Kinsale Arts Weekend 2026
An tAthrú (The Changeover) by Yvonne Coughlan
RSVP (Red Sandstone Varied Productions)
2x 50min promenade dance performances, 2pm & 4pm Sunday 12th July.
This performance responds directly to IMMRAMA by reimagining the town itself as a voyage, with the audience as fellow travellers moving through spaces and encountering shifts in form, rhythm, and identity. It unfolds as a guided Imram journey through Kinsale, led by music and rhythm, where dance evolves from performance into shared participation, carrying traces of a heron-like presence, a quiet embodiment of threshold, stillness, and change. The audience is gradually gathered into the work as they follow the performance through the streets of Kinsale, and the idea of transformation is carried from the professional dancers to these festival participants through their own bodies. All are changed.
Yvonne Coughlan - Writer, Director, Creative Producer;
Dance Ensemble -
Paul McCabe (Choreographer,)
Abbie Daunt, Aoife Newe, Leah Davis, Abby O’Neill, Gaia Lopopolo, Emma Murphy;
Music -
Liam O’Keeffe (Accordion), Aisling Sage (Fiddle), Levi Magyar & Jerome Bourlet (Drums);
Costume - Linda Jordan;
Photos - John Allen; Video - Maurice Supple
Two public workshops invite community to get involved (6.30-7.30pm, Temperance Hall, Weds. 1st and 8th July.)
Special thanks to
Tides of Tradition and Cork School of Dance
