nutrition Pole Classes’ Facebook Event for more details.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 26th May 2019 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

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

Natural Body Movement and Trained Body Movement

Natural Body Movement may incorporate some of the very early infant movements in the womb and later on as we learn to work with gravity and come to standing. Whatever we may call it; there are natural and spontaneous movements that we all know from very early in our lives. As we grow and learn, these early movements get overlaid or enhanced by the many movement techniques available to us now. This workshop will explore seeing where the natural and more learned dance or movement techniques meet, partially meet or even conflict with each other.

Joan Davis has been exploring the nature of creativity, particularly from a body based perspective, for over 40 years. She pioneered contemporary dance in Ireland in the 70s & 80s and has experimented with collaborative art as a professional artist and therapist.

From 1996, when she moved to Wicklow, she developed the arts practice and performance offerings of Maya Lila which was based on bringing Authentic Movement into performance. She published two books on this process in 2007.

Joan is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler, and Voice Work with Chloe Goodchild and Rajeswar Bhattacharya. She is a Hakomi Sensorimotor Trauma Psychotherapist.

She continues to study developmental processes as well as embryology and early infant trauma. Joan has undertaken trainings in Dynamic Attachment Repair Experiences (DARE) with Dr. Diane Poole Heller in Europe. She continues her studies with trainings in HANDLE an holistic approach to neuro developmental healing and repatterning.

In 2012 Joan offered a four year somatic training called ORIGINS which covered the journey from preconception to standing.

In 2013 Mary Wycherley, a dance filmmaker based in Limerick, Ireland, was funded to make a film of the work of Maya Lila. This film, called ‘In the Bell’s Shadow’ has been screened nationally and internationally since it premiered in 2015.

Joan offers ongoing one to one somatic therapy sessions as well as her group work and solo retreats. Her most recent publication (2018) is the journey of ORIGINS, a journey from preconception to standing. www.gorsehill.net