Dance Festivals In Tipperary And Kerry
Nic Gareiss. Photograph: Paul O’Connor.
Tigh Roy, Ionad Cultúrtha in the Glen of Aherlow, South Tipperary will host the Fonn Rince dance school this year from 20 – 22 April. The festival features concerts, workshops, lectures, sean-nós dance exhibitions and sean-nós dance sessions. Dancers, including Seosamh Ó Neachtain, Paul Moran, Mairéad Casey, Edwina Guckian, Liam Ó Scanláin and Roy Ó Gealbháin, will perform at the Taispeántas Rince, with live music provided by Bobby Gardiner, P.J. Hernon and Sean Bashford, and presented by Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich.
Meanwhile, the Tocht Festival of Dance is taking place this weekend in Siamsa Tíre Theatre, Town Park, Tralee. Kerry’s Official Dance Festival, Tocht is two days of all kinds of dance-related activities – watching, learning, and joining in. The festival was born out of the Dancer in Residence Scheme in 2011 by dancer and choreographer Catherine Young and Siamsa Tíre, The National Folk Theatre of Ireland, supported by Kerry County Council and the Arts Council. All kinds of dance feature, including this year: comedy dance, traditional dance, hip-hop, salsa and dance for people of all ages.
The Dance it up! performance tonight includes Pony Dance, 2Faced Dance, Kerry Youth Dance Theatre, Catherine Young and her company YoCo, Jonathan Kelliher, and Nic Gareiss.
Tomorrow, Saturday, the performance element is Frame - Ciotóg, a new dance work created and performed by Michelle Fagan and Ríonach Ní Néill with film by Marek Bogacki. The programme states: ‘How does the architectural mind work? What inspires and frustrates architects and how do they see space differently from others? In this new work, architect Michelle Fagan and dancer Ríonach Ní Néill attempt to illustrate and explain the architectural imagination and creative process.’
Published on 13 April 2012
