Dublin Dance Festival

Dublin Dance Festival 2025 celebrates community, chaos and ritual

The Dublin Dance Festival (DDF) returns for its 21st edition from May 13-24, showcasing the talents of both Irish and international artists, with an eclectic programme that explores themes of community, chaos, and ritual.

36 ways of looking at The Sudden: Pan Pan's eureka moment

Nicholas Johnson, dramaturg with Pan Pan Theatre Company, introduces their 'experiment in live direction, authorship and choreography', coming to this year's Dublin Dance Festival.

The Archivist - choreographer Luke Murphy reimagines Greek myth

Award-winning Irish choreographer and Dublin Dance Festival Artist in Residence Luke Murphy tells us about The Archivist, the first installment of The Prometheus Project.

Kindred: Liz Roche's digital dance for the natural world

Dublin Dance Festival preview: Liz Roche, Choreographer and Artistic Director at Liz Roche Company, introduces Kindred, an innovative digital dance installation exploring nature and human connection

Dublin Dance Festival: letting go, taking heart & beginning again

Jazmin Chiodi, Artistic Director of Dublin Dance Festival, tells us about this year's edition, which will runs from 16th - 28th May.

Dublin Dance Festival: Áine Stapleton on Somewhere in the Body

Dublin Dance Festival: Catherine Young on the politics of care

Dublin Dance Festival: Junk Ensemble on dancing like a bomb

Dublin Dance Festival: Do The Shake!

Choreographer Catherine Young responds to life in Palestine

Dublin Dance Festival: When Junk Ensemble met Alice Maher

Inside Dublin Dance Festival 2021 - on the good foot

Dublin Dance Festival - 5 shows to see

Dublin Dance Festival's Artistic Director Benjamin Perchet talks about some of the highlights of this year's edition, which takes place from 1-19 May.

WRoNGHEADED - choreographer Liz Roche on her new show

Choreographer Liz Roche writes for RTE Culture about cross discipline collaboration in the world of dance, building creative communities for contemporary dance in Ireland and her latest show WRoNGHEADED.

Dublin Dance Festival preview - on the good foot

Benjamin Perchet, Artistic director of Dublin Dance Festival, previews this year's event, which kicks off on May 2nd at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre with the English National Ballet production of Akram Khan's Giselle.

Watch: Akram Khan's Giselle - inside the creative process

In the first in a series of behind-the-scenes glimpses at Akram Khan's Giselle, we follow the journey from conception of this re-imagined version of the classical ballet through to its world premiere in Manchester.

Feet first - Dublin Dance Festival steps up

Benjamin Perchet, Director of the Dublin Dance Festival, previews this year's event, which kicks off on May 18th.