BLOCK PARTY! a playful performance for public spaces

Roving dancers and musicians, flying blocks, vanishing structures, instant architecture - it’s a BLOCK PARTY! Six dazzling dancers, plus explosive percussion played live by Brian Fleming & friends, perform this movable feast for the eyes and the senses, for the adult and the child (in you). Merging the worlds of dance, music and architecture, this Outdoor Spectacle will immerse you in a vibrant world of colour and play with giant-sized Toy Blocks, creating designs more clever than a Rubik’s Cube on pointe.
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Photo: Hugo Glendenning

Disney’s High School Musical Live On Stage is coming to Dance Theatre of Ireland! Learn routines inspired by the production from members of High School Musical’s outstanding cast! 2 days only. (You can do one or both workshops). Don’t Miss it! A very special opportunity.  

Sunday 29th March & Sunday 5th April,
6-7pm
LIMITED PLACES ENROL NOW!!!
€22 per class

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Sunday 8 March 2009, 4-6pm €20

Catrina Choate-Heretoiu: Guest USA Teacher, ballet dancer & choreographer Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner and member of the Feldenkrais® Guild of America

Awareness Through Movement® is an enjoyable sensory-motor approach to learning both new ways of moving, eliminating pain and increasing self-awareness.  In the meditative atmosphere of this class, you will be verbally guided through a sequence of gentle movements intended to help develop greater awareness of how you move, think, and learn.  This workshop is  focused on freeing the back and neck muscles, will include a Q&A section at the end.
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DTI are delighted to host this very special 5-week workshop open to anyone exploring, re-examining and challenging the body through movement, stretching and imagery. M.B - Mind, Body/Muscle Bone trains the body in a rhythmic and dynamic approach to movement. Manipulations - a series of stretching and relaxation concerned with alignment and breathing. Workshop - Explorations designed to sharpen focus, sensitivity, and discover movement. Founded in Japan, BWL is an integral part of a Butoh dance training. BWL is led by Morleigh Steinberg

Date: May 13th- June 10th (5 weeks)
          Wednesday mornings 10 - 11:30 a.m. ENROL NOW

The beautiful Brazilian art form of Capoeira begins at Dance Theatre of Ireland with this new class starting in the Spring term, April 30th.  A subtle blend of dance, music and the martial arts, capoeira has greatly influenced the world of modern dance and hip hop. Taught by Oficina de Capoeira Dublin.

Dates: April 30 – July 2nd  (10 weeks)
           Thursday evenings, 8:15 – 9:45pm ENROL NOW

HIP HOP B’BOYIN’ With B’boy Mouse

Join in an incredible class with Mouse - a Member of Funkstylerz, the UK’s no.1 HipHop, Break dance and Funkstyle dance company (recently seen on RTE's Late Late Show). His credits including performances with Madonna and the Black Eyed Peas! A one-off un-missable workshop at DTI

Sunday 19 April, 2009, 2:00 – 3:15, 22 euro

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Dance Theatre of Ireland, CENTRE FOR DANCE,
Bloomfields, Lower George's St, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin

Put a step in your spring and get moving again! On-going classes continue at DTI's Centre for Dance through 4 April 2009. And it’s not too early to enrol for DTI’s NEW TERM which starts 27 April. A wide range of classes are on offer, taught by some of Dublin’s finest dance instructors. Classes take place evenings, weekends and in the morning at Dance Theatre of Ireland’s purpose-built, state-of-the-art Centre for Dance at the Bloomfields Centre in Dun Laoghaire. Classes on offer include: Contemporary, Modern/Hip Hop, Belly Dance, Latin & Ballroom, Ballet, Body Conditioning & Dance, Musical Theatre Dance, Pilates & Dance, Yoga, Salsa & Cardio and new classes in Capoiera (Thursday nights) and Body Weather (Wednesday mornings)

To enrol or for current class schedule contact: info@dancetheatreireland.com; Tel: 01 280 3455 www.dancetheatreireland.com

In Autumn 2009 Dance Theatre of Ireland will be creating a new work,
Love & Death Ch. By Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick.  Concerned with the ecstatic states of love and grief.  Few experiences are as universal or as personal as love and the loss of those we love.  The extremes of rapture and grief draw us deeply into states of heightened awareness; remove us from the wheel of everyday life; and elevate or plunge us into extremes of consciousness and altering emotions.  These states of consciousness will take centre focus for this new work.

Dance Theatre of Ireland’s space is available for hire. It is a State-of-the-Art Dance Studio. Bright, spacious, sky-lit professional dance studio 12m x 16.9m (45’x 55’). Short or longer term hires available.

• Junkers sprung floor, Harlequin “Studio” floor cover
• Audio system, CD, Mini Disk, Cassette, 12 channel mixing desk
• Mirrored wall
• Changing rooms with showers
• Disabled access
• Convenient to Dart, Bus and off street parking

Dance Theatre of Ireland's popular Dance Performance Outreach Programme (DANCE POP) gets people dancing as well as seeing dance. Through a nation-wide programme of workshops in conjunction with Schools and other agencies many young people and adults dance for the first time. The aims of the programme are two fold:  to offer opportunities to participate in dance through exhilarating Workshops and to give access to dance performances in a theatre setting at reduced rates. Set up with assistance from the Ireland Funds, this award-winning Outreach programme has had over 49,000 participants to date.  Over 150 workshops take place yearly in schools, youth clubs, and community and arts organisations.  DANCE POP workshops in SE Ireland take place in 2009 with the support of the Kilkenny VEC & South East Arts Education Advisory Committee.
For Further Information

A key position within Dance Theatre of Ireland with management, marketing and administration responsibilities in three primary areas: 1) the programme of Classes for the public ; 2) the Company’s nationwide Outreach Programme and 3) the Facilities of the DTI Centre for Dance.   Send CV to recruitmentdti@iol.ie

THE IRISH YOUTH DANCE FESTIVAL
4th July, 7.30pm @ The Pavilion Theatre
Booking: 01 – 231 2929

The Dublin Youth Dance Company & DLRCC present the 9th Irish Youth Dance Festival 2009. The festival will see the premiere of new works by the Dublin Youth Dance Company as well as other national and international Companies. The Company is based at Dance Theatre of Ireland and directed by Mariam Ribon.

The Festival of World Cultures August 28-30th by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is a gigantic feast of arts and culture and one of Ireland’s largest annual events. Watch for a programme of multi-cultural dance at the Festival and at Dance Theatre of Ireland in conjunction with the Festival of World Cultures. www.festivalofworldcultures.com