Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography 2025
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE, SCREENING, WORKSHOPS, AND EVENTS
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LIVE PROGRAMME
Sunday 6 July
2:00 PM | Unit 44
Dancer from the Dance Festival Live Programme
- Me And My Shadow / Ronan Connor
- A DANCE / Magdalena Hylak, Lionel Kasparin
- Here Comes Trouble / Keira Martin
- Killeagh / Alex O'Neill
WORKSHOPS
Monday 7 July
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Dance Ireland
w/ Mufutau Yusuf
Your Own Groove
This improvisation workshop invites you to explore your unique movement vocabulary and imagination in fresh, dynamic ways. Through a variety of tools and playful challenges, you'll push past personal limits while connecting with others and sharing your dance. The emphasis is on embracing your own groove, honouring what feels authentic and expressive to you. Energetic, physical, and joyfully inclusive, this class is designed for all dance enthusiasts, regardless of experience. Most importantly, it’s all about having fun.
LIVE PROGRAMME
Sunday 6 July
4:00 PM | Temple Bar Gallery
Dancer from the Dance Festival Live Programme
- A Holy Show of It / Rosie Mullin
- Hyperactive / John Scott IMDT
FILM SCREENING
Monday 7 July
6:30 PM | Irish Film Institute
Irish Focus Films - Dancer from the Dance Festival
- On Mending / Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
- I'm Trying to Help / Zoë Ashe-Browne
- Rebellious Hope / Philip Connaughton
- Navy Blue / Oona Doherty, Luca Truffarelli
-Part III / Alex O'Neill
- Library Session / Mufutau Yusuf
PLATFORM PERFORMANCE
Wednesday 9 July
6:00 PM | Dance Ireland
Dancer from the Dance Platform Performance
- Oyster / Kama Bugala
- Finding balance in the stars / Cristian Dirocie
- Untitled / Subhishini Goda
- SHIFT / Safire Hikari
- The boxes / Yves Lorrhane
- suantraí / Eoin Ó Fíannachta
- SAY 3 ten / The S.A.Y. Collective
- Logic of Wrong and Rehearsed Carelessness / Alexandra Vostokova
WORKSHOPS
Tuesday 8 July
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Dance Ireland
w/ Magdalena Hylak
Merce Cunningham’s ’50 Looks’ dance
’50 Looks’ (1979) is a solo constructed from a gamut of 50 positions, originally conceived as a video project. Merce danced “50 Looks” in Events for many years. He assembled the positions using chance operations, in this case, the hexagrams of the I Ching, which determined what step, or “look,” would go first and then what would go next.
50 Looks can be learned by both highly trained dancers and non dancers alike. Patricia Lent, Co Director of Merce cunningham Trust describes it thus: “It’s not about being perfect,” she says on the video. “It’s about rising to the challenge of the task. The solo is an act of concentration.”
WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY 9 July
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Dance Ireland
w/ Junk Ensemble
Devising for Performance
The workshop will begin with an energetic & physically inclusive warm-up, and progress into task-based exercises devised in groups and in pairs. The movement tasks will be informed by: physical attachment and restriction of the body and space and text & memory focused physical exercises, relying on a creative devising process from the participants.
The workshop will be led by Junk Ensemble Directors Jessica & Megan Kennedy.
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