Dublin Dance Festival 2010

Dublin Dance Festival is delighted to announce a beautiful and bold, wondrous and wild, smart and funny programme of works whose inspirations draw from sources as diverse as Beckett, Madame Bovary, Steve Martin, Billie Holiday and Sarah Bernhardt. Over the course of Dublin Dance Festival’s 6th edition, audiences will be treated to artists hailing from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and USA, as well as Ireland, with Spain’s electrifying Noche Flamenca providing the Festival’s grand finale at Vicar Street.

Established international luminaries of the dance world such as Raimund Hoghe, Yvonne Rainer and Soledad Barrio will be featured along with new European and Irish works. Among a panoply of Irish premieres, there will be world premieres from Irish artists: junk ensemble, Rex Levitates, and a work in progress from David Bolger. From further afield, an engaging new work by Jean Butler and Tere O’Connor, commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, will be presented on the Peacock stage.

For those who want to warm up their own dancing bodies, the Festival will get underway with Bumper 2 Bumper, the opening night headphone disco presented in association with Phantom 105.2 and Temple Bar Cultural Trust. It’s the perfect event to boogie the night away for free in preparation for the ensuing two weeks.

Of the 2010 programme, Festival Director Laurie Uprichard comments “This poetic title of Raimund Hoghe’s work Young People, Old Voices, conjured so many ideas, raised so many questions and ultimately inspired much of the programme for DDF 2010.”

The Dance Festival starts on May 8th and ends on May 23rd 2010. For the full program of events, please go to http://www.dublindancefestival.ie/programme/. For tickets, please see https://dublindancefestival.ticketsolve.com. To appreciate the festival and to get around easily during the festival, you can check out Dublin Airport car hire.

This festival is going to be really fun and exciting with all the fashion and dancing overloading the senses!

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