The Alliance Française in Dublin Monthly Newsletter

SUMMER TERM

French Courses. The first summer Term for adults has now begun, please report to the second session : 31st July - 21st September 2006.
Evenings courses will include general French and conversation classes from monday to thursday during 8 weeks. Assessments will be held between 4.30pm and 6.30pm on the following dates in July :

Assessments are free of charge and no booking is required. Please note that you don't need an assessment if you are a complete beginner.

Daytime courses for teenagers are still available, every two weeks for 4th Year, 5th Year and Leaving Cert, and every four weeks for 1st Year, 2nd Year and Junior Cert. These courses prepare students for the class they will enter in September 2006.

You can download in pdf the timetable brochure for the current term by clicking here.
For more information, please contact info@alliance-francaise.ie

Alliance Française 
1 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

DOUBLE B(L)IND

Danse. Conceived and staged by Agnès Chekroun (France), Fabrice Mazliah (Switzerland) and Jone San Martin (Spain). Produced by William Forsythe / Ballet Frankfurt (Germany).
Developed from the notion of double bind, introduced by the American anthropologist Gregory Bateson, this innovative and intriguing dance piece questions paradoxical, repeated and foreseeable situations. A mesmerizing work on contradiction, closure and alienation.
Double B(l)ind was created on March 5, 2004 at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt within the context of a carte blanche offered by William Forsythe to the Chekroun / Mazliah / San Martin group. Since 2002, they have developed a common choreographic work which questions roles and categories, boundaries and limits as well as the status of performer and choreographer.

This is the first event supported jointly under the tri-national cultural agreement between the Alliance Française Dublin, the Goethe-Institut Dublin, the Instituto Cervantes Dublin

21^st & 22^nd July 2006
6.30pm & 8.00pm

Samuel Beckett Theatre
Trinity College, Dublin 2

OLIVIER KER OURIO

Concert. Olivier Ker Ourio (chromatic harmonica), Tommy Halferty (guitar), Michael Coady (bass).
We continue our occasional Friday night musical salon in conjunction with Improvised Music Company, as Olivier Ker Ourio plays the chromatic harmonica. In Ker Ourio’s cupped hands, it becomes sinuous, assertive and hugely expressive, evoking the mastery of its greatest exponent, Belgium’s Toots Thielemans.
The settings is for the chromatic harmonica’s singing colours, revisited here in the company of leading Irish musicians Michael Coady and Tommy Halferty. They will be playing standards along with Ker Ourio’s engaging compositions, both a reflection of Ker Ourios’ cultural identity. As a contemporary jazz musician, the other as a native of La Réunion, the French Région and Département d’Outre Mer in the Indian Ocean where he grew up.

Friday 2 June - 7.30pm
Admission 14 euro