A Teaċ Daṁsa, An Droichead for Belfast 2024, Dublin Theatre Festival, Abbey Theatre, and Sadlers Wells co-production
Nobodaddy
25 September - 5 October 2024
Created by Michael Keegan-Dolan and the Nobodaddy company
Directed by Michael Keegan-Dolan
Booking Information
Dates: 25 September – 5 October 2024
At the O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College
Tickets: €15 – €45
Post-show talk: 3 Oct
Age: 14+
Book tickets via Dublin Theatre Festival website
A new work by choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa, bringing together familiar and new collaborators in Ireland’s West Kerry Gaeltacht
“Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted & belchd & coughd
And said I love hanging & drawing
& quartering
Every bit as well as war & slaughtering”
– William Blake (1793)
Nobodaddy is an affecting large-scale dance and theatre ritual for a company of nine dancers and six musicians including the renowned folk singer and musician, Sam Amidon.
While ‘Nobodaddy’ is the name of a destructive divinity who appears in several of William Blake’s notebook poems, Teaċ Daṁsa’s Nobodaddy is an ode to the peacemakers and the bringers of good things.
Credits
- Director: Michael Keegan-Dolan
- Created by: Michael Keegan-Dolan and the Nobodaddy company
- Lighting Design: Adam Silverman
- Costume Design: Doy Lüthi
- Sound Design: Sandra Ní Mhathúna
- Additional Sound Design and Electronics: Jelle Roozenburg
- Dancers: Rachel Poirier, Amit Noy, Jimmy Southward, Aki Iwamoto, Ino Riga, Ryan O’Neill, Jovana Zelenovic, Holly Vallis, Will Thompson
- Music Performed, Created and Arranged by: Sam Amidon, Romain Bly, Flora Curzon, Jimmi Hueting, Mayah Kadish, Alice Purton and Jelle Roozenburg
- Production Manager: Violaine Crespin