THE 5 MAN SHOW
This production currently being developed by the National Folk Theatre brings together five dancers whose training and practice of Irish step is very diverse and unique. Each one of these practitioners has in some way spent time experimenting and developing their own particular style, often in isolation.
The aim of the THE 5 MAN SHOW is to spend a period of time researching the regional styles of Irish dance that still exist. The project is prompted by a desire for the National Folk Theatre at Siamsa Tíre to ensure that those styles are kept alive It is anticipated that over the course of four weeks each one of the practitioners will have an opportunity to exchange their skills with the other dancers, to catalogue and record the work, and perhaps most importantly, to exchange skills and techniques to create a new choreographic body of work that fuses all of these styles.
The main outcome of the THE 5 MAN SHOW is exchange and experimentation in order to protect these important traditional arts styles, and to reach a new audience who can appreciate these styles beyond their geographical boundaries.
The aim of the THE 5 MAN SHOW is to spend a period of time researching the regional styles of Irish dance that still exist. The project is prompted by a desire for the National Folk Theatre at Siamsa Tíre to ensure that those styles are kept alive It is anticipated that over the course of four weeks each one of the practitioners will have an opportunity to exchange their skills with the other dancers, to catalogue and record the work, and perhaps most importantly, to exchange skills and techniques to create a new choreographic body of work that fuses all of these styles.
The main outcome of the THE 5 MAN SHOW is exchange and experimentation in order to protect these important traditional arts styles, and to reach a new audience who can appreciate these styles beyond their geographical boundaries.
