Dance

The Guide: Max Richter, Kneecap, Bambie Thug and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

October 26th to November 1st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sat Oct 26 2024 - 05:00

All-Ireland contemporary dance company ‘a new dawn’ for art form

Collaborative venture to be led by Liz Roche Company will involve Belfast-based Maiden Voyage Dance and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick

Mon Mar 04 2024 - 05:00

Jean Butler: ‘There’s an expression of love that happens when people dance together’

Themes of retrieval and transformation abound in What We Hold, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022

Mon Feb 19 2024 - 06:00

Jezahel: ‘This is for the generations who have yet to experience that four-four beat banging through their chests’

Malachy Duggan’s play about a rave is a call to action to rehabilitate Ireland’s night-time culture

Thu Nov 30 2023 - 05:00

‘My mum would sign me to sleep every night, and they’d be these huge, intricate stories she painted with her hands’

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: In Resonance, Chloe Commins fuses aerial arts with her experience of growing up as a child of deaf adults

Sun Sept 10 2023 - 05:45

Michael Harding: My courageous farmer friend fights his loneliness by dancing

Old dancers used to be lionised for their steps, because their exuberance contrasted with their seniority, evoking both awe and pity in the tragic ritual

Thu Jan 26 2023 - 05:00

‘For Helen, dance was life. Pure and simple.’

Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance celebrates a woman who refused to be defined by the wartime horrors she endured and instead became a major figure in the cultural life of Belfast

Thu Jan 19 2023 - 05:00

Estonian ballet casts its unbreakable spell

As a country of less than 1.5 million people located close to two warring nations, Estonia is proudly sending its close-knit company of dancers out on tour

Sat Dec 24 2022 - 05:00

How to enjoy ballet: Lessons can help build your strength, balance and confidence

Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit

Sat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00

What We Hold review: Five stars for Jean Butler’s astonishing dance work

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The dance star’s fine intergenerational ensemble delivers a visual, aural archive of Irish step dance

Fri Oct 07 2022 - 10:53

Dublin Dance Festival 2021: The unbearable lightness of being apart

Watching this year’s programme online was frustrating but also brought new intimacies

Tue May 25 2021 - 05:00

In marking Prince Philip’s death BBC didn’t so much lose the plot as revert to ancient one

Broadcaster stuck to protocols that harked back to pre-Netflix levels of influence

Mon Apr 12 2021 - 16:06

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

Thu Jun 28 2018 - 05:45