Dancehall

Black shiny hard shoes lick the hard floor, littered with crushed coke cans and debris. Sharing the same air, shiny faces, blood pumping together. Only skin is holding them back.

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall, a space where freedom, resistance and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Emma Martin’s celebratory 2015 work Dancehall returns, with music by composer Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble, bringing order and chaos, obedience and rebellion to the stage. Exploring the primacy of the dancing body, this dance concert embraces the internal desires and external forces that propel us through the world.

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Cast and Team

Choreography Emma Martin

Performed by Luail Company Dancers

Music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble

Stage Design Emma Martin

Lighting Design Stephen Dodd

Costume Design Katie Davenport

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Dancehall

Black shiny hard shoes lick the hard floor, littered with crushed coke cans and debris. Sharing the same air, shiny faces, blood pumping together. Only skin is holding them back.

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall, a space where freedom, resistance and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Emma Martin’s celebratory 2015 work Dancehall returns, with music by composer Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble, bringing order and chaos, obedience and rebellion to the stage. Exploring the primacy of the dancing body, this dance concert embraces the internal desires and external forces that propel us through the world.

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Cast and Team

Choreography Emma Martin

Performed by Luail Company Dancers

Music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble

Stage Design Emma Martin

Lighting Design Stephen Dodd

Costume Design Katie Davenport

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Máire joins Glasshouse Ensemble to perform the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto on October 26th, 2025 Tickets available here:

https://hughlane.ie/whats_on/hugh-lane-gallery-sunday-concert-series-glasshouse-ryuichi-sakamoto/

Dancehall

Black shiny hard shoes lick the hard floor, littered with crushed coke cans and debris. Sharing the same air, shiny faces, blood pumping together. Only skin is holding them back.

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall, a space where freedom, resistance and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Emma Martin’s celebratory 2015 work Dancehall returns, with music by composer Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble, bringing order and chaos, obedience and rebellion to the stage. Exploring the primacy of the dancing body, this dance concert embraces the internal desires and external forces that propel us through the world.

‍

Cast and Team

Choreography Emma Martin

Performed by Luail Company Dancers

Music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble

Stage Design Emma Martin

Lighting Design Stephen Dodd

Costume Design Katie Davenport

‍

Dancehall

Black shiny hard shoes lick the hard floor, littered with crushed coke cans and debris. Sharing the same air, shiny faces, blood pumping together. Only skin is holding them back.

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall, a space where freedom, resistance and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Emma Martin’s celebratory 2015 work Dancehall returns, with music by composer Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble, bringing order and chaos, obedience and rebellion to the stage. Exploring the primacy of the dancing body, this dance concert embraces the internal desires and external forces that propel us through the world.

‍

Cast and Team

Choreography Emma Martin

Performed by Luail Company Dancers

Music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble

Stage Design Emma Martin

Lighting Design Stephen Dodd

Costume Design Katie Davenport

‍

Dancehall

Black shiny hard shoes lick the hard floor, littered with crushed coke cans and debris. Sharing the same air, shiny faces, blood pumping together. Only skin is holding them back.

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall, a space where freedom, resistance and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Emma Martin’s celebratory 2015 work Dancehall returns, with music by composer Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble, bringing order and chaos, obedience and rebellion to the stage. Exploring the primacy of the dancing body, this dance concert embraces the internal desires and external forces that propel us through the world.

‍

Cast and Team

Choreography Emma Martin

Performed by Luail Company Dancers

Music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble

Stage Design Emma Martin

Lighting Design Stephen Dodd

Costume Design Katie Davenport

‍

Dancehall

Black shiny hard shoes lick the hard floor, littered with crushed coke cans and debris. Sharing the same air, shiny faces, blood pumping together. Only skin is holding them back.

Drawn from the shadows of Ireland’s Public Dance Halls Act, this exhilarating work revels in the powerful simplicity and raw humanity of the dancehall, a space where freedom, resistance and individuality unapologetically meet in messy, sweaty, chaotic joy.

Dancehall is an unrestrained tribute to what it means to be alive—together, egos smashed up, in the moment.

Emma Martin’s celebratory 2015 work Dancehall returns, with music by composer Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble, bringing order and chaos, obedience and rebellion to the stage. Exploring the primacy of the dancing body, this dance concert embraces the internal desires and external forces that propel us through the world.

‍

Cast and Team

Choreography Emma Martin

Performed by Luail Company Dancers

Music by Andrew Hamilton, performed by Crash Ensemble

Stage Design Emma Martin

Lighting Design Stephen Dodd

Costume Design Katie Davenport

‍

Pianist Máire Carroll joins tenor Patrick Hyland, soprano Claudia Boyle and violinist Denice Doyle for a spectacular showcase of musical favourites from the world of opera and movies!

Tickets available here: https://thelark.ie/moviesmusicals-opera-a-night-of-music-from-the-stage-screen/

Máire presents at the Doctors in Performance 2025 conference in Helsink, Finland in September 2025.

Commissioned by Irish National Opera, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and Klangforum Wien, Máire joins the INO on keyboards for MARS at The Abbey THeatre, Dublin 2025.

composer Jennifer Walshe
libretto Mark O’Connell
co-directors Tom Creed and Jennifer Walshe
conductor Elaine Kelly

Tickets available: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/mars/

Dr Máire Carroll returns to adjudicate the Newpark Festival 2025 piano competitions in February 2025.

Newpark Festival 2025 details

More details TBA for December 20th, 2024

For tickets click here

Details and tickets available here: https://hughlane.ie/whats_on/sundays-at-noon-spotlight-chamber-music-15dec2024/

Join Máire and others for a night of curated music at Bello Bar, Dublin 8 to celebrate the end of Kaleidoscope’s 15th season.

Details and tickets available here

Máire Carroll joins violinist Hilda O’Mahony for ‘enVELop’ in Kilkenny, Ireland.

For more information please see here

https://www.nch.ie/all-events-listing/metronome-caterina-schembri-sea-salt-and-turpentine/

Máire Carroll will perform alongside Tenor Patrick Hyland and Soprano Celine Byrne for an evening of music from the world of opera and musicals such as Westside Story, Phantom of the Opera, Puccini’s Turandot Nessun Dorma.

Concert takes place on October 18th & October 19th at the Moat Theatre, Naas at 7-9p.m.

Tickets available here

Máire Carroll will perform alongside Tenor Patrick Hyland and Soprano Celine Byrne for an evening of
music from the world of opera and musicals such as Westside Story, Phantom of the Opera, Puccini’s Turandot Nessun Dorma.

Concert takes place on October 18th & October 19th at the Moat Theatre, Naas at 7-9p.m.

Tickets available here

Máire Carroll joins Crash Ensemble for their three date Irish concert tour of Philip Glass’ Glassworks.

Tickets available here

Glassworks Tour announcement

Máire Carroll joins Crash Ensemble for their three date Irish concert tour of Philip Glass’ Glassworks.

Tickets available here

Glassworks Tour announcement

Máire Carroll joins Crash Ensemble for their three date Irish concert tour of Philip Glass’ Glassworks. The tour begins at the Regional Cultural Centre in Donegal.

Tickets available here

Glassworks Tour announcement

Étude extravaganza takes place at the NCH, Dublin across two evenings on September 26th & 27th at 8:30 p.m.

Étude extravaganza takes place at the NCH, Dublin across two evenings on September 26th & 27th at 8:30 p.m.

Máire joins violinist Hilda O’Mahony at the RHA for a very exciting pop-up event on Sunday 15 September.https://rhagallery.ie/news/music-at-margadh/.

Two sessions: The first at 3p.m. and the second at 7p.m.

Máire Carroll plays Philip Glass Piano Études at Kilkenny Arts Festival, 2024.

Details available here: https://www.kilkennyarts.ie/programme/m%C3%A1ire-carroll

‘Finghin Collins and Máire Carroll – two of Ireland’s most celebrated pianists – join forces to perform this exhilarating programme of new music (the Ros Tapestry Suite) by many of our finest living composers.’

Details available here: https://www.kilkennyarts.ie/programme/finghin-collins-m%C3%A1ire-carroll

Máire Carroll joins fellow pianists Billy O’Brien and Didzis Kalniņš for a lunchtime recital at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on July 5th. Details and tickets to be released soon.