All the right moves

The Dublin Dance Festival showcases innovative performances in diverse venues. It’s for everyone, says Jo Kerrigan

INNOVATIVE, stimulating dance in diverse locations. That is the Dublin Dance Festival. These ‘happenings’ — performance is too formal a word — will take place in venues such as the Abbey Theatre, the Irish Film Institute and Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. Let nobody accuse the DDF of being restrictive, of aiming for one audience. This is dance for everybody.

The DDF’s new director is Julia Carruthers. She has worked with arts organisations such as the Edinburgh International Festival, the Southbank Centre, and as dance officer at the Arts Council of England. Carruthers has even been listed in Time Out magazine’s London’s top 100 ‘movers, shakers and opinion makers’.