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Schedule of Classes (October 2024)

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TUTOR SHOWCASE: 14th December 2024

Tutor Showcase: Saturday, 14th December 2024

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7pm Showcase

9pm Showcase

Join us for Christmas celebrations and to say goodbye for the Christmas break on the 14th of December! We’ve brought all our Taking Flight teachers together to show you their work and to inspire you for the new year.

Tutors
  • Julie O'Connell Kent
  • Claire Carroll
  • Bláithín Lally
  • Lisa Carley
  • Chloe Commins
  • Sean McIlraith
  • Em Murphy
  • Kayleigh McGinley
  • Darrell Elliott
  • Charli Sweet
  • Adela Marchis

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Shadow Puppetry

RISING FUTURE PRODUCERS

Day Course: Sunday, 8th December 2024 (10:30am to 6pm)

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Venue: Taking Flight Studios Cost: €50 per person

Are you interested in producing but not sure where to start? Or are you a self-producing artist wanting to expand your producing knowledge?

Join us for Rising Future Producers; a day-long workshop demystifying the role of the Producer: What does a Producer actually do? How does a Producer get a project off the ground? How do Artists find the right producer for your needs?

We will explore the roles, responsibilities and qualities of a Producer, look at ways of building partnerships and creative teams to get a project off the ground and examine case studies to understand the dynamic between artists and producers.

FACILITATORS

Led by Kevin Wratten from Split Second (UK) and Kath Gorman from Promenade (Ireland); two organisations with a focus on producing and touring street arts, circus and spectacle, this workshop is targeted at self-producing artists, new and emerging producers, or for other early career arts professionals (administrators, coordinators) with an interest in better understanding the Producing role.

Project funded by @artscouncilireland

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Up coming events

Thursday 6:30pm to 8:00pm 21st November

Rope (skilled)
Hoop (mixed level)
Open Training

Saturday 10:00am to 11:30am 23rd November

Kids and Teens

Saturday 12:00pm to 1:30pm 23rd November

Fabric or Rope (mixed level)
Hoop or Trapeze (mixed level)

Saturday 12:00pm to 1:30pm 23rd November

Kids and Teens

Saturday 1:30pm to 3:00pm 23rd November

Open Training

What we've been up to

Artist in Residence 2023: Theaker Von Ziarno Community

Theaker von Ziarno is Taking Flight's first Artist in Residence 2023.

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Community Projects Underway Community

Our very own Manager of Community, Hannah Gumbrielle, studied Inclusion and Exclusion in Circus with Stockholm University of the Arts to further her own practice as a teacher.

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Culture Night Cabaret 2022 Community

Culture Night Cabaret and family Fun Day On the 23rd of September 2022.

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Taking Flight: Artistic Residency Announcement 2022 Community

Taking Flight: Artistic Residency Announcement 2022 Every year, Taking Flight offers a number of artistic residencies to professional artists in the Irish industry or abroad.

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CREATE: A circus act creation course Performance

CREATE: A circus act creation course In 2020, Taking Flight piloted their EXPLORE programme, a course focused on giving individual artists the tools and techniques to research and develop creative work. The success of this course pushed us to introduce CREATE in 2022.

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What our students think

My daughter tried a drop-in class yesterday and loved it. There's a cool hippy vibe but the instructors can untangle a kid's foot in the silks so effortlessly that you see the skill that goes into it. It's great exercise without it looking like exercise e.g the warm-ups are done as games. My daughter's review: "I want to go there every day after school"
-- Grace


Supportive, exciting and fun - after not training for 3 years I was daunted to return to aerial. This was the perfect place to do it. I'll be back!!
-- Iona