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Find out what’s coming up – how you can dance with us – and what’s happening in and around our studio in Dublin 3…
FRANCIS FOOTWORK | 180° VR
BY DAVID BOLGER “Joyful, clever, entertaining, intricate, technically superb and with a heart of goodness, Francis Footwork is a pure and simple delight. – The Irish Times “If it all sounds a little magical and wondrous, that’s because it is. As well as being one of the most exquisitely choreographed and beautifully produced pieces of dance theatre to be had anywhere…Joyous, uplifting, ...more
Go To Blazes
BY DAVID BOLGER In collaboration with Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) WINNER Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Movement NOMINATED Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Costume, Best Video Design and Audience-Choice. “O, Rocks!” In a meaty delicacy that ignites the senses, David Bolger’s evocative response to Ulysses Episode 4 probes dual realities to create a highly original ...more
The Choreography Project 20 | 2023
LED BY JUSTINE DOSWELL 4 SEPTEMBER - 14 OCTOBER 2023 BE TRULY CREATIVE. TRY SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. MEET LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE PASSIONATE ABOUT DANCE AND THEATRE. THE CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT is an opportunity to work with professional choreographers in the exploration of contemporary performance. Each project is hugely diverse, providing a lively, unique experience of the creative process and the varied practices of collaboration. ...more
Port of Dance | Croatia 2023
FRANCIS FOOTWORK VR + CREATIVE DANCE TALES GO INTERNATIONAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HKD, RIJEKA Announcing an exciting new partnership with HKD that will see FRANCIS FOOTWORK VR & CREATIVE DANCE TALES premiere at the Port of Dance Festival before going on a tour of schools later this year. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of The Republic of ...more
Award Winner
Best Movement - David Bolger FOR GO TO BLAZES and ORFEO ED EURIDICE Huge congratulations to all the winners of the 2022 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. After receiving 6 nominations we were delighted for David Bolger's win for Best Movement for GO TO BLAZES, part of Ulysses2.2 and Blackwater Valley Opera Festival's ORFEO ED EURIDICE, a partnership with the Irish ...more
ART:2023
THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING OF EACH OTHER by Peter Handke Directed by David Bolger and Garry Hynes An artistic partnership between CoisCéim & Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey. Searingly visceral, the present creates a terrifying new context for Handke’s THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING OF EACH OTHER – a theatrically disruptive artwork that addresses urgent issues of our time. It places the ...more
COISCÉIM IN THE MIX
Nominated for 6 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022! We were thrilled to wake up to multiple Irish Times Irish Theatre Award nominations last weekend with David Bolger, Arran Murphy, Neil O’Driscoll for GO TO BLAZES, part of Ulysses2.2 and Maree Kearns and David for Blackwater Valley Opera Festival's ORFEO ED EURIDICE, a partnership with the Irish Baroque Orchestra – a very ...more
THE PIECE WITH THE DRUMS
BY DAVID BOLGER WORLD PREMIERE | 24-28 JANUARY 2023 "immediate, endearing and subtle...excellently cast...a rich and constantly morphing interaction between movement and sound" - The Irish Times "flair and humour [in] this impressive production that will knock you out of the January blues." - No More Workhorse We vibe, we vibrate, hearts pumping, rhythm jumping, Drumming up ...more
Choreography Connects
Funded by an Arts Council of Ireland IRIS Award From July 2022 CHOREOGRAPHY CONNECTS is an important new venture that unites CoisCéim with two European dance trailblazers – OperaEstate/CSC, (Comune di Bassano, Italy) and Le Gymnase CDCN (France) – in a project that explores the strategic alliance between choreography, nature and care. An artist-led, residency initiative funded by Arts Council Ireland, it brings together ...more
Culture Night Dublin | 2022
FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER A glimpse inside CoisCéim’s new studio at the landmark building - 42 Fairview Strand - with a family-friendly programme of dance gems by David Bolger, including cinema-style screenings of the international hit THE WOLF AND PETER and 3D screenings of his latest work FRANCIS FOOTWORK, which was filmed live earlier this year in 180° Virtual Reality at The Ark ...more
WISE OAKS | 2022
LED BY AOIFE MCATAMNEY & POLLY ROWLEY-SAMS AN OUTDOOR WORKSHOP SERIES IN THE HEART OF DUBLIN CITY 31 AUGUST - 21 SEPTEMBER A very special workshop series where we took things outside and into nature in the city centre hub of St Stephen's Green. Meeting under the bandstand, Aoife McAtamney and Polly Rowley-Sams injected some creativity and movement into our Wednesday lunchtimes ...more
Six in the Attic Alumni Off-Site
Since 2015, Irish Theatre Institute has worked with CoisCéim in providing residency space for Six in the Attic ALUMNI requiring dedicated desk and/or studio space. Designed to support and facilitate creative development opportunities for independent artists in Ireland, Six in the Attic Alumni Off-Site facilitates residencies throughout the year. These short-term residencies are a resource sharing initiative to allow theatre makers, in ...more
Strategic Plan 2022-2027
In 2019, ahead of its 25-year anniversary, CoisCéim started to lay the foundations for a new five-year strategic plan. We looked optimistically forward to 2020... and then the world changed... provoking us to reflect and think in new ways about what a model for the future might look like. We started with our VISION and VALUES, the marks we make, and the ...more
The Choreography Project 19 | 2022
LED BY JUSTINE COOPER SUNDAY 12 June - SUNDAY 17 July 2022 A walk in nature A written reflection A poem A dance score This interdisciplinary creative dance and writing project with the exquisite Justine Cooper aimed to create a circular gift of choreography inspired by and returned to Nature, in an informal, outdoor sharing on 17 July 2022. Justine’s ...more
Cristian & Cosmo (working title)
A SHORT FILM BY DAVID BOLGER In partnership with Wildfire Films IN DEVELOPMENT | 2020-2022 Cristian & Cosmo (Working Title) is an experimental short film about crossing borders – physical, mental and emotional. It tells the true story of Cristian and Cosmo Diroice, two brothers born in Santo Domingo. With little or no English, they arrived in Tramore, Waterford in 2014 and relied on each ...more
Emma O’Kane Bursary
BENEFIT PRESENTED as part of Pavilion21 WHEN | TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2022 | 8.00PM TICKETS | €25 WHERE | Pavilion Theatre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin www.paviliontheatre.ie Emma O’Kane was an exceptionally gifted artist who moved effortlessly across artforms and media. This special evening honoured her unique artistry, with proceeds being donated to the bursary founded in her name. Thank you to all ...more
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival
ORFEO ED EURIDICE CONDUCTED BY PETER WHELAN AND DIRECTED BY DAVID BOLGER WORLD PREMIERE | 31 MAY– 6 JUNE 2022 WINNER Irish Times Irish Theatre Award 2022 for Best Movement NOMINATED Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Set, Best Opera and Audience-Choice Blackwater Valley Opera Festival – Ireland’s Summer Opera Festival – returned for 2022 with Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Running from ...more
ISADORA MASTERCLASS
WITH CHRISTOPHER ASH On the FRANCIS FOOTWORK stage at THE ARK, Dublin 2 6pm | Saturday 23 April FREE | Capacity is limited, booking required | Email sarah@coisceim.com Creators of all kinds — performance artists, designers, audio-visual techs, VJs — are able to craft unique environments, improvise and produce experimental experiences through the immersive, reactive system Isadora provides. Philadelphia-based Designer and Filmmaker Christopher Ash’s work ...more
COMING UP IN 2022
Live Dance, Opera, Film and more... Our new studio at 42 Fairview Strands boasts its first daffodil as we launch our 2022 programme - and what a year we have in store - dance, opera, film, theatre all coming your way as part of a packed programme. We kick off with a new production of FRANCIS FOOTWORK at the Ark in April, ...more