A Troupe of dancers will spend the next month touring with a new show, AutumnDances', which opened this week in Temple Bar's Project.
The show included work choreographed by the award-winning, New York-based John Jasperse who has a hectic touring schedule of his own to complete. Attending the opening night on Wednesday of the Irish Modern Dance Theatre's show , he was heading for Prague the next day. Then he will travel to Munich, on to Lyons, then Budapest, Belgrade and "then home".
In dance, he said "there's this image of glamour but that's all very false. It doesn't have so much to do with that but every so often in a really magical moment in the show you uncover some idea that you didn't even really know you had. It's that moment of discovery that . . ." . Makes it all worthwhile? "Yes," he said.
Before he arrived in Dublin, he was awarded the prestigious Bessie Award, which is in memory of the famous dancer and pedagogue, Bessie Schöenberg, he explained.
John Scott, artistic director of the Irish Modern Dance Theatre and choreographer of the first piece in the production, accepted congratulations from the many guests.Noel Sheridan, former director of the National College of Art and Design, was "blown away" by the show.
Gavin Quinn took time out from discussing the evening's production to talk about the up-coming fifth Pan Pan International Theatre Symposium. As artistic director, the six-day event at Temple Bar's Project and ArtHouse will host a series of talks, workshops and theatre productions next January, he said.
Limerick woman Therese Browne, a costume designer who is home having been based in Berlin for the past 20 years, enjoyed the performance.
After tonight's show at Project, AutumnDances' moves to Cork, Drogheda, Cavan and Bray next week, and then on to Tralee, Mullingar, Waterford, New Ross, Longford and Castlebar.