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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…
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
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
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
Francis Footwork
by David Bolger Now in 180° VR | Click here to find out about upcoming screenings of Ireland's first Virtual Reality dance theatre production FOR EVERYONE AGED 6+ “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 ...more
THE FIRST FAIRVIEW SPECIAL | 2022
FAVOUR ODUSOLA SUPPORTED BY THE CROKE PARK COMMUNITY FUND 5, 12, 19, 26 March 2022 3.30 - 6.30pm COISCÉIM STUDIO, FAIRVIEW, DUBLIN 3 FEE: €60 / €40 Students / €15 drop-in Let's dance together! THE FAIRVIEW SPECIALS kick off with Nigerian-Irish multidisciplinary artist Favour Odusola on Saturday 5 March. Be guided by your own unique movement style to tell YOUR ...more
A Reaction to Place
BY JENNY O'LEARY Funded through an Arts Council Commission Award. A REACTION TO PLACE connects world renowned Irish contemporary dance company, CoisCéim, with architect Jenny O’Leary, in a design project that harnesses the rich heritage and embodied energy of 42 Fairview Strand to develop and present a blueprint for its evolution into a self-sustaining space where dance can thrive. "CoisCéim has ...more
OUR FATHERS
BY DAVID BOLGER (formerly UNCLE RAY) World Premiere | October 2021 Commissioned by Irish Arts Center, Pavilion Theatre, & Project Arts Centre "a rich meditation on fathers and father figures"- The Irish Times "Bolger and Rongavilla's boyish charm prove irresistible... a gorgeous, magical and charming production. Not to be resisted." - The Arts Review "fluid, engrossing and just lovely"- ...more
BUILDING SPACES OF POSSIBILITY | 2021
Led by Muirne Bloomer & Dr. Niamh Shaw In partnership with British Council Ireland & Science Gallery Dublin Supported by Science Foundation Ireland Dance meets science in BUILDING SPACES OF POSSIBILITY, which kicked off with a series of pop-up events in public spaces in central Dublin as part of Science Week 2021. This project from CoisCéim Broadreach in partnership with British ...more
Touch
by David Bolger RTÉ COMMISSION FOR CULTURE NIGHT 2021 Shot after-hours in a bounded hallway at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, this one minute film by David Bolger featuring Anderson DeSouza and Ghaliah Conroy explores the texture of touch. PREMIERE THE LATE LATE SHOW RTÉ One Friday 17 September 2021 9:35pm www.rte.ie ...more
STORYTELLERS | 2021
LED BY BHARGAVI GOPALAN & AOIFE MCATAMNEY 19 OCTOBER - 15 DECEMBER 2021 Inspired by the movement and stories of Indian Classical Dance, this project was for older people who would like to make drawings dance! Led by Bhargavi Gopalan, an incredible Bharatanatyam dancer from New Delhi together with Broadreach Guest Curator Aoife McAtamney - this eight week online project brought ...more
IN THE MAGIC HOUR
by David Bolger and Christopher Ash Part of Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh 12-20 June 2021 #inthemagichour Take a tantalising glimpse into a stranger’s life in a durational dance installation that explores our body language and physical conversations with nature – all in a handball alley during the magic hour at dusk. In the last year, our contact with each other ...more