Cork Midsummer Festival 2025
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025
We are excited to announce five sublime performances taking place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2025. Co-presented in partnership with Dance Cork Firkin Crane, the programme features works by renowned Irish and international artists: Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy), Yvon Bonenfant (Ireland), Pony Cam (Australia), and a welcome return to Cork by Lewis Major (Australia). Browse the schedule:
Triptych Lewis Major (Australia)
Fri 13 & Sat 14 June @ Dance Cork Firkin Crane
A meeting of minds, bodies, and movement. Rising star of Australian dance, Lewis Major joins forces with his mentor, the legendary Russell Maliphant OBE, for an evening of breathtaking physical poetry. Together, they explore universal rhythms and shifting cycles, performed by Major’s world-class dancers in a hypnotic interplay of light, sound, and motion.
The Opposite of Queer Trauma Yvon Bonenfant (Ireland)
Sat 14 & Sun 15 June @ Dance Cork Firkin Crane
This is no ordinary performance. It’s a kind of dance party. A vocal happening. A full-body celebration of LGBTQI+++ resilience and radical joy. We said, “Find your voice, feel internal rhythm, and move like you mean it!”
Save the Last Dance for Me Alessandro Sciarroni (Italy)
Fri 13 & Sun 15 June @ Millenium Hall, Cork City Hall
Set to a techno beat and performed by dancers Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini, this powerful duet revives the polka chinata – a courtship dance traditionally performed by men in early 1900s Bologna.
Lien Lewis Major (Australia)
Tues 17 – Sat 21 June @ Various locations
A quiet, powerful one-on-one performance that celebrates the beauty of human connection and the intimacy of shared presence.
Burnout Paradise Pony Cam (Australia)
Thur 19 – Sat 21 June @ Dance Cork Firkin Crane
In this exhilarating and chaotic performance, Pony Cam exposes the absurdity of a system that demands more than we can give. As the tasks escalate, so too does the realization – this was never a fair game.
Also coming up as part of Cork Midsummer Festival:
these gentle beings unhappy Emily Terndrup (Ireland)
Fri 13 June @ CTC Studio, Triskel Arts Centre
A gut-punching reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from director and choreographer Emily Terndrup. Fusing dance, theatre, and visual storytelling, this collision of artforms confronts the thrill and terror of creation – in life, in art and in the body.
