Emma Martin

Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape

Part of her ‘Belfast prayer’ is a ‘big tough hug for all those dads, sons and brothers’

Emma Martin’s new show seeps into the consciousness long after leaving the theatre

Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

Ballet Ireland changes direction, after 20 years in business

Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots

Ann Mulrooney’s penchant for understatement and natural materials was brought to bear when she renovated a coach house, working with its idiosyncrasies

Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’

Its creators sometimes worry that modern dance will be lost on many people. So what does a first-timer make of Emma Martin’s ‘Tundra’, the opening show at Dublin Dance Festival?

Dublin Dance Festival’s opening show has the style and pace of a Nordic noir thriller

Emma Martin, whose ‘Tundra’ opens this year’s Dublin Dance Festival, says dance is about working with ‘things that are beyond words’ – even if that means venturing into some very bleak territory

Feminism, genetics, marine science, anti-capitalism: Galway Dance Days proves that dance artists can be intellectual equals to the sciences and humanities

Several new theatrical productions are asking audiences to stare at disabled people, and explore their loves, lives and issues