Presented by Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre
Night Dances
24 - 25 May 2024
Created by Emma Martin
Booking Information
Dates: 24 – 25 May
On the Abbey stage
Times: 7.30pm
Tickets: €22 – €42 (concession rates available)
Running time: 60 mins (No interval)
Please note: This performance contains loud music and strobe-like effects.
A ferociously exhilarating performance of pure dance and live music
Acclaimed choreographer Emma Martin presents her work on the Abbey stage for the first time with Night Dances, an ode to the body and a visceral, sweaty love letter to dance in all its forms.
Presented in a series of four vignettes, the work is a celebration of dance culture – from clubs to competitions to ceremonies. Performed to pounding beats by Daniel Fox and with atmospheric lighting by Stephen Dodd, it opens with a solo and accelerates as a young dance troupe launches into a ferocious routine of kicks, flips and cartwheels. A brief respite is offered up in a second solo that magnifies every movement, before surging to a close with unbridled fervor.
Through raucous choreography and rumbling bass that reverbs in your belly, Night Dances revels in fury, rebellion, hope and freedom. It unleashes the exhilaration of getting lost in your own rhythm where nothing else matters, just the sweat and the groove.
Originally co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival
Reviews
★★★★
'A shared sense of joy and release after a thrilling hour of relentless dancing and music'
The Irish Times
'Emma Martin's Night Dances is about the ecstasy of moving on a dancefloor that time forgot'
The Guardian
Credits
- Creator & Choreographer : Emma Martin
- Music: Daniel Fox
- Design: Katie Davenport
- Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd
- Cast: Robyn Byrne
- Cast: Jonas Krämer
- Cast: Aoife McAtamney
- Cast: Ryan O’Neill
- Cast: Jessie Thompson
- Young Dancers: Anne-Marie Lambert
- Young Dancers: Sarah Kathleen Lambert
- Young Dancers: Romie Rose Moynihan
- Young Dancers: Casey O'Reilly
- Young Dancers: Tiffany Owens
- Young Dancers: Annie Jane Tarzan
- Young Dancers: Gabriella O'Neill Visibelli (Studio 85)
- Band: Brian Dillon
- Band: Daniel Fox
- Band: Jamie Hyland
- Producer: Jill Murray
- Rehearsal Assistant: Jodie Li Flynn
- Wardrobe: Mary Sheehan
- Stage Manager: Fiona Keller
- Production Manager: Veronica Foo
- Sound Engineer: Ben Healy
- Chief LX: Seb Pizzarro
- Set Construction: Ger Clancy
- Photography: Ste Murray
- Photography: Sean Breithaupt
- Company Administration: Ois O'Donoghue
