Teaċ Daṁsa is recruiting an Executive Producer
Job Title Executive Producer Salary Competitive salary, commensurate with experience Location Negotiable Responsible for General Manager, Administrator, Creative Team and Company (when in production)…
Teac Damsa
Dance and theatre work, informed by a deep sense of place
Remembering Your Mother Tongue
a great adventure Then, like so many others, I emigrated just after my Leaving Certificate, chasing dreams that took me to London to study,…
Shame and the way we walk
NO LIGHT WITHOUT DARK From an early age we are told who we are, where we have come from and where we need to…
I learned to Dance from an English Japanese Sword Master
further afield I started looking further afield, hanging out at different dance studios. I’d go to modern dance classes and contemporary dance classes. I…
Good Vibrations – 2021
Introduction In my imagination in some ancient temple there were once dancers who only lived to dance and when they danced it was for…
Securing the Future of Dance in Ireland Together
Dancers are extraordinary people. It’s their love of what they do that carries them. They are not wrapped up in the politics of the…
Questions and Answers for a Cancelled Performance
How did you start to dance? What does dance mean to you? My mother brought me to see a show when I was 4…
Six Weeks in Aotearoa
The first time I travelled to this beautiful place was in 2008 when we performed our production of Giselle in Shed 6 as part…
Sharp Knives are Dangerous but they are Useful
The negotiation I have my own children now, and I see in them a similar quality, assuming that it can be called a quality….
Don’t be afraid of the dark
Much of Christian culture has been reduced to a simple notion that God is good, has a white beard and lives in the light…
To Dance is to Burn
We pray for wisdom to clarify our seeing, hearing and feeling so that we may slip behind the veils of delusion, overcome the illusion…
The Body
a body held ransom In real time, in live theatre, the most exciting art of all, the actor’s body can sometimes betray the actor…