Once upon a time two budding ballerinas battled for perfection in the sugar-coated world of Ballet. Their hopes and dreams didn't survive … but they did. This is their story.

Choreographed and performed by Muirne Bloomer and Emma O'Kane, these seasoned performers will surprise and entertain as they struggle from barre to bar in their quest for peace and reconciliation.

Set to a sumptuous score by Tchaikovsky, this is The Ballet Ruse – raw, honest, with frills attached. A lunchtime show without sandwiches.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Presented by Muirne Bloomer & Emma O'Kane

Once upon a time two budding ballerinas battled for perfection in the sugar-coated world of Ballet. Those hopes and dreams didn't survive.......but they did. This is their story.

To a sumptuous score ranging from Tchaikovsky to Lady Gaga, these seasoned performers will surprise and entertain as they struggle from barre to bar in their quest for peace and reconciliation. The Ballet Ruse: raw, honest, with frills attached. This is a lunchtime show without sandwiches.

For information and tickets visit www.fringefest.com

'NOW'

PRESENTATIONS BY THE DAGHDHA MENTORING PROGRAMME 2010
10 – 19 SEPTEMBER
DAGHDHA SPACE, ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, JOHN'S SQUARE AND OTHER LOCATIONS

Daghdha Dance Company invites you to 'NOW', ten days of unique presentations by this year's 2009/10 Daghdha Mentoring Programme (DMP) resident artists. Admission is free and donations welcome.

For a year, Daghdha has provided an inspiring home for fourteen artists to develop their own practise.  'NOW' reveals their findings through ten days of dance, performance, installations, workshops, video, ritual, film, participation and exhibitions. Works will be presented in the stunning surroundings of Daghdha Space St. John's Church, John's Square alongside other locations to include: Faber Studios, Occupy Space and the Burren.

For full programme details please visit www.daghdha.ie

Inevitably the artists on the programme have been inspired by working and living in Limerick. With such a wide spectrum of artistic styles and mediums, 'NOW' promises a compelling  programme, not to be missed.

DMP ARTISTS
Kaspar Aus, Giorgio Convertito, Jesse den Dulk, Emmalena Fredriksson, Christina Gangos, Jessica Kelly, Amy Kinlon, Christopher Mahon, Gwen Mc Hale, Isabella Oberländer, Diane Reddington, Edd Schouten, Maria Svensson, Cathy Walsh

DMP COORDINATOR
Bush Hartshorn

NB. Some performances may contain adult material

'NOW '

Presentations by the Daghdha Mentoring Programme 2010
10 – 19th September 2010
Ten days of choreography and dance
Daghdha Space and other locations within the Limerick city

http://www.daghdha.ie/

Once upon a time two budding ballerinas battled for perfection in the sugar-coated world of Ballet. Their hopes and dreams didn't survive … but they did. This is their story.

Choreographed and performed by Muirne Bloomer and Emma O'Kane, these seasoned performers will surprise and entertain as they struggle from barre to bar in their quest for peace and reconciliation.

Set to a sumptuous score by Tchaikovsky, this is The Ballet Ruse – raw, honest, with frills attached. A lunchtime show without sandwiches.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

HANG ON
Performed by two outstanding dancers, this powerful show takes place on the ground and in the air. Staged to original live music and video art, it is highly physical, often raw, sometimes sensual and always real. Fidget Feet are doing what they do best – fusing gravity-defying aerial circus skills with dance.

PARADISE DANCE HALL
It ends with a mysterious bruise, a longdistance dance, and a swallow tattoo to guide you. It starts with the people you haunt, and the traces of those who left without explanation. It's a live performance, with under-thecounter true stories. It's a blind date, with music to fill those awkward silences. It's dance for people who don't like dance. It's a guilty pleasure. It will not be sentimental, but it might be beautiful. It could get a bit x-rated. There may even be a slow-set. But whatever happens, you will not go home alone.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

HANG ON
Performed by two outstanding dancers, this powerful show takes place on the ground and in the air. Staged to original live music and video art, it is highly physical, often raw, sometimes sensual and always real. Fidget Feet are doing what they do best – fusing gravity-defying aerial circus skills with dance.

Hang On was commissioned by Westmeath County Council and Backstage Theatre supported by Shawbrook, Dance Ireland and premiered at Longford Dance Festival April 2010.

PARADISE DANCE HALL
It ends with a mysterious bruise, a longdistance dance, and a swallow tattoo to guide you. It starts with the people you haunt, and the traces of those who left without explanation. It's a live performance, with under-thecounter true stories. It's a blind date, with music to fill those awkward silences. It's dance for people who don't like dance. It's a guilty pleasure. It will not be sentimental, but it might be beautiful. It could get a bit x-rated. There may even be a slow-set. But whatever happens, you will not go home alone.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Life, say Fitzgerald & Stapleton, is both absurd and alluring, a grotesque practical joke constantly pulling away chairs from under dignity and reason. Their delight in the details of human existence struggles with their conviction of its futility. Nothing is sane, reality is a hall of distorting mirrors reflecting the grimness of our own pretensions.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Expect passion, beauty and 50 naked female volunteer dancers in this radical performance. Spanning three striking parts, Trilogy is a disarming and buoyant venture that interrogates the joys and complexities of being a woman today.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

By John Scott and the Irish Modern Dance Theatre ACTIONS is a physical conversation between two individuals in empty space by two outstanding male dancers. It is a battle through the space using physicality, lifts, falls, text and sound, the dancers alternately throwing their bodies together then fragmenting into threads of raw movement. ACTIONS is both funny and exciting. http://www.belltable.ie Tickets €15/€12

Sweden's leading nyckelharpa, Peter Puma Hedlund, will perform a unique Nordic-Celtic musical fusion with uilleann piper Leo Rickard and guitarist Raphy Doyle.

Paul Anderson, the finest Scots fiddler of his generation, composed the music for Red Rose, a film about Robert Burns, and musically directed Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song. Shona Donaldson, Scotland's Traditional Singer of the Year 2009, performs Bothy Ballads and is an excellent fiddle player. With Katie MacKenzie, she recorded Pur - The Lassies' Reply, songs of Robert Burns.

http://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/

Monday:     

Ballet   (Some experience)     
6.45 – 8.45PM
Hip Hop   (Experience)           
8.00 – 9.00PM

Tuesday:    
Belly Dance (Mornings)          
10.00 – 11.15AM 
Cardio Salsa                          
6.30 – 7.30PM
Salsa Dance/Samba                
7.45 – 9.00PM

Wednesday: 
Funk & Jazz Dance (Mornings)     
10.00 - 11.15AM
Child & Parent Modern Dance        
3.00 – 4.00PM 
Contemporary Dance (experience) 
6.45– 8.00PM
Hip Hop  (some experience)          
8.00– 9.00PM

Thursday:  
Contemporary Dance (Beginner)   
6.45– 8.00PM
Capoeira                                    
8.15– 9.30PM 

Friday:     
Pilates & Dance (Mornings)     
10.00 – 11.15AM
Yoga Hatha                            
6.30 – 8.00PM  
Yoga Hatha                            
8.00 – 9.30PM

Saturday:  
Body Conditioning/Contemporary Dance 
10.00–11.15AM
Ballet   (Beginner)                               
11.15 – 12.15PM 
Hip Hop   (8 – 12YRS)                          
12.15 – 1.15PM 
Hip Hop   (Adult/Teen)                           
1.15 – 2.15PM
Zumba                                                 
2.15 – 3.15PM
Funk & Jazz Dance                                 
3.15 – 4.15PM
Ballroom & Wedding Dances                    
4.15 – 5.15PM

http://www.dancetheatreireland.com/