Touring February 2012 : touch me
TOUCH ME received its premiere at Project Arts Centre, Dublin on 11 November 2011 and will tour throughout Ireland in February 2012. Click here for tickets, reviews and more information. We are delighted to be working again with Kenneth Edge, who has composed for many CoisCéim shows in our early years. Kenneth is also performing in the production. The cast includes Jen Fleenor, Olwen Grindley, James Hosty, Robert Jackson, Nick McGough and Emma O'Kane. Related projects from CoisCéim Broadreach include the Youth Dance Workshop Programme.
David Bolger, Artistic Director, was recently honoured with an Ivey Award for his "dazzling" work on the Guthrie Theater's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, which was directed by Joe Dowling. The Ivey Awards is a celebration that honours and showcases the work of professional theatre companies and artists in the Twin Cities. The splash-hit musical can be seen in the US when PBS airs the Guthrie production on Friday, October 14 at 9 p.m. EST.
Jenny Traynor, General Manager, was awarded an E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities Mobility Grant to visit Bucharest, Romania for the eXplore Festival in October. E-MOTIONAL: Bodies & Cities is a two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, and Turkey.
David Bolger, Emma O'Kane and Olwen Grindley performed cello counterpoint at the Reich Effect Festival in July at Firkin Crane in Cork. Choreographed by David Bolger with Kate Ellis on Cello, presented in association with the Cork Opera House. They also performed the piece for Culture Night in September at the Mermaid Arts Centre Bray as part of a presentation with Crash Ensemble and Fishamble.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the fifth partnership project for people aged 50+ between CoisCéim Broadreach and Dublin City Council’s Arts, Sports and Leisure and Community Development Sections.
WILD & WONDERFUL A riotous celebration about men and women in song and dance
Beginning 6 March CoisCéim’s choreographers will host weekly drop-in dance classes at seven centres across Dublin.
Broadreach is also offering a new Youth Dance Workshop Programme to coincide with the Company's new production TOUCH ME.
Booking is now open for the ongoing adult evening classes at CoisCéim Studio. Broadreach also runs weekly drop-in CLASSES FOR PEOPLE AGED 50+ at St. Teresa's Church on Clarendon Street.
Creative Steps - young people's dance theatre is now open to new members. Click here to find out more.
In 2001, CoisCéim Dance Theatre ventured into the world of dance film and was the first dance company to receive funding from Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board for the film HIT AND RUN. Co-produced by CoisCéim Dance Theatre and Rough Magic Films, HIT AND RUN is a dark, edgy dance film about the disintegration of a young urban gang whose lives are changed forever in one night. The film premiered at the IFC as part of the first International Dance Festival held in May 2002.
HIT AND RUN is now available on DVD at the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar (Tel. 01 679 5744). It will also have a digital release in some territories (including the United States and the UK ) via TenduTV later this year.
CoisCEim are producing some of the most thought-provoking physical theatre around.
Scotland on Sunday
Photo by Ros Kavanagh