Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre are delighted to co-present Jean Butler in an engaging new work by Tere O’Connor. Jean asked Tere to create this solo for her, one which departs from her long history and training in Irish Dance. Entitled DAY, the piece explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/ her life. It questions how much we can really know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the actual truth. Tere O’Connor’s work Rammed Earth was seen at DDF 2008, the same year that Jean Butler remounted her first contemporary solo, does she take sugar?, for the Festival.

 

My word, we'd forgotten all about Katell! Members enter for free.

 

 

Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, the Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco in 1990. Some 40 different members passed through the group's ranks over the half-decade to follow.

 

Indiemiesters from Quebec, signed to Sub Pop. Wolf Parade began in April 2003, when former Frog Eyes member Spencer Krug was offered a gig by Grenadine Records' Alex Megelas. With only a 3-week deadline to form a band, Krug contacted a fellow Canadian guitarist Dan Boeckner and began writing songs. The result was the break-through album was "Apologies To The Queen Mary" which was released some 12 months later.

 

Two football fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score. The referee's decision is final ... or is it? The two lads decide to take matters into their own hands and kidnap the Ref to force him to change his mind on the all important goal … with hilarious and unexpected consequences. To some people football is a matter of life and death; to others it is far more important than that … With Mick Lally, George McMahon and Edwin Mullane.

 

Following a hugely successful season in the Gaiety Theatre in May 2009, where it received an almost unbroken run of standing ovations, and a West End Premiere, Lane Productions are delighted to announce that THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION will return to the Gaiety Theatre by popular demand for a limited run.

 

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.

 

Drawings and paintings from Ukraine. Ukraine defines itself by opposition to its bordering states. It is not Russia, not Poland, not Tatar… It views its Soviet past as another country, yet the past is omnipresent: the border is porous. To the outsider Ukraine is also a fantastically beautiful space where the borders between the structures of civilisation – houses, tower blocks, railways – are constantly being assailed by nature. Everywhere there is green.

 

Join Colin Dunne at The Ark for an interactive workshop in Irish step dance. These workshops are suitable for children and families who want to gain an appreciation of how to move to Irish music in a relaxed and fun way. You will learn some basic steps and will be encouraged to make some of your own, while also learning about timing and rhythm. You do not need dance shoes but do bring comfortable footwear with a soft sole. Colin Dunne is a leading figure in the world of traditional Irish dance, contemporary dance and theatre. Since performing internationally as the principal dancer in Riverdance, he has created a highly individual style of performance and teaching. He has been nominated twice for a UK Critics Circle National Dance Award: in 2007 (Best Male: Modern Dance) for performances in Fabulous Beast’s production of The Bull, and in 2009 (Best Male Dancer) for performances of his solo show Out of Time. Out of Time has also been nominated in the outstanding achievement in dance category for this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain’s most prestigious stage honours.

 

At two years of age, Ireland’s youngest swimming hope takes a lesson from his mother Madge, a swimming coach. Will the water be to David’s liking? Life passes and things change. David teaches Madge a dance. Changing rooms and changing roles. Dance and swimming will unite them onstage for the very first time. DDF is delighted to present this intimate new work in progress from David Bolger, Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre. His work has received numerous international awards and has achieved critical acclaim. Madge Bolger has always had a keen interest in dance and last year performed in La Vie en Rose as part of the Bealtaine Festival. A young woman stands in front of us in a short, multicoloured dress. She finds inadequacies in herself, which she constantly attempts to overcome in order to find the freedom to which she aspires. Gribaudi takes an ironic view of the female condition through both the rigidity and fluidity of her body, arriving at a distant femininity and a joyous recognition of her own physical reality. This work by Silvia Gribaudi won the 2009 Giovane Danza D’Autore Veneto competition.

 

World music tunes.

 

 

 

 

 

ngie McLaughlin, a Scot transferred to Dublin via San Francisco, meets Gary Fitzpatrick (Great Western Squares, Pincher Martin, Ciunas) through a mutual friend. He agrees to bring her to an open mike night in a pub, the host doesn't show up, and the bar owner asks the two to takeover. After a few weeks of terrible poets and singers the pair decide to change the open mike policy and build a band instead to indulge in their passion for all things with lyrics, regardless of genre. After two years of carefully being unaware of what they were doing, The Sick and Indigent Song Club had grown to a multi-instrumental six-piece band.

 

 

Tony Kenny, the former showband star and the star of Joseph & His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Side By Side By Sondheim, West Side Story, You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet & Tom Foolery will perform a special concert to celebrate the huge success of his latest CD The Collection. Tony will perform all of his hit songs plus a selection from his new chart topping CD, The Collection, including Any Dream Will Do, Rock and Roll You're Beautiful, Butterfly Kisses, My Son, The Wedding Song, Song of Bernadette and many more.

 

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.

 

Price includes light lunch. TOM HICKEY is one of Ireland's best-loved and most distinctive actors. A founder member of the Focus Theatre, he has been a regular on the stages of The Abbey and The Gate for many years, creating some of the major roles in Irish drama. MICHAEL HARDING received the Stewart Parker Award for new writing in 1990 and he has continued, ever since, to be lauded for his work both as a playwright and novelist. His plays have been produced by The Abbey Theatre, as well as internationally, and he was elected a member of Aosdana in 2000. Michael writes a column for the Irish Times every Friday - Displaced in Mullingar - chronicling small town life in the Irish Midlands.

 

The blurb: "This comic genius is back due to popular demand!"