Carmen is still hot to trot

BALLET Ireland’s new production of Carmen, now touring Ireland, is a timeless, provocative tale of lust, beauty and destruction, played out against composer Georges Bizet’s passionate score.

It’s the fourth ballet created for Ballet Ireland by Morgann Runacre-Temple, an innovative young choreographer. She won the Central School of Ballet choreography award in 2002 and 2003. “I’ve always wanted to direct, to arrange the action onstage. I was forcing my parents to sit through home productions from the age of three,” she says.

She has worked for The Curve Foundation Dance Company, Ballet Central, The London Children’s Ballet, The Print Room, and Images of Dance, as well as in her own partnership, Out of Hand Dance, with Jessica Wright. She and Wright created the dance short, ‘Mishandled,’ which was shown at Sadler’s Wells, and international film festivals. Runacre-Temple has also been invited to work with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.