Contortions and comedy lead to music and mystery

CONTORTIONISM, acrobatics, mysterious transformations, music and dance with Macnas providing the backing track. It must be Galway Arts Festival time again.

The 27th Galway Arts Festival was launched yesterday and promises to celebrate artistic innovation from around the world with a programme of theatre, spectacle, dance, visual arts, music, literature and comedy and contortions.

The week-long festival begins on Monday July 12 boasts two world premiere events produced by the festival; Open Source, a multimedia dance performance involving artists from Iceland and Ireland, and Trad, a new Irish play by Mark Doherty.