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HYPERACTIVE
HYPERACTIVE
September 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm IST
A high-energy dance work for virtuosic male dancers, combining street-dance energy with Broadway, jazz and Afro-Brazilian styles.
Athletic, funny and physically demanding, HYPERACTIVE offers a snapshot of contemporary Irish masculinity while exploring vulnerability, energy and performance.
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Created and choreographed by John Scott, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Director and Choreographer
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HYPERACTIVE is a high-energy human dance installation for five virtuosic outstanding male dancers with wild street energy – dancing styles from Broadway to Jazz to Afro-Brazilian. Athletic, high-energy, funny and exciting, the dancers dive into relentless, physically demanding routines that leaves them visibly exhausted, adding a sense of raw, vulnerable honesty to the stage. It functions as a “sugar rush” of dance energy that seamlessly translates the raw electricity of street dance into a highly conceptual theatrical setting.
HYPERACTIVE shows a snapshot of contemporary Irish masculinity. Incredibly dynamic, stretching horseplay and dance to the limit and suitable for all, commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival and Dublin Dance Festival, touring internationally to Festival Racconti di Altre Danze, Italy, Espace Culturel Hermine, France and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York.
‘five athletic performers of Hyperactive … teeming with dance energy and boyish glee….. get-down-and-dirty dance… highly charged, wonderfully high-octane exhibitionistic fun, an entertaining sugar rush for all involved.’
Seona Mac Reamoinn/Irish Times
This event is presented by Irish Modern Dance Theatre at The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow.
Irish Modern Dance Theatre – Pioneering Transformative Dance
Founded in 1991 by dancer and choreographer John Scott, Irish Modern Dance Theatre is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble, Scott and international guest choreographers create distinctive dance works with diverse casts, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. Key works include Lear, Inventions, Actions and Fall and Recover – all recognised for their intelligence, honesty and humanity. The work of Irish Modern Dance Theatre crosses disciplines, subverts expectations of dance and dancers and finds new ways to explore contemporary issues. Irish Modern Dance Theatre is Strategically funded by the Arts Council.
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow
Mermaid Arts Centre is County Wicklow’s creative engine-room. With a theatre, gallery, cinema, café and a lively programme of events to enjoy and participate in, Mermaid Arts Centre is a home for artists and artistic communities to create, connect and make memories. The purpose of Mermaid Arts Centre is driven by a fundamental belief in the power of shared experience and connection in combatting loneliness and isolation among people, and in the right to freedom of artistic expression and creation for all.
Speaker Biographies:
John Scott is a Dublin born choreographer, performer, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre, a founding board member of the Dancer from the Dance Festival and a member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at the Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin, Anna Sokolow, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara.
John founded Irish Modern Dance Theatre in 1991 which is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble, Irish Modern Dance Theatre features work by John and by international guest choreographers who create distinctive dance works with diverse casts, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors.
John’s choreographic works include Divine Madness, Inventions, Cloud Study, Everything Now, Lear, Fall and Recover, Actions and Dances for Inside and Outside, the latter a cycle of dances, large and small, created for our times and presented in a range of venues including the Complex, Dublin, and for Culture Night and Dance Limerick with the work nationally and internationally recognised for its intelligence, honesty and humanity.
John’s work has appeared in the Dublin Dance Festival, Galway International Arts Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at the John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC, New York Live Arts, La MaMa, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church, PS 122, New York and Dance Base, Edinburgh, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer Zagreb, Croatia, Les Hivernales, Avignon, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf, Forum Cultural Mundial, Brazil.
He danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma, Sarah Rudner, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He has collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD.
John was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance, Drama Department, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder, USA and San Jose State University, CA, USA.
John was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland.
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