1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1370+ words) César Morales’s career has evolved through passion, hard work and luck. He started dancing at the age of 11, at the ballet school of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, in Chile. Then, as a teenager, he was discovered by one of…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (392+ words) While Róisín Ní Churraidhín and 55 other talented dancers from Dunshaughlin Dance School in Co Meath warm up to perform in front of thousands gathered in the Convention Centre Dublin, three members of her family step outside for a breath of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1262+ words) For the 50 final-year BA students from London Contemporary Dance School, rehearsals were not so cool. Their studios at the Place, off Euston Road, are not air-conditioned and they had to work during the heatwave. Fortuitously, the UK Met Office’s red…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (147+ words) The Steps begins with a child falling. Jules, 18 months old, slips from a staircase, stops breathing and is brought back. “It was a resurrection story,” we are told. From the outset, Juliano Zaffino’s debut establishes a world in which experience…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (237+ words) Hiltinho Fantástico darts into the performance space like a boxer entering the ring, clad only in black shorts, surrounded by spectators on four sides. The bounce in his step suggests a primal alertness, and when the thumping, rhythmic music begins…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (418+ words) Kicking off this year’s Dublin Dance Festival, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo reflect how ballet has progressed since the company started in 1970s New York. Known for their skilful comic twist on classical dance, the Trocks have always mastered the…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1145+ words) It sounds like a modern Greek myth: a young woman in exile in Athens, her days of isolation marked out by a relentless rhythm of dance, practice, feedback, practice in a white-walled room. But this is the Irish ballerina Melissa…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (215+ words) The Irish Times Confidence motions have become choreography All TDs are diminished by this Sir, – As the Dáil faces another confidence motion, it is worth remembering these were once rare. In the 20 years between 1995 and 2015 (not exactly a crisis-free…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (128+ words) Enjoy a night where festival glamour meets theatrical joy with two tickets to the opening night performance as the world’s foremost gender-skewing comic ballet company, LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO, returns to Dublin to open the 2026 Edition of Dublin…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1187+ words) Ballet Ireland’s Bold Moves is back. The triple-bill programme, created as a way to bring international choreographers and modern ballet to Irish audiences, returns, after a brief hiatus, with two world premieres and an Irish premiere. Developing a repertoire in…...