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Feb 14, 2024 · Dancer, choreographer, and Our Steps artistic director Jean Butler is a leading figure in the world of contemporary Irish dance performance. Her most recent production, a site-specific promenade piece entitled What We Hold, premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2022 to critical acclaim. Past works have been supported and presented ...
Feb 16, 2024 · Jean Butler’s “What We Hold,” at the Irish Arts Center, is an installation-like work that seeks restrained classicism in a post-“Riverdance” world.
Feb 27, 2024 · Jean Butler: What We Hold recently had its North American Premiere, re-designed and re-staged for New York’s stunning Irish Arts Center after debuting to critical acclaim in 2022 as part of the...
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A new, site specific work featuring choreographer, dancer, and director Jean Butler with an intergenerational cast of renowned dance artists.
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Feb 13, 2024 · The theme of retrieval and transformation runs through “What We Hold,” which premiered at the Dublin Theater Festival in 2022 with the audience guided through several floors of a Georgian...
Oct 7, 2022 · In What We Hold, Butler has created an astonishing dance work, a visual, aural, almost poetic performative archive of Irish step dance. Ryan C Seaton’s immersive soundscape overlays the mix...
Mar 20, 2024 · We spoke with Jean Butler, dancer-choreographer and founder of Our Steps, about her creative process, reconfiguring the dance production "What We Hold" for the U.S. stage, and the importance of celebrating and archiving Irish dance history.
