Soft God by Emma Martin – Powerful performances in a dance show where it helps to embrace the chaos
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The dancers never waver in a production that is sometimes whimsical, at other times thoughtful
Emma Martin
Dancehall review: Luail’s dancers let loose as the music pulses through them
In Emma Martin’s restaging of her choreography, the dancers become one with Andrew Hamilton’s music
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
Dublin Dance Festival 2023: From the remarkable Navy Blue to joyously unpredictable Lovetrain2020
Theatre: Performances choreographed by Oona Doherty and Emanuel Gat provided five-star highlights of the second week of this year’s festival
Emma Martin: ‘Dance can expand our hearts. That’s where I find my sense of spirituality’
Dublin Dance Festival 2023: King | Shrine combines sweaty, swaggering choreography with a reflective audio-visual installation
Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy come full circle with final offering in operatic trilogy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Dublin Fringe Festival 2020: Making lemonade in a year of lemons
Even amid the pandemic, the festival is about ‘new pathways, inspiration and discovery’
Andrew Hamilton: Joy review – Charting direct line to beginnings
Six works on album sounds disarmingly home-spun
Classical music: What to see at this summer’s festivals
Master classes, talks, public interviews and recitals in Cork, Kilkenny and Galway
The arts board: a way to give something back that pays biscuits
Cultural institutions need board members, and it can be rewarding (just not financially)
Classical concerts of the week: From Bach to Gluck
Paul Lewis plays the NCH, while opera Orfeo ed Euridice tours the country
Orfeo ed Euridice: An opera of intense, crisp energy
Mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty takes full possession of Orfeo’s wide range of emotions
Surfeit of sopranos: This week’s classical highlights
Sharon Carty, Celine Byrne and Danielle de Niese are all performing in Ireland this week
Get ready for the Galway International Arts Festival
This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts
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