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DANCEHALL BLUES
CREDITS
Produced by CoisCéim Dance Theatre
CELEBRATING 30th YEAR
CAST features
Stephanie Dufresne, Alex O’Neill
Director: David Bolger
Choreography: David Bolger in collaboration with the dancers
Composition & Sound Design: Ivan Birthistle
Lighting Design: John Gunning
Costume Design: Arran Murphy
Projection Design: Neil O’Driscoll
Hair & Makeup: Val Sherlock
Production Manager: Seán Dennehy
Stage Manager: Emma Doyle, Tom O’Reilly
Chief LX: Peter Bond
Assistant Projection Design: Laura Rainsford
Production Technician: Sarah Keane
Costume Assistants: The Rediscover Fashion Team
Set Construction: Re-Staging
LX Crew: David Hannafin, Archer Bradshaw
Sound Crew: John Norton, Vincent Doherty
Stage Crew: Damien Woods
Company Class Teachers: Muirne Bloomer, Gwen Bolger, Inna Mazurenko
Virtual Reality
Direction: Enya Belak
Filming and Post-Production: Igor Crnković
Chief LX: Anthony Quinn
Sound Recordist: Ivan Birthistle
Photographer/Videographer: Ros Kavanagh
Graphic Design: Alphabet Soup
Bookkeeper: Susan Hoffman
Publicist: CultureHead
Project Coordinator: Inna Mazurenko
Produced by: Sarah Latty, Bridget Webster
As part of our commitment to making ever more sustainable work, this production continues our partnership with Rediscover Fashion, which began with Go to Blazes and subsequently Palimpsest. It also includes carpentry constructed from recycled theatre sets by Re-Staging.
Duration: Approx. 50 minutes
ABOUT
★ ★ ★ ★
“expertly ingenious.. Bolger’s dark odyssey.. packs a punch” – Tom Lordan, Irish Times
It’s 2024 and the witching hour. As dusk approaches, the doors of the hall are flung wide open. You are invited to enter.
Two enigmatic dancers hit the dance floor – quietly questioning their hopes and dreams amongst the surrounding turmoil. As their shadows deepen, they take more chances and dance more dances – “where are we headed to, where does it all end?”
Directed and choreographed by David Bolger, DANCEHALL BLUES unites two of Ireland’s most exciting performers, Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill for the very first time – in an intimate duet that grooves between hope and the dystopia of an angry world.
Underpinned by the experimental freedom that being in the Fringe entails, DANCEHALL BLUES investigates the blurred, vanishing line between fiction and non-fiction – in CoisCèim’s first work for the festival in over a decade.
Set within our landmark studio building in the north inner city – the dancehall is waiting to welcome you.
★ ★ ★ ★
“Responsible for some of the most uplifting and beautifully crafted pieces of the past three decades…even when doing dystopia CoisCéim craft it beautifully.. Dufresne and O’Neill’s physical conversations… beautiful, insightful and heartfelt. At moments it looks a little like heaven.” – Chris O’Rourke, The Arts Review
DANCEHALL BLUES is an anchor of the company’s programme celebrating its 30th Year. If PALIMPSEST cemented CoisCéim’s A-list status as a creator of powerful large-scale spectacle, DANCEHALL BLUES will expose its edgy underbelly that the free-spiritedness of Fringe allows – to reveal a company as fresh and relevant today as when they exploded onto the scene thirty years ago.
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