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Letter from Warsaw: Somewhere under the Rainbow

by Joanna Derkaczew on 21 November 2013

“They won’t burn us all!” Those words, and many like them, screamed helplessly from the walls of Polish Facebook accounts on the day when an angry crowd of neo-Nazis and radical nationalists was busy trying to demolish Warsaw. It was the 11th of November, Polish Independence Day, and...

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riverrun: Olwen Fouéré on the voice of the river

by Susan Conley on 07 July 2013

It occurred to me, before going to meet Olwen Fouéré at a rehearsal for her upcoming performance, riverrrun, that I should maybe give Finnegans Wake a look in. The piece is based on it, after all. I remember feeling quite smug when I had got through Ulysses — ‘got through’ it, like...

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Tour allure: Irish theatre and dance companies on the move

by Christine Madden on 05 July 2013

Ireland has a long – often tragic – history of exporting its talent in the form of emigration. It was usually the worst kind of business deal, because the value of the export – priceless – was in no way matched by the compensation. There is, however, one kind of human...

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IETM Dublin meeting: Tried and Trusted

by Jesse Weaver on 22 April 2013

IETM’s primary purpose has always been about networking and ‘if anything, [it] is built on trust,’ says IETM board president and artistic director of Dansen Hus Virve Sutinen. ‘It is a network of people and ideas, and it is at the same time informal and formal.’ Producers...

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All in a day's work: DYT's 24 Hour Plays 2013

by Peter Crawley on 17 January 2013

The contract of The 24 Hour Plays is as simple as it is nerve fraying. An exercise in extreme dramaturgy facilitated by New York’s 24 Hour Company, and staged for a second year as a fundraiser for Dublin Youth Theatre, it asks for six ten-minute plays to be written, rehearsed and performed in the...

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IETM Dublin 2013 - Meet, Mingle and Trust

by Jesse Weaver on 11 January 2013

IETM began in the early 1980s as a way for European theatre, dance and performance professionals to exchange knowledge and build relationships across a range of cultural and social contexts. The acronym IETM originally stood for Informal European Theatre Meeting, but its function as forum for networking,...

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One foot off the Island: Pan Pan's International Mentorship Programme

by Fíona Ni Chinnéide on 23 December 2012

Funded through a Resource Sharing Grant from the Arts Council, Pan Pan's international mentorship programme sets out to create the space for artists to “take time to focus on developing their creative ideas” – something ever more elusive now, in times of increasing focus on end product...

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A year of progress and reversals: Theatre in Northern Ireland in 2012

by Jane Coyle on 09 December 2012

While the sector has struggled to contend with scything cuts in core funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), chinks of light have gleamed from other sources. This has been the first year in the Decade of Centenaries – the official acknowledgement of significant anniversaries from...

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Contemporary Dance on the Move

by Christine Madden on 08 November 2012

When choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir was collaborating with conceptual artist Xiao Ke in China, he made an astonishing observation. While the two of them were on stage, he leapt and dashed into all corners of the stage, trying, in his Western way, to fill the space with his presence. He noticed, however,...

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The Talk of the Town: Emma Donoghue, Annabelle Comyn and Maeve Brennan

by Susan Conley on 03 October 2012

The previews were packed out, the run has been extended until 20 October, and it seems that The Talk of The Town has become, well, the talk of the town. Produced by Hatch Theatre Company, Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival, the play was quite lovingly developed by director Annabelle Comyn,...

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