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Sara Keating: Find what moves you at this year’s Dublin Dance Festival

From May 14 to 24, this year’s festival runs the gamut of performance locations and dance styles

Night Dances is the centrepiece of this populist part of the programme. Picture: Sean Breithaupt

When you were in utero, listening to the world through the wall of your mother's rounded womb, your body responded to music: kicking, wriggling, shimmying in rhythm with a heartbeat, and live or recorded sound.

When you learned your first nursery rhymes you made gestures in time: winding the bobbin up with your arms, rotating the wheels on the bus with your hands, using your whole body to row that little boat gently down the ...