A man waits on a railway platform. Trains pass but never stop. The audience sits in front of a mirror and sees themselves and the dancer on a stage behind them. A woman appears on the platform next to him, they seem to embrace each other. Sometimes she disappears suddenly, reappearing elsewhere on the platform. When the last train rushes past both dancers have vanished. Based on Samuel Beckett’s Text for Nothing #7, Double Track is a dance performance about waiting. Listening and seeing are separated and a unique perspective on the performance environment is created using video projections and mirroring techniques. Originally created in 1986, Double Track is set to a commissioned score by Dutch compser Louis Andriessen. The 2009 version was recreated by Blankert for the occasion of Andriessen’s receipt of the Johan Wagenaar Prize. Crash Ensemble perform the 12 minute Double Track score immediately before the dance performance.

 

A man waits on a railway platform. Trains pass but never stop. The audience sits in front of a mirror and sees themselves and the dancer on a stage behind them. A woman appears on the platform next to him, they seem to embrace each other. Sometimes she disappears suddenly, reappearing elsewhere on the platform. When the last train rushes past both dancers have vanished. Based on Samuel Beckett’s Text for Nothing #7, Double Track is a dance performance about waiting. Listening and seeing are separated and a unique perspective on the performance environment is created using video projections and mirroring techniques. Originally created in 1986, Double Track is set to a commissioned score by Dutch compser Louis Andriessen. The 2009 version was recreated by Blankert for the occasion of Andriessen’s receipt of the Johan Wagenaar Prize. Crash Ensemble perform the 12 minute Double Track score immediately before the dance performance.

 

A man waits on a railway platform. Trains pass but never stop. The audience sits in front of a mirror and sees themselves and the dancer on a stage behind them. A woman appears on the platform next to him, they seem to embrace each other. Sometimes she disappears suddenly, reappearing elsewhere on the platform. When the last train rushes past both dancers have vanished. Based on Samuel Beckett’s Text for Nothing #7, Double Track is a dance performance about waiting. Listening and seeing are separated and a unique perspective on the performance environment is created using video projections and mirroring techniques. Originally created in 1986, Double Track is set to a commissioned score by Dutch compser Louis Andriessen. The 2009 version was recreated by Blankert for the occasion of Andriessen’s receipt of the Johan Wagenaar Prize. Crash Ensemble perform the 12 minute Double Track score immediately before the dance performance.

 

A man waits on a railway platform. Trains pass but never stop. The audience sits in front of a mirror and sees themselves and the dancer on a stage behind them. A woman appears on the platform next to him, they seem to embrace each other. Sometimes she disappears suddenly, reappearing elsewhere on the platform. When the last train rushes past both dancers have vanished. Based on Samuel Beckett’s Text for Nothing #7, Double Track is a dance performance about waiting. Listening and seeing are separated and a unique perspective on the performance environment is created using video projections and mirroring techniques. Originally created in 1986, Double Track is set to a commissioned score by Dutch compser Louis Andriessen. The 2009 version was recreated by Blankert for the occasion of Andriessen’s receipt of the Johan Wagenaar Prize. Crash Ensemble perform the 12 minute Double Track score immediately before the dance performance.

 

Run in the Samuel Beckett Theatre within Trinity College. An accumulation of simple, yet ritualised movement sequences builds an increasingly poignant contrast between Hoghe and 12 young cast members, from Ireland and abroad, who join him on stage for Young People, Old Voices. Hoghe confronts elements of their lives with ‘old voices’ – juxtaposing songs by singers such as Jacques Brel, Billie Holiday and Etta James nearing the end of their careers with the boisterous, every-day activities of the young cast members. As the collage of youthful playing around builds, Hoghe’s solemn performance quality and physicality become ever more striking. A duet between Hoghe and frequent co-performer Lorenzo de Brabandere to The Rite of Spring provides an atmospheric, energetic and musical counterpoint to the displays of youthful abandonment in the work’s other sections.

 

Run in the Samuel Beckett Theatre within Trinity College. An accumulation of simple, yet ritualised movement sequences builds an increasingly poignant contrast between Hoghe and 12 young cast members, from Ireland and abroad, who join him on stage for Young People, Old Voices. Hoghe confronts elements of their lives with ‘old voices’ – juxtaposing songs by singers such as Jacques Brel, Billie Holiday and Etta James nearing the end of their careers with the boisterous, every-day activities of the young cast members. As the collage of youthful playing around builds, Hoghe’s solemn performance quality and physicality become ever more striking. A duet between Hoghe and frequent co-performer Lorenzo de Brabandere to The Rite of Spring provides an atmospheric, energetic and musical counterpoint to the displays of youthful abandonment in the work’s other sections.

 

Haiti Fundraiser.

 

Runs every thirty minutes between 20:00hrs and 23:00hrs. Nokia is bringing over French video artists, Digital Slaves, to stage video projections onto the Bank of Ireland on College Green. The series culminates on the night of St Patrick’s Day with a ten minute piece of cutting edge video footage. DJ Arveene has been commissioned to create a bespoke soundtrack that will synch with the HD 4D projections.

 

Runs every thirty minutes between 20:00hrs and 23:00hrs. Nokia is bringing over French video artists, Digital Slaves, to stage video projections onto the Bank of Ireland on College Green. The series culminates on the night of St Patrick’s Day with a ten minute piece of cutting edge video footage. DJ Arveene has been commissioned to create a bespoke soundtrack that will synch with the HD 4D projections.

 

During 1997, Marks performed his first live shows, which discussed his life as a marijuana smuggler and his views on drug use and legalisation. The shows received excellent reviews throughout the national press, and his now legendary one-man comedy show, An Audience with Mr Nice, continues to sell-out at venues throughout Britain and Europe. Howard Marks wrote a monthly column for Loaded for five years and has written features for the Observer, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Time Out, GQ, and the Guardian. He continues to campaign vigorously for the legalisation of recreational drugs.