THREADS

A dynamic season of dance and events threading the influence of German expressionism through European dance theatre and the many vibrant dance connections between Ireland and Germany.

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FILM SCREENINGS

FRIDAY 24 NOV 6PM - MEETING HOUSE SQUARE Admission Free

Café Müller by Pina Busch

An autobiographical piece by the grande dame of German dance theatre. Café Müller traces the stirring history of the Wuppertal Tanztheater. A mythical work wrapped in Purcell's melancholy arias, telling tales of loneliness.

The Green Table by Kurt Jooss

Featuring Walter Khun, now living in Ireland, this important and seminal work was created in Germany in 1932. Using masks and other props Jooss examines the timeless ravages of war.

TUESDAY 5 DEC 6PM - MEETING HOUSE SQUARE Admission Free

Atemzug by the Toula Limnaios Company

A Dance Film by the Toula Limnaois Company, produced by Inpetto-Film, ZDF/Arte

The first part of a dance-trilogy (2001 – 2003) inspired by Beckett’s ‘Texts for Nothing’, the award- winning choreography ‘Atemzug’, tells of body-strangeness, and the difficulty of being at one with oneself.   Toula Limnaios produced this 25 minute film on the basis of her piece ‘Nothing.  I want to be there, where I am not’.  She re-worked it to capture the feeling and inner meaning of the original choreography on celluloid.  Thus Limnaios translates her lyrical choreography into images that are poetic, and extraordinary. 

Taboo or Not by Marguerite Donlon

‘Taboo or Not opens like a Police Thriller.  The people who meet in this shady world – all dancers from  the Saarlandischen Staatsthteaer Ballet Company – each have a secret.  Murder lurks in the air…  The tale unravels in this film version of an original choreography using humour and – deconstructed shards of Riverdance. 

Choreography: Marguerite Donlon

Music: Sam Auinger and Tiger Lillies

Dance: Donlon Dance Company/Ballet of Saarländisches Staatstheater

Directors: Marcus Behrens, Marguerite Donlon

Producer: Radio Bremen

Friday 8 Dec 6pm – IFI, Eustace Street, Dublin 2               Admission €8

Rhythm Is It by Royston Maldoom

A collaboration with Simon Rattle of the Berlin Philharmonic, in an ambitious performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" with some 250 Berlin schoolchildren of disparate ages, ethnicities and backgrounds and virtually no experience with classical music or modem dance. This jubilant documentary traces the multi stranded preparations, highlighting the vibrant personalities of Rattle, Maldoom and a handful of the students as chaos is transformed into order under the driving rhythm of Stravinsky's primordial score

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