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INTERNATIONAL
DANSE
FESTIVAL IRELAND
Dance. Following
the enormous success of the previous two festivals, the
International Dance Festival Ireland Festival will take
place from 21 April to 7 May
in theatre venues in Dublin city centre where we will present a
select range of contemporary dance from around the world, and in
particular this year, from France.
-
José
Montalvo &
Dominique Hervieu "On
Danfe"
(France)
From internationally award-winning French duo with
baroque music of Jean-Philippe Rameau, extravagant video design
and seventeen magnificent dancers, exponents of all styles of
dance from hip-hop, to ballet; from African to belly-dancing,
from contemporary to jazz.
Friday 28th
& Saturday 29th, The Abbey Theatre.
- Jérôme
Bel &
Pichet Klunchun "Pichet
Klunchun and
myself"
(France/Thailand)
Jérôme
Bel brings his thought-provoking, highly intelligent and
strangely moving blend of conceptual dance back to Dublin,
meeting with innovative Thai classical dance artist Pichet
Klunchun. In exchanging answers and stories and steps, the two
men attempt to explain their individual worlds to each other, as
well as exploring the cultural abyss that separates them.
Tuesday
25th & Wednesday 26th, Project
Space Upstairs.
More
information :
www.dancefestivalireland.ie
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BRAY
JAZZ
FESTIVAL 2006
Jazz.
Bray
Jazz Festival is one of the famous festivals in Ireland
bringing reknowned Jazz performers from all the world.
- Nguyen
Lê "Bakida Trio". Bakida
Trio is filled with vibrant colors and rich contrasts. The music
of the Vietnamese Nguyen Lê, guitarist, hesitates between
meditation and forceful energy and contains elements of jazz,
rock, funk and classical music like a central current flowing
through the streams of cultures : West and East, South and
North, radiant and magnetic.
- Simulacrum
Opening
for Nguyen
Lê,
featuring Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle, one of the major
figures of the Irish jazz scene, and French violonist Dominique
Pifarely.
Sunday 30th at 8pm, Mermaid
Arts Centre.
-
Tommy
Halferty & The Lavergne Brothers "The Irish -
French Connexion". One of the country’s foremost Jazz
guitarists will perform in company with the Lavergne brothers,
Jean-Philippe (hammond organ) and Christophe (drums), a music between jazz,
fusion and rock.
Sunday
30th at 9pm, The Esplanade Hotel.
More
information :
www.brayjazz.com
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Did
you know ?
The french word slogan comes from
sluagh - ghairm (pronounced "slogorm"), which is irish for "battle-cry". |
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SAMUEL
BECKETT
CENTENARY
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Centenary Symposium. During the Beckett Symposium
in Trinity college, two plays will be represented in French. The first,
“Not I”, directed by Barbara Hutt is played by Raphaëlle Gitlis. The second,
“Krapp’s Last Tape” is performed by Pierre Chabert as he was directed by Beckett himself in 1975. This play was presented in many capital cities, including in Europe and the United States.
Trinity College, Friday 7at 8.30pm
- “L’Image”, a nine-page sentence written in May 1988, will be directed for the first time in Ireland by Arthur Nauzyciel with the French actress
Anne Brochet and dancer Damien Jalet. They will read and perform the text, highlighting its musical and rythmical aspects with an original soundtrack by David Lacey and Paul Vogel.
SS Michael et Johns Church
Saturday 8, Sunday 9 at 6pm
- Readings.
The reknowned French actor Denis Podalydès, member of the prestigious Comédie Française,
and Caroline Silhol will give a reading of some of Beckett’s French texts along with
two Irish actors who will in
return read Beckett texts in English.
The Gate Theatre
Friday 14 at 1.15pm
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