Set to the iconic 1975 album by Irish traditional group The Bothy Band, 1975 / Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig is a must-see dance and theatre performance ritual where music and movement merge as one.
In this new dance-theatre work, choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan brings together seven exceptional dancers to honour, remember and be inspired by a visionary cultural happening in challenging times.
In Keegan-Dolan's world of movement, story and energy, the dancers move from wild expressive freedom to a reflective stillness, their personal histories unfolding within the rhythms of traditional Irish music.
Seven dancers. Seven chairs. Seven sharp suits. And one legendary album.
In 1975 / Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig, we recognise the inevitability of change, the goodness that endures and how to carry it with us through the years ahead.
Teaċ Daṁsa (Loch na hEala / Swan Lake, MÁM, How to be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons, NOBODADDY), based in the West Kerry Gaeltacht / Gaeltacht Chorca Dhuibhne, is internationally renowned for creating powerful dance-theatre ritual rooted in place and community.
Director and Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
Dancers Aki Iwamoto, Daniel Myers, Amit Noy, James O’Hara, Rachel Poirier, Jimmy Southward & Holly Vallis
Co-Lighting Design Adam Silverman & Peter Harrison
Set Design Hyemi Shin
Costume Design Hyemi Shin & Amanda Donovan
Additional Sound Design Jelle Roozenburg
Production Management Michael Lonergan & Iain Synnott
Stage Manager Aoife Malin
Sound Manager Sandra Ní Mhathúna
Videographer Mickey Kelly
Photography Emilija Jefremova
Recorded Music The Bothy Band | 1975
With thanks to Compass Records
Supported by The Arts Council and Údarás na Gaeltachta
Co-produced by Teaċ Daṁsa, Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork Opera House, and Théâtre de la Ville - Paris
Originally created with the support of Fit-Up Theatre Festival
With additional support from Culture Ireland
"“1975 / Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig" is the most beautiful and sympathetic dance response to traditional Irish music I have ever seen." Martin Hayes (The Gloaming, The Common Ground Ensemble, The Martin Hayes Quartet)
"This is transcendental dancing to a masterful and transformational soundtrack, amounting to a combination that is sublime." Diarmuid Ferriter, writer & historian
"I was so taken by this show when I had the good fortune to see a preview in West Kerry, I wrote a poem to Michael Keegan-Dolan and company the minute I came home. I was simply moved... This is the craft of movement and memory, bodies and minds, energy and the sublime." Dairena Ní Chinnéide, poet
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