The festival brings together contemporary movement and music from across Europe.

The Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre production in collaboration with Liam Ó Maonlaí is starting to tour internationally and will be back in Ireland during the summer.

The Tocht Festival of Dance is taking place this weekend at Siamsa Tíre Theatre, Town Park, Tralee, County Kerry, and the Fonn Rince dance school is on next weekend in Tigh Roy, Ionad Cultúrtha in the Glen of Aherlow, County Tipperary.

MC Jerry O’Reilly will be teaching some more easy set-dances to music from Colm Delaney on concertina, Peter Staunton on accordion and Phil Gaynor on drums.

This is Dunne’s first full-length solo show. A collaboration with sound engineer Fionán de Barra, the show presents multi-media elements of text, film and sound design with the dance.

Rian is a collaboration between the musician Liam Ó Maonlaí and the choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan. For Jack Talty at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, the lines between music and dance began to disappear.

One moment — BBC presenter Zane Lowe's on-air dismissal of Beyoncé's Glastonbury performance — has haunted Stephen Graham for months. To him it shows up layers of predjudices about music still rife in our society.

Student dancers at the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, May 2008: photograph from a current exhibition at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, by Maurice Gunning, photographer-in-residence at the Academy

Kevin Stevens travels to Ethiopia to find a tradition that has flourished against the odds.