Dance Cork Firkin Crane launches expansive 2024 programme 

Dance Cork Firkin Crane’s spring/summer 2024 season launches this month, featuring an expansive programme of public performances, festivals, residencies, classes, workshops, and more. 

Running from January to June, the programme hosts artists from all over Ireland, as well as from Palestine, Belgium, Norway, and France.

"The spring/summer season at Dance Cork Firkin Crane will bring a broad range of choreographic work to Shandon, from Clare Irish dancer Stephanie Keane to Jean-Baptiste Baele, born in Madagascar, raised in Belgium, now living in Norway," Dance Cork Firkin Crane’s executive artistic director, Laurie Uprichard, said.

"There will be shared performances, full evenings, and several work-in-progress showings throughout the season, giving audiences a number of entry points to the work of these ground-breaking artists."

The performance season opens with a co-presentation with The Everyman in February of the highly acclaimed duet Dances Like a Bomb, the latest work by multi-award-winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble, performed by acclaimed actor Mikel Murfi and leading Irish dance artist Finola Cronin

Also in February, Take Off Festival returns for its second edition. 

Take Off is a dance festival that showcases thrilling dance artists from Ireland and Europe, this season with "flavours of contemporary, Irish dance and hip-hop styles".

Other events this season include Laura Murphy's This is It, a series of multimedia portraits of women in dance in Ireland, taking place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

Inclusive Dance Cork, a ground-breaking pilot training programme for dancers with and without disabilities continues from January through May 2024 along with other classes and workshops at the Shandon-based venue. 

For a full list of events and to book see www.dancecorkfirkincrane.ie.