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Dublin Dance Festival 2010 May 8 — 23 Dublin Dance Festival 2010 May 8 — 23 1 Dublin Dance Festival is brought Dublin Dance Festival 2010 to you with the assistance of: Contents 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) The Octagon Bar opens from 5pm – 11.30pm Dance Dunk 3 - Wednesday 19 DanceHouse David Bolger – Swimming with my Monday to Thursday, from 4pm – 12.30am Friday Foley Street, Dublin 1 Mother & Silvia Gribaudi – A Corpo and Saturday, and from 12.30pm – 10pm on +353 1 855 8800 LIBERO (FREE STYLE) (6pm) Sundays. Food is served in The Octagon Bar until www.danceireland.ie Raimund Hoghe – Young People, 10pm. The Study Café is open from 7am daily. Open Monday to Saturday Old Voices (7.30pm) Opening hours are subject to revision. 10am – 6pm 20% OFF FULL PRICE TICKETS [email protected] Light House Cinema Smithfield Square, Dublin 7 +353 1 879 7601 Festival Pass www.lighthousecinema.ie Open daily 1pm - 9pm If you are a real dance enthusiast, make the most of this year’s Festival by purchasing a Festival Pass. See all • No booking fees. For venue-specific terms and • No extra charge for credit cards. conditions, please see the venue’s 15 performances for a bargain price! • Ticket concessions are available for students, website. Dublin Dance Festival senior citizens and the unwaged. Evidence will accepts no responsibility for booking Standard price: €250 be requested on presentation of your ticket at fees or any additional fees charged by the venue. our venue partners. Early Bird price: €200 (only • Please make any access requirements known to available until March 31) us at time of booking. 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 Saturday 8 ©Ian Douglas 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 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 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 Tuesday 11 Wednesday 19 Sunstruck RoS Indexical/ Symposium: The Double Bill Swimming Young
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