Magnet Fringe Full Dance Release
09 Sep
PRESS RELEASE – PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT
DANCING DIRECTOR SHAPES UP DANCE PROGRAMME
(DUBLIN, 01 September 2006) The Magnet Entertainment Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 promises a challenging, accessible and exciting line-up of dance for this year’s Festival. The streamlined programme of events will take over Dublin city for 16 days and nights, running from September 9- 24.
With a highly acclaimed dancer and choreographer (Wolfgang Hoffmann) as the Festival director, the programme of events promises to be both challenge and surprise, with everything from Barbie dolls to freshly mowed lawns playing their part.
This year’s dance programme is part of the 118 shows in this years Festival comprising of 56 Theatre Shows, 13 Dance Shows, 32 shows at the Spiegeltent and 17 Live and Visual Art events.
DANCE
SOME HIGHLIGHTS
Los Gemolos Lombard (identical twins from Argentina) live and breathe high energy dance in their show Dreamers - which pulls out all the stops and combines Hip-Hop and Tap Dancing. They have performed with a veritable who’s who of the U.S. music and dance scene, in addition to providing the face for both Louis Vuitton and Versace ad campaigns.
Fabulous Beast Dance Company present their latest production The Flowerbed, following a highly successful Barbican run. Garden shears, amphetamines, love, death and gardening become food for director Keegan-Dolan's fertile imagaination in this love story based loosely on Romeo and Juliet.
Created by Katarina Mojzisova during the Daghdha Mentoring Programme 2004/2005, Dragon is inspired by Paulo Ucello’s painting St. George and the Dragon and is danced as a vaudeville, exploring the unnecessary obstacles that we put in our own way.
BEST OF THE REST:
Automatic Bastard by Pluck is compelling, arresting and darkly funny stand-up comedy mixed with mesmerizing choreography.
TRIPLE BILL:
Beaute Plastique (Compagnie Etant-donne), Efecto Mariposa & Silvery Snot (CIENTO CINCUENTA CUERDAS)
Beaute Plastique explores the idea of the woman and her body, introducing a plastic doll to her human counterpart to expose the eternal battle between object and person, body and image.
Efecto Mariposa is a sensitive piece performed by Bianca Arrieta, which explores the body as an unpredictable and uncertain system full of life and yet constantly threatened by chaos.
Silvery Snot – Three men of contrasting bodies and movement styles attempt to transform or evolve from their normal state, hard as stone, into an intimate and fluid condition.
DOUBLE BILL
Behindtheeyesliesbone Myriad Dance Company + Skid Marks (Schlomit Fundaminsky)
Behindtheeyesliesbone – Three dance artists, Shelly Hering, Aine Stapleton and Jessica Kennedy, plus sound artist Denis Clohessy and choreographer Ella Clarke start with the end of things and then wonder how they got there.
Skid Marks – A highly physical duet about two people who at times move as one and at others fracture into many, making up their world with visions of strength, desire and innocence.
Cataplasia by Daniel Vais and the Love Spotters is a wonderous and highly charged dance piece by a collective of artists with learning disabilities performed with a magical presence, intensity and clarity.
Cross Purposes/The Same Jane Rex Levitates
Two new works by this highly acclaimed Irish dance company, Cross Purposes asks what happens when your body is at crosspurposes with itself? When you go so far that the only option is to keep going, to follow through, while The Same Jane sees two dancers that have been worked together for six years unearth the imprints, resonances and differing memories of performance that they kinetically in their bodies.
I Can’t Handle Me by Fidget Feet is a beautifully crafted and thought-provoking solo performance which brings the audience through an exploration of a woman’s journey through the turbulent cycles of life.
The Little Death by Marina Sossi Group is a visually stark, compelling and intimately personal work which tells the story of a lone woman who is compelled to re-enact her experience of a one night stand.
The Magnet Entertainment Dublin Fringe Festival runs from September 9 - 24, 2006.
Tickets can be booked online at www.fringefest.com, or by calling 1850 FRINGE (374643)
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
1. The Dublin Fringe Festival was set up in 1995 to present the work of smaller independent theatre companies. Since then it has evolved into a vital international showcase and the fastest growing cultural event in Ireland, attracting audiences of over 50,000 annually.
2. Magnet Entertainment has signed up to become this year’s title sponsor. Magnet Entertainment is a new Irish telecoms company that offers Broadband, TV and Telephone services. Its services are available to 700,000 homes in Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Galway and Portlaoise.
3. The Fringe has premiered and profiled the work of several of Ireland’s significant art makers including Conor McPherson, Mark O’Rowe and Enda Walsh.
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