Timothée Chalamet take note: Ballet Ireland says students ‘are hammering down the doors’
The company’s Bold Moves programme features new works that incorporate Shakespeare, Barbra Streisand and Jeff Buckley
Luail
Ireland’s national dance company
Trojans review: Barrier between audience and performer disappears in Luail’s poignant, intimate dance
The audience becomes part of the story in Philip Connaughton’s retelling of the Aeneid, whose themes are superbly brought to life by the company’s dancers
‘There was just about enough money to feed yourself and send a postcard to your parents to say you were alive’
Joanna Banks’s distinguished career in dance wasn’t all plain sailing. Now, still razor-sharp at 85, she’s about to perform with Luail in Trojans
Dancehall days: ‘He asked me to dance. Now we’re married 42 years’
At a Galway event hosted by dance company Luail, people from the west and northwest share memories of ladies’ choice, chicken in a basket, and Bovril
Dancehall review: Luail’s dancers let loose as the music pulses through them
In Emma Martin’s restaging of her choreography, the dancers become one with Andrew Hamilton’s music
At Reverb, at Dublin Fringe, the gleeful audience are carried along by the energy onstage
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Luail’s feelgood production celebrates togetherness through dance and music
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: At Chora, generations of choreographers, dancers and producers witness an auspicious debut
Luail resists the temptation of a slick, easy-to-digest premiere, instead presenting three dances that celebrate the intangible
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
Luail director Liz Roche: ‘A regular income and stability are important. We have to work towards that for all dancers’
The artistic director of Ireland’s new national dance company on her plans for its programme and the dancers she’s recruiting
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