Project Arts Centre

39 East Essex Street

Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Open Mon–Sat from 11am

box-office@projectartscentre.ie

www.projectartscentre.ie

PROGRAMME

JAN—MAR

2013

Welcome to Project Arts Centre and our

new online brochure. This new expanded

brochure is part of a complete review of

all our communications with audiences

and artists alike. This brochure will offer

you the chance to delve deeper into

our programme, learn more about our

upcoming events and the fantastic artists

presenting their work at Project Arts Centre.

In 2012 over 70,000 people visited

Project Arts Centre; we presented over

500 events between our performing arts

spaces and gallery and employed over

350 artists.

Project Arts Centre is not only the

home for the independent sector it is

also the only space in Dublin City Centre

where emerging artists, both young and

old, can find their voice and hone their

craft. For me Project Arts Centre is an

essential part of the cultural life of our city

(nation even) and I am very much looking

forward to commissioning, producing

and programming work to engage all our

present fans as well as people who have

yet to discover us.

The programme at Project Arts

Centre for January–March is a rich

variety of artists and art-forms, reflecting

the breadth of work being developed

and presented by the artists who call

‘Project’ their home. We welcome the

return of artists who have presented here

many times as well as new artists and

companies with new things to say and

new ways of saying it. From new plays to

opera, exhibitions, fabulous new dance

works, comedy, fantastic international

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

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music to a festival of work by over 100

young artists, there is something for

everyone in our upcoming season.

Later in 2013, we look forward

to presenting some incredible work as

part of Live Collision and Dublin Dance

Festival, a new production from Project

regulars Rough Magic, a beautiful new

solo show in our gallery by Irish artist

Niamh O’Malley, a revival of a Dublin

Fringe Festival hit Broadening and in

June, a major new production from

Landmark Productions and writer Marc

O’Rowe. I am particularly proud to be

hosting IETM Dublin from April 11–14.

IETM is a large contemporary performing

arts network and we look forward to

welcoming 600 of our colleagues from

across the globe to introduce them to

the city of Dublin and the fantastic artists

making work here.

Project Arts Centre has a long

history as an artist centred and audience

focused space; it is a place where the

artistic community meets the public

and each other and I hope over the

coming year to charm, thrill, engage

and challenge you with some of the best

Irish and international work and present

you not only to our great artists but also

introduce you to the artists of our future.

On behalf of all the staff, I’d like to

wish you a happy and prosperous new

year and look forward to welcoming you

back to Project Arts Centre in 2013.

Cian O’Brien, Artistic Director

Choose from theatre, music, dance,

visual arts and everything in between

at Dublin’s busiest arts centre.

Project Arts Centre is Ireland’s

leading centre for the development

and presentation of contemporary

art, dedicated to supporting artists

and protecting the next generation

of artists across all forms of the

performing and visual arts.

Want the latest news, special

offers and competitions?

Check out www.projectartscentre.ie and

sign up for updates or follow us on

facebook.com/ProjectArtsCentreDublin

twitter.com/projectarts

Why not grab a drink before

of after the show?

Our bar is open from 45mins before the

start of our evening performances and

stocks a large range of craft beers, spirits,

wines and soft drinks – and keep an eye

out for our weekly bar offers. It’s a great

opportunity to meet the cast after the

show – we’ll see you there!

WELCOME TO PROJECT ARTS

CENTRE

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www.projectartscentre.ie

Online

www.projectartscentre.ie

(€0.65 booking fee applies to online bookings)

In person

39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Monday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm

By phone

+353 1 8819 613.

Monday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm

Groups

Group rates are available for many of

our performances for groups of 8 people

or more. For more information call and

ask for Kate O’Sullivan or email

kate.osullivan@projectartscentre.ie

Looking for a bargain?

Then check out our REAL DEALS – specific

nights and performances when all tickets

are available at discounted prices.

Book early and save

Earlybird booking rates are now available

on all shows.* Save 25% off the price of

your tickets just by booking before the

earlybird cut-off date, which you’ll find

listed on our programme pages.

*excludes some festival performances and REAL DEAL nights.

HOW TOBOOK

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On Foot – Project Arts Centre is a large

blue building situated behind the Olympia

Theatre and opposite the Clarence Hotel.

Bus – Take any bus that runs to Dame

Street and either enter Temple Bar via

Parliament Street and take a right onto

East Essex Street or enter Temple Bar via

Eustace Street or Sycamore Street and

take a left onto East Essex Street.

LUAS – Take the Red Luas Line to Jervis

stop. Cross the River Liffey into Temple Bar

using the Millenium Bridge. Take a right

onto East Essex Street and Project Arts

Centre is on the left hand side of the street.

Parking Offer

A special €5 parking rate is available from

Fleet Street car park, simply present your

show ticket when paying.

HOW TOFIND US

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PAS DE CHAT & LAST LANDFiona Quilligan & Maria Nilsson Waller

Dance

22 – 26 January

p18

FollowWillFredd Theatre

Theatre

22 – 26 January

p20

EVENTS AT A

GLANCE

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MADE IN DUBLINDance Ireland

Dance

31 January – 2 February

p22

FOCAL POINTTEAM Educational Theatre Company

Theatre

4 – 8 February

p28

MORNING & AFTERNOONOpen House Theatre Company

Theatre

11 – 23 February

p30

12 PointsImprovised Music Company

Music

13 – 16 February

p32

PAGEANTCoisCéim Dance Theatre

Dance

21 February – 2 March

p34

HOW MUCH IS THAT WOMAN IN THE WINDOW? Keith Farnan

Comedy

6 – 9 March

p36

TINY PLAYS FOR IRELAND 2Fishamble: The New Play Company

Theatre

7 – 30 March

p38

SLINGS & ARROWSChrysalis Dance

Dance

11 March

p40

DETOUCHEDA.K. Burns (US), Alice Channer (UK),

Sunah Choi (KR), Dennis Oppenheim (US)

& Seth Price (US)

Visual Arts

25 January – 30 March

p44

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PROJECTCATALYST

—2013 AND

BEYOND

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It’s the start of a new year and

another in which I am refusing to

listen to reports or read articles that

focus on the challenges facing the

Irish economy. More than just an

economic crisis, we’ve been faced

with a crisis of value. It’s now time

to work out ways to re-establish

trust, to restore some hope and to

take the opportunity to seek out a

real and meaningful way forward.

Project Arts Centre believes that art not

only entertains but also provokes thought.

Art touches the profound values that form,

build and bind society together, encouraging

and promoting critical thinking. This is what

defines us as a society, helping us to create

meaning and to negotiate and share our

thoughts and hopes.

For over 46 years Project Arts Centre

has played a key role in shaping and

contributing to the changing culture of

Dublin and beyond. With Project Catalyst

we established a new way of working in

order to protect things important to us.

Catalysts are a group of invited artists

(young and not so young) who we believe

need to be supported in order to ensure

they are in a position to be able to create

work and to survive. Project Catalyst also

exists to ensure that the next generation

of artists exist when all of the cuts and

emigration have subsided. We currently

support 24 artists (we would love to

support more but resources are scarce). In

2012, with the support of the Arts Council

and Dublin City Council, Project Catalyst

employed 274 artists to present 29 different

productions in Project and around the city

as well as touring to 16 national and 15

international venues and festivals.

2013 will see the curation and

presentation of a yearlong programme

which is both expansive and substantive,

a varied programme with something for

everyone. In the first three months we are

developing, supporting, producing and

touring;

THEATREclub presented The Theatre

Machine Turns You On Vol 3 – a 2-week

programme of performance by emerging

artists, a whirlwind of new work consisting

23 shows by 100 artists, a fortnight of

buzzing audiences and a reminder to us all

how important it is to do new things.

Diabolical Loop by visual artist Sarah

Browne runs to 27 January in The Galway

Arts Centre. Make sure you get to Galway

before this exhibition ends (join us on

Saturday 26 at 2pm for an artist’s talk with

Sarah and Val Connor).

THEATREclub are also developing

HISTORY, a public art commission by

Dublin City Council. Grace Dyas, Shane

Byrne and Doireann Coady are working

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with a number of local community groups,

focusing on the past 100 years at the site of

St Michael’s estate in Inchicore.

Panto Collapsar by Mikala Dwyer

was one of our busiest exhibitions in 2012

(over 11,000 people visited the gallery

during its 6 weeks) and we are bringing this

international artist’s work on a tour to seven

national arts centres, opening first in the

West Cork Arts Centre on 2 February.

Have I No Mouth by Brokentalkers

will have its first European outing as

part of The Full Irish: Festival of

Contemporary Irish Theatre in Berlin,

where they will be joined by fellow

Project Catalyst artists The Company,

who will be staging their hit, As You Are

Now, So Once Were We. Brokentalkers

will also tour Belgium with their critically-

acclaimed production, The Blue Boy.

Gary and Feidlim’s work is now regularly

seen on the international stage and this

touching and powerful show is set to tour

extensively in 2013.

Our ensemble in residence Crash

Ensemble are already scheming and we

will announce soon a number of small and

medium scale interventions which will

surprise you all – watch this space!

So, as you can see we are starting

as we mean to continue and that’s why

I want to start the year by giving thanks:

thanks to our artists for their unwavering

faith and their work. Thanks to our

funders for their support, without which

we could not survive.

And most of all thanks to our

audiences: thank you for believing in us, for

coming to see us and for talking to us, for

buying tickets and for caring about what we

say, for letting us entertain and serve you.

Thanks for being the people we stand up for

but also who we (undoubtedly) count on.

Niamh O’Donnell, General Manager &

Executive Producer of Project Catalyst

You can help us to support the work of Project Catalyst by

becoming a Project Person. For more information about

becoming a Project Person contact Kate O’Sullivan at

kate.osullivan@projectartscentre.ie or on +353 1 8819 608

www.projectartscentre.ie

GALANIGHT

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Join us for a very

special gala event hosted

by our Artistic Director

Cian O’Brien.

JAN—MAR 2013

Space Upstairs

14 March

8pm

The evening will include: a drinks

reception with our Artistic Director and

our Project Catalyst artists; delicious

nibbles; and a performance of the amazing

Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 introduced by a

special guest. Presented by award-wining

Irish company Fishamble: The New Play

Company, playwrights include Maeve

Binchy, Colum McCann, Pauline McLynn,

Tom Swift, and members of the public

chosen from over 1,700 submissions.

There will also be incredible spot prizes

and even a few surprises!

Have an unforgettable night out with friends

and help us to continue to support the work

of Irish artists.

Tickets for this event are €50 and all proceeds

raised will support the work of our Project

Catalyst initiative.

Call box office on 01 8819 613 and

book your place now!

www.projectartscentre.ie

PERFORMANCES

16 / 17

JAN—MAR 2013

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Fiona Quilligan &

Maria Nilsson Waller

PAS DE CHAT & LAST LAND

18 / 19

JAN—MAR 2013

Space Upstairs

23 – 26 January

8pm

Preview 22 January

€16 / €12

Pas De Chat

Choreographed by Fiona Quilligan

Life doesn’t stand still – a dance about life,

time and change.

Pas De Chat invites us into the world

of choreographer and dancer Fiona

Quilligan. This beautiful solo examines

and embraces her life work as a

choreographer and the changes her body

has gone through in that time. Embodying

the different dance personas from her 25-

year career, she reflects on the tempos of

both past and present.

Pas de Chat is the story of a

choreographer in search of a dance and

tells her story through movement, text and

film, and is performed to an original piano

score by Irish composer Elaine Agnew.

Last Land

Choreographed by Maria Nilsson Waller

Explore the timeless character of the

farthest reaches of the natural world in a

dance inspired by ice and sand...

From the frozen plains of Antartica to

the dusty majesty of the Bir Tawil desert,

Maria Nilsson Waller reconstructs the

vast scale and unpredictability of these

contrasting landscapes in a captivating and

highly physical dance that explores man’s

relationship to nature.

Taking the urgent movements and

accelerating rhythms of nature and the

animal kingdom, four dancers explore this

Last Land, responding to an exciting score

performed live by Swedish composers Erik

Dahl, Magnus Vikberg and Anna Cochrane.

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WillFredd Theatre

in association with

Arts & Disability Ireland

FOLLOW

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Cube

23 – 26 January

8.15pm

€15 / €13 (CONC)

Preview 22 January, €15 / €13 (CONC)

Matinée 26 January, 2.30pm, €13

Contains some strong language and music

played at a very high volume

Co-created by WillFredd Theatre,

Jack Cawley and Shane O’Reilly

Directed by Sophie Motley

Performed by Shane O’Reilly

Lighting Design by Sarah Jane Shiels

Sound Design by Jack Cawley

Produced by Hannah Mullan

“***** … Every journey to the theatre

commences in hope (too often dashed) –

here it is totally justified.”

Irish Theatre Magazine

Shane’s parents are deaf.

He grew up in a house with doorbell lights

and subtitles on the TV. A house where to

be heard, you had to be seen. Follow him to

a place where languages collide. Where the

lights are so bright you can’t see to speak.

Where sound is just a feeling and signs are

all around.

Close your ears, cover your eyes. Come to

the Deaf Disco.

We’ll see you there.

Follow was performed at Dublin Fringe

2011, where it won the coveted Spirit of

the Fringe award.

A piece of theatre created for both

a hearing and deaf audience, Follow tells

the stories and experiences from Irish Deaf

Community. Funny and moving, it uses

sound, light, sign language and traditional

theatre and storytelling.

www.projectartscentre.ie

MADE IN DUBLIN

31 January – 2 February

Space Upstairs & Cube

€10 – €20

PICK’N’MIX – BOOK THREE PERFORMANCES IN THE MADE

IN DUBLIN PROGRAMME, ONE TO BE A CUBE PERFORMANCE,

FOR JUST €45

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JAN—MAR 2013

Made In Dublin, the

inaugural event in Dance

Ireland’s 21st anniversary

programme, is a special

season of new dance

performances, all of which

were created/developed in

Dublin’s DanceHouse over the

last six years, by Irish and

international artists.

www.projectartscentre.ie

31 January

VONTADE DE TER VONTADE/

WILLINGNESS TO WILL

Cláudia Dias

6pm, Space Upstairs

€20 / €18

“What Europe is this?” and “What

Europe do we want?”. A powerful,

political and poetic take on the here-

and-now.

Suitable ages 12+. Contains nudity.

Triple Bill: 1

LIV O’DONOGHUE, JOHN

SCOTT DANCE & ELENA

GIANNOTTI

7.30pm, Cube

€12 / €10

Liv O’Donoghue presents a first look at

a new piece in development performed

by two dancers and two musicians

exploring ideas of duality and identity.

John Scott’s Actions is a funny, tender

duet, a battle between two individuals

in an empty space.

Italian choreographer Elena Giannotti

completes the triple bill with Lo

Squardo Del Cane (The Look of the

Dog) an intricate and minimalist solo.

SPEKIES

La Zampa

9.30pm, Space Upstairs

€20 / €18

La Zampa use dance, live music

and lighting to create arresting and

somewhat disturbing landscapes

of our perceived future based on

the experience of our past lives. In

Spekies – from the Latin, aspect,

vision, appearance – La Zampa

collaborate with crime writer Caryl

Férey and French guitarist Marc

Sens to create an atmospheric, dark

piece that shakes up its viewers and

its performers in equal measure.

Contains strobe lighting.

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1 February

VISTA GUIADA

(GUIDED TOUR)

Cláudia Dias

6pm, Space Upstairs

€20 / €18

The most original and poetic

sightseeing tour you will ever

experience. Dias uses her personal

experience of living between Almada

and Lisbon, as a backdrop to the

history of the two cities and its people,

building the landscapes of her youth

with everyday objects taken from a

shopping bag.

Contains nudity.

Double Bill: 1

LIA HARAKI &

AOIFE MCATAMNEY

7.30pm, Cube

€12 / €10

Lia Haraki’s Tune In is a hypnotic,

haunting solo performance by

one of the most distinctive Cypriot

dance makers. Aoife McAtamney’s

Softer Swells is an interesting solo

which plays with dance and song, a

compelling portrait of a woman alone

with her memories.

Triple Bill: 2

LA VERONAL &

PHILIP CONNAUGHTON

9.30pm, Space Upstairs

€20 / €18

La Veronal takes classical dance, shakes

it up and mixes it with elements of

theatre and silent movies, in this new

dance performed to the backdrop of the

Italian city of Siena.

La Veronal will also perform extracts

from their full-length work Rússia,

Moscow inspired by Soviet gymnasts,

where serious and threatening

movements bump up against striking

and subversive humour.

Finishing off this triple bill Mortuus et

Philippus sees one of Ireland’s leading

male dancers examine ideas of self-

awareness, vulnerability and love, set

to an original score.

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2 February

Double Bill: 2

LIA HARAKI &

AOIFE MCATAMNEY

6pm, Cube

€12 / €10

Lia Haraki’s Tune In is a hypnotic,

haunting solo performance by one

of the most distinctive Cypriot dance

makers.

TEN is a delicate and beautifully

executed duet, a nuanced exploration

of lost and found connections

between two bodies performed by Liv

O’Donoghue and Maria Nilsson Waller.

THE OLD TESTAMENT

ACCORDING TO THE LOOSE

COLLECTIVE

The Loose Collective

7.30pm, Space Upstairs

€20 / €18

In their new work, The Loose Collective

aims to make a living translation of

the Old Testament, a stage-translation

of this enormous body of text in its

entirety. They integrate text-sampling

and baroque choir, beat-boxing and

diaspora-postpunk into their musical

dance performance, and rearrange bible

verses into unexpected combinations.

Triple Bill: 2

LA VERONAL &

PHILIP CONNAUGHTON

9.30pm, Space Upstairs

€20 / €18

La Veronal takes classical dance, shakes

it up and mixes it with elements of

theatre and silent movies, in this new

dance performed to the backdrop of the

Italian city of Siena.

La Veronal will also perform extracts

from their full-length work Rússia,

Moscow inspired by Soviet gymnasts,

where serious and threatening

movements bump up against striking

and subversive humour.

Finishing off this triple bill Mortuus et

Philippus sees one of Ireland’s leading

male dancers examine ideas of self-

awareness, vulnerability and love, set

to an original score.

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DANCE IRELAND 21 – 2013 Anniversary Programme – is supported by:

TEAM Educational

Theatre Company

FOCAL POINT

28 / 29

JAN—MAR 2013

Cube

5 – 8 February

8pm

€7 – €15

Preview 4 February

Matinée 6, 7 & 8 February, 11am

Suitable for ages 14 years and upward

EARLYBIRD – BOOK BEFORE 28 JANUARY AND SAVE 25%

Directed by Mikel Murfi

Written by Manchán Magan

Performed by Dónall Ó Héalaí, Jody O’Neill

Set & Costume Design by Sabine D’Argent

TEAM Educational Theatre Company is

Ireland’s longest established theatre in

education company earning national acclaim

over the last 33 years.

“…both hilarious and poignant.”

The Irish Examiner

The Irish language is on life-support, and so

too its greatest scholar in this bilingual play

that forces you to imagine a world without

sláinte, or any remotely similar word...

Focal Point is a powerful exploration of

language and a battle of wills between two

passionate people. While giving a lecture

in a language that he love-hates, a cynical

scholar’s son meets a vibrant young cailín

and Born Again Gaeilgeoir. A fluid melding

of Irish, English and surtitles – even if you

don’t speak a focal this will re-engage your

passion for Ireland’s mother tongue!

Written by well-loved writer, traveller

and television maker Manchán Magan.

Iniúchadh cumasach ar theanga maraon le

léiriú ar choimhlint idir beirt dhiongbháilte

phaiseanta a fhaightear in Focal Point.

Castar cailín óg spleodrach ar mhac scoláire

ciniciúil le linn dó léacht a thabairt i dteanga

a bhfuil idir ghean agus ghráin aige uirthi.

Cuireann an léiriú snasta seo iachall orainn

domhan nach mbeadh oiread agus focal

amháin Gaeilge ann a shamhlú – gan fiú

an focal “sláinte” ná tada mar é le clos.

Sníomhtar an Ghaeilge, an Béarla agus na

fotheidil go healaíonta sa dráma seo – fiú

mura bhfuil focal Gaeilge agat músclóidh an

dráma dátheangach seo do ghrá do theanga

dúchais na hÉireann arís!

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MORNING & AFTERNOON

Open House

Theatre Company

30 / 31

JAN—MAR 2013

Cube

13 – 23 February

8.15pm

€14 / €12

Preview 11 & 12 February, €12

Suitable for ages 16 years and upward.

Contains some strong language.

EARLYBIRD – BOOK BEFORE 4 FEBRUARY AND SAVE 25%

REAL DEAL – BRING A DATE FOR VALENTINE’S – ALL TICKETS

14 FEBRUARY 2 FOR THE PRICE OF 1, THAT’S 2 FOR JUST €14.

Directed by Paul Kennedy

Written & performed by Andy Hinds

“…a sobering, intelligent piece of theatre,

beautifully performed.”

The Sunday Independent

Two plays…one story.

Morning & Afternoon are two interlocking

new plays about the enduring bonds of

childhood and the human yearning for love

and family.

Set in Derry and among the Irish

diaspora in Europe, the lives of two very

different men interweave in ways they

never could have expected.

The problematical birth of a child may

create new possibilities for love and familial

reunion for the men, and yet this fragile

opportunity may just as easily slip through

their hands.

Both visceral and touching, Morning

& Afternoon takes you on a journey full of

longing and loss; it glistens with moments

of unexpected tenderness and savage self-

searching.

MORNING & AFTERNOON

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12 POINTS

Improvised Music Company

32 / 33

JAN—MAR 2013

Space Upstairs

13 – 16 February

7.30pm (Doors 7pm)

€15 / €12

Suitable ages 18+

EARLYBIRD – BOOK BEFORE 8 FEBRUARY AND GET 2 TICKETS

FOR VALENTINE’S NIGHT FOR €20

REAL DEAL – SEE ALL FOUR NIGHTS FOR €40

(LIMITED AVAILABILITY)

Produced by Improvised Music Company

“A compelling showcase of high level

creativity from an impressive array of

emerging European Jazz talents”

Jazzwise UK

“An extraordinary festival”

The Irish Times

12 Points, the acclaimed festival of young

European jazz talent, returns to Dublin in

2013, as part of the cultural programme of

Ireland’s EU Presidency.

Over four nights, 12 Points presents

twelve brilliant bands from all points on the

European grid, their diversity and energy

demonstrating that the wheels of jazz never

stop turning. The twelve jazz acts making

their way to Temple Bar are among the

brightest that Europe has to offer in 2013.

12 Points brings forth exciting

and personal perspectives on a great

music tradition, from emerging artists

who have plenty to say. Certainly these

are challenging times for creativity in

the margin, but it’s also a time of rapid

evolution and growth, with young bands

such as these leading the way.

Wednesday 13 February

Mopo (Helsinki), Olivia Trummer Trio (Berlin),

Ozma (Strasbourg)

Thursday 14 February

Sarah Buechi’s THALi (Geneva), Soil Collectors

(Gothenburg), OKO (Dublin)

Friday 15 February

Hanna Paulsberg Concept (Trondheim), Nikolas

Anadolis (Thessaloniki), koenigleopold (Vienna)

Saturday 16 February

Enrico Zanisi Trio (Rome), Cactus Truck

(Amsterdam), Beats & Pieces Big Band (Manchester)

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CoisCéim Dance Theatre

PAGEANT

34 / 35

JAN—MAR 2013

Space Upstairs

23 February – 2 March

8pm

€25 / 20 / 17

Preview 21 & 22 February

Matinée 27 February & 2 March 3 pm, €15

Suitable for ages 12 years and upward

EARLYBIRD – BOOK BEFORE 11 FEBRUARY AND SAVE 25%

REAL DEAL – ALL TICKETS 2 FOR 1 (€16) 21 & 22 FEBRUARY

Directed & Choreographed by Muirne

Bloomer & David Bolger

Lighting Design by Sinéad McKenna

Set & Costume Design by Maree Kearns

Sound Design by Ivan Birthistle and

Vincent Doherty

Cast includes: Muirne Bloomer, David Bolger,

Jen Fleenor, Robert Jackson, Mónica Muñoz

Marín, Jonathan Mitchell and Emma O’Kane.

“CoisCéim are producing some of the most

thought-provoking theatre around.”

Scotland on Sunday

Have you ever made a spectacle of yourself?

Walking the tightrope of life, jumping

through hoops, bending over backwards to

please, there is pageantry in everything we

do. Inspired by life and the extra-ordinary

of the everyday, Pageant celebrates the

performer in us all.

David Bolger and Muirne Bloomer,

dance-makers and friends, together have

choreographed opening ceremonies for the

Special Olympics, the Ryder Cup and the

UEFA Europa League Final.

Dancing to a powerful score, with

music from Bowie to Ravel, the stellar cast

of Pageant will delight audiences with

their passion and pathos as they weave an

exhilirating journey from choreographic

mayhem to military precision. Served up

with a side order of humour, this show is

not to be missed from the award-winning

CoisCéim Dance Theatre.

Based in Dublin, CoisCéim Dance Theatre

has created and presented over 20 dance

theatre works for stage, off-site and on screen.

CoisCéim’s last two shows at Project Arts

Centre were Faun in 2010 and Touch Me in

2011, both choreographed by Artistic Director

David Bolger. The company has earned

itself an international reputation through

presentations at prestigious festivals such

as Jacobs Pillow, Ten Days on the Island, the

Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at Tanzmesse.

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HOW MUCH IS THAT WOMAN IN THE WINDOW? Keith Farnan

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JAN—MAR 2013

Cube

6 – 9 March

8.15pm

€15 / 12

Suitable for ages 16 years and upward.

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Written & performed by Keith Farnan

“Brilliant, thought-provoking and laugh out

loud funny.”

Time Out

How Much Is That Woman In The Window?

is comedian Keith Farnan’s effort to rescue

the term ‘feminist’ from its negative

depiction in the press, as he questions

where we value women – or simply put a

value on them.

Over the past few years, Primark have

been caught selling push-up bras to 7 year

olds, a doctor revealed she was the high

class escort ‘Belle du Jour’ and elections

around the world have returned fewer

female politicians than before. Having

performed to international acclaim with

shows on the death penalty, racism and

crippling economics, in How Much Is That

Woman In The Window?, Keith delivers a

thoughtful, entertaining and funny show

about what we want from women – and

what they want from themselves.

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Fishamble:

The New Play Company

TINY PLAYSFOR IRELAND 2

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JAN—MAR 2013

Space Upstairs

12 – 30 March

8pm

€22 / 18

Preview 7, 8, 9 & 11 March, €16

Matinée 9, 16, 23 & 30 March 3pm, €16

Suitable for ages 15 years and upward. May

contain strong language and/or adult themes.

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Directed by Jim Culleton

Set Design by Sabine Dargent

Lighting Design by Paul Keogan

Costume Design by Niamh Lunny

Sound Design by Ivan Birthistle

& Vincent Doherty

Dramaturgy by Gavin Kostick

Produced by Marketa Dowling

“A theatrical mosaic ... fascinating.”

The Guardian

“Extraordinary ... it’s what theatre should be

about.”

Sunday Independent

Following the sell-out run of Tiny Plays for

Ireland in 2012, Fishamble returns with a

new production of 25 more tiny plays in

2013. Playwrights include Maeve Binchy,

Colum McCann, Pauline McLynn, Tom Swift,

and members of the public chosen from over

1,700 submissions.

This highly theatrical production,

staged in-the-round, offers vivid glimpses

of contemporary Ireland as seen through a

range of perspectives. A cast of five actors

play over 50 roles in this production which

is accompanied by a programme of debates

and discussions, based on the themes and

issues explored.

Fishamble is an award-winning,

internationally acclaimed company,

dedicated to the discovery, development and

production of new work for the Irish stage.

Over the past 25 years, the Company

has produced plays for audiences

throughout Ireland as well as in England,

Scotland, USA, Canada, Australia, Bulgaria,

Romania, Turkey, France, Germany, Iceland,

Croatia and the Czech Republic.

Fishamble also provides a range

of dramaturgical, training and mentoring

support to playwrights and other theatre

artists.

www.projectartscentre.ie

Chrysalis Dance

SLINGS & ARROWS

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JAN—MAR 2013

Cube

11 March

8.15pm

€15 / 12

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Artistic Director, Judith Sibley has

choreographed for Cork City Ballet,

Baboro Festival, Macnas, Cuirt Festival,

and Catastrophe Theatre Company. Her

work has been invited to The Galway

Arts Festival, The Dublin Dance Festival,

Absolute Fringe, Flights of Fancy Festival,

Feile na Bealtaine, Louisburgh Arts Festival

and The International Peace Conference.

Guest choreographer Theo Clinkard

is one of the most sought after dance

artists working in the UK. He has worked

with Mathew Bourne on Play Without

Words, Wayne McGregor’s Random

Dance Company, The Charles Linehan

Company, Sydeny Dance Company,

Siobhan Davis Dance.

Performed by Leighton Morrison, Andrea

Santato, Joanne Klijn, Amy Lawson and

Jane Magan feature in this work.

“Incredibly accessible … exceptionally well

put together.” Galway Independent

Revolutionising ballet to fuse classic

technique with modern themes, Chrysalis

dance presents a thrilling double bill of new

work and a visceral feast for the senses.

Bow and Arrow is a new dance work

for six dancers performed to a live cello

score which portrays the complex dynamics

of human partnerships. Tension, support,

harmony and discourse are brought to life

through a series of intimate duets that lay

bare the anatomy of life shared.

The second work entitled Symphony

in Sync is set to Vivaldi’s sublime Concerto,

is a visual spectacle of movement, based

on the contrasting elements of Winter and

Summer. This dynamic ballet explores

shape and form, responding to the

intricacies of Vivaldi’s powerful score.

Chrysalis Dance are Ireland’s only

neo-classical dance company firmly

establishing themselves as a cutting-edge

company, revolutionising classical ballet

and fusing exquisite technical ability with

modern, accessible themes. They have

presented seven full-length works and

annually tour nationally to both audience

and critical acclaim.

SLINGS & ARROWS

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VISUAL ARTS

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JAN—MAR 2013

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By A.K. Burns (US), Alice

Channer (UK), Sunah Choi

(KR), Dennis Oppenheim (US)

& Seth Price (US)

DETOUCHED

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JAN—MAR 2013

Gallery

25 January – 30 March

11am – 8pm

Admission Free

Curated by Anthony Huberman

Detouched isn’t a word. As a word that isn’t a word, it

exists somewhere between retouched and detached.

It’s also fairly close to untouched, which means that it

has a lot to do with touch. It might be best understood

as describing a detached sense of touch, or an act

of touching that doesn’t involve an act of touching,

however paradoxical that may sound.

Today, to touch doesn’t mean the same thing

it used to. By merging the hand with the machine,

today’s technology generates a detached sense of

proximity, or a sense of detouch. This exhibition

presents drawing, moving image and sculptural

installations which engage with the distance of touch.

None of the works included in Detouched can

be touched, but all of them evoke the sense of touch.

Please feel free to detouch them all you want.

You are welcome to join us for the opening of

Detouched from 6 – 8pm on Thursday 24 January

2013 and for an informal talk about the exhibition

by guest curator Anthony Huberman before the

opening at 5pm.

DETOUCHED

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PROJECT ARTS CENTRE

WELCOMES IETM TO DUBLIN

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JAN—MAR 2013

This April over 500 performing arts

professionals from around the world will

descend on Dublin for four days of creative

thinking and networking, as we open our

doors to host the Spring Plenary of IETM

international network for contemporary

performing arts.

Since its creation in 1981, IETM

has hosted many events including two

plenary meetings of their membership

each year in different cities. The aim of

these meetings is to connect diverse

arts organisations who share common

interests, to build closer relationships

across sectors and countries, and to

facilitate artistic partnerships, exchanges

and collaborations.

For IETM Dublin, Project Arts Centre

is working closely with the IETM Secretariat

in Brussels to present a lively programme

of discussions and events focusing on the

theme of ‘Trust’. These events will address

a number of artistic issues including the

relationships between artists, collaborators

and audiences and also those between

governments, societies and citizens. A

season of performances by Irish artists,

programmed by Cian O’Brien, Artistic

Director of Project Arts Centre, will be

presented alongside the meeting, offering

the international delegates a taste of the

local contemporary performing arts scene.

IETM Dublin will run from 11 – 14 April

2013 at Project Arts Centre and a host of

other venues throughout the city.

Registration for IETM Dublin2013 is

now open. You can register online at

ietm.org

If you would like to find out more about

IETM and how to take part please contact

Amy O’Hanlon at amy@projectartscentre.ie

or on 01 881 9629.

IETM Dublin 2013 is an initiative of the Arts Council of Ireland

in partnership with Culture Ireland, produced by Project Arts

Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland. It is part of both the Arts

Council’s and Culture Ireland’s cultural programmes to mark

Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Project Arts Centre is funded by the Arts Council

& Dublin City Council.

IETM is funded by the European Commission, the Dutch Fund for

Performing Arts and the Flemish Community of Belgium.

www.projectartscentre.ie

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Our wonderful Project People,

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Directors Circle

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Annette Nugent & Paddy Lyons

Visionary

Louise Church

Darragh Doyle

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Innovators

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Pioneers

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Eleanor Creighton

Dance Ireland

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Giovanni Giusti

Kate Harris

Dylan Haskins

James Hickey

Shelley Horan

Tanya McLoughlin

Alan Mee

Lia Monahan

Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Niamh O’Donnell

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