A quick plug for unFRINGEd 2006, Limerick's International Fringe Festival.
It runs from the 19th of January to the 4th of February in various venues around the city, including the Impact Space, the Belltable Arts Centre, and the Daghdha Church (former Church of St. John of the Cross).
I've been meaning to pay the new Daghdha premises a visit for some time, largely because I feel the need to overcome my profound ignorance of contemporary dance…
"Mamuska Night" (3rd February) sounds particularly intriguing…if a tad overwhelming:
Mamuska Night is presented by Daghdha Dance Company, the night is a celebration of the creative spirit providing opportunities to present works of an experimental nature or explore pre-existing ones in a new format: a space in-between open lab, cabaret, party, show, installation and 'just-do-it' sort of thing. Audience participation is free and open to the public.
If "audience participation" can be taken to mean "sitting quietly in a corner with a glass of wine and watching others 'do their thing'", then I'm all for it. Anything more involved than that and I'm likely to flee the building in terror. Happily, for nervous types like myself, the unFRINGEd programme reassures us that, "Bar service [is] available throughout the night". Hoorah!
Also, for anyone who hasn't yet made the pilgrimage to the 'Impact Space' in the Crescent, I'd heartily recommend paying it a visit over the course of the festival. It's a cosy, compact, and intimate venue and my trips there have always been ones to savour (even in its previous incarnation as a Thai restaurant).
Good luck to all involved.
I’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to debut the postmodern foxtrot I’ve been working on.
It’s Thomas Pynchon meets An American in Paris.
January 12th, 2006 at 2:30 amI’m planning on a David Brent style “fuse of Flashdance with MC Hammer”.
January 12th, 2006 at 11:13 amNeither of you is coming with me if that’s the case…
I want to look sophisticated in front of my new dance-lovin’ buddies.
January 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pmWe are your dance lovin’ buddies.
January 12th, 2006 at 1:59 pmYes. Join us…..JOIN USSSSSSSSSSS
January 12th, 2006 at 3:40 pmFústar, fret not for more classy company is at hand. I, who will also be in attendance at this year’s festivities, plan to present to the world my one man dance extravaganza entitled: Logjammin’
It has to be seen to be believed. Really.
January 12th, 2006 at 5:42 pmI don’t know if even the broad minds of Daghdha are ready for Foolhardy’s antics. Cue hair turning white, muttered prayers, weeping, shrieking etc.
It’ll be a scene…man.
January 13th, 2006 at 12:48 am