IRELAND AT TANZMESSE
Exhibition Stand No. 27
28 – 31 August 2024
Düsseldorf, Germany
Culture Ireland
Established in 2005, Culture Ireland’s mission is to promote Irish arts worldwide.
Through grant programmes and showcase initiatives, it supports and develops opportunities for Irish artists and companies to present their work across the globe. This includes international festivals, venues, galleries and arts markets including here at the Edinburgh Festivals, Celtic Connections, the Venice Art and Architecture Biennales, WOMEX World Music Expo, Frankfurt Book Fair and Tanzmesse.
Through this work, it builds relationships and networks with arts and cultural organisations, relevant public bodies, state agencies and Government departments at home and abroad to advance the global impact of Irish artists. It also ensures that Ireland’s cultural excellence is enjoyed by international audiences.
Culture Ireland runs a regular funding scheme to support the international presentation of work by Irish artists and companies. Applications are accepted from both participating artists and from international presenters.
Culture Ireland also operates See Here, a scheme to support the inward travel to Ireland of international presenters, curators and promoters to see new Irish work on the island of Ireland available for touring.
Full details of Culture Ireland’s activities and grant schemes are available at: www.cultureireland.ie
PHOTO: ZEUS DESIGN
CAROL LEAVY JOYCE
Creator and Co-choreographer Women of Ireland / Mná na hÉireann
Choreographer Carol Leavy Joyce is the creator of Mná na hÉireann, a new dance work that places traditional Irish dance in a contemporary theatrical setting, weaving narration, Irish music, song and poetry with rich visuals to tell the story of the notable women who shaped modern Irish history and acknowledge the formidable women who came after them.
Carol was the Irish Dance Director with Riverdance for over eight years, overseeing all the dance elements of the production including contributing new choreography. She was also Irish dance choreographer on The Pirate Queen, a musical by Boublil and Schönberg, which had its Broadway premiere in 2007. For her work on the show, in collaboration with Graciela Daniele, she received an Outer Critics Award nomination.
Her new work – Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland) – takes a new approach to traditional Irish dance performance, fused with contemporary influences.
CONTACT
Carol Leavy Joyce
Producer and Choreographer
T +353 87 290 3334
E carolleavyjoyce1@gmail.com mnanaheireanntheshow@gmail.com www.mnanaheireanntheshow.ie
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JOHN SCOTT DANCE
Choreographer John Scott is an interpreter in Oona Doherty’s Hard To Be Soft and a subject of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s 52 portraits. His work created for his own dance company, has been described by Thomas Hahn/TANZ as ‘Beckett meets Monty Python’, addresses diversity, love and metaphysics.
Upcoming tours for his work includes HYPERACTIVE at Racconti di Altre Danze, Livorno, Italy and at l’Hermine, Sarzeau, France. Other recent works include: Cloud Study (La MaMa, New York), LEAR (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; New York Live Arts; Dance Base, Edinburgh), Actions (Kennedy Center, Les Hivernales, Avignon; 3:e Våningen, Gothenberg; Schwankhalle, Bremen,Queer Zagreb, Sounded Bodies Festival, Croatia,). Scott has also performed with Meredith Monk and is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of creative artists.
CONTACT
Carla Fazio
Company Manager, John Scott Dance
T +353 87 737-6714
E manager@imdt.ie
www.irishmoderndancetheatre.com
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JUNK ENSEMBLE
Junk Ensemble is a multi-award winning Dublin-based dance theatre company founded by twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy. The company is committed to engaging diverse audiences through the creation and presentation of brave, imaginative and accessible work that sheds light on important human issues relevant to society today and have toured extensively to the UK, Europe and North America.
Recent productions include Powerful Trouble (Dublin Theatre Festival 2023), Ritual (Cork Midsummer Festival 2023), Dances Like a Bomb (Edinburgh Fringe 2023/Dublin Dance Festival 2022), The Cold Sings (Dublin Theatre Festival 2022), Crossing Skin (Cairde Sligo Arts Festival 2022), The Misunderstanding of Myrrha (Dublin Dance Festival 2021/Mermaid Arts Centre 2020), and The Veiled Ones (Baboró 2021/Dublin Fringe Festival 2021). Choreography for film includes It Is In Us All (dir. Antonia Campbell Hughes), The Tower (dir. Jesse Jones), Wildfire (dir. Cathy Brady), In Velvet (Junk Ensemble), Five Letters to the Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain (dir. Oonagh Kearney), Fallow Table (Junk Ensemble).
CONTACT
Megan Kennedy
Co-Artistic Director E megan@junkensemble.com www.junkensemble.com
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ÁINE STAPLETON
Choreographer & Filmmaker
Áine Stapleton is a dance artist and filmmaker focusing on artist biographies. Since 2014, she has created films about the dancer Lucia Joyce, including Horrible Creature, which premiered at The Irish Film Institute and was described as “A stunning visual experience” by Film Ireland. Her recent film installation, Somewhere in the Body, premiered at Project Arts Centre and Dublin Dance Festival. Recent international screenings include Riffraff Kino in Zurich, Yugoslav Kinoteka and UK Parobrod at Belgrade Irish Festival, and Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg. Her current feature film in production, When Life is Silent, explores the dance history of Monte Verità in Switzerland, focusing on Mary Wigman and Rudolf Laban, and is supported by The Arts Council. Prior to her work in film, she co-directed Fitzgerald and Stapleton Dance Theatre with Emma Fitzgerald, which was described by The New Yorker as “touches deeper, stranger chords.” Áine is a peer panel member of the Arts Council of Ireland and an Associate Artist with Dance Ireland.
Áine Stapleton
T +353 87 127 0276
E stapleton.aine@gmail.com www.ainestapleton.com
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MÓNICA MUÑOZ DANCE
Mónica Muñoz is a choreographer based in Dublin. She is interested in making dance experiences for early years and young audiences with the body as its centre. She strives to create highly physical works that are presented in theatre venues, schools, libraries, and outdoor spaces. Her production FALL and FLOAT toured widely across Europe in 2023 and will embark on an Irish tour this year.
Previous works include FLiP (2023) Connect the Dots (2022) UPCLOSE, commissioned by Tipperary Dance International Festival, Ireland (2021), which toured nationally and the acclaimed Princesses Can Be Pirates funded by Business to Arts which toured nationally and internationally with support from the Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland. Monica was The Ark’s John Coolahan Early Years Artist in Residence 2021/22 and is currently a participant of Meitheal: A Branar Initiative 2022-2023.
CONTACT
Mónica Muñoz
E munozmarinm@gmail.com T +353 86 219 3536 www.monicamunozdance.com
Culture Ireland Regular Grant Scheme
Culture Ireland runs a regular grant scheme to support the international presentation of work by Irish artists and companies.
Applications are accepted from both participating artists and from international presenters.
Grants are provided to support the travel costs for the Irish artists to travel for the appearance and travel costs may include flights, accommodation, freight and subsistence.
There will be four grant rounds in 2025 covering all windows of activity throughout the year.
2025 Regular Grant Scheme Deadlines
Important dates to note for 2024/2025 are:
Deadline Timing
15th November 2024
February 2025 Onwards
6th February 2025 May 2025 onwards
6th May 2025 August 2025 onwards
6th August 2025 November 2025 onwards
6th November 2025 February 2026 onwards
Further details of these grant rounds and the online application system are available at www.cultureireland.ie
DESIGN: GARETH JONES
Ireland and UK Social Hour
Friday 30 August from 1pm
This year, Ireland is joining with dance artists and organisations from across England, Scotland and Wales to host a joint social hour.
Meet the Irish delegates at the Culture Ireland stand at the AGORA (No. 27) as well as our colleagues from across the UK.
More Information on Culture Ireland’s activities here: