Nos – Luail – Irelands National Dance Company

Nōs
Luail presents Nōs, a landmark triple bill of internationally acclaimed and defining contemporary dance works by choreographers Akram Khan, Oona Doherty and Liz Roche. Performed by Luail’s extraordinary cast of eight dancers, the three pieces move from mythic worlds to raw human experience, revealing dance as a shared act of searching and connection.

Kaash by Akram Khan, first performed in 2002, is an internationally acclaimed work rooted in the rhythmic complexity of Khan’s classical background. Exploring cycles of creation and destruction, black holes and mythological gods, the piece moves between the earthly and the transcendent. Meaning “if only” in Hindi, Kaash unfolds within a poetic set design by Anish Kapoor, while a powerful score by Nitin Sawhney responds to the intensity of Khan’s dynamic and highly physical early movement language.

Oona Doherty’s Lazarus (2016) is a bold and deeply affecting work from one of the most vital voices in contemporary dance today. Completing Nōs are two works from Liz Roche’s 12 Minute Dances (2009): vivid studies in colour, rhythm and emotion, where human embodiment becomes a dynamic, living event. Set designer Alyson Cummins, lighting designer Sinead Wallace, and costume designer Catherine Fay shape this reimagining of 12 Minute Dances and across the wider production, bringing its three works together as Nōs.

Cast & Team

KAASH
Direction and Choreographer: Akram Khan
Composer: Nitin Sawhney
Set Design: Anish Kapoor
Lighting Design: Aideen Malone
Costume Design: Kimie Nakano
Staging: Andrej Petrovic
Technical Advisor: Richard Fagan

LAZARUS
Choreography: Oona Doherty
Music: Gregorio D’Allegri Miserere mei, performed by the Choir of New College,
Oxford mixed with ‘Wee bastards’
Lighting Design: Lisa Mary Barry
Costume Design: Oona Doherty
12 MINUTE DANCES
Extract (two works) from original Rex Levitates Dance Company 2009 production

Choreography: Liz Roche
Music: ‘Lick’ by Julia Wolfe ©Red Poppy c/o Universal Music Publishing Group
(Classics & Screen) and Not Caesar by Edward RosenBerg III
Set Design: Alyson Cummins
Lighting Designer: Sineád Wallace
Costume Design: Catherine Fay
CAST: Robyn Byrne, Jou-Hsin Chu, Clara Kerr, Sean Lammer, Tom O’Gorman,
Hamza Pirimo, Rosie Stebbing, Meghan Stevens
Rehearsal Director: Glòria Ros Abellana

SPECIAL EFFECTS: This production may contain Strobe Lighting, Flashing Lights, Smoke and Haze.

AGE GUIDANCE: Under 16’s must be accompanied by and seated next to a parent/guardian aged 18+

*Performance schedule and times are subject to change and may be affected by illness or events beyond the producers’ or venues’ control. Performers, dates, times, prices, and fees are subject to change without notice.