JEREMIAH DAY AND SIMONE FORTI
NEWS ANIMATIONS/NO WORDS FOR YOU, SPRINGFIELD
PLACE: GALLERY
TIME: 11AM TO 8PM
DATE: UNTIL 3 MAY, 2008
Jeremiah Day will show a new series of photo-works commissioned by Project Arts Centre depicting contemporary Springfield, a meditation on the city as the end point of the Blasket story-telling tradition. For the exhibition, Day has askedlegendary dance performer Simone Forti to assemble a video focussing on her 'news animations' - a body of work Forti has developed since the early 1980's of improvising from the content of the daily news.
1st ANNUAL DANCE FESTIVAL
girl jonah premieres She Was A Knife Thrower's Assistant and presents This Two in their first appearance at the Dublin Dance Festival. These intimate duets are executed in their own unique style as they embark on a fascinating journey to discover how their bodies work, both individually and together. Introspective and revealing, this journey of discovery evolves before your eyes... bodies dancing, bodies dancing different dances, bodies dancing the same dances differently. girl jonah is Caroline Bowditch and Fiona Wright. As individuals they have many differences (one Australian, one British; one disabled, one nondisabled) but together they collaborate to explore both their similarities and differences, challenging conventional assumptions about the dancing body. Since they began their collaboration over three years ago, girl jonah has been proactive in raising the visibility of disabled artists.
THIS TWO – 2 MAY 1PM/5PM/7.30PM - €15/12 (CONC)
SHE WAS A KNIFE THROWER’S ASSISTANT – 3 MAY 1PM/2PM/5PM - €15/12 (CONC)
AMERICA JUNCTION PRODUCTIONS (USA) -THE EYES OF BABYLON
5-10 MAY, 7.45PM – CUBE - €14/12 (CONC)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Lance Corporal Jeff Key, United States Marine, used ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ to eyewitness to the world the wrongs of US Policy in Iraq. Key came out on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now on 31/03/04. This gripping one man play is his personal struggle to reconcile being in Iraq in a war he discovers is illegal and immoral and his profound commitment to the reasons he became a marine because September 11th 2001.
CIOTÓG AND THE MACUSHLA DANCE CLUB
PALIMPSEST
PLACE: SPACE UPSTAIRS
TIME: 7PM
DATE: 14-17 MAY, 2008
TICKETS: €14/10 (CONC), €8 (SENIOR CITIZENS)
PREVIEWS: 13 MAY, €10/8 (SENIOR CITIZENS
Older and younger dancers, people who dance for a living, people who live for dance, sharing tales of their dancing days from dance halls to dance studios. Palimpsest is a new dance theatre performance choreographed by Ríonach Ní Néill, partnering Ciotóg dancers with members of the Macushla Dance Club for the over 50s.
JESSE JONES
THE SPECTRE AND THE SPHERE
PLACE: GALLERY
TIME: 11AM-8PM
DATE: 16 MAY – 14 JUNE, 2008
TICKETS: FREE ADMISSION
OPENING: 15 MAY @ 6PM * ALL WELCOME
A solo exhibition and new 16mm film work by Irish artist Jesse Jones, The Spectre and the Sphere evokes the specters of historical ideology. Filmed in two theatrical locations, and charged with an eerie interpretation of the Internationale by Lydia Kavinia on Theramin, the film is further steered towards the ghosts of Marxism by a choral arrangement which has been commissioned as one of the main ‘texts’ of the film. While panning through an empty Belgian socialist market-castle, which is now a thriving art venue, the voices of a 30-strong choir whisper into a transformative experience which has taken place in the formerly white cube.
GALLERY DIALOGUE
15 MAY, 5PM with Jesse Jones and Tessa Giblin
10 JUNE, 4PM with Jonathan Carroll
CALYPSO PRODUCTIONS
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA
PLACE: SPACE UPSTAIRS
TIME: 8PM
DATE: 22 MAY – 7 JUNE, 2008
TICKET: €25/20 (CONC)
PREVIEW(S): 21 MAY, €20/15 (CONC)
MATINÉE(S): 2.30PM, SATURDAYS €20/15 (CONC)
Lisa Jones is searching for something she lost on a flight from New York to London. It is giving her much cause for concern when an odd looking man appears to explain how she may have lost the precious artefact, one hour of her life. A series of surreal and amusing events occur as we witness Lisa's increasing anxiety until eventually she is told that she will find her hour if she visits the world of 'Dissocia' and claims it back!
SHAKRAM DANCE COMPANY
FROZEN / TWO WORLDS LIE AT THEIR FEET
PLACE: SPACE UPSTAIRS
TIME: 8PM
DATE: 21-24 MAY, 2008
TICKETS: €16/13 (CONC)
PREVIEW(S): 20 MAY, €12
MATINÉE(S): 2.30PM, SAT 24 MAY, €12
Shakram Dance Company present a double bill of film, dance, theatre and sound:
Frozen is a dance film set in the streets of Dublin and in the Garden of Remembrance. It presents a dilemma in the contemporary Irish psyche struggling to reconcile Ireland old and new.
Two Worlds Lie At Their Feet: Mairead Vaughan and Regan O’Brien simultaneously perform self-devised solos woven together in a symbiotic exchange of dance, theatre and voice, accompanied by Dara O’Brien’s live soundscape.
TRAVELLER WAGON WHEEL THEATRE COMPANY
IT’S A CULTURAL THING OR IS IT, A TRAVELLER IN PROGRESS
PLACE: CUBE
TIME: 8.15PM
DATE: 27-31 MAY, 2008
TICKETS: €18/15 (CONC)
PREVIEW(S) 26 MAY, €12
Based on the life experiences of Michael Collins, a Traveller, who remembers his childhood through innocent eyes. The performance sees Michael going from living in the fields of Kilbeggan in a barrel top wagon to living in a tent at the top of Prosperous Hill. He describes his family’s journey to Dublin to join the other Travellers who started the exodus to Dublin as a result of changes in the social welfare system and the end of the traditional way of life. It is a fast paced sequence of stories that are a microcosm of the history of the Traveller community over the past 40 years. |
