A dinner dance with a difference at Cork’s Midsummer Festival

Choreographer Laura Murphy is planning something very new and different for this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival.

A Dance Concerto, which premieres on June 19, will involve people from all walks of life, some with experience, some with none, but linked together in a composition of cans. Food cans to be precise, cans of fruit, cans of beans, passed from hand to hand, struck with sticks, rattled, creating their own music as the performers move.

This is a community dance project writ large, which Murphy is creating and choreographing with composer Irene Buckley, as part of the dancer in residency scheme at the Firkin Crane. And she wants as many local people involved as possible, which is why she’s inviting applications for inclusion.