Luail director Liz Roche: ‘A regular income and stability are important. We have to work towards that for all dancers’
The artistic director of Ireland’s new national dance company on her plans for its programme and the dancers she’s recruiting
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Dublin Dance Festival 2021: The unbearable lightness of being apart
Watching this year’s programme online was frustrating but also brought new intimacies
Demos at Dublin Dance Festival: Learning new moves in restricted spaces
For Liz Roche, creating a sense of connection in a year of separation was a big challenge
Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
Twelve artists elected to Aosdána
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
As You Were: A powerful novel about life, death and the bit in between
Elaine Feeney’s debut novel, set on a hospital ward, has a strong state-of-the-nation feel
Dublin Dance Festival review: A riot of movement and sound
From individual empowerment to groupthink, dancers tackled disparate themes
Aida: courageous production succeeds in story and spectacle
Review: Confidence permeates opening night of opera famed for its massiveness
Näher... Closer, Nearer, Sooner review: A lithe interplay of recollection and retrospection
Dublin Fringe Festival: Liz Roche deftly celebrates the Goethe-Institut’s new building
Culture Night 2018: Everything you need to know
It’s hard not to be bamboozled by the choice on offer. Here’s a selection of the best bits
Edinburgh festivals: awards and acclaim – and exhaustion – for Irish performers
As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month
Review: ‘Man At The Door (Number 54)’ and ‘Pilgrimage’ at Cork Midsummer Festival
The common theme at the Sunbeam Bingo Hall and Sirius Arts Centre performances was personal identity
Dublin Dance Festival: Female choreographers step up
Female choreographers and their dancers possess the hearts and minds of audiences
Dublin Dance Festival: there's a movement going on
Highlights include ‘Giselle’, Robyn Orlin, ‘Ion’ and, of course, dancing AI
Behind the scenes at Gate Theatre's 'The Red Shoes'
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytale
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
Attitude and playing with perceptions at Dublin Dance Festival's opening weekend
Hip hop battles and technological duets feature in a diverse range of shows
Dublin Dance Festival to hold mirror to our ‘obscene’ times
Dancers from 11 countries to perform in 40 events over 10-day programme
Jean Butler: ‘It’s very exposing for both of us’
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
How fringe are you? 12 shows pitch for your ticket-buying time
As the Tiger Dublin Fringe festival prepares for this month’s event, a dozen of the artists taking part give the low-down on their shows
Dublin Dance Festival review: the body politic comes to the fore
Migration and exile are unlikely themes for a dance festival, but they are clearly in evidence during the opening days of DDF
The movement of people: dancing about migration
How can a dance festival engage with the refugee crisis? Powerfully, it seems
Kilkenny Arts Festival goes back to Bach and the shock of the old
Shakespeare, Dante and Bach feature in a programme that’s strong on the classics
Bastard Amber: WB Yeats would approve as dance comes to the Abbey
In her new show, choreographer Liz Roche makes a golden connection to the poet
We have lift-off: Irish cultural calendar 2015
A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself told
Review: Neither Either
Liz Roche Company’s latest collaboration with Maiden Voyage Dance takes a tumble with the words of Seamus Heaney
A dance that bears Seamus Heaney’s ‘strain of being in two places at once’
A North-South co-production by Liz Roche and Nicola Curry is inspired by Heaney’s ideas about displacement
Tardigrade: Keeping the audience on their toes with a riot of colour and movement
Video screens, singers in stilettos, a team of dancers and a lot of body paint: mind your steps at ‘Tardigrade’, Philip Connaughton’s latest work
Three become one – and dance lovers get a trio of premieres
Three companies – Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche Dance Company and CoisCéim Dance Theatre – are touring new work together. Is it an act that other arts sectors could or should follow?
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