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Curator’s project, ‘VIRTUALLY THERE’ managed by Kids’ Own
Welcome Publishing Partnership.

MOL AN ÓIGE AGUS TIOCFAIDH SÍ…. Continuing education and training are
this Spring, Firkin Crane plays host to a essential for professional dance practitioners.
number of dance initiatives for, by and As well as ongoing WEEKLY CLASSES, we have
with children. three specialist workshops this season. Cork’s
Dance Artist in Residence at Firkin Crane
Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín follows last year’s fantastic programme is providing two choreography
Super Moves, with a new performance project, workshops, with Norwegian dance artist KARI
UNDER YOUR NOSE, with young performers aged HOAAS, and acclaimed composer/performer
8-12, on Skiddy’s Castle Plaza. Devised by Siobhán 1%88)3*%6+-32ƱLILIVE ARCHIVE project
as part of her Associate Artist programme for explores repertoire and documentation as source
Cork’s Dance Artist in Residence at Firkin Crane, material in its workshop, led by Drs Finola Cronin
the project also involves composer Neil Quigley and Emma Meehan. A brand new departure is
and artist Luke Sisk, and is an amazing opportunity the CATCH8 SERIES-VIPERHŶWƯVWXTVSJIWWMSREP
for boys to explore their city and their creativity. contemporary dance workshop festival,
Currently recruiting! Boys are also welcome to produced by Luke Murphy, director of Firkin
join FC/DC BOYS DANCE CLUB, which continues Crane’s Company in Residence, Attic Projects. A
its weekly sessions, led by dance artist Maria roster of highly-regarded international and Irish
Svensson, with guest workshops from visiting choreographers lead this week-long intensive.
male dance artists.
Continuity of support is also essential for
Fidget Feet brings its spectacular, globe- dance production. In 2016, Lucia Kickham was
trotting, aerial dance to Firkin Crane in March, E[EVHIHXLI*MVOMR'VERIǩVSRI+YXLVMI

with STRANGE FEATHERS, a performance McCarthy Insurance Group Residential Dance
specially for audiences aged 18 months to 7 years. Bursary to develop a new work, and we are
Older audiences also get a chance to enjoy the delighted to now host the result, ON.PULSE.,
company at the evening’s HANG ON, a virtuosic 0YGMEŶWƯVWXIZIRMRKPIRKXL[SVO'36/Ŷ7(%2')
struggle between the sexes. ARTISTS Laura Murphy and Luke Murphy both
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Cork Youth Dance Company returns in April residency, which is supported by the Arts Council,
with its second performance, BREAKING POINTE, Cork City Council and Firkin Crane.
showcasing the talents of its young performers,
who are drawn from dance schools across Cork. While contemporary dance rarely looks back,
in February, we go back 30 years to explore its
We also have two exciting new research history in Ireland at LIVE ARCHIVE, a creative
projects on dance and young people in residence. exhibition and evening of performance based on
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innovative BEAG Early Years Arts Programme We also look outwards, as QUARTER BLOCK PARTY
this year, to include dance. Dance artist Maria climbs the hill from Main Street for a weekend of
Svensson will be developing dance practice for dance in Firkin Crane.
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settings. Lisa Cahill, a dance artist and movement NELKEN-Line, and dance one the most famous
educator, will be working on the virtual classroom dance sequences ever created by iconic German
choreographer Pina Bausch, as part of Dublin
Dance Festival’s involvement in a global project by
the Pina Bausch Foundation and ARTE. Watch out
for details!

Ríonach Ní Néill, Dance Curator

Cover Image:
Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín,
Under Your Nose
Photography – Clare Keogh

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Snake Tryptich
Talk

Image: Robbie Sweeney Image: Cathy Walsh

Snake Talk Quarter Block Party climbs Cork’s historic spine to Firkin
Fri February 3rd Crane, for a weekend of new dance.
5.30pm
Coming from Oakland, California, Snake Talk is a zany,
Tryptich disquieting, feminist evening length performance
Sun February 5th spectacle that navigates interspecies intimacy, feminine
6.00pm voraciousness and wild unfettered dancing. A third-
wave feminist proposal nestled within an extreme and
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available from harnesses the somewhat terrifying aesthetic of the
Quarter Block “zany” to confront, consume and transmute patriarchal
Party ticket and neoliberalist frameworks. Created and performed by
office collaborative choreographic team Maryanna Lachman,
Mara Madrona and Abby Crain.
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Block Party. Biography, place, time and repetition feature in Tryptich,
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born or based in Cork. Each work exhibits its own unique
style of composition, humour and playfulness, and we see
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dancing, singing, silence and food for thought. It won’t be
what you expect.

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Live Archive

Emma Meehan
(Curator)

Image: Kristyn Fontanella

Sat February 18th Explore the history of contemporary dance in Ireland
8.00pm at LIVE ARCHIVE, an evening of performance, a creative
exhibition, and public workshop based on the iconic
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Monday 6th to Dr Emma Meehan of Coventry University. LIVE ARCHIVE
Saturday 25th February PERFORMANCE is an evening of choreography responding
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February Co-founder Joan Davis and original company members
Mary Nunan (who founded Daghdha Dance Co), Robert
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€10 unwaged Ireland) explore some of their previous choreographies,
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this process of bringing their archive back to life, they open
(For bookings before February 11th) themselves up to what can happen when dance artists re-
examine their past work with a new generation of dancers.
Plus post–show
discussion LIVE ARCHIVE EXHIBITION runs from February 6 to 25 in
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Live Finola Cronin &
Emma Meehan

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Workshop Dance Theatre

Sun February 19th In this workshop, we will explore the value of creating and
12.00 – 2.00pm revisiting documentation/archives of your own work and
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video, photographs, scores and reviews, as well as practical
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studied and performed with Joan Davis and Dublin

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Emma Meehan is a Research Fellow at Coventry

University’s Centre for Dance Research, associate editor for
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research focused on Irish choreographer Joan Davis.

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performance artists, circus artists and those interested in using
archives in their creative work.

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MMAKEE Hosted by
Luke Murphy,
Be Cork’s Dancer in
Like Residence at
Water Firkin Crane

A workshop with
Kari Hoaas

Mon February 13th – Award winning choreographer/dancer Kari Hoaas leads
Fri February 17th a 5-day choreographic workshop based on a philosophy
10.00am – 3.00pm that recognizes individuality and questions the choices we
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weight, clarity of movement, attention to detail, precision
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Diverse approaches to creating dance will be explored in
choreographic practice. Exercises of structure, resistance,
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and imagination, to strengthen creative skills and trust in
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Kari Hoaas is a choreographer, dancer and teacher.
Associate Professor at the Norwegian College of Dance in
Oslo, she spent more than a decade working in New York
City. Her work has been produced and presented all over
Norway, the Nordic region and internationally.

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On. SSEEEE
Pulse.
Lucia Kickham

Image: Abigail Denniston

Fri March 3rd ,S[HS[IQIEWYVIERHWXSVIXMQIMRSYVFSHMIW#;LEX
8.00pm happens if these processes become fragmented? Exploring
€12 full the natural rhythms of the body, the acts of breathing,
€10 unwaged blinking, pumping blood through our veins, On.Pulse. invites
€8 early bird us to contemplate how we experience time beyond the hard
external clock. Frantic movement collides with stillness until
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Marion Cronin.

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Image: Steve Lorenz

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sky to the beautiful sounds of soft music.
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music in a beautifully crafted, exquisitely delivered and
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6 dance company. In ten years Fidget Feet have performed
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Hang Fidget Feet
On Aerial Dance

Image: Vitalij Kazachov

Thurs March 23rd ,EZI]SYIZIVFIIRMRPSZI#,EZI]SYIZIVLEHXSƯKLXJSVMX#
8.00pm
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duet with a love musical performance in a thrilling struggle
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can love be found?
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discussion Hang On is danced by two outstanding aerial dancers -
highly physical, raw, sometimes sexy but always real. Hurried
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of people, in some of the biggest festivals and venues
across the globe. Fidget Feet founded the Irish Aerial Dance
Fest and the Irish Aerial Creation Centre, Limerick.

Spring – Summer 2017

MAKE SEE Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín

Under Image: Clare Keogh
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Nose

Thurs April 13th 7RMǒRKWGVEXGLMRKTIIOMRKERHTV]MRKUnder Your Nose
6.00pm investigates the secret and hidden parts of Cork including
Skiddy’s Castle the animals, plants and people that share our city.
Plaza
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young at heart.
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Jasperse, Liz Roche (Step Up Dance Project ’12), Laura
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Integrated Dance Company. Her work has been shown at
Bandon Arts Festival, Firkin Crane, Cork and Dance Limerick.

Under 12s must be accompanied by an adult

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Breaking Cork Youth
Pointe Ballet Company

Image: Ankie Janssen

Fri April 21st Breaking Pointe is a short programme of exciting new
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€12 full Inma Pavon and Robert Foley, showcasing the talent and
€10 unwaged versatility of the CYBC dancers. Based at Firkin Crane,
€8 early bird CYBC provides opportunities for young Cork dancers to
train as a company and produces creative and dynamic
(For bookings before April 13th) new dance works.

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Catch8 Luke Murphy/
Attic Projects

Workshop
Series

Sat June 17th – Luke Murphy is delighted to programme and produce Ireland’s
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9.30am – 4.30pm
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€230 full
€30/day The Catch8 Workshop Series invites an intimate group of
professionals to Cork for eight days of training, creativity
(Available after May 15th subject to availability) and sharing, opening new opportunities in training
and development for the Irish dance community and
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registering for the entire series. TQERHTQTQ%PPVIKMWXIVIHWXYHIRXW[MPP
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For more information renowned master teacher Isael Mata Cruz.
please visit
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Images clockwise
from left:
Luca Truffereli,
Maria Falconer,
Danny Willems,
Stephen Dobbie

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Professional class at Firkin Crane

Classes Professional training is programmed by
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Tuesdays 10.00am – 12.00pm (€5) and co-ordinated by the Dance
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professional, semi-professional and Classes are on an ongoing and
advanced level dance students. drop-in basis.
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Thursdays 10.00am – 11.30am (€5) professional-classes for list of teachers/
dates/full class details.
Improvisation for dancers, actors,
performance artists, circus artists and
anyone interested in improvisation,
dance and movement for performance.
(Open level)

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Cork’s
Dance Artist
in Residence
at Firkin
Crane.
Laura Murphy
and Luke Murphy, LAURA MURPHY LUKE MURPHY
and associate
artist
Siobhán
Ní Dhuinnín.

Cork’s Dancer in Residence at Firkin Crane continues as a co-residency between Laura
Murphy and Luke Murphy with Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín as associate artist in 2017. Designed
to promote dance in the professional and in the wider community, the residency
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Luke and Siobhán will continue to work on their individual projects locally, nationally
and internationally.

PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT
The Workshop Series, curated by Laura and Luke, invites internationally renowned
teachers to teach for one week at Firkin Crane. Following the success of A Dynamic
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Crossing the Stage and Other Scores by Matteo Fargion, hosted by Laura Murphy, runs
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on what happens when ideas and techniques which come primarily from music are
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.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGMENT
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Festival she performs a work-in-progress solo, Stanza, as

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SIOBHÁN NÍ DHUINNÍN Stanza is about the poetry of repetition with visuals by
Oonagh Kearney and sound by Irene Buckley. A Movement
Harmony is a new ensemble piece by Laura Murphy, with
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the performers and continuously choose a spot to view the
performance, immersing themselves within the work.

During his residency, Luke Murphy is developing a new duet work Iris, to be staged in a

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Iris uses parallel themes from the story of Cain and Able and Romulus and Remus,

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private environment.

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cultures, he aims to make work that is recognisable as distinctly Irish on a personal level
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universal in the deeply personal, Iris is a retelling, a reimagining and a case study of the
nether regions of our own human nature.

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Cork City Council and Firkin Crane.

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FC DC Firkin Crane Boys
Dance Club

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Every Thursday -J]SYEVIEFS][LSPMOIWQSZMRKERHQEOMRKNSMR*'('ų
during term time Firkin Crane Dance Club for boys!
4.00 – 5.30pm
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€3 per class
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at Heart male dancers from Firkin Crane’s performance programme.

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in Under Your Nose,ERI\GMXMRKTIVJSVQERGITVSNIGX
exploring the animals, plants and buildings of Cork City,
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BEAG @
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Maria Svensson

Professional choreographer and performer YDoANuCnE FgOR&
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support of the Firkin Crane.

Lisa Cahill
Residency

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is a dance artist and movement educator.
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a long-term artist-in-residence programme,
which connects and supports engagement
between practicing artists, children and
teachers in Northern Ireland through virtual
communication. For more information visit:
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Coming to
Firkin
Crane this
Summer

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Each new step a fall or a stumble that can be caught up,
recovering, in dance.
Zoi Dimitriou Company

Fri July 21st – *MVOMR'VERIŶW&0%2/'%2:%7VIWMHIRG]TVSKVEQQI
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Dimitriou in the making of PeregrinusEWMXIWTIGMƯG
performance/installation which explores the act of

walking, within a structure that echoes a pilgrimage.

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a place of pilgrimage.

AON

Éiru Dance Company

Tues July 25th –
Sat July 29th

Acclaimed choreographer and performer,
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Cork in July with a brand-new exciting ensemble
piece called AON. Featuring many current and
former principal dancers from Riverdance and
Lord of the Dance, the new performance, on
constructed and imagined identities, promises to
be exciting, beautiful, and edgy.

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‘Crossing
the Stage’ and
other scores
Workshop

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Wed Aug 9th –
Fri Aug 11th

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long-time collaborator with Jonathan
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what happens when ideas and techniques
which come primarily from music are
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Hosted by Laura Murphy, Cork’s Dancer in
Residence at Firkin Crane.

The Dust
We Raised

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September - site
specific location
and dates TBC

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Crane, Luke Murphy moves away from the
proscenium to create a new landscape for
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work, which invites the audience into a misty
world of imagery, movement, music and
text, to examine the murky world of moral
reasoning when treading new territories of
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where it rehearses its stage productions, and provides ballet
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CCB promotes and encourages the ethos that ballet is for
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contemporary choreography, including works specially created
for the company by the Artistic Director of the Company - Alan
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and Bolshoi-trained dancer and choreographer Yury Demakov.
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Crane. CYBC provides opportunities for young Cork dancers to
train as a company, producing creative and dynamic new dance
works. Company members work with local dance professionals
as well as internationally recognised teachers, choreographers
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primary aim, the dancers in the company are trained classically
and in alternative dance styles that challenge them and give
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supplements the dancers’ work in their private dance schools,
while committing to developing and subsequently maintaining
high artistic qualities and standards, through focusing on the
dancer’s individual potential.

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ongoing support from Firkin Crane the company rehearses every
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Croí Glan Integrated Dance Company is a professional
contemporary dance company, which performs work that includes
both disabled and non-disabled dancers, and provides integrated
dance education programmes. Firkin Crane is the Cork City home
for the company.

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and those that work in arts and disability sector to train
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Feb 20th Sligo IT | Feb 21st Ballina Arts Centre
Feb 23rd Dance Limerick
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workshops connected to the performance programme are also on
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Classes can be tailored to any age group, child to adult, and to all
levels of experience and ability. Firkin Crane has an inclusive dance
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and intellectual needs.

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cost of a one hour class is only €TIVTIVWSRJSVKVSYTWSJSV
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schools have used the programme as part of their school tours to the
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Please note the Firkin Crane is a wheelchair accessible building.

Luke Murphy/Attic Projects

Firkin Crane Company in Residence

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imagination, challenges expectation and seeks new ideas to provoke
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universal within the deeply personal.

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supports the development of Luke’s choreographic practice and
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works, professional training opportunities, community engagement,
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