Dublin Dance Festival 2010 May 8 — 23

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Principal Funder Media Partners Arts Council The Irish Times RTÉ lyric fm 3 How to book Funders RTÉ Supporting the Arts Dublin City Council Phantom 105.2 5 Welcome notes Fáilte Ireland 6-7 DDF at a glance Venue Partners Cultural Partners Abbey Theatre 8 Opening event: Bumper 2 Bumper Aerowaves DanceHouse Alliance Française Light House Cinema 10 Centrepiece performance: Arts & Disability Ireland Project Arts Centre Create Samuel Beckett Theatre Young People, Old Voices Culture Ireland Smock Alley Theatre CulturesFrance The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children 12 Closing event: Dance Ireland Vicar Street Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Embassy of France in Ireland Embassy of Spain in Ireland Supporters 14-27 Festival performances (by venue) Embassy of the United States of The Clarence Hotel America in Ireland Trinity Capital Hotel 28-29 Children’s Season Goethe-Institut Irland The Runner Bean Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media Magpie 21st Audio Visual 30-31 Re-Presenting Ireland Instituto Cervantes Dublin King’s Fountain For details of Festival Patrons, Partners 32-35 Special events Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Friends see dublindancefestival.ie 44 Festival Friends 46 Venue map

Vicky Shick image ©Yi-Chun Wu junk ensemble image ©Fionn McCann David Bolger image ©Louise Loughney Raimund Hoghe image ©Rosa Frank 2 1 Festival Club Dance Dunks How to Book @ The Octagon Bar

The Octagon Bar, The Clarence Hotel, Wanting to see as much of the Online / At the venues Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 returns as the festival as possible? Plunge into the www.dublindancefestival.ie Abbey Theatre 2010 DDF Festival Club. programme with a DANCE DUNK, Early Bird rates available online Lower Abbey Street, -- ticket packages where you can see from March 10 until March 31 only Dublin 1 / +353 1 878 7222 During the Festival, The Octagon Bar two, maybe even three, shows in BOOK ONLINE TODAY FOR www.abbeytheatre.ie will provide a haven for performers and one night at a discounted price! THE BEST PRICES! Open Monday to Saturday audiences to relax, get to know each 10.30am – 7pm other and share thoughts on the works Perfect for those of you who By phone / are short on time but big on presented. Festival Friends, Partners, +353 (0)1 672 8815 Project Arts Centre culture. Take a deep breath…. Patrons and artists can avail of free WiFi from April 1 2010 39 East Essex Street, Dublin 2 access and a 15% discount on bar food Lines open Monday to +353 1 881 9613/4 Dance Dunk 1 - Wednesday 12 and beverages, by showing a Friends’ Helen Herbertson - Sunstruck (6pm) Friday 10.30am – 6pm www.projectartscentre.ie membership card or Artists’ Pass. So Aerowaves Double Bill (7pm) Open Monday to Saturday come and join us at The Octagon Bar, Yvonne Rainer - RoS Indexical In person / 11am – 7pm meet the artists on common ground and & Spiraling Down (8pm) Dublin Dance Festival have some fun! 20% OFF FULL PRICE TICKETS Box Office The Ark, A Cultural The Culture Box Centre for Children The Clarence Hotel is Dublin’s premier Dance Dunk 2 - Sunday 16 12 East Essex Street 11a Eustace Street, boutique hotel. Situated in the heart Laïla Diallo - The Wayside & Between Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 of the city, it offers guests the best of the Shingle and the Dune (7pm) from May 1 2010 +353 1 670 7788 Irish hospitality in simple and elegant Heidi Latsky - GIMP (8pm) Open Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm www.ark.ie surroundings. For more information Rex Levitates - Secondary Saturday 10am – 6pm Open Monday to Friday about The Clarence, please visit Sources (9.30pm) Sunday 12noon – 3pm 10am – 5pm (and 1 hour before www.theclarence.ie. 20% OFF FULL PRICE TICKETS performances on weekends)

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2 3 Focal ón gCathaoirleach A message from Festival Director Dermot McLaughlin Laurie Uprichard

Tá súil agam go mbainfidh sibh spreagadh agus sult as Welcome to the 2010 Dublin Dance Festival! PS – Dublin Dance Festival DDF i mbliana mar tá clár saibhir agus scéalta iontacha is a proud participant in, againn le cur os bhur gcomhair trí mheán na damhsa. Young People, Old Voices. This poetic title of Raimund and supporter of, the Mar chúlra, tá clár na Féile i mbliana ag díriú aird ar Hoghe’s work, conjured so many ideas, raised so National Campaign for the an leanúnachas agus ar na híomhánna agus ar cibé many questions and ultimately inspired much of the Arts, which is working to tuiscintí a ghabhann le haois agus le corp. Cén tuiscint programme for DDF 2010. Who and what defines age? inform our politicians and atá againn (nó nach bhfuil againn go fóill) ar aois agus How much is numerical, how much attitudinal? How the public that the arts are fuinneamh, cad iad na bacanna a chuirimid orainn féin is age reflected in dance, onstage and in the studio? central to Ireland’s economy, agus muid ag smaointiú air seo? Ag DDF 2010 chífidh tú With the recent deaths of Merce Cunningham and reputation and daily life. ealaíontóirí ag roinnt a gcuid tuiscintí agus léargasanna Pina Bausch, we are in the midst of a generational If you value artists and linn i saothar atá lán den áilleacht, fuinneamh agus shift in the contemporary dance landscape. DDF 2010 creativity as much as we do, suaimhneas a ghabhann le damhsa den scoth. Bígí linn will consider this shift within its programme. A related log onto www.ncfa.ie and agus má tá dúil agat cuidiú linn, thig leat bheith i do strand will take into account the inclusivity of dance – take action to support the bhall don Friends Scheme - sladmhargadh in aghaidh body types and abilities as well as chronological age. campaign in 2010. chruatán na laethanta gruama seo! You won’t see these questions raised by all the artists, nor by all the artists in the same way, but we hope that these questions and these choreographers inspire your thinking as well!

There is a real panoply of work within the 2010 Festival Dermot McLaughlin – beautiful and bold, wondrous and wild, smart and Cathaoirleach funny. Over the course of Dublin Dance Festival’s 6th edition, you can see 24 artists/companies from 9 countries over 15 days in 8 Dublin city venues. All are Irish premieres. We are eager to share their work with you and encourage you to meet them both on and offstage – at master classes, discussions, panels, workshops, receptions and at the Festival Club at The Octagon Bar.

Please join us for Bumper 2 Bumper, the opening night headphone disco at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, to dance the night away as a warm-up for the ensuing two weeks...and don’t miss the grand finale of Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca at Vicar Street. Become a Festival Friend and reap the benefits, whatever the level. Again, in 2010, we hope you’ll have fun, take a chance and be curious!

Laurie Uprichard Director

4 5 (PSD) — Post Show ddf 2010 book at Discussion At a glance www.dublindancefestival.ie +353 (0) 1 672 8815 ©Fionn McCann ©Fionn Saturday 8 Douglas ©Ian Sunday 16 Five Ways to Drown  Bumper 2 Bumper The Wayside/Between GIMP Secondary Sources  junk ensemble Headphone Disco the Shingle and the Dune Heidi Latsky Rex Levitates Project Arts Centre Meeting House Laïla Diallo Project Arts Centre Banquet Hall @ 8pm / Pg:14 Square, Temple Bar Project Arts Centre 8pm / Pg:19 Smock Alley Theatre Gates: 8.30pm / 7pm / Pg:18 9.30pm / Pg:25 Pg:8/9 ©Caroline Ablain ©Caroline Sunday 9 Monday 17 Dance Step Body Sculpt Dance on Film Five Ways to Drown Basso Ostinato  w/ Pall Gale w/ Pall Gale w/ special guest: junk ensemble Caterina Sagna Trinity Sports Centre Trinity Sports Centre Yvonne Rainer Project Arts Centre Project Arts Centre 11am / Pg:36 12noon / Pg:36 Light House Cinema 8pm (PSD) / Pg:14 8pm / Pg:20 4pm / Pg:35 ©Rosa Frank ©Rosa Monday 10 Tuesday 18 Dance Step Step Dance Workshop Young People,  Basso Ostinato w/ Pall Gale w/ Colin Dunne Old Voices Caterina Sagna Trinity Sports Centre The Ark Raimund Hoghe Project Arts Centre 7.45pm / Pg:36 6pm / Pg:28/29 Samuel Beckett Theatre 8pm / Pg:20 7pm / Pg:10/11 ©Paula Court ©Paula Tuesday 11 Wednesday 19 Sunstruck RoS Indexical/ Symposium: The Double Bill Swimming Young People, DAY Helen Herbertson Spiraling Down Many Bodies of with my Mother / A Old Voices Jean Butler & Tere Banquet Hall @ Smock Yvonne Rainer Contemporary Dance CORPO LIBERO David Raimund Hoghe O’Connor Alley Theatre Project Arts Centre GradCAM Bolger / Silvia Gribaudi Samuel Beckett Theatre Abbey Theatre 6pm / Pg:24 8pm / Pg:15 DanceHouse Project Arts Centre 7.30pm / Pg:10/11 8pm / Pg:23 1pm / Pg:32 6pm / Pg:21 Wednesday 12 Hanly ©Cuan Thursday 20 Master Class Sunstruck Double Bill - Si nn RoS Indexical/ Step Dance Workshop Double Bill Swimming DAY  w/ Yvonne Rainer Helen Herbertson ricordo male/Your girl Spiraling Down w/ Colin Dunne with my Mother / A Jean Butler & Tere DanceHouse - Banquet Hall @ Smock NNChalance/ Yvonne Rainer The Ark CORPO LIBERO David O’Connor 10am / Pg:36 Alley Theatre Alessandro Sciarroni Project Arts Centre 6pm / Pg:28/29 Bolger / Silvia Gribaudi Abbey Theatre 6pm & 9.30pm / Pg:24 Project Arts Centre 8pm (PSD) / Pg:15 Project Arts Centre 8pm (PSD) / Pg:23 7pm / Pg:16 7pm / Pg:21 Thursday 13 Friday 21 Master Class MonStreS Double Bill - Si nn Repair Re-Presenting AD VITAM DAY RTÉ Dance on the Box w/ Vicky Shick La BaZooKa ricordo male/Your girl Vicky Shick Ireland Mixed Bills Carlotta Sagna Jean Butler & Tere Film Screenings DanceHouse - The Ark NNChalance/ Project Arts Centre DanceHouse - Project Arts Centre O’Connor Meeting 10am / Pg:36 Schools- Alessandro Sciarroni 8pm / Pg:17 Mixed Bill 1: 1pm 8pm / Pg:22 Abbey Theatre House Square 10.15am/12.15pm Project Arts Centre Mixed Bill 2: 3pm 8pm / Pg:23 10pm / Pg:34 Pg:28/29 7pm / Pg:16 Pg: 30/31 Friday 14 Saturday 22 Master Class MonStreS Re-Presenting Ireland Repair Re-Presenting DAY Double Track AD VITAM RTÉ Dance on the Box w/ Vicky Shick La BaZooKa Mixed Bills Vicky Shick Ireland Mixed Bills Jean Butler & Tere Beppie Blankert Carlotta Sagna Film Screenings DanceHouse - The Ark DanceHouse - Project Arts Centre DanceHouse - O’Connor Danceconcerts Project Arts Centre Meeting 10am / Pg:36 Schools-10.15am Mixed Bill 1: 1pm 8pm (PSD) / Pg:17 Mixed Bill 1: 1pm Abbey Theatre Samuel Beckett 8pm (PSD) / Pg:22 House Square Public - 6pm Mixed Bill 2: 3pm Mixed Bill 2: 3pm 2.30pm & 8pm / Theatre / 6pm & 10pm / Pg:34 Pg:28/29 Pg: 30/31 Pg: 30/31 Pg:23 9pm / Pg:26/27 ©Rachel Roberts ©Rachel Saturday 15 Sunday 23 Re-Presenting MonStreS The Wayside/Between GIMP Secondary Sources Double Track Closing Night Event Ireland Mixed Bills La BaZooKa the Shingle and the Dune Heidi Latsky Rex Levitates Beppie Blankert Soledad Barrio and DanceHouse - The Ark Laïla Diallo Project Arts Centre Banquet Hall @ Danceconcerts Noche Flamenca  Mixed Bill 1: 1pm Public -2pm/4pm Project Arts Centre 8pm / Pg:19 Smock Alley Theatre Samuel Beckett Theatre Vicar Street Mixed Bill 2: 3pm Pg:28/29 7pm / Pg:18 9.30pm / Pg:25 1pm (PSD) & 4pm / 7.30pm / Pg:12/13 Pg: 30/31 Pg:26/27

6 7 Dublin Dance Festival, Phantom 105.2 and Temple Bar Cultural Trust present Meeting House Square, Celebrate the Opening Night of Dublin Dance Festival 2010 Temple Bar by showing off your finest moves at Bumper 2 Bumper, Saturday 8 / 9pm–11pm DDF’s free, outdoor headphone disco. Grab your dancing Bumper 2 Bumper (Gates open 8.30pm) / shoes and head down to Meeting House Square, Temple FREE, but ticketed. Bar where Phantom 105.2 DJs will be spinning all the best a headphone disco floor fillers.

This is a broadcast event, so you’ll need an FM radio tuned opening night event to 105.2 and your headphones to get you grooving. Start practising in front of your mirror now – and join us for a top notch knees up! Just don’t lose your brand new sweater.....

Don’t forget your FM radio and headphones! Over 18s only. Event takes place outdoors – please dress appropriately for the weather. Further details: www.dublindancefestival.ie

Tickets can be collected from Dublin Dance Festival Box Office at The Culture Box, No. 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar (opposite Meeting House Square) from May 1.

8 9 An accumulation of simple, yet ritualised movement (GERMANY) Samuel Beckett Theatre Raimund Hoghe Tuesday 18 - 7pm & sequences builds an increasingly poignant contrast Wednesday 19 / 7.30pm / between Hoghe and 12 young cast members, from Ireland Young People, Old Voices 3 hours (including interval)/ and abroad, who join him on stage for Young People, Old €22 / €18 (Conc) / Voices. Hoghe confronts elements of their lives with ‘old €17 (Early Bird) voices’ – juxtaposing songs by singers such as Jacques Brel, Billie Holiday and Etta James nearing the end of their Direction and choreography: Raimund Hoghe careers with the boisterous, every-day activities of the centrepiece performance Artistic collaboration: young cast members. Luca Giacomo Schulte As the collage of youthful playing around builds, Hoghe’s Young People, Old Voices is a co-production of: Raimund Hoghe Company; Kaaitheater solemn performance quality and physicality become (Brussels); Bruges 2002 – Cultural ever more striking. A duet between Hoghe and frequent Capital of Europe; Springdance/Works co-performer Lorenzo de Brabandere to The Rite of (Utrecht); Montpellier Danse (Montpellier); Pumpenhaus (Münster). / In collaboration Spring provides an atmospheric, energetic and musical with Cultuurcentrum Brugge. / With counterpoint to the displays of youthful abandonment in the the support of Ministerium für Wohnen work’s other sections. und Städtebau, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; De Vlaamse Gemeenschap - NRW in Flandern 2002. Raimund Hoghe is one of the most influential choreographers working in Europe today. Since first becoming involved with dance as dramaturg to Pina Bausch, Hoghe has created numerous choreographies to critical acclaim. Following the presentation of his powerful Swan Lake, 4 Acts, during IDFI 2006, we are thrilled to present this return engagement in which local performers will appear.

“Hoghe is a rare sort of dancer...his presence – indelibly gentle and profoundly graceful – casts a strange spell. He changes the way a room breathes.” Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York ©Rosa Frank Dance Dunk Deal See Page 2 ©Rosa Frank

10 11 Dublin Dance Festival and Improvised Music Company present Vicar Street The award-winning Noche Flamenca is renowned for its Sunday 23 / 7.30pm / authentic and gritty performances of flamenco. The much- 70 mins (no interval) / celebrated and unparalleled Soledad Barrio is known as “the Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca (SPAIN) €30 / €26 (Conc) / Baryshnikov of flamenco” and has received eleven “best €22 (Early Bird) dancer” awards from as many countries. The ensemble is comprised of extraordinary dancers, singers, and guitarists Artistic Director: who present a cathartic evening of passionate performance Martin Santangelo in a series of vignettes. closing night event Supported by the Instituto Cervantes in association with the Embassy of Spain. “’Crowd pleaser’ can be a dirty term for critics, but not in the case of Soledad Barrio, the fierce, earthly star of Noche Flamenca, who doesn’t sacrifice artistry on the altar of spectacle. Instead, she gives us both.” Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times ©Rachel Roberts Roberts ©Rachel ©Andres D’Elia

12 13 junk ensemble (Ireland) Yvonne Rainer (USA) Five Ways to Drown world premiere RoS Indexical & Spiraling Down ©Fionn McCann McCann ©Fionn ©Paula Court Dance Dunk Deal See Page 2

Project Arts Centre – The living room strewn on the front garden for all to see. DDF is proud to present two works by legendary Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs Five Ways to Drown looks into the interior of people’s choreographer Yvonne Rainer. RoS Indexical invokes Space Upstairs Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 / lives and exposes the sadness, the absurdity and the the passion and furore that accompanied the notorious Tuesday 11 & Wednesday 12 / 8pm / 60 mins (no interval) banality through vignettes of dance and installation. In this premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in 1913. 8pm / 90 mins (including 22 / 18 (Conc) / interval) / 22 / 18 (Conc) / € € public display of the private, the choreography of everyday Audiences were outraged by Stravinsky’s dissonant € € €17 (Early Bird) €17 (Early Bird) life becomes extraordinary. Continuing junk ensemble’s score, by the drab tunics worn by the dancers and their percussive, earth-bound movements. Dancing as Choreography and creation: explorations of how spaces can be reinvented, Five Ways to Choreography: Yvonne Rainer Drown creates a different perspective on live performance. a quartet of individuals, four remarkable performers Jessica Kennedy, take on Rainer’s mission of achieving a re-vision of this Performers: Emily Coates, Megan Kennedy Patricia Hoffbauer, Keith disruptively glorious work. junk ensemble was established by Megan and Jessica Sabado, Sally Silvers “junk ensemble have guts Kennedy in 2004, with a commitment to creating works and ingenuity” Spiraling Down, Rainer’s newest dance, draws its “Spiraling Down, though it of brave and innovative dance theatre. Winners of the inspiration from a variety of sources—newspaper The Irish Times Culture Ireland Touring Award in 2008 and an Excellence still samples heavily from photos, soccer moves, old movies, ballet, Steve Martin, the past, is terrifically un- Commissioned by Dublin Dance and Innovation Award in 2007, and listed as an Irish Sarah Bernhardt, and even Rainer’s own disinterred self-conscious, full of high Festival 2010. Times Highlight for 2008, junk ensemble’s work has dances from the 1960s—to create an eerie resonance silliness and sophisticated junk ensemble are Associate Artists of toured nationally and internationally. that is both melancholic and unpredictable. Project Arts Centre. spatial patterns that allow for Yvonne Rainer’s influence on the international world of smart, tender ruminations on dance and film, since her groundbreaking presence in the brain - body connection.” the Judson Dance Theater of the 1960s, is unparalleled. Claudia La Rocco, The New Rainer is currently a Distinguished Professor of Studio York Times Art at the University of California, Irvine. RoS Indexical was commissioned by Performa, New York, for Performa 07, and co-commissioned with documenta 12, Kassel, Germany. Spiraling Down was commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute and the World Performance Project at Yale.

14 15 NNChalance (Italy) Si nn ricordo male (If I remember correctly) Vicky Shick (USA) & Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy) Your girl Repair ©NNChalence Galleria Civicia di Arte Contemporanea Trento © Sandor Naske ©

aerowaves double bill

Project Arts Centre – Cube Si nn ricordo male is a monologue recited by two voices. Repair is a duet structured around a series of Project Arts Centre – Wednesday 12 & Dancing the traces that memories leave in the body, it is interruptions, revealing a dancer exploding with Space Upstairs Thursday 13 / 7pm / an expansion in movement of the instant when memories extravagance, exuberance and vulnerability. It is Thursday 13 & Friday 14 / 50 mins (no interval) / begin. NNChalance was established in 2007 by Eleonora an intimate piece that seeks to acknowledge the 8pm / 45 mins (no interval)/ 16 / 13 (Conc) / 22 / 18 (Conc) / € € Gennari and Valeria Fiorini, with the intent of researching a extravagant drama inherent in precise gesture and € € €12 (Early Bird) €17 (Early Bird) personal choreographic language. Si nn ricordo male won succinct physical behaviour. Repair is set on a stage- Si nn ricordo male a prize at the Giovane Danza D’Autore Emilia Romagna within-a-stage, housed inside large curtains and Choreography: Vicky Shick Choreography and competition. accompanied by a live sound score. Performers: Jodi Melnick & performance: Vicky Shick Set & Costume Eleonora Gennari, Your girl is a performance about desire. Downstage a The result of a three-way collaboration between Shick, Design: Barbara Kilpatrick Valeria Fiorini woman slowly feeds her clothes into an industrial hoover, visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick and composer Elise Sound Score: Elise Kermani while whispering ‘he loves me, he loves me not’. Upstage, a Kermani, the work reflects a devotion to detail and an Your girl “Her style—beautiful, tough, man makes a hanging sculpture of socks. Posing questions interest in revealing the nuance of persona and mood. Creation: Alessandro Sciarroni and even a bit perverse—is about how we view desire and love, Your girl, based on Performers: Chiara Bersani reined in by a love of the Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, invites us to look again at the Vicky Shick has been performing, teaching and and Matteo Ramponi absurd. It is feminism with a character of Emma Bovary and at the body of actor Chiara choreographing in New York since the 1970s. As a screw loose.” Both of these works are presented at Dublin Bersani to see the tenderness that can exist between a member of the Trisha Brown Company, she received Gia Kourlas, Dance Festival as part of Aerowaves, a The New York Times European network that provides showcasing man and a woman in this moment.Having trained with a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award opportunities for emerging choreographers. Lenz Rifrazioni, Alessandro Sciarroni undertook his first for performance. She was named a Foundation for Repair was made possible, in part, by Danspace independent creations in 2007. Your girl was selected for Contemporary Arts Fellow in 2006 and a Guggenheim Project’s 2004-05 Commissioning Initiative with the Dro International Performance Prize, Centrale Fies. Foundation Fellow in 2008-09. support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Performance contains nudity

16 17 Laïla Diallo (Canada / UK) A Heidi Latsky / alliger arts Production (USA) The Wayside & Between the Shingle and the Dune gimp ©Ludovic des Cognets ©Carlos Arias Dance Dunk Deal See Page 2 Dance Dunk Deal See Page 2

two works ©Mike Kwasniak

Project Arts Centre – Cube The evening brings together two works by a new voice GIMP: gimp (gimp) Project Arts Centre – Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 / from the UK. Both of these works continue Diallo’s 1. a ribbonlike, braided fabric 2. fighting spirit; vigour Space Upstairs 7pm — 40 mins (no interval) aspiration to find emotional resonance in movement and 3. a lame person 4. slang; a halting, lame walk Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 / / €16 / €13 (Conc) / attempt to capture something of the fleeting and fragile 5. to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically 8pm / 75 mins (including 12 (Early Bird) aerial prologue, no interval)/ € qualities of human life. €22 / €18 (Conc) / Redefining virtuosity through the collision of disability The Wayside: Choreography €17 (Early Bird) and performance: Laïla Diallo The Wayside, a solo for Diallo, explores a physicality of and dance, GIMP examines the uncompromising ways Between the Shingle and the fragility and resilience, inspired by the theme of departure. we are often identified or defined by our physicality. Direction and choreography: Dune: Choreography: Laïla Between the Shingle and the Dune, a duet for Theo GIMP confronts our preconceptions, challenging us to Heidi Latsky Diallo in collaboration with Theo Clinkard and Diallo, evokes narratives of togetherness and re-think conventional notions about dance, performance Clinkard Performers: Theo shifting landscapes of distance and nearness. Created in and body image. “GIMP is without doubt a Clinkard and Laïla Diallo 2005, this work was recently revived at the invitation of gleaming milestone in the ROH2 at the Royal Opera House. GIMP is a word we are taught not to use as we progress of contemporary “...heartfelt and nuanced. are taught not to stare at people who have physical dance and theater, proving Even a gesture as simple as For many years a dancer with Wayne McGregor’s Random disabilities. But GIMP also means ‘fighting spirit’, that the term “disabled tying her shoes or pulling on Dance Company, Laïla Diallo is currently associate artist ‘interwoven fabric’ and ‘trembling with ecstasy’, and dancer” is an oxymoron.” a overcoat becomes loaded of ROH2 at the Royal Opera House and Woking Dance it is all those meanings that truly define GIMP, the Theodore Bale, Dance with poignancy, and the final Festival. Her choreography has toured throughout the UK performance. Creating a tangible sensuality, a touch of Magazine fade into darkness has a and internationally. She was awarded a Rayne Fellowship voyeurism, GIMP forces our eyes and minds to perceive tragic wistfulness.” Gareth for Choreographers in 2006. beauty not as a static artifact of conventional perfection K. Vile, The Skinny, on but as a dynamic construct of effort and intentionality. The Wayside

18 19 Caterina Sagna (France/Italy) David Bolger (Ireland) Swimming with my Mother Basso Ostinato & Silvia Gribaudi (Italy) a corpo libero (free style) ©Caroline Ablain ©Caroline Loughney ©Louise Dance Dunk Deal See Page 2

double bill ©Alvise Nicoletti ©Alvise

Project Arts Centre – We meet three men at the end of a meal. They sit, At two years of age, Ireland’s youngest swimming hope Project Arts Centre – Cube Space Upstairs / drink, smoke, dance…and talk. The remnants of a takes a lesson from his mother Madge, a swimming coach. Wednesday 19 - 6pm / Monday 17 & Tuesday 18 / conversation spool endlessly. Shallow talk about Will the water be to David’s liking? Life passes and things Thursday 20 7pm / 8pm / 65 mins (no interval) / everything, about dance, about nothing. change. David teaches Madge a dance. Changing rooms 40 mins (no interval)/ 22 / 18 (Conc) / 16 / 13 (Conc) / € € and changing roles. Dance and swimming will unite them € € €17 (Early Bird) €12 (Early Bird) At times propelling themselves around the stage with onstage for the very first time. DDF is delighted to present Created by: Caterina Sagna violent force, at times brooding quietly, they move this intimate new work in progress from David Bolger, Swimming with my Mother Performers: Alessandro through the idle chat. Achieving movement that is both Artistic Director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre. His work has Choreography: David Bolger Bernardeschi, Antonio Montanile precise and languid, they continue to drink and dance received numerous international awards and has achieved Performers: David Bolger, and Mauro Paccagnella Executive Producer / Creation: with increasing fervour. They are stuck, looking for a critical acclaim. Madge Bolger has always had a keen Madge Bolger Association Next way out, foraging through the masticated pieces of interest in dance and last year performed in La Vie en Rose A CoisCéim Dance Theatre Executive Producer/ Touring: that first conversation. as part of the Bealtaine Festival. production. Association Al Dente Co-Produced by: Théâtre de la A Corpo Libero Bastille (Paris) and Théâtre de Caterina Sagna made her debut performance in her A young woman stands in front of us in a short, Choreography and l’Agora; Scène nationale d’Evry mother Anna Sagna’s company Sutki in Turin. She multicoloured dress. She finds inadequacies in herself, performance: Silvia Gribaudi et de l’Essonne, Ile-de-France danced with Carolyn Carlson during the 1980s and which she constantly attempts to overcome in order to Region; Théâtre Nationale de went on to found her own company before joining find the freedom to which she aspires. Gribaudi takes “Morphing from hem- Bretagne (Rennes); European fiddling wallflower to stage- Centre for Theatrical and forces with her sister Carlotta to establish the Caterina an ironic view of the female condition through both Choreographic Production, & Carlotta Sagna Company in France in 2009. the rigidity and fluidity of her body, arriving at a distant owning siren... a joy from Pôle Sud (Strasbourg); Scène femininity and a joyous recognition of her own physical start to finish” Conventionnée Danse. Performance will be accompanied by surtitles reality. This work by Silvia Gribaudi won the 2009 Giovane Keith Watson, Resolution! Review Caterina & Carlotta Sagna Company is supported Danza D’Autore Veneto competition. by the DRAC Ile-de-France – Ministère de la A CORPO LIBERO is presented as part of Culture et de la Communication. Presented with Aerowaves, a European network that provides the support of King’s Fountain, CulturesFrance showcasing opportunities for emerging and the Embassy of France in Ireland. choreographers.

20 21 Carlotta Sagna (France/Italy) Jean Butler and Tere O’Connor (USA/Ireland) ad vitam day world premiere ©Philippe Gladieux ©Philippe Hanly ©Cuan

Project Arts Centre – Inspired by an advertising slogan - “For men who know Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre are Abbey Theatre, Space Upstairs how to live” – Carlotta Sagna asks the question: what about delighted to co-present Jean Butler in an engaging new Peacock Stage Friday 21 & Saturday 22 / Wednesday 19 - the others? Those who live their lives with less ease, those work by Tere O’Connor. 8pm / 55 mins (no interval) who are inept at living. Embodying a subtle, highly gestural Saturday 22 - 8pm / 22 / 18 (Conc) / (Saturday matinee 2.30pm)/ / € € movement language, Sagna probes the borders of normality €17 (Early Bird) Jean asked Tere to create this solo for her, one which 40 mins (no interval) / and pathology. departs from her long history and training in Irish €22 / €18 (Conc) / Choreography and Dance. Entitled DAY, the piece explores the ways we Matinee - €20 / €17 (Conc) performance: Carlotta Sagna Carlotta Sagna trained with her mother, Anna Sagna, come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/ Text: Anna Sagna and choreographer and teacher, in their native Turin. Having her life. It questions how much we can really know Choreography: Tere O’Connor Carlotta Sagna spent several years performing with Anne Teresa de someone and if our projections constitute our knowing Performer: Jean Butler Executive Producer: Keersmaeker and Rosas, she joined Needcompany in 1993 more than the actual truth. Composer: James Baker Association Al Dente. as performer and choreographer. She has based her own Designer: Michael O’Connor Co-produced by: Arcadi, company in Paris since 2005 and joined her company with Tere O’Connor’s work Rammed Earth was seen at DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre. le Festival Torinodanza and her sister Caterina’s, in September 2009. L’Espal, Scène conventionée DDF 2008, the same year that Jean Butler remounted Le Mans; with the support her first contemporary solo, does she take sugar?, for of La Menagerie de Verre’s the Festival. Studiolab framework, and la Ferme du Buisson, Scène nationale de Marne La Vallée.

Caterina & Carlotta Sagna Company is supported by the DRAC Ile-de- France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Presented with the support of King’s Fountain, CulturesFrance and the Embassy of France in Ireland.

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Banquet Hall @ Ever changing and unique to each performance, an active There are influences that we carry in our bodies, in the Banquet Hall @ Smock Alley Theatre score unfolds and adjusts in front of you. Like a dream half way we move, that come from other people, places Smock Alley Theatre Tuesday 11 - 6pm & remembered, a future half imagined, Sunstruck is a poetic and events. This is true whether we are dancing, Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 / Wednesday 12 - 6pm & elegy for light, dance and sound. Elegant and evocative, watching others perform or just being. In this new work, 9.30pm / 50 mins approx 9.30pm / 50 mins / (no interval) / 22 / Sunstruck will leave an indelible mark on your imagination. commissioned by DDF, choreographer Liz Roche creates € €22 / €18 (Conc) / €18 (Conc) / €17 (Early bird) a tapestry of movement meanings that reflect on the €17 (Early Bird) Long time collaborators Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham performers’ embodied connections between primary and Choreography: Liz Roche Collaborative team: join forces with some of Australia’s finest performers, secondary sources of inspiration. With a characteristically Helen Herbertson, Ben including dancers Trevor Patrick and Nick Sommerville, in a intimate yet agile movement palette, Roche and her Commissioned by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. An early version of this work was created Cobham, Trevor Patrick, Nick structure that challenges their collaborative history. dancers strive to bring these embodied connections, at Movement Research, New York, with the Sommerville, Tim Blake, Tamil histories and perspectives to the fore. support of the Arts Council, Dance Ireland and Rogeon, Livia Ruzic, Alan Helen Herbertson has been creating award-winning Dublin City Council. Robertson, Frog, John Salisbury, dance performance for over three decades. She was Established in 1999, Rex Levitates has become one of Bluebottle and Moriarty’s recently recognised with the Kenneth Myer Medallion the most highly regarded dance companies in Ireland. Project. for Outstanding and Distinguished Contribution to the Liz Roche’s choreographies have been performed “Truly merits the term Performing Arts. in Ireland and the UK, USA and Asia, most recently sublime…theatrical magic performing at the South Bank Centre London, Judson and the sheer wonder of the Ben Cobham’s lighting and design work has been a Memorial Church, New York and Baryshnikov Arts living body” John Bailey, striking and influential contributor to the dance and theatre Centre, New York. Real Time Arts scene in Melbourne for over fifteen years and has won numerous awards. Catch Secondary Sources at Draíocht. Wednesday May 19 - 8pm / Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 Booking: 00 353 1 885 2622 | www.draiocht.ie Opened in 2001, Draíocht is an Arts Centre based in the heart of Blanchardstown catering for approximately 50,000 people a year.

24 25 Samuel Beckett Theatre A man waits on a railway platform. Trains pass but never (THE NETHERLANDS) Beppie Blankert Danceconcerts Saturday 22 - 6pm & 9pm stop. The audience sits in front of a mirror and sees & Sunday 23 - 1pm & 4pm / Double Track (PRESHOW performance by crash ensemble) themselves and the dancer on a stage behind them. A 75 mins (no interval) / woman appears on the platform next to him, they seem to 22 / 18 (Conc) / € € embrace each other. Sometimes she disappears suddenly, €17 (Early Bird) reappearing elsewhere on the platform. When the last train Choreography: rushes past both dancers have vanished. Beppie Blankert ©Ben van Duin ©Ben Music: Louis Andriessen Based on Samuel Beckett’s Text for Nothing #7, Double Text: Samuel Beckett Track is a dance performance about waiting. Listening Performers: Hillary Blake and seeing are separated and a unique perspective on the Firestone, John Taylor performance environment is created using video projections Double Track is a co-production of Beppie and mirroring techniques. Originally created in 1986, Double Blankert Danceconcerts, Johan Wagenaar Track is set to a commissioned score by Dutch compser Stichting, Grand Theatre Groningen and Louis Andriessen. The 2009 version was recreated by Holland Dance Festival. 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.

Since its first sold-out concert in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in the autumn of 1997, Crash Ensemble has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics. The music for this inaugural concert included a performance of Dubbelspoor (Double Track) by Andriessen in honour of his attendance on the night. Crash Ensemble is delighted to be back 12 years later to perform the piece in the Beckett.

Please use Lincoln Place or Nassau Street entrances to Trinity College for Saturday evening performances. ©Ros Kavanagh ©Ros

26 27 La BaZooKa (france) Colin Dunne (Ireland) MonStreS Dance Workshops ©Roger Legrand ©Roger Hallward ©Peter

DDF and The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children present the children’s season

The Ark, A Cultural Inspired by mirrors, kaleidoscopes and labyrinths, Join Colin Dunne at The Ark for an interactive workshop The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children MonStreS is a fascinating dance show for children, in Irish step dance. These workshops are suitable for Centre for Children Schools families and schools. Set in a circle of mirrors, and with children and families who want to gain an appreciation Tuesday 18 & Thursday 20 / Thursday 13 - playful human creatures, MonStreS, is a dance experience of how to move to Irish music in a relaxed and fun way. 6pm - 90 minutes 10.15am & 12.15pm which has been created especially for children by French You will learn some basic steps and will be encouraged €10 / €8 (Conc) Friday 14 - 10.15am company, La BaZooKa. The show draws on 1950s fantasy to make some of your own, while also learning about films and includes music from Six Pianos by Steve Reich. timing and rhythm. You do not need dance shoes but do Suitable for ages 8+ and Public their families Friday 14 - 6pm Join us in a riveting exploration of dance, reflection and bring comfortable footwear with a soft sole. Saturday 15 - lights. A one-off experience! 2pm & 4pm Colin Dunne is a leading figure in the world of traditional Duration - 45 minutes / Flashing lights are used for a short period during Irish dance, contemporary dance and theatre. Since Age Range: 4 - 7 years / the performance performing internationally as the principal dancer in Class Range: Senior Infants Riverdance, he has created a highly individual style of - 2nd Class performance and teaching. He has been nominated Public: €10 / €8 (Conc) twice for a UK Critics Circle National Dance Award: in Schools: €6.50 / €4.50 (Conc) 2007 (Best Male: Modern Dance) for performances in Fabulous Beast’s production of The Bull, and in 2009 Choreography: Sarah Crépin (Best Male Dancer) for performances of his solo show Directed by: La BaZooKa Out of Time. Out of Time has also been nominated in (Etienne Cuppens and the outstanding achievement in dance category for this Sarah Crépin) year’s Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain’s most prestigious stage honours.

28 29 ©Princeton Lee ©Princeton Carlos Rodriguez ©Juan Re-Presenting Ireland Mixed Bills ©Alexandre Iseli ©Alexandre ©Sarah Latty ©Sarah Buckley ©Conor ©Eamonn O’Mahony ©Eamonn Scott ©John

DanceHouse A showcase initiative of Culture Ireland, Dance Ireland and mixed bill 1 mixed bill 2 Friday 14 & Saturday 15 / Dublin Dance Festival. Friday 21 & Saturday 22 / Mixed Bill 1 - 1pm / Now in its third year, Re-Presenting Ireland will again Liv O’Donoghue Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company Mixed Bill 2 - 3pm / showcase the work of six companies whose work is This Woman I Met >Me Seeing You< €10 (€15 for Mixed Bill 1 & representative of the strength and diversity of contemporary Choreography and performance: Choreography and performance: 2 on same day) choreography in Ireland. The Mixed Bills serve as a platform Liv O’Donoghue Jazmin Chiodi and Alexandre Iseli for Irish and Ireland-based choreographers to introduce Participating choreographers their work to a local and international audience and continue Dance Theatre of Ireland Angie Smalis and companies: Dance to be an important way in which DDF and Dance Ireland Handle With Care The Lightly Fragranced Solo Theatre of Ireland, Elena nurture home-grown talent. With such a variety of dance Choreography: Robert Connor Choreography and performance: Angie Smalis Giannotti, Irish Modern Dance work on offer, we’re sure you’ll find something to ignite and Loretta Yurick Theatre, Iseli – Chiodi Dance your interest in dance! Company, Liv O’Donoghue and Irish Modern Dance Theatre Angie Smalis. Elena Giannotti Actions A panel discussion will take place on Saturday 15 The Crow Choreography: John Scott The work presented in the Mixed Bills has at 4.30pm, following Mixed Bill 2. Featuring Irish Choreography and performance: been selected by the following peer panel: choreographers and international programmers, the panel John Ashford (Aerowaves); Madeline Boughton Elena Giannotti (Culture Ireland); Angela Conquet (Mains will explore perspectives on international touring. The panel d’Œuvres, France); Kajo Nelles (Tanzmesse, will be moderated by Madeline Boughton of Culture Ireland. Germany) and Laurie Uprichard (Dublin Dance Festival).

30 31 Special Events Special Events Symposium: Artist Talks: The Many Rainer ⁄ junk ⁄ Bodies of Shick ⁄ Butler & Contemporary O’Connor ⁄ Sagna ⁄ Dance Blankert…

DanceHouse Presented by the Graduate School of Creative Arts and All post-show discussions are free of charge. No booking needed except for Meet the Wednesday 19 / 1pm-4pm / Media, in association with Arts & Disability Ireland, Makers at the Abbey Theatre. Phone Abbey Theatre Box Office on 01 878 7222. Free of charge. Create and Dublin Dance Festival, with the support of Pre-registration required as Dance Ireland. Yvonne Rainer junk ensemble In association with the capacity is limited. In conversation about Project Arts Centre – Abbey Theatre Drawing together numerous strands of this year’s Dance on Film: Space Upstairs Meet the Makers: The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media Festival programme, this symposium sets out to Light House Cinema, Sunday 9 Jean Butler and Tere (GradCAM) is an exciting collaborative initiative Smithfield For more information O’Connor in conversation of Institute of Art & Design, Dun Laoghaire; stimulate new debate and offer fresh perspectives on National College of Art & Design; Dublin Institute the many bodies and people engaged in contemporary Sunday 9 about junk ensemble Thursday 20 of Technology and University of Ulster, focusing dance. Following an initial dialogue between For more information and Five Ways to Drown, (approx. 8.45pm) on post-graduate research in the Creative Arts choreographers Raimund Hoghe and Tere O’Connor, about Yvonne Rainer’s see page 14. On the Peacock stage and Media and on interdisciplinary dialogue. work as part of Dance For more information about www.gradcam.ie with responses from a panel of dance practitioners and cultural commentators, an open discussion will on Film, see page 35. Vicky Shick Jean Butler, Tere O’Connor Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) is a national arts probe some of the themes and issues raised in works Project Arts Centre- and DAY, see page 23. development organisation striving to promote In conversation about her Space Upstairs the engagement of people with disabilities in the presented by the Festival. This symposium is open to arts at the highest level, as audience members, all, especially those who are interested in dance and the choreography: Friday 14 Beppie Blankert artists, performers, participants, advisors and representation of the body. Project Arts Centre – For more information about Samuel Beckett Theatre employees. www.adiarts.ie Space Upstairs Vicky Shick and Repair, see Sunday 23 – after the 1pm Wednesday 12 page 17. performance Create is the national development agency for Book a place online at www.dublindancefestival.ie. Please collaborative arts, supporting artists across notify us of any accessibility requirements at time of For more information For more information about all artforms who work collaboratively with booking. Keep an eye on www.dublindancefestival.ie about Yvonne Rainer Carlotta Sagna Beppie Blankert and Double communities, be they communities of place or for news of how to interact with The Many Bodies of and her works RoS Project Arts Centre- Track, see page 26/27. communities brought together by interest. Indexical and Spiraling Space Upstairs www.create-ireland.ie Contemporary Dance online! Down, see page 15. Saturday 22 Speed text will be provided to facilitate access to the For more information about Carlotta Sagna and AD symposium for deaf and hard of hearing people. VITAM, see page 22.

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Dublin Dance Festival and Light House Cinema, Smithfield present Dance on Film: Television: Rare Tapes by RTÉ Dance Grand Union with special guest on the Box Yvonne Rainer

RTÉ Television Over 900,000 viewers were attracted to the eight dance Light House Cinema / Featuring excerpts from extremely rare tapes Monday 17– Friday 21 films commissioned by the Arts Council and RTÉ’s Dance Sunday 9 / 4pm - 60 mins / documenting a series of 1972 performances, this is Various times on the Box initiative and premiered on RTÉ television €7.50 / €6 (Conc) a unique opportunity to experience the work of the during Dublin Dance Festival in 2006 and 2008. Also groundbreaking New York performance collective Grand Meeting House Square, Premiered at Anthology Film Archives, New screened in the open air in Meeting House Square, Union (1970-76) in the company of Yvonne Rainer, one of Temple Bar / Friday 21 & York, November 12, 2007 during Performa 07. its core founding members. Saturday 22 / 10pm Temple Bar, the films went on to travel to festivals in Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and the USA. Composed of choreographers/performers Trisha RTÉ Dance on the Box – bringing the best of Brown, Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Irish contemporary dance and film artists to a Following up on that success, the Arts Council and RTÉ national audience. Nancy Lewis, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer, Grand are delighted to come together again for a third season Union created lively group improvisations that fiercely of RTÉ Dance on the Box. Four short films have been interrogated the nature of performance using movement, commissioned, by the choreographer/director teams spoken text, and props, demystifying the act of dancing of David Bolger & Conor Horgan, Cindy Cummings & and deconstructing the very notion of “choreography.” Oonagh Kearney, Fearghus Ó Conchúir & Dearbhla Their work influenced a generation of artists in the US in the 1970s and is now the focus of much choreographic Walsh and John Scott & Steve Woods. research in France and elsewhere.

Yvonne Rainer will introduce the footage and will hold a short Q&A session afterwards.

34 35 Special Events Workshops: Rainer ⁄ Shick ⁄ Flamenco ⁄ Gale

Master Classes @ and neutral body, ready for Dance Fitness DanceHouse precise dancing with intricate with Pall Gale In association with co-ordinations that will be Trinity College Sports Dance Ireland. Open to worked on collectively. Centre, Fitness Studio / professional dancers and Beginning with a continuous Sunday 9 / 11am (Step) those studying dance. warm-up that relies on the 12noon (Sculpt) Book at 01 855 8800 or use of release, alignment and Monday 10 / 7.45pm (Step) [email protected] momentum, the goals will be / €10 per class to achieve clarity, simplicity Book at 01 896 1812. Yvonne Rainer of movement and attention Wednesday 12 - 10am- to detail. Pall Gale, legendary fitness 12pm / €12 for Dance guru to the stars, is back Ireland members (€14 for Flamenco workshop for his third year at Dublin non-members) with Soledad Barrio Dance Festival. Straight In association with Peña from NYC, Pall’s classes A once in a lifetime Flamenca El Indalo combine a high energy opportunity to take class Saturday 22 / Levels: aerobics workout with with Yvonne Rainer, the Beginners / Improvers & a bit of musical theatre world famous dancer, Intermediate / Advanced spice. If you’re looking choreographer and Book at 087 75 60 978 or for the perfect bikini body filmmaker. Yvonne will teach [email protected] this summer, or just want parts of her 1966 signature to have some fun while work, Trio A. If you missed Soledad Barrio, the you break a sweat, then her the last time she was electrifying star of Noche Pall’s class is for you. You in Ireland (at University of Flamenca, will lead don’t need any prior dance Limerick in 2001), now’s workshops in flamenco training to get the best your chance to learn from a dance. This is an amazing from his workout, just a living legend! opportunity to learn from good sense of humour! an award-winning Spanish Vicky Shick dancer and choreographer Thursday 13 & Friday 14 - – to gain a greater insight Balance 10am-12pm / €12 for Dance into the soulful earthiness of We seek both sides of every story. Ireland members (€14 for flamenco at its finest. non-members) For further details see After that it is up to you. flamencoindalo.com or Vicky Shick is renowned as dublindancefestival.ie a dancer, choreographer and teacher. This class seeks to prepare an articulate, alert THE IRISH TIMES 36 irishtimes.com 37

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A big thank you to all our volunteers for giving so generously of their time, to the Dublin Dance Festival Board for their endless drive and encouragement, to all the artists performing at the Festival and to the many people who helped to make the Festival happen, including: Muireann Ahern, Christine Bennett, Denise Bevan, Madeline Boughton, Claire Bourgeois, Scott Burnett, Niamh Byrne, Julie Cathcart, Siân Cunningham, Sandrine Cuozzo, Brian Daly, Loughlin Deegan, Donnacha Dennehy, Oonagh Desire, Eugene Downes, Barbara Ebert, Isabelle Etienne, Feenish Productions, Róise Goan, Katrina Goldstone, Emma Hannon, Ian Huet, Paul Johnson, Jeanette Keane, James Kelly, Johnny Kelly, Rachel Knox, Cicilia Lundberg, Fiach MacConghail, Janice McAdam, Róisín McCarthy, Eina McHugh, David McKenna, Helen McNulty, Loughlin McSweeney, Frances Mitchell, Katie Molony, Deirdre Mulrooney, Padraig Naughton, Lynsey Ní Rainaill, Catherine Nunes, Niamh O’Donnell, Mardi Osborn, Jill Percival, Julia Piera, Barbara and Henry Pillsbury, Marina Rafter, Jenny Roche, Avril Ryan, Ewa Senger, Oliver Sevestre, Christine Sisk, Rolf Stehle, Take a bow! Morleigh Steinberg, Francis Thackaberry, Sarah Tuck, Willie White, Melanie Wright. The arts really matter to us in Ireland; they are a big part of people’s lives, the country’s single most popular pursuit. Our artists interpret our past, define who we are today, and imagine our future. We can all take pride Festival team in the enormous reputation our artists have earned around the world.

Laurie Uprichard Director: The arts play a vital role in our economy, and smart investment of Programme Manager: Caroline Williams Production Manager: David ’Spud’ Murphy taxpayers’ money in the arts is repaid many times over. The dividends Marketing & PR Officer: Eleanor Creighton come in the form of a high value, creative economy driven by a flexible, Finance and Admin Officer: Tiina Ylönen educated, innovative work force, and in a cultural tourism industry worth Box Office Consultant: Helen Collins a2.4 billion directly a year. Festival Interns: Hind Abouhassan, Olwyn Lyons, Idette Rauch Marketing Consultant: Annette Nugent Public Relations: Stephanie Dickenson @ Kate Bowe PR The Arts Council is the Irish Government agency for funding and Design: Aad developing the arts. Arts Council funding from the taxpayer, through Website: Choice Cuts the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, for 2010 is a69.15 million, Accountant: Gaby Smyth & Co. that’s less than a1 a week for every household.

So, at the end of an enthralling dance performance, don’t forget the role you played and take a bow yourself! Dublin Dance Festival Board of Directors Find out what’s on at Val Bourne CBE, Finola Cronin, Colin Dunne, Gerry Godley, Dermot McLaughlin (Chairperson), Helen Meany, Peter Pih, John Scott. www.events.artscouncil.ie

You can find out more about the arts here: www.artscouncil.ie

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