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Over 90 events for kids and families beginning this week at Belfast Children's Festival
Young at Art are going big for the festival's 21st birthday with an even more fun for all ages following last year's landmark celebration
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Dancing in the dark: multi-medium show brings scary stories to Derry walls
Stories of ghosts and wise women are the perfect ingredients for a frightfully good night at Echo Echo Studios this weekend
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The TV company helping to 'transform lives' documenting dance projects for vulnerable people
Triplevision has been producing cutting edge programmes for nearly 20 years, but for filmmaker Gerard Stratton it's recent work with DU Dance that's been most creatively rewarding
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Belfast Children's Festival: The things your family won't want to miss
As Young at Art and its baby turn 20, its landmark offering of events will ensure that audiences big and small will never want to get any older
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A1 singer onto another hit with Millennium Forum-bound Flashdance the Musical
As we continue to mine the '80s to satisfy our nostalgic needs, pop star Ben Adams promises 'everything and more' from a production that epitomises the colour and energy of the period
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Over 100 gift ideas with Belfast Waterfront and Ulster Hall's new season
Christmas is taken care of with a raft of music spectaculars, comedy and more live events promising to be just the ticket
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Awards for twenty Northern Ireland artists to 'take careers to the next level'
Individuals working across literature, drama, music and more receive annual Arts Council ACES grant helping to build on work to date with major new projects
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Clear the Decks for Titanicdance
Choreographer and lead performer James Keegan promises audiences will be 'reeled' in once more as the as the hit show returns to our shores
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Browse the brand new Belfast International Arts Festival programme
See what takes your fancy from close to 200 events this year including spectacular first-time productions and major visual works
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The Enduring Resonance of A Time to Speak
Actress Joan McCready on continuing to deliver the message of Helen Lewis's Holocaust memoir, not just for her 'but for all victims and survivors'
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Waves
Gentle movement and vivid storytelling make more than a few ripples in this poignant and understated play about one woman's remarkable resilience
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In the Swim with Alice Mary Cooper
In her all-ages performance piece Waves, the eclectic Australian artist imagines the life of a woman 'credited' with creating the butterfly stroke
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The Fits
This adolescent dance drama eschews coming-of-age tropes in favour of a more unorthodox yet fascinating slow burn
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La La Land
Despite its artistic virtues, the limp narrative of Damien Chazelle's modern musical just won't leave audiences as jazzed as they were with Whiplash
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Echo Echo Dance Festival is Poetry in Motion
After nearly 20 years in Derry, the contemporary dance company is spilling out into public spaces, and showing no signs of standing still
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Belfast Theatre - December 2015
The best musical, drama and dance productions taking place on stages across Belfast throughout the next month
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Belfast Theatre - November 2015
The best musical, drama and dance productions taking place on stages across Belfast throughout the next month
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Derry to Host Third International Dance Festival
Echo Echo welcomes a flood of international artists and performers back to the historic City Walls for ten days of exhilarating works
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Belfast Theatre - October 2015
The best musical, drama and dance productions taking place on stages across Belfast throughout the next month
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Du Dance in the Streets
Over 300 local dancers flooded Belfast for an afternoon of everything from tango at train stops to hip-hop in the shops, leading to a big mass dance celebration in the grounds of City Hall. In association with somewhereto_.
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Imagine Arts Festival 2015
Take a trip down memory lane, recapturing special experiences, memories and more from bygone eras
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Eleesha Drennan Reaches Tipping Point
The Canadian choreographer takes dance into public spaces to explore the feeling of 'life spiralling out of focus' in her first Maiden Voyage piece
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Belfast Theatre - September 2015
The best musical, drama and dance productions taking place on stages across Belfast throughout the next month
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The Belfast Tattoo 2015
The festival returns for its most spectacular event to date with a packed programme featuring over 600 performers
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Lughnasa International Friel Festival
The first annual Belfast celebration of the life and work of Brian Friel, featuring music, dance and more!
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Happy Days Beckett Festival Preview
Provocative productions, world premieres and even a spot of cricket are all lined up as part of the fourth annual celebration of Enniskillen's Nobel Prize-winning son
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Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival
Annual international celebration of Irish novelist and playwright returns to its roots for a fourth year
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Belfast Mela
Northern Ireland’s biggest celebration of cultural diversity marks its 10th year with a food-themed festival at Belfast's Botanic Gardens
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O-BON Japanese Festival of Taiko and Light
Inaugural celebration of Japanese culture with traditional music, theatre and more at Derry's Playtrail
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Quartet for Fifteen Chairs
The kids love Maiden Voyage Dance's Chaplin-esque piece, marked by slapstick humour, enchanting choreography and a joyous score by Brian Irvine
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Titanicdance Returns to Derry
Artistic director Raymond Sweeney on working with Michael Flatley, the thrill of Irish dance and the global appeal of the Titanic story
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The Fifth Province
Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre remake the rules of choreography for a daring work exploring Irish mythology at The MAC
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Coppélia
Russian State Ballet of Siberia perform Léo Delibes's fantastical, folksy story during a tiring run at the Grand Opera House
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The 5th Province
Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre explore social, political and multicultural identity in a rapidly changing society
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Meeting Ballet Dancer Melissa Hamilton
First Soloist of the Royal Ballet on following her dreams and the From Bolshoi to Belfast exhibit
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Ludo Lusi Lusum
Animals metamorphose and interact in Echo Echo's delightful new piece for children
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Grupo Corpo - Sem Mim and Parabelo
The Internationally acclaimed dance company bring the fire of Brazil to the 2014 Ulster Bank Festival at Queen's
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Claire Cunningham, Belfast Festival Artist in Residence
The disabled artist on challenging perceptions of disability and religion with latest multi-disciplinary production
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Cabaret
Bruiser's confident, sassy and perfectly judged musical is a must see show at The MAC
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Bruiser Tackle Cabaret at The MAC
From September 16 The MAC transforms into the Kit Kat Klub in this immersive production of the classic musical
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Walled City Tattoo
Derry's got talent as drummers, dancers, singers and stuntmen transport Ebrington back in time
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Villa & Discurso
Guillermo Calderón's rumination on a damaged Chile feels familiar in post-conflict Belfast
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Singin' in the Rain
Can the iconic musical movie transfer to the stage? Umbrellas at the ready at the Grand Opera House
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Ponies Don't Play Football
Pony Dance twerk The MAC audience into hysterics with their latest comedy production
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Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Radical choreographer brings his ground-breaking adaptation of Tchaikovsky's ballet to Belfast
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Scottish Ballet: Hansel & Gretel
Christopher Hampson's much-anticipated new ballet, based upon the Brothers Grimm story, set for Grand Opera House
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Sleeping Beauty
Queen's Film Theatre live stream the Bolshoi Ballet's most extravagant production of 2013
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A Time To Speak
One woman's remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz through friendship, determination, luck and dance
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Helen Lewis, 1916-2009
Holocaust survivor and choreographer leaves behind an inspirational legacy
