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SUMMARY:An Immigrant’s Story by Wanjiru Kamuyu - Solo Dance Performance
DESCRIPTION:Physical Landscapes – Thrilling and Unique Dance event with Six Outstanding Dancers presented by Irish Modern Dance Theatre at the Black Box\, Galway\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhysical Landscapes is a thrilling and unique dance work by choreographer John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre featuring international dancers and responding to ecology and nature.  \n\n\nWanjiru Kamuyu\, dance artist\, explores the gaze placed on the ‘foreigner’ in a new society\, using satire\, contemporary dance and physical performance to interrogate migration and identity. Presented by the Regional Dance Network: Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre\, Dance Limerick\, Tipperary Dance and Dance Cork Firkin Crane. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nWanjiru Kamuyu\, Choreographer\, Dance Artist\, Creator \n\n\n\nWKcollective\, dancers \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nAn Immigrant’s Story by Wanjiru Kamuyu is a solo dance performance presented by the Regional Dance Network: Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre\, Dance Limerick\, Tipperary Dance and Dance Cork Firkin Crane\, taking place on Thursday 15 October 2026\, from 7.30 to 9pm\, at Dance Cork Firkin Crane\, John Redmond St\, Shandon\, Cork\, T23 Y584. \n\n\n\nWanjiru Kamuyu\, dance artist\, is engaged in questioning the notions of place\, belonging and otherness. A cosmopolitan on three continents – Africa\, North America and Europe – wherever she decides to set up home\, is she considered an immigrant? \n\n\n\nHer solo dance performance interrogates the gaze upon the “foreigner” in a new space\, new society. The work\, through satire\, offers a critical eye on the notions of place and placement that are prevalent in today’s political discourse. An Immigrant’s Story is a Bessie Award winner in the category Outstanding Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Regional Dance Network: Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre\, Dance Limerick\, Tipperary Dance and Dance Cork Firkin Crane. \n\n\n\nLocated in a heritage building in Shandon\, Cork’s north city centre\, Dance Cork Firkin Crane specialises in supporting dance artists\, presenting dance performances and encouraging people in Cork to engage with dance of all kinds. \n\n\n\nWe provide an inclusive and welcoming space for dance work to be developed and viewed through a year-round programme of residencies\, workshops\, studio rentals\, community programmes\, dance performances and special events. \n\n\n\nOur programme is mission driven\, aiming to identify\, nurture\, and support local and regional artists while simultaneously introducing artists and audiences to national and international choreographers. We support an annual dance artist in residence and are developing other national dance advocacy projects in partnership with Dance Ireland\, Dance Limerick\, Galway Dance and Tipperary Dance. \n\n\n\nArtist residencies supporting the research\, development\, and production of new work are a central aspect of DCFC’s programme. In addition\, a series of professional presentations\, with a lens towards audience engagement\, take place throughout the year. Professional and community classes for adults and youth are also offered. \n\n\n\nDance Cork Firkin Crane is the home of Inclusive Dance Cork (IDC)\, a training programme for people with and without disabilities who are interested in learning inclusive dance methods. Learn more about IDC here. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWKcollective creates immersive\, visceral experiences through the medium of contemporary dance. Project-based works weave stories and express universal experiences. Collaboration across artistic disciplines opens discourse and intrigue through the power of poetic expression in vocal and physical movement. Founded by Kenyan-American choreographer Wanjiru Kamuyu in 2009\, WKcollective attracts multidisciplinary artists of diverse cultural backgrounds to the creative canvas. Drawing upon these art forms to stimulate fresh\, innovative\, vulnerable\, raw\, graphic art to generate personal and social reflection through a transformative celebration with dance. \n\n\n\nWanjiru Kamuyu holds an MFA from Temple University and began her career in New York with Urban Bush Women and Molissa Fenley. She has collaborated with artists including Bill T. Jones\, Robyn Orlin\, Bartabas\, Irène Tassembedo\, and Anne Collod amongst others. Since 2017\, Kamuyu has created several works presented across Europe\, Africa\, Asia\, and the US\, as well as a dance film\, La Visite (2020). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/an-immigrants-story-by-wanjiru-kamuyu/
LOCATION:Dance Cork Firkin Crane\, John Redmond Street\, Shandon\, Cork\, T23 Y584
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SUMMARY:Studio Songs by Daughter Of A Drum – Music | Dance | Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Physical Landscapes – Thrilling and Unique Dance event with Six Outstanding Dancers presented by Irish Modern Dance Theatre at the Black Box\, Galway\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhysical Landscapes is a thrilling and unique dance work by choreographer John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre featuring international dancers and responding to ecology and nature.  \n\n\nThe residency provides time\, space and support for research\, experimentation and development of artistic practice\, with the public event forming part of the artist’s creative exploration. Aoife is a multidisciplinary artist working in contemporary dance\, choreography\, filmmaking\, music and education. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAoife Ó Tiompánaigh\, dancer/choreographer\, musician\, and teacher \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special afternoon performance with our local Artist In Residence Aoife Ó Tiompánaigh as she shares songs from her debut album ‘Pink Breath’ plus a sneak peak of new music for her upcoming project ‘The Batter’. The focus of the residency programme is to support new mothers continuing a creative practice. Since the summer\, Aoife has been working in the Smashing Times studio over several weeks – songwriting\, learning Sean Nós dance and exchanging with other artists. This event promises to be a rich and rare opportunity to experience songs\, dances and inspiring conversion. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Artist Residency Programme 2026 \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to implement the inaugural Smashing Times Artist Residency Programme in 2026. Aoife McAtamney is currently doing an Artist Residency with the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin from April to October 2026.  The aim of the Artist Residency is to provide time\, space and support to develop\, research\, experiment\, and advance artistic practice. As part of the artist residency\, Aoife is taking time and space to support her artistic practice\, to start writing and to present a public performance of her work. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts & Human Rights Radio Show on Dublin South FM \n\n\n\nFeatures reflection by Mary Moynihan on war and peace followed by a Guest Artist Interview with \n\n\n\nmultidisciplinary artist Aoife McAtamney \n\n\n\nFor an in-depth interview with Aoife McAtamney on her artistic work and creative practice\, listen to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show broadcast \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio show (first broadcast on Wednesday 10 and 16 June  6-7pm and now available as a podcast) features a reflection by Mary Moynihan on war and peace. Global military spending now exceeds €3 trillion every year. Who benefits and where is the equivalent investment in peace? Instead of spending 1.7 billion on defence\, should the Irish government spend this money on housing\,  job creation and peace? Why can billions be found for war spending while poverty homelessness\, wealth inequality and climate breakdown continue to worsen? These are the debates we need to have in Irish society and the media.  Artist Mary Moynihan says ‘Ireland can be a leading voice for peace. Defend our neutrality\, defend the Triple lock and challenge the growing influence of military and corporate interests on public policy and governments. As our former president Michael D. Higgins said\, we need to ‘make space for peace.’   \n\n\n\nThis is followed by a guest artist interview with Aoife McAtamney\, a multidisciplinary artist working with contemporary dance\, choreography\, filmmaking\, music and education. Aoife is  Artistic Director of Daughter Of A Drum\, and a part of Choreography Connects\, a CoisCéim artist-led residency project. Aoife is currently doing an Artist Residency with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin.  \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio show is broadcast every Wednesday 6-7pm with Dublin South FM with each episode available as a podcast. Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9\, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie. All past episodes can be listened to here. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife Ó Tiompánaigh is a choreographer\, dancer\, musician and teacher based in Dublin. Aoife trained in London Contemporary Dance School and on the D.A.N.C.E Across programme as an apprentice to choreographers William Forsythe\, Wayne McGregor\, Angelin Preljocaj and Frederic Flamand. \n\n\n\nAs a choreographer\, she has been the recipient of numerous prizes and bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland\, Kildare County Council\, DLR Arts Office and Culture Ireland. Including residencies at Cultural Centre Irlandais\, DanceIreland as Associate Artist and Dance Artist in Residency at Mermaid Arts Centre. Aoife was Ireland’s first female Aerowaves artist as part of the 2014 cohort with her solo Softer Swells that subsequently toured internationally for nine years including 92Y in New York to La Briqueterie in Vitrysur-Seine and the Instances festival in Chalon-sur-Saône. \n\n\n\nFrom 2022 – 2024\, Aoife was one of six artists in the transnational residency programme CHOREOGRAPHY CONNECTS that brought together CoisCéim Dance Theatre in Ireland\, Operaestate in Italy and Le Gymnase CDCN in France\, supporting her latest work Pink Breath The Visual Sister commission by Project Arts Centre for Project Portal premiering at Dublin International Film Festival 2026. \n\n\n\nAoife graduated with an MA (1st) in Songwriting from the University Of Limerick in 2020 and regularly shares her sound and movement practice through workshops at Solstice Arts Centre\, University of Limerick\, DanceIreland and with coaching casts including LUAIL\, United Fall and OD Works. In 2024 Aoife launched Daughter Of A Drum\, a coral structure for all of her creative offerings. She released the record Pink Breath in 2024 to critical acclaim featuring on RTÉ Radio One Recommendation list\, BBC Sounds and performed at Ireland Music Week. \n\n\n\nAs a dancer\, Aoife has most recently danced SHEELA with Fabrice Malziah\, and Emma Martin’s Night Dances. Other credits include OneOneOne by Ioannis Mandafounis and works by Oona Doherty\, Laura Murphy\, OneTwoOneTwo and Mary Wycherley. Aoife featured in Paula Keho’s The Devils In Her alongside Olwen Fouéré for BBCNI and TG4. Also Woman In The Wall for BBCNI & Showtime. \n\n\n\nAoife has cultivated a strong socially engaged community arts practice. She was the first lead movement artist for Dublin City Council Culture Company (2020-22) and other credits include CoisCéim Broadreach and Macushla Dance Club 50+. \n\n\n\nCurrently Aoife is creating AUTHORS\, a new site specific solo for the the Lexicon Library\, supported by DLR Arts Office and Music Network for 2026 and is commissioned by Hamburgs Tanztriennale to research the work in Leipzig. \n\n\n\nSELECTED PERFORMANCE CREDITS \n\n\n\nThe Last Moth Choreography at The Ark Theatre in collaboration with Jesse Jones and Naomi Moonveld Nkosi 2026 \n\n\n\nSimple Love Dublin International Film Festival 2026 \n\n\n\nPink Breath’s Visual Sister Short film commissioned by Project Arts Centre for Project Portal\, 2025. \n\n\n\nSparking Debate Choreography for Sphere 17 and SEDA collage for St Patrick’s Day Festival\, 2024. \n\n\n\nHeal Me Short dance film for Macushla Dance Club\, 2024. \n\n\n\nIt’s All The Same Movement Direction for OneTwoOneTwo\, Dublin Fringe Festival & Abbey Theatre 2022. \n\n\n\nSlumber Dublin Dance Festival for Dance Umbrella UK curated by Oona Doherty\, 2021. \n\n\n\nWinter Lights DCCC Participation Project Performance Samuel Beckett Bridge Dublin\, 2020. \n\n\n\nSofter Swells Aerowaves selected solo 2014 – 2019. \n\n\n\nRecovery Movement Direction for OneTwoOneTwo\, 2019. \n\n\n\nAge Of Transition Dublin Fringe Festival & Firkin Crane\, 2016. \n\n\n\nThe Fourteenth Visit Dublin Fringe Festival @ RHA\, 2014. \n\n\n\nEgg Charade (in collaboration with Nina Vallon) Dublin Dance Festival and Rough Cuts Festival\, Frankfurt\, 2013. \n\n\n\nHIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS \n\n\n\nSofter Swells pass performances & press Re-Presenting Ireland\, Dublin Dance Festival\, 2012. \n\n\n\nDublin Fringe Festival\, 2012. \n\n\n\nOperaestate Festival\, Bassano Del Grappa\, 2012. \n\n\n\nMade in Dublin\, 2013. The Place Theatre for Spring Forward\, 2013. \n\n\n\nGalway Dance Days\, 2013. \n\n\n\nFirkin Crane Theatre\, 2013. \n\n\n\nAerowaves Spring Forward Festival in Umea\, 2014. \n\n\n\nLa Briqueterie for Les Plateaux Paris\, 2014. \n\n\n\nIF Only Festival Mermaid Theatre Wicklow\, 2014. Lublin International Festival\, 2014. \n\n\n\nTanztage Berlin\, 2015. B-Motion Festival\, Bassano Del Grappa\, 2015. \n\n\n\nRomaEuropa Festival\, 2015. Instances Festival\, Espace Des Arts France\, 2015. \n\n\n\nImpressions; Irish Arts Centre & 92Y\, 2019. \n\n\n\nSofter Swells @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival Review https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/unholy-trinity/27564 \n\n\n\nPINK BREATH past performances & press \n\n\n\nCoisCéim Dance Theatre\, 2025. \n\n\n\nWhale Theatre Greystones\, support for Niamh Regan\, 2024. \n\n\n\nMarrowbone Book Store with guests Robyn Byrne and Zoe Ní Riordain\, 2024. \n\n\n\nPink Breath Across Festival Berlin\, 2024. Ireland Music Week\, 2024. \n\n\n\nDublin Fringe Festival Support for Justin Vivian Bond\, 2015. \n\n\n\nSpicebag\, 2016. \n\n\n\nIrish Times Review https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2024/08/29/ daughter-of-a-drum-pink-breath-a-complex-nuanced-and-personaldebut-album/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/studio-songs-by-daughter-of-a-drum/
LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Physical Landscapes – Thrilling and Unique Dance event with Six Outstanding Dancers presented by Irish Modern Dance Theatre at the Black Box\, Galway
DESCRIPTION:Physical Landscapes – Thrilling and Unique Dance event with Six Outstanding Dancers presented by Irish Modern Dance Theatre at the Black Box\, Galway\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhysical Landscapes is a thrilling and unique dance work by choreographer John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre featuring international dancers and responding to ecology and nature.  \n\n\nThe performance combines urgent physicality\, sensuality\, weighted duets and ensemble movement to explore ‘the other’ and ‘the witness’. Performed by dancers Magdalena Hylak\, Boris Charrion\, Alessandra Azeviche and Adam O’Reilly. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak\, Dancer\n\n\n\nBoris Charrion\, Dancer\n\n\n\nAlessandra Azeviche\, Dancer\n\n\n\nAdam O’Reilly\, Dancer\n\n\n\nJohn Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nChoreographer John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, following the sell-out ‘Human Geography’ at Galway International Arts Festival\, create a ‘Physical Landscape\,’ with six outstanding international dancers. \n\n\n\nThis thrilling and unique dance event features urgent physicality\, sensuality\, weighted duets\, and frantic ensemble pieces. Responding to ecology and nature\, ‘Physical Universe’ explores the themes of ‘the other’ and ‘the witness’ in a way that is both moving and life-affirming. \n\n\n\n​ \n\n\n\nDancers include Galway’s Magdalena Hylak\, French virtuoso Boris Charrion\, Afro-Brazilian Alessandra Azeviche\, and Ireland’s Adam O’Reilly. Lighting is by award-winning French artist Eric Würtz\, who creates lighting for the sensational ‘La Horde’ collective. Choreography is by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre. \n\n\n\nIrish Modern Dance Theatre – Pioneering Transformative Dance \n\n\n\nFounded 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. \n\n\n\nBlack Box Theatre and Town Hall Theatre\, Galway \n\n\n\nTown Hall Theatre Galway\, owned and managed by Galway City Council incorporating the state of the art 400-seater Main Auditorium and the 52-seater Studio Space at Courthouse Square\, and the nearby\, multi-purpose Black Box performance space (up to 550 seated\, 800 standing) on Dyke Road presents an extensive and eclectic mix of theatre\, concerts\, musicals\, dance\, film\, comedy and family shows year-round. The venue is open 362 days a year and 15 hours a day on average. The venue attracts audiences in excess of 100\,000 annually (close to 2 million since we officially re-opened on 1st February 1996) making it the most successful theatre of its size in Ireland. \n\n\n\nEach year\, the venue is the epicentre of activity for virtually all of Galway’s key festivals and cultural events including Galway International Arts Festival\, Galway Film Fleadh\, Cuirt Festival of Literature\, Baboro Children’s Festival and Galway Comedy Festival to name but a few. Druid have premiered many of their acclaimed and award-winning productions at the venue before embarking on national and international tours including successful Broadway and West End runs\, and an increasing number of Galway International Arts Festival’s own productions tour the world following premieres at Town Hall Theatre and Black Box. Acclaimed for consistently delivering the best of national and international talent year-round to Galway audiences\, the venue’s programme proudly features the work of many performers\, companies\, musical societies and arts organisations (both professional and amateur) from across the city and county. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak is a dance artist based in the West of Ireland.Born in Poland\, she studied cultural studies\, including theatre and dance\, at University of Wroclaw. She began her professional career in 2011 by working with Michael Keegan Dolan (IE)\, Liz Roche (IE) and Lea Anderson (UK) as part of Step Up Dance Project. She then worked with Ríonach Ní Néill (IE)\, Catherine Young Dance (IE)\, Emma Martin (IE) and Akiko Kitamura (JP) before starting touring nationally and internationally with John Scott-IMDT (IE) and Nacera Belaza (FR)\, with over 150 performances in 52 venues across 12 countries. \n\n\n\nEarly 2021\, she started developing her own body of work through “Dances for Nobody”\, where she questions the notion of performance. Then with “A dance”\, an ongoing artistic research through raw movement and sound that translates into public performances in unconventional spaces. She is currently working on a multidisciplinary event conceived as a physical journey through a space and the time frame of her personal dance evolution. At the core of her research is the movement and sound outside of the question of style/genre or technique\, as well as the exploration of the relationships and tensions between public-personal\, inside-outside\, visible-invisible. \n\n\n\nHer dance work can be described as raw\, repetitive\, highly physical and emanating from within. She is working with the belief that dance is rooted in human existence and that there is no confusion in the public perception of a choreographic work. Therefore\, she is interested in community works where she tries to go back to the beginning and work around an absolute idea of movement/dance. \n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak was the Galway Dance Artist in Residence for 2023-2024.She is the recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland (Agility Award 2021\, Commission Award-GDP 2021\, Dance Bursary Award 2022) and the Galway County Council (Artist Support Scheme 2022). \n\n\n\nShe has been commissioned by Galway Dance Days (2012)\, Galway Dance Project (2016\, 2020\, 2021)\, Clifden Arts Festival (2022 & 2023) and Tipperary Dance Festival (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoris Charrion is a French movement and performance artist born in 2002. After studying contemporary dance in the regional conservatory of Lyon\, he entered the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon where he had the opportunity to broaden his artistic horizons\, notably through various collaborations with musicians\, graphists\, composers and space designers. During his studies there\, he has worked with different choreographers such as DD Dorvillier\, Collectif A/R\, Ashley Chen. Performing Study for the Valeska Gert pavilion by Eszter Salamon for the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art has been a major part of his artistic development. Carrying a political and provocative performance for four months in a public space was a revelation to him of how performative work could be captivating and concretely rooted in current social issues. His different internships with the Ballet of the Grand Theatre of Geneva\, Carte Blanche and the choreographer Katerina Andreou have made him more aware of the reality of the dance world and of how he wants to situate himself in it. After the creation of Spatium ex-materia in 2022\, he wants to cultivate this thirst to create with his collective La niche. He is currently a member of SUB.LAB.PRO The Ensemble Program in Budapest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlessandra Azeviche is a leading Afro-Brazilian dancer with performances at major Irish festivals with her group Criola Dance and the first woman to teach Capoeira in Ireland.Since moving to Ireland in 2015\, Alessandra  has worked with contemporary choreographers Catherine Young\, John Scott and more as well as Dublin City Council\, Axis Ballymun\, Carlow Arts\, Dublin Fringe Festivals and the Brazilian Embassy. Alessandra is a board member of Dublin Dance Festival and associate artist with THISISPOPBABY.Leading her Quilombo Terra (the first Afro-Brazilian Arts performance group in Ireland) & Natural Rhythm\, Alessandra has performed at major festivals sharing rhythms & dances that developed from her roots that echo the resilience and beauty of indigenous communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam O’Reilly is a 26 year old Dublin based Dance Artist\, his work spreads across live performance\, choreography\, screen-dance and facilitation. Adam has most notably performed in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2023 production of ‘This Solution’ Directed by Shaun Dunne & Claire O’Reilly and Choreographed by Jessie Thompson\, The Step up 2024/ Dance Limerick production of ‘Of The People’ Choreographed by Catherine Young\, The Irish Modern Dance Theatre production of ‘Begin Anywhere’ choreographed by John Scott\, And the 2025 national tour of ‘MOSH’ directed by Rachel Ní Bhraonáin and directed by Robyn Byrne. \n\n\n\nIn 2023 Adam presented his debut screen-dance work\, a short dance film titled ‘Oscillation’ at 5 Lamps Arts Festival & Dance From The Dance Festival at the Irish Film Institute and is currently advancing his practice as a screen-dance director via his selection in the Youth Music Video Competition 2025\, supported by Screen Ireland and The Arts Council. As the Founder and Artistic Director of COMHAR Dance\, Adam has facilitated the COMHAR Workshop Day Intensive series 2025 in partnership with Dance Ireland\, which sees international dance artists lead professional workshops in Dublin followed by open practice sessions with live music. \n\n\n\nAdam is currently in the midst of research for his own debut Live Dance work and development of his practice as an emerging Live Dance Maker and Choreographer via various funding supports from the Arts Council and Fingal County Council as well as residency opportunities from Dance Ireland\, Shawbrook Residential and Garter Lane Arts Centre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn 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. \n\n\n\nJohn 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. \n\n\n\nJohn’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. \n\n\n\nJohn’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. \n\n\n\nHe 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. \n\n\n\nJohn 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. \n\n\n\nJohn was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Black Box Theatre\, Dyke Road\, Galway\, H91 C9PP
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