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Sunday 24th September 8pm

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€15

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Cllr Kieran McCarthy directs Cork City Musical Society’s “Songs From the Heart, An Evening of Musical Theatre” . The Musical Director is Michael Young and the producer is Yvonne Coughlan of Red Sandstone Varied Productions. 

This is Cork City Musical Society’s fourth outing having staged the musical Crazy For You in 2016 and Dreams of the Soul and Sweet Charity in 2015. Founded by Cllr Kieran McCarthy in 2015, it was years of performing in shows and being involved in community work that led Kieran to create the musical society.
 

Cllr McCarthy advocates that Cork City is vibrant in drama education, various musical genres, musical theatre and all forms of opera, all of which are brought to the Cork masses through stage schools and theatres.
 
“It goes without saying that a rich vein of musicality runs underneath our city, Cork’s DNA embraces the promotion and development of music as an artistic discipline to be developed and one that brings a community together to engage with and appreciate it. The city in musical theatre terms is particularly blessed by several stage schools, small and large, who promote amongst our young people creativity, skill development, education, performance, community building and audience development, and the charity of sharing their craft, amongst other important traits”.
 

“Amateur musical societies are multiple in nature up and down the country. All bring their local communities together under a volunteer and charity umbrella – collaborating and bringing people together to create an outlet for people and to put drama, music and all ultimately form a key cultural vein within towns and villages”.
 
 “The city proudly can boast being an ongoing European Capital of Culture. Many personalities and more have done so much for music and drama education over many years in the city. All inspire and forge a sense of community, charity of heart, togetherness and education, skill building and lifelong learning approaches”.  
 

Continuing Cllr McCarthy highlighted that Cork City Musical Society in particular focuses on the aspect of community building and the promotion of musical theatre amongst adults and the idea of inclusivity and self-development for all who wish to engage with it”. 

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Friday 27th October 8pm

Saturday 28th October 8pm

Price:
€22.50

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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.

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Saturday 4th November 9pm

Price:
€15

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Suadela Bellydance are proud to present ‘Tribal Republic: A Showcase of Fusion Bellydance and Alternative Arts’, with a very special guest performance by Ashley Lopez. Ashley López is an internationally touring artist from Portland, Oregon. She teaches locally, online and worldwide. Trained in multiple styles of belly dance, she is also a certified yoga, fitness, and Pilates instructor and holds a bachelor’s degree in music as an opera singer. López draws from her eclectic background to choreograph intricate, athletic, show-stopping pieces.

Dancers are travelling from around Ireland and abroad to study with Ashley and to perform alongside her. The show will feature a variety of dancers and performers from Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and China. This is a perfect chance to see this innovative and inspiring modern art form performed in the heart of Cork city by the best local and international dancers.

Suadela Bellydance have been performing all over Ireland and abroad since 2011 and teaching classes in Cork since 2013. Their classes are hugely successful and have grown to 4 weekly classes. The tribal bellydance community has grown enormously in Cork in the last 4 years, offering a creative space for women to learn to express themselves through dance, as well as being part of a positive, supportive community. Some of their students will be braving the stage for the first time at this show!

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Thursday 9th November 7pm

Prices
€19 (Family of 4 €66)

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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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Saturday 18th November 8pm

Plus post-show discussion

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

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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.

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

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with John’s Query ONLINE BOOKING

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
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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

John’s Query: ONLINE BOOKING 

Seeing Double Joint Ticket with “L’infime” et “Création 2018 : Première Impression ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 25th November 7.30pm

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

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

Booking fee online €1.50 per ticket
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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”