It’s the time of year when festival announcements are starting to kick in and Dublin Dance Festival made their announcement yesterday. The festival will take place from May 11-26 across venues in Dublin.
Here’s all you need to know:
Dublin Dance Festival is delighted to announce the programme for 2012, offering audiences a wealth of experiences from the diverse, creative, sensuous and adventurous worlds of contemporary dance. Festival events will appeal to audiences of all ages and tastes in venues from the Abbey Theatre to the streets of Dublin.
Julia Carruthers, new Director of Dublin Dance Festival, says, My first Festival and Dublins 8th brings together a range of work that is sure to provoke new and different responses. There is revolution, comedy, intrigue, a choir, a coffin, clouds, slapstick, invisible objects, virtuoso performers and much more. Dances customary international relations miracle gathers together artists from over 17 countries to show audiences in Dublin whats happening both at home and internationally. We will share dance that can make you feel and imagine more intensely this is dance revealing what it is to be alive. (more…)
Following on from quite a successful debut, Spirit of Folk will be back again this year in Dunderry Co. Meath from September 21st to 23rd, celebrating all things folk, with musicians and storytellers from all over Ireland and the UK coming together for a weekend of music, arts, craft, spirituality, philosophy and folklore. So successful was the festival that it was shortlisted at this years European Festival Awards for Best New Festival 2011. Not bad going!