As a unique arts festival, the Gay Theatre Festival Dublin aims to play a distinctive role in developing a vibrant and sustainable profile on the Dublin theatre scene. Using the skills and experience of principal Directors and Executive Committee built up over the last six years organising the old International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, they aim to resource and facilitate artistic performance thus aiding artists to realise their artistic ambitions. The Festival is staffed by professionals on a voluntary basis. The Gay Theatre Festival Dublin will be centred around the city's Temple Bar area.

 

Billing himself as just Kele, he has been working with XXXChange and Hudson Mohawke on new electro and hip-hop influenced material.

 

 

A newly commissioned solo exhibition that explores the complex and historical world of spectatorship. Adopting the early special effects technique of matte painting, Sander uses and quotes the visual intricacies associated with illusion, while critically examining the personal motivation of consumers who participate in spectator industries. Tourism, audiences, the traveller and the curious are all characters who take time out of everyday life and pay to see things. The gallery will be transformed into a single, circular screen, providing a constantly changing and looping landscape. Sander contrasts the simplicity of matte painting with the complexity of the current economic unknowns that form the background to many of our lives.

 

Redefining virtuosity through the collision of disability and dance, GIMP examines the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality. GIMP confronts our preconceptions, challenging us to re-think conventional notions about dance, performance and body image. GIMP is a word we are taught not to use as we are taught not to stare at people who have physical disabilities. But GIMP also means ‘fighting spirit’, ‘interwoven fabric’ and ‘trembling with ecstasy’, and it is all those meanings that truly define GIMP, the performance. Creating a tangible sensuality, a touch of voyeurism, GIMP forces our eyes and minds to perceive beauty not as a static artifact of conventional perfection but as a dynamic construct of effort and intentionality.

 

Direct from Amsterdam for this IRISH PREMIERE, top Dutch comedian Johan Goossens reads from his personal diary about his years of puberty. Funny, compelling and naive. A Tragi-comic, Hilarious Pathos.

 

 

 

Ladlane formed in 2004 in Dublin. The band features Eugene Quinn from Templeogue, Dublin on guitar/banjo/vocals, Ray Dempsey from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford on accordion and Colm Keane from somewhere in north county Dublin on fiddle/vocals.

 

The evening brings together two works by a new voice from the UK. Both of these works continue Diallo’s aspiration to find emotional resonance in movement and attempt to capture something of the fleeting and fragile qualities of human life. The Wayside, a solo for Diallo, explores a physicality of fragility and resilience, inspired by the theme of departure. Between the Shingle and the Dune, a duet for Theo Clinkard and Diallo, evokes narratives of togetherness and shifting landscapes of distance and nearness. Created in 2005, this work was recently revived at the invitation of ROH2 at the Royal Opera House. For many years a dancer with Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance Company, Laïla Diallo is currently associate artist of ROH2 at the Royal Opera House and Woking Dance Festival. Her choreography has toured throughout the UK and internationally. She was awarded a Rayne Fellowship for Choreographers in 2006.

 

This WORLD PREMIERE adapted by Rocket Theatre's Artistic Director, Martin Harris, is a black comedy exploring fate, duty, and love. This brand new show satirises upper-class morality and is full of wonderfully Wildean logic and sparkling wit.

 

 

 

Contemporary Jazz New York in Pendulum.

 

There are influences that we carry in our bodies, in the way we move, that come from other people, places and events. This is true whether we are dancing, watching others perform or just being. In this new work, commissioned by DDF, choreographer Liz Roche creates a tapestry of movement meanings that reflect on the performers’ embodied connections between primary and secondary sources of inspiration. With a characteristically intimate yet agile movement palette, Roche and her dancers strive to bring these embodied connections, histories and perspectives to the fore. Established in 1999, Rex Levitates has become one of the most highly regarded dance companies in Ireland. Liz Roche’s choreographies have been performed in Ireland and the UK, USA and Asia, most recently performing at the South Bank Centre London, Judson Memorial Church, New York and Baryshnikov Arts Centre, New York.

 

 

Jonathan Ansell, who won the heart of the nation as lead vocalist in X-Factor runners-up G4, has been cast in his musical debut, starring in Bill Kenwright’s production of Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down The Wind. The musical shows how powerful love can be when the innocence of childhood collides with the cynicism of the adult world. In a stunning combination of multi-award-winning songs, powerful all new staging and epic storytelling, Whistle Down the Wind is a record breaking theatrical sensation that is both mesmerising and moving.

 

 

MEET THE STARS of the Absolut Gay Theatre Festival Dublin in a night of Celebration at the 2010 Gala Concert and Absolut Awards Ceremony. Special Guests and Presenters will be on hand as selected highlights are highlighted of the numerous productions in this year's Gay Theatre Festival.

 

Que Pezon! is a Dublin based band. The group is best described as a international musical community who believe in "organic, free-range music".They have been performing tirelessly for the past 7 years. For a true experience of International conFusion check out Que Pezon! in The Mezz, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, every Sunday from 10 pm.