Loosysmokes – the award-winning performance company at the forefront of modern Irish art circus – has created some unforgettable shows for the Festival over the years, staged everywhere from the Castle Park to Kilfane Glen, and this year we’re thrilled to welcome them back for the first time since 2018 with an astonishing new piece.
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Loosysmokes – the award-winning performance company at the forefront of modern Irish art circus – has created some unforgettable shows for the Festival over the years, staged everywhere from the Castle Park to Kilfane Glen, and this year we’re thrilled to welcome them back for the first time since 2018 with an astonishing new piece.
In Rhythms is both an explosive acrobatic spectacle and an expanded cinematic dreamscape exploring the human mind, where our feral past meets our neon-muddled present. Prepare to lose your grip on reality and enter a warped time and space where gravity's pull is forgotten.
Created collaboratively with Craig Cox, Imogen Macrae, Conor McCague, Oliver Ryan, Michelle Thoburn, Emily Kilkenny Roddy, Dean Kavanagh, Angelique Ross and Anja Mahler with support from Aoife Courtney and Millie Egan.
Development supported by the Gate Theatre artist-in-residency programme, Circus Factory, Cork, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre and Island Connect.
Loosysmokes - In Rhythms
Produced by Elaine McCague and Jonah McGreevy
We're delighted to be offering subsidised buses to Callan for Loosysmokes 'In Rhythms' ticket holders, for the performances on 5th - 7th August. If you don't have a private transport option available to you to travel to Callan, Kilkenny Arts Festival is offering bus trips departing from outside of the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, to the Warehouse venue for just €5 return!
5th August
Pick Up (city centre) 7:30pm, Pick up (Callan) 9pm
6th August
Bus 1: Pick Up (city centre) 6:30pm, Pick up (Callan) 8pm
Bus 2: Pick up (city centre) 8:30pm, Pick Up (Callan) 10pm
7th August
Pick Up (city centre) 7:30pm, Pick up (Callan) 9pm

