Deirdre’s Diary
Buying “Black-Outs” on Summer Solstice Weekend
I am loving the stretch in the evenings. They are almost at their outermost stretch. Which is why it felt strange today to be buying "blackouts" at Guiney's of Talbot street, to block out this gorgeous and too shortlived evening light! But I have to. The reason? ...
“Come Dance with Me” at the Art Park
Celebrating our overlooked dance legacy, I co-curated this projection "Come Dance with Me" at the Art Park - Ireland's largest outdoor screen, at Spencer Dock, behind Conference Centre Dublin - on the occasion of Liz Roche Company's "Bastard Amber", the first ever...
Arts Tonight (RTE) contributions on Bastard Amber, WB Yeats & Ninette De Valois at the Abbey Theatre
I was on Arts Tonight with Vincent Woods on Monday evening, interviewing choreographer Liz Roche, and composer Ray Harman (during their rehearsals at Dance House), about their contributions to "Bastard Amber" at the Abbey Theatre as part of the imminent Dublin Dance...
Read moreThis is the reason mysterious places like Dun Aengus are where they are, I reckon. No surprise then that the Buddhist Meditation centre Dzogchen Beara, which was at the top of my “to check out” list was also nearby, drawn no doubt towards the spectacular, almost abstract, view of sky and sea.
Out There Productions and the Beara-ble Lightness of Being in West Cork
It is raining cats and dogs in Dublin as I write this. A dirty day to beat all other dirty days. It now seems like a dream that I was in a pocket of sunshine out on the remote Beara Peninsula, West Cork, a week ago with Out There Productions. Paradoxically, it was...
Erina Brady features in Tanz Magazin
My contributor copy of Tanz Magazin just arrived in the post! I'm thrilled to see Erina Brady getting (long overdue) recognition for her overlooked contribution to Irish cultural history in this month's edition...
Journey to YU and the Belgrade-Irish Festival 2015 🙂
I was honoured to be invited to present work at this year’s Belgrade-Irish Festival by Dubliner Jas Kaminski, director of the festival which is in its 3rd year. I had approached Jas to let him know about my photo-documentary project “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of...
Journey to YU DVD Landing & Take-Off
We got this! Today we are packing our bags for Belgrade, making sure this DVD is safely packed, en route for its premiere at the Belgrade-Irish Festival on Monday! Setting the alarm clock for the middle of the night to catch a flight at the crack of dawn tomorrow... ...
Visual Edit – Journey to YU
Yesterday was an epic day in the studio, watching the first cut of visual edit for Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West) by our fab editor Aoife Carey. Just a few tweaks here & there... So while waiting for the final render, thought I'd share a few pix...
Book Launch! First Biographical Sketch of Erina Brady published in Irish-German Biographies
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]"Cultural/ Literary Translators - Selected Irish Biographies 2" Trier: (WVT), edited by Sabine Egger, including my first biographical sketch of Erina Brady "Erina Brady: Irish/German Harbinger of Modern Dance to 1940s...
Biographical essay on Erina Brady launching at NUIG this week!
I'm delighted to see that this biographical essay I wrote "Erina Brady: Irish-German Harbinger of Modern Dance to 1940s Ireland", is being launched in the book "Selected Irish-German Biographies 2", WVT Press, edited by Sabine Egger, at NUI Galway this Friday. I'm...
Last week to catch “Dance Emergency” on TG4 Player
Happy February! Can't you feel the old stretch in the evenings already? It may not be getting any warmer, but the evenings are definitely extending, and I think nightfall is staying off until about 5.40pm now - and sliding forward, slowly but surely. In other good...
Irish Kickstarter: Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West
ART BARGAIN ALERT As part of our Irish kickstarter to make an audio slideshow/ radio documentary “Journey to YU (in the footsteps of Rebecca West)” about award-winning photographer Dragana Jurisic’s recent RHA Dublin & Belfast Exposed show “YU: The Lost Country”...