Dublin Dance Festival 2025: In Oona Doherty’s Specky Clark, the body never lies
The choreographer’s fantastical take on the life of her great-great-grandfather will be woven into her family’s already rich oral history
Oona Doherty
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’
Luca Truffarelli: ‘We are using immigrants as slaves, to keep the market running. But what is the cost?’
In The Weight, his first dance piece, the Dublin-based Italian photographer appeals to his audience to help solve urgent problems
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
Rachmaninov at 150: ‘These are some of the most incredible examples of artistry in performance’
Four devotees talk about what the great Russian composer means to them
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
Borderless art: Belfast festival’s Richard Wakely prefers frictionless collaborations
If Brexit deadline holds, Belfast International Arts Festival will begin in the EU and end beyond it
Fear and apathy at the end of the world
Dance cast moved to Arctic cabin to experience heightened sense of isolation
Prime Cut double bill review: A grim struggle couched in defiant humour
Despite, or perhaps because of, their differences ‘Every Day I wake Up Hopeful’ and ‘East Belfast Boy’ share several attributes
Reveal-ed: How investment helped the arts in the North
A three-day showcase of new work by northern artists highlights the work of a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
In the new theatre space, there’s no room for an emotional vacuum
We’re seeing a revolution in form in theatre, but content is what keeps audiences engaged
Inventions review: lingering hope resides in self-desctruction
John Scott’s blends choreographed madness with an 83-year-old calming presence
‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
Jesse Jones: On My Culture Radar
The artist on her love of historical culture, Olwen Fouéré and her guilty TV pleasure
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
Men in pieces: Raw displays of vulnerability
After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
Oona Doherty takes on Belfast’s hardest men
Part of her ‘Belfast prayer’ is a ‘big tough hug for all those dads, sons and brothers’
Watch this beautiful short film set in the social clubs and streets of Belfast
Oona Doherty and ‘Heartbreak’ director Dave Tynan collaborate on ‘A Concrete Song’
Dublin Dance Festival to hold mirror to our ‘obscene’ times
Dancers from 11 countries to perform in 40 events over 10-day programme
Abbey rejuvenates Peacock and Fiona Shaw comes to Wexford
A version of ‘The Tempest’, set in west Kerry, called ‘A Shitstorm’, is slated for theatre
Enda Walsh: Brexit result reflects British ‘inferiority complex’
Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’
Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway
Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill
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