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IETM Dublin meeting: Tried and Trusted

by Jesse Weaver on 22 April 2013

IETM’s primary purpose has always been about networking and ‘if anything, [it] is built on trust,’ says IETM board president and artistic director of Dansen Hus Virve Sutinen. ‘It is a network of people and ideas, and it is at the same time informal and formal.’ Producers...

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All in a day's work: DYT's 24 Hour Plays 2013

by Peter Crawley on 17 January 2013

The contract of The 24 Hour Plays is as simple as it is nerve fraying. An exercise in extreme dramaturgy facilitated by New York’s 24 Hour Company, and staged for a second year as a fundraiser for Dublin Youth Theatre, it asks for six ten-minute plays to be written, rehearsed and performed in the...

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IETM Dublin 2013 - Meet, Mingle and Trust

by Jesse Weaver on 11 January 2013

IETM began in the early 1980s as a way for European theatre, dance and performance professionals to exchange knowledge and build relationships across a range of cultural and social contexts. The acronym IETM originally stood for Informal European Theatre Meeting, but its function as forum for networking,...

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One foot off the Island: Pan Pan's International Mentorship Programme

by Fíona Ni Chinnéide on 23 December 2012

Funded through a Resource Sharing Grant from the Arts Council, Pan Pan's international mentorship programme sets out to create the space for artists to “take time to focus on developing their creative ideas” – something ever more elusive now, in times of increasing focus on end product...

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A year of progress and reversals: Theatre in Northern Ireland in 2012

by Jane Coyle on 09 December 2012

While the sector has struggled to contend with scything cuts in core funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), chinks of light have gleamed from other sources. This has been the first year in the Decade of Centenaries – the official acknowledgement of significant anniversaries from...

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Contemporary Dance on the Move

by Christine Madden on 08 November 2012

When choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir was collaborating with conceptual artist Xiao Ke in China, he made an astonishing observation. While the two of them were on stage, he leapt and dashed into all corners of the stage, trying, in his Western way, to fill the space with his presence. He noticed, however,...

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The Talk of the Town: Emma Donoghue, Annabelle Comyn and Maeve Brennan

by Susan Conley on 03 October 2012

The previews were packed out, the run has been extended until 20 October, and it seems that The Talk of The Town has become, well, the talk of the town. Produced by Hatch Theatre Company, Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival, the play was quite lovingly developed by director Annabelle Comyn,...

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Keeping Everything Completely Alive: Corn Exchange's 'Dubliners'

by Fintan Walsh on 30 August 2012

‘You’re funny on Twitter,’ Annie Ryan tells me towards the end of our conversation, ‘and you wouldn’t have known.’ Having spied on her actors work up a sweat during high-energy rehearsals at Leinster Cricket Club, Rathmines, moments before we meet, I wonder if I too...

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A celebration of Risk, Creativity and Protest: ABSOLUT Fringe comes of age

by Susan Conley on 14 August 2012

From a journalistic perspective, having been around the Dublin Fringe Festival for 14 of its 18 years means having been in many an office space, either to collect reviewing tickets or to interview main players. These offices have run the gamut from gloomy to grotty, and all have had a temporary, don’t-toss-the-packing-boxes-in-the-bin...

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Academia and Professional Theatre: initiatives, partnerships and collaborations

by Jesse Weaver on 10 August 2012

There has arguably always been a connection, however tenuous, between academia and the professional realm of Irish theatre and performance. The university system in Ireland has served in one or another as a kind of rough hewn hatchery of theatre artists and companies, usually through loosely structured...

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