ALL PERFORMANCES

ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 25th January 2020 7.30pm

Sunday 26th January 2020 7.30pm

Prices:
€18 (€68 for Group of 4)

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
€1 Firkin Crane restoration levy is included in the ticket price

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

MAKING MOVES mark the start of the new decade with a return to FIRKIN CRANE with another exciting varied evening of dance, acrobatics and song featuring a myriad of talented performers. This is their 9th ‘MOVES’ show – previous shows have been excellently received by audiences – directed by MAEVE KELLEHER and ALLY FUTTO.

Dance of course features strongly in the programme with many genres included – Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Ballet, African Hip-Hop, Indian and Oriental Bellydance with dazzling acrobatics interspersed throughout. The world of Musical Theatre is represented by sections from MY FAIR LADY, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, CATS THE MUSICAL and the timeless DIRTY DANCING. As before there is live singing/music throughout.

Guests include Ireland’s Bella Voce AMANDA NERI and the return of a ‘MOVES’ favourite TANYA ADAMSON … TERRY LINGWOOD with his own original compositions plus an innovative reworking of the ‘MAKING MOVES’ song! Others performing include KEVIN N. POWER, WILLIAM G MANGAN, CSHEULI RAMHAN, DENIS EIVERS, DAWN WANG, AATMA DANCE GROUP and STREET ACRO plus some more yet to be confirmed!

So in all the perfect antidote to the January blues – it promises to be a most entertaining fast-moving evening.

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 7th February 2020 7.30pm

Tickets: €15

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

Tickets can also be purchased from Quarter Block Party 2020, including bundle tickets

A drag queen and a drag queen walk into a bar, a room. They have pelvises and centers of gravity, centers of gravities, gravitas. And headdresses: imaginary. This is hair. This is a purse, these are shoes, that’s my hip, that’s not my hip. Oh, these are pearls. Seriously! Today all my cells are pearls. They have decided to move at exactly the same time.

ONLINE BOOKING

Saturday 8th February 2020 7.30pm

Tickets: €15

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

Tickets can also be purchased from Quarter Block Party 2020, including bundle tickets

In Spoiler the three dangerous douchebags from the North explore outer and inner noise and enter into an unknown universe that seeks the distorted, the dark and the playful. The distorted effect makes the ugliness and the grotesque seem poetic and almost beautiful. With an interest in unpolished rawness they create maximum excitement out of the smallest impulse. They have a love for how small groups can create fragile belongings that can carry the care for each other but at the same time be noisy and unstable. ‘Noise is the forest of everything’ – Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat.
Supported by Performing Arts Hub Norway.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 9th February 2020 3pm

Tickets: €15

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

Tickets can also be purchased from Quarter Block Party 2020, including bundle tickets

In Fluids W A U H A U S creates a state of slipperiness on stage in which the human subject cannot fully control its own body. Fluids invites the audience to encounter empathy, intimacy, and failure in these times when individualism, perfectionism, and mistrust prevail in society.

ONLINE BOOKING

Thursday 13th February 2020 8pm

Tickets: €21

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
€1 Firkin Crane restoration levy is included in the ticket price

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

Think of a beautiful tapestry with many vibrant colours. This is the best way one can describe the stunning voice of Niamh strong. Blues, soul, jazz, you get the elements that best describe this amazing voice.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 16th February 2020 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

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

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

Emma’s workshop will introduce you to her creative practice. Through improvisation, we will work with physical and energetic states supported by carefully selected music to unleash new realms for the body’s imagination. We will generate fresh and surprising movement that is deeply connected to emotion, sensation and the desire to offer something to the world through the body, with intention and recklessness. 

Emma started creating shows in 2010, following a sabbatical as a ballet dancer during which she obtained a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies and Russian from Trinity College, Dublin. In 2015 she formed United Fall, under which she collaborates with artists from dance, music, theatre, photography and design on an artistic path that is not limited to dance, but one which moves freely between all of these forms in order to serve the art. Previous productions include Orfeo ed Euridice (2018), Girl Song (2017), Dancehall  (2015), Tundra (2014), Dogs (2012), Listowel Syndrome (2010). Her work has been commissioned by Dublin Dance Festival, Irish Arts Center and has been co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival and Centre de Développement Chorégraphique, Toulouse. She was an associate artist with Dance Ireland and Artist in Residence at Visual 2012-2018. Most recent theatre collaborations include Arlington (2016) with Enda Walsh and Danse, Morob (2017) with Olwen Fouéré. Martin was a drummer in the DIY no-wave band You can call me Frances. United Fall is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. 

ONLINE BOOKING

Friday 21st February 2020 8pm

Tickets:
€14 / €12 concession / €10 early bird (until 10th February 2020)

Booking fee: online €1.50 per ticket / telephone €2 per ticket
€1 Firkin Crane restoration levy is included in the ticket price

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

“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule” Giorgio Agamben, Philosopher

Inspired by the experience of making work with refugees and asylum seekers in Direct Provision, State of Exception is a powerful and raw multi-cultural interplay of dance, music and text. Featuring a cast of outstanding Irish and international performers this compelling and original dance work delves into the world of asylum seekers to understand, to connect, to challenge and tear down the walls and borders that divide us, finding home in the common that binds us all.

Catherine Young has been making and touring work to critical acclaim since 2011, creating powerful, percussive, physical, primal work that shows all shades of the human condition – its grit, edge, truth, honesty and beauty.

“This is Irish dance making at its best; political, urgent and intelligent.. go see it.” – RTÉ

Proudly funded by The Arts Council, supported by Backstage Theatre, Shawbrook, Siamsa Tire, Kerry County Council, Dance Limerick, Creative Ireland, Town Hall Theatre, Firkin Crane, glór, Pavilion Theatre and Lime Tree Theatre.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 15th March 2020 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

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

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

OBJECT DANCE – A workshop with Emily Aoibheann

What challenges and opportunities do we experience when we introduce objects and textures to our physical performance practice? How do we create new choreographies that consider the object as a dancer, rather than as an inanimate frame containing a more primary idea. 

In this workshop, Emily Aoibheann will share methodologies and approaches for creating with objects (sculpture, music, texture, text and dance) as an integrative performance practice that challenges conventional approaches to performance design. 

Drawing inspiration from bio-technology and philosophies on microbial and ecological paradigms, the workshop uses aerial fabric to explore objects, textures and surfaces, in multiple dimensions and directions. This workshop is suitable for dancers, aerialists, visual artists, designers, philosophers and scientists. Considering our relationship with each other and the world, as semi-permeable and symbiotic, the workshop offers unconventional and creative ways of thinking, perceiving and making.

EMILY AOIBHEANN is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Although her expertise lies in circus and aerial, her varied background leads to a creative, collaborative and original integration of multiple art forms.

A pioneer of aerial dance in Ireland, Emily co-founded award winning PaperDolls Performance Company in 2010. She went on to produce Object Piggy in 2014/15 and presented internationally in Prague and Macedonia with Papaveracea. In 2017 she collaboarted with artist Liing Heaney on work in progress Smiling Devil as part of Dublin Theatre Festival’s In Development strand. Emily continued working with Liing to create a twin production project on civilisation and nature in 2019. Part one, Sorry Gold is an experimental design and aerial dance performance which premiered at Project Arts Centre, as part of Dublin Fringe Festival in September, followed by part two, Mother of Pearl, at Project Arts Centre in November. Mother of Pearl marked a change in Emily’s orientation on aerial as central to her work, instead focusing on aspects of music, dance and the art of handbalance for this production.

Emily is co-founder of Cat’s Paw Experimental Aerial Dance Meeting, the second of which is due to take place in Košice, Slovakia in January 2020. Emily is founder and director of Creation Aerial Research & Ideas Studio in Dublin.

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 15th March 2020 12pm – 4pm

Price: €15

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

Programmed by Junk Ensemble, Cork City Dance Artists in Residence at Firkin Crane, Lords of Strut, will teach a Dance Workshop.

DANCE OUT

A workout class from Lords of Strut as outgoing as their outfits.

Want to feel motivated, get fit and healthy, and have a bag of dance moves ready to take over the next dance floor that gets in your way?

Part dance class, part workout, part comedy show, Lords of Strut hold court keeping the DANCE OUT class moving while DJ’ing tunes to fit the mood – slowing it down for a deep stretch and speeding it up so our asses as toned as 1981 Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Most importantly, we’ll keep you entertained with some of their homegrown motivational phrases; ‘There’s no shame in sweat’, ‘Leave it on the dance floor’ and ‘Dance like you’re riding a lobster’.

Inspired by Jane Fonda and a recent meeting with Mr Motivator, Lords of Strut have made a workout class that has style, comedy and sexy dance moves that you get to take home.No dance experience needed – No exercise experience needed – Spandex encouraged

Whether you’re as fit as a 1995 Sonya O’Sullivan or as unfit as box of hedgehogs DANCE OUT will make you feel good!

ONLINE BOOKING

Sunday 6th September 2020 12 – 4pm

Price: €15

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

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

Flying Low Workshop with Lucia Kickham

Flying Low is a dance technique developed by Venezuelan dance artist David Zambrano. It’s main focus is the dancer’s relationship with the floor. Passing Through is a complex system of spontaneous composition based on collective leadership, interconnection and infinite possible pathways in space. In this workshop Lucia will introduce the participants to the key elements of these movement approaches. The workshop builds up from gentle exercises which examine the natural spiral patterns within the body and develops into more energetic and expansive sequences.

Groundedness, efficiency of movement, practicality, open awareness and group dynamics are important elements at play in this movement training. This is an energetic workshop exploring the mechanics of the body, group consciousness and decision making.

Lucia is a Dublin-based dance artist performing and collaborating internationally since 2011. Trained in The Netherlands, she has worked with companies and artists which include TRASH, Company Philip Connaughton, Junk Ensemble, Liz Roche Company, Maria Nilsson Waller.
Lucia frequently performs at festivals in Ireland and has toured throughout the UK, Sweden and The Netherlands. She has trained intensively with David Zambrano in Flying Low & Passing Through techniques, developing her interest in group dynamics within composition and teaching environments. 

In recent years Lucia has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Ireland, Firkin Crane Cork and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. INIT: The Warm Up Project, Kickham’s latest work, premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival in September 2019.