Coming to the festival and want to see all the shows? Participants can buy the Show Pack when paying for their classes, which gives them access to all the shows.

All IADF participants and teachers WILL get a discount price to see HOME. Watch this space for more info 

Wednesday 23rd July 

IADF International Night – 8pm An Grianán Theatre

IADF attracts participants from all around the world, and here we present some of these international artists.

Admission €10

Friday 25th July 

IADF Homegrown – 8pm An Grianán Theatre

At IADF, we continue to support emerging Irish–based circus artists. This night is a medley of new Irish work in progress

Admission €10

Saturday 26th July 

Emma Insley Cabaret Night– 7pm An Grianán Theatre

The Emma Insley Cabaret Night is an institution! Come and see all the short acts from artists attending the festival.

Admission €10

Tickets for shows in An Grianán can be purchased through An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny

Online https://angrianan.com/
or by calling Box Office: +353 74 912 0777

International Night

Wednesday 23rd July @ 8 pm – An Grianán

‘Temporal Aria’–Nicole Maisey (40–45 mins)

Temporal Aria is a breathtaking contemporary circus performance that fuses hair suspension, acrobatics, and contortion to explore the power of control and the art of release.

An Exploration of Control, Surrender, and Inner Peace. Temporal Aria is a deeply personal contemporary circus show that explores the relationship with control and surrender, seen through the lens of her recent ADHD diagnosis. Using hair suspension, acrobatics, and contortion, Nicole Maisey navigates the challenges of distractibility and executive dysfunction, expressing a journey toward finding balance and peace. The performance also subverts traditional gender roles often seen in circus and personal relationships. In this powerful reimagining, Nicole’s partner remains supportive and present, but out of the spotlight, highlighting a shift away from the stereotypical roles of men in leadership and women in quiet, supportive positions. At its core, Temporal Aria is about more than just struggle—it’s about discovering joy and contentment within ourselves, embracing the complexity of our lives, and redefining success as inner peace.

Interval 15mins

TMI–Emma D’Lemma (15mins)

This work explores the overwhelming flood of online information, digital masks, and the isolation itall creates. The relentless stream of digital noise makes it difficult to differentiate authenticity from illusion. I am attempting to capture this isolated disconnect from reality in this piece, as well as a reminder of how to get out of it. I’m hoping to remind you that even in the most overwhelming digital spaces, real connection has the power to ground and restore us.

TABLE MANNERS – Cikada Circus (5 mins)

This couple’s table–manners go out the window as their behaviour escalates from a slight disagreement to a competitive battle to win the bottle. With dazzling acrobatics and slapstick comedy, this upbeat act is jam–packed with entertainment for the whole family.

IADF Homegrown

Friday 25th July @ 8pm – An Grianán

‘Hungry Ghosts’–Polina Shapkina

(15mins) (ADT projections)

In the realm of the wretched hungry ghosts, you eat but cannot get full, consume but are never satisfied. Hungry Ghosts explores the universal human experience of inner voids and the compulsion to fill them. Is there a path we can take to break the cycle? Or are we bound to live and die in the bondage of insatiable longing

Interval 15 mins

‘Is Mise’–Keeva O’Neill

(20mins) ( 3 fabrics air and on ground)

‘Is Mise’ is an exploration of Irish heritage using aerial silks and contemporary dance. Keeva explores three themes on how stories are passed down from generation to generation. The sixteen-minute piece is split into four sections: Uisce (Water), Scealta (Stories), Freamhacha (Roots) and In Eineacht (Together).

‘Gan Chuimse [limitless]’– Aisling Ní Cheallaigh

(10 min) (Hoop/harness)

An exploration of limitations.

Interval 15 mins

Rope Duet – Jake Fairbrother and Charlotte Bruce (No Title)

(45mins)

Following childhood as it shifts through life. This contemporary aerial dance duet explores the journey of sibling dynamics as they navigate the obstacles encountered as the mature.

The Emma Insley Cabaret

Saturday 26th July @ 7pm – An Grianán

The Emma Insley Cabaret has been running since the festival began in 2010. 

The Cabaret will be a curated selection of acts from the aerial dancers participating in the festival and will be a variety of lengths and apparatus, including some group numbers. We want to share what we’ve been working on, so come and join the celebration with us!

The winners of the Emma Insley Aerial Creation Fund will also perform their piece, the festival is in memory of Emma Insley.

HOME

Saturday 19 July 8.00pm An Grianán Theatre

Part of the Earagail Festival

A co-production with Tobi Omoteso and Fidget Feet.

An indoor aerial Hip H’Opera that explores darkness, trust, strength, femininity, male suppression, identity and more.

New Show

by Fidget Feet