Imagined Futures: A Live Art Series in June and July 2026

Set within the confines of a single room, three individuals are seen grappling with the friction and intimacy of a shared space, a drama unravels in its aliveness and disorder. The private space is fading. Its disappearance mirrors the extinction of public space. Both are no longer spectacle nor secret. 

With elements of daily life, humor and play ‘At the Edge of the Forest’ investigates how gaze and surveillance can warp our perception of space, making it feel more transparent and exposed. This contemporary dance work takes inspiration from different ways of seeing and being seen, as well as challenging conditions for composition and access. Created and directed by Alex Vostokova with performers Grace Cuny, Jack Colley (DJ) and Masha Vostokova. 

Alex Vostokova is a dance artist, emerging choreographer and director working across live performance, improvisation and film, as well as teaching and community engagement. Her work is influenced by contemporary dance, krump, acrobatics and physical theatre practices and explores the impact of our environment on our identity. Alex has worked with companies such as Anton Lachky, Liz Roche, John Scott, Catherine Young, Junk Ensemble and CoisCéim Dance Theatre. 

How Not To Grow A Turnip is a show for children about an eager planter and his sudden urge to grow turnips. Except…he doesn’t know how to grow a turnip. A comedy show where everything that could go wrong while planting a seed does! Created by HK Ní Shioradáin and Lisa Nally. 

HK Ní Shioradáin is a composer and theatre-maker whose work explores the intersection of comedy and identity.  Their medieval musical ‘Beards’ (The New Theatre, 2024) was described as “hilarious, an absolute breath of fresh air”, while other writing credits include the musical ‘The Lesbian Revue of World History’ (Smock Alley, 2025), and ‘Biongó na nEachtrán’ as part of the Bronntanas Children’s Festival 2025. 

JANAS's self-titled show is an aerial and acrobatic circus theatre piece. Set by the crashing waves of the Irish Sea, it is built around the fundamental pillars of island life: the sea, the sun, and the land. Through powerful aerial choreography and acrobatic storytelling, the company personifies these three forces as they fight to survive, to maintain connection, culture and autonomy.  

JANAS is a circus theatre company composed of Julie O’Connell Kent, Eric Munday and Chloe Commins. These three artists formed the collective in 2024, funded by the EU’s Island Connect project. In Sardinia they found their name, JANAS - which means ‘people of the fay’ or ‘fay folk’. Their time in Sardinia raised questions about the similarities between colonised islands, and how folklore and myth is used to make sense of the struggles of its peoples. 

JANAS is a circus theatre company comprising Julie O’Connell Kent, Eric Munday and Chloe Commins. Formed in 2024 through the EU-funded Island Connect project, the collective combines aerial performance, physical storytelling and ground-based circus practices. Julie and Chloe are aerial artists who have produced and performed new work nationally and internationally, while Eric is a ground-based circus artist with a PhD in Mathematics.

A new site-responsive performance, inspired by the lost Rainbow Rapids slide once attached to Dún Laoghaire’s Old Baths. 

The piece draws inspiration from 1980s synth-pop and the social history of Dún Laoghaire’s vanished gathering spaces. The piece transforms a familiar public site into a temporary, communal encounter: playful, strange, and ephemeral.  

The performers, Cian Murphy, Jenny O’Malley, Brian Fallon, and Alex Lynch, will blend live electronic music, movement, lighting, and masked performance while reimagining the coastline as a space of memory, play, and collective imagination which is open to anyone who happens to be nearby. 

Cian Murphy and Jenny O’Malley are the artists behind Jenny’s Revenge. Cian (Selky) is a DJ, producer and multidisciplinary creative whose work sits at the intersection of club culture, sound design and production. He is the co-founder of Club Comfort, a key fixture in Dublin’s electronic music scene. Jenny is a composer and sound designer working across stage, screen, VR and live performance. A classically trained cellist, pianist, flautist, and vocalist, she is a resident artist at Project Arts Centre (2024-2027), and has created work for organisations including the Abbey Theatre, Brokentalkers and Once Off Productions. 

LUNA is an immersive performance by composer and multidisciplinary artist Sal Stapleton taking place in the Baths, Dun Laoghaire.  

Unfolding across eight movements shaped by the lunar cycle, it blends electronic music production and sound design with the choral voices and the string quartet. 

From the shadowy emergence of the New Moon to the charged brilliance of the Full Moon, the work swells with tension, expansion, and release before returning to stillness. Drawing on ritual, folklore, and the pull of human desire, LUNA invites audiences into a hypnotic journey through darkness, illumination, and renewal. 

The development of LUNA has also been supported by the Arts Council, Live Collision and Fieldarts. 

Sal Stapleton is a multidisciplinary artist working across music, immersive installations, live audio-visual performance and experimental design. Their practice combines animation, VFX, lighting, stage design, sound, and 3D technologies to create bold, multi-sensory experiences presented through exhibitions, festivals and international collaborations. Sal is co-founder of the music label DIAxDEM and founder of Goldmoth Media and the creative studio XOIOXO, which produces sustainable 3D-printed sculptural works exploring the relationship between art and technology.