Actions - January & April 2013
Actions is a physical conversation between two individuals in empty space. Two outstanding male dancers thrillingly battle through space with invigorating athletic dancing and physicality.
They merge and break apart - the painful coming together – with movement motivated by forceful resistance.
Actions employs
a frantic dance
vocabulary with
lifts, falls, text
and sound, the
dancers
alternately
throwing
their bodies
together then
fragmenting into
new threads of
raw movement.
Actions is both
touching and
funny
Choreography by
John Scott
Choreographic material developed by
John Scott, Marcus Bellamy, Lorcan O’Neill, Marc Mann
Photography by
Ewa Figaszewska
“a powerhouse duo, athletic in sneakers and drenching their sweat pants in a sheen of sweat after extensive explosive movement sequences”
CultureBot [NY] READ FULL ARTICLE
“John Scott is arguably Ireland’s leading experimental choreographer”
Evening Herald, Dublin
“For sheer impact and perfection in performance, nothing could touch the athleticism and polished ease of... John Scott’s Actions. Actions brims with exuberance”
Irish Theatre Magazine READ FULL ARTICLE
"a very clever, postmodern work, beautifully performed by two male dancers, that's accessible and fun....Actions manages that rare thing: it entertains you, but it makes you wonder at the complexity of dance.
The Scotsman
Actions, created by John Scott for Irish Modern Dance Theatre…perform to vibrant and witty effect an increasingly sweat-soaked series of movement tasks accompanied only by their own improvised dialogue"
Donald Hutera London - The Times
"with the athletic twists and syncopated rhythms in John Scott’s choreography...it becomes a celebration of dance as an art form"
Mary Brennan, The Herald, Scotland
“Actions is a battle through the dance space using physicality, lifts, falls, text and sound, the dancers alternately throwing their bodies together then fragmenting into threads of raw movement. Both funny and exciting, Actions, on the heel of company’s huge success from the 2010 Dublin Dance Festival, La MaMa ETC, New York, Tanzmesse NRW, Germany and QUEER ZAGREB, Croatia”
“Daring physical feats? Check. Competitiveness? Check. Underlying, shrugged-off affection? Check”
“Connaughton and Snipe dance marvelously, sneaker-footed and at ease in the vigorous, sweeping, canted, giant-step, high-kick movements that Scott’s choreography favors”
“It’s wonderfully enjoyable, skillfully paced, and full of small surprises…In its own way, Actions tells us much about affability under pressure, diligence, and a feistiness that doesn’t negate the men’s respect for each other"
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice, NYC
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