I.F O.N.L.Y Festival
17 December
Birr Theatre and Arts Centre

Legitimate Bodies Dance Company together with Birr Theatre and Arts Centre announce the return of I.F. O.N.L.Y. (International Festival of a Necessarily Lonely You) in Birr on 17 December. Now in its second season the festival is the first event entirely dedicated to contemporary dance solo performances in Ireland. This year the programme includes a wonderful mix of inspiring and thought-provoking artists from both home, John Scott in The Bowing Dance, Angie Smalis, Libby Seward, and abroad, Jeff Wallace (USA), Andrea Cagnetti / Valentina Buffone (Italy) and Antonio Quiles (Mex/Spain) making this one dance event you don't want to miss.

The Bowing Dance - a duet for me and you, is created and performed by John Scott, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre. Playful, quirky and idiosyncratic, The Bowing Dance, sometimes compared to Beckett, has been performed in Ireland, France, La MaMa Moves, New York, Capital Nights, Liverpool, UK, Sweden and Estonia.

“the work can feel like a brilliant piece of absurdist theater, a meditation on identity, an entry-level primer on choreographic composition or nothing very much at all. Perhaps it’s all those things at once, which is to say, art”
Roslyn Sulcas/New York Times