Deirdre’s Diary
Pop-up “Surrender” Yoga Class with Kathy Scott at Fringe Lab 6/2/17!
"Surrender is an active participation with the universe". Join Yogi & Trailblazer Supremo Kathy Scott, for a special pop-up yoga class inspired by the theme of "Surrender" at FRINGE LAB on Monday February 6th, 6.30pm - 7.30pm (€12). On top of being a longtime...
The Irish Times Alternative Facts of Irish Dance History
On Saturday I was a little shocked to read the Irish TImes Dance Critic contribution to "Culture Shock", and provoked to pen a letter to the editor of the Irish TImes in response. Here's the letter. Dear Sir, I was surprised to read your dance critic Michael...
All Hail George Yeats on Nollaig na mBan, on RTE Lyric FM
For Nollaig na mBan [Women's Christmas & Feast of the Epiphany] this Friday, RTE Lyric FM are broadcasting "Georgie's Vision", the first ever documentary about the extraordinary, and overlooked Mrs. WB Yeats. Hear Olwen Fouéré channel George's voices; Pat Laffan...
Read my review of Anna Karenina at the Abbey Theatre, in Village Magazine
I really enjoyed playwright Marina Carr's adaptation of Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. You can catch this mammoth 3 hour production, directed by Wayne Jordan, with a stunning cast of 21 until the end of January 2017. Read my article in the...
My review of IMDT’s Night Wandering/ Precious Metal on RTE Arena
I am busy making my current BAI-funded radio documentary project "Surrender on Grand Canal Street", for broadcast on Newstalk - more of which when the time is right! In the meantime, I enjoyed seeing Merce Cunningham's 1958 choreography "Night Wandering", and John...
Irish-German Connections in Motion at University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music & Dance
We enjoyed a fantastically eclectic discourse at the "Irish-German Connections in Motion" Conference in University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance on October 31st and November 1st - simultaneously honouring Berlin-based (and Longford-born),...
“What Nice Needs Now” read my travel feature in the Irish Times Magazine
As the Autumn chill sets in, I am, as promised, recalling that lovely feeling of floating out in the middle of a bay on the Cote d'Azur on a steaming hot summer's day... Read all about it in my travel feature on Nice and the Cote d'Azur in last Saturday's Irish Times...
Georgie’s Vision, first ever documentary on Mrs. WB Yeats broadcast
"Georgie's Vision", the documentary I have been toiling on all summer - since the end of April - getting the creme de la creme of the George Yeats world on board, was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM on Friday September 30th at 7pm. Hooray! Mella Travers of The Dark Room...
“International House for Young People. Nice.” on RTE Sunday Miscellany Live at Dublin Castle/ Culture Night
I was in highly esteemed company, with Cyril Kelly; poet Jessica Traynor; Historian Conor Mulvagh, and Paul Howard aka Ross O'Carroll Kelly in the Coach House at Dublin Castle for Sunday Miscellany Live on Culture Night 2016. My contribution was on the topic of my...
1943 – A Dance Odyssey at Dublin Festival of History on September 23rd 🙂
I'm delighted to see that my film "1943 - A Dance Odyssey", featuring 5 fabulous former pupils of Irish-German Modern Dance pioneer Erina Brady: Ann Fryer-Walsh; Margaret Becker; Ann Danaher/McGuire; Romy Hogan; and Barbara Sweetman-Fitzgerald, as well as rare 1943...
My Guerilla First Communion at the Dominicans
Last week RTE Radio One Sunday Miscellany broadcast my radio essay "My Guerilla First Communion at the Dominicans". You can listen back to this quirky tale involving my lovely Limerick grandparents here:...
Shooting an Arrow of Futurity about Lucia Joyce at NYU’s Dance Research Forum Ireland Conference
I'm looking forward to shooting an arrow of futurity about Lucia Joyce's Modern Dance career at Dance Research Forum Ireland's "UpRising" Conference at New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), next Friday, June 24th, at 2.30pm. The title, "Arrows of Futurity:...