Tag Archives: Performance Art

Review: La Clique at the ABSOLUT FRINGE festival

  By darraghdoyle | September 9, 2009 - 11:58 am | Comedy, Events, Featured Post, Performance Art, The Arts, The Culch
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What it’s called: La Clique Where it is: The Spiegeltent, St George’s Dock, Dublin 1 When it is: Tonight to Sunday September 20 at 7pm (Monday to Saturday) and 9.30pm (Friday and Saturday). No show Sunday 13. How long it is: 105 minutes How much it is: €34.50 (Sunday to Thursday) or €36.50 (Friday and Saturday). For tonight (Wednesday 09/09) use code laclique09 when booking online, over phone or in box office for 20% off your ticket price. What they say: La Clique’s mélange of cabaret, neo-burlesque and contemporary variety has taken the world by storm. Returning veterans from this international menagerie of the bizarre are Norway’s outrageously bendy Captain Frodo, the Queen-obsessed Mario, Queen of the Circus, musclebound supermen The English Gents, and, of course, spectacularly sexy aerialist David O’Mer. Among the Dublin virgins are Marawa, a virtuoso of the Hula Hoop and a demon on skates. Le Gateau … There’s more →

Midsummer Festival 2009, Cork

  By Will | June 17, 2009 - 12:24 am | Events, Featured Post, Gigs, Music, Performance Art, The Arts, Theatre
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The longest day of the year is almost upon us – shocking really! To celebrate the summer solstice Cork City has a two week long festival of culture ending on the 29th (that’s gigs, shows and other stuff). In fact it started on the 13th to there is a lot of catching up to do. And I’m only going to cover the items that I find interesting here. For the full line up, check out the Cork Midsummer Festival 2009 website. In these times of financial stress they are running a 5 for €55 deal (you end up saving €25) , and a lot of free shows too. In the theme of financial straights, how about recreating depression era American style Dance Marathon in the Irish Examiner Spiegeltent (set up in front of the Opera House again). Part of the 5 for €55, it runs from Monday June 22nd until … There’s more →

Ex Tenebris Lux

  By Green Of Eye | May 26, 2009 - 2:25 pm | Photography, The Arts, The Culch
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© Aideen Barry 2009 Aideen Barry is a Visual Artist, working in the media of performance, film, musical composition, drawings and animation. She was awarded funding from the Arts Council of Ireland’s Projects: New Work Award towards the creation of a new work filmed in Zero Gravity whilst on a residency at Kennedy Space Centre, NASA. In September 2008 Barry was invited to partake in the collaboration project ‘Sound design for future films’ initiated by the artists Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S.Davidsson with four other participating artists Pierre Huyghe, Christine Rebet, Kate Gilmore & Klaus Schafler. In 2008 this showed at Moderna Museet, Sweden, and later traveled to The Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio. Sean Kissane, Head of Exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art selected Barry to represent Ireland at FRA GIL in Barcelona, Spain in May 2008. Barry was the Irish Artist in Residence at … There’s more →