Rhythmic Space
Dublin Fringe Festival – Sept 2008
Dates and Venue will be posted soon
Choreography & Text: John Scott
Rhythmic Space was created specifically for a non theatrical space, with the performers. The actual performance acknowledges the reality of the process of working on a dance piece, warts and all. Some of the material manifests extreme emotion, the grotesque and the imperfect. Text is spoken in the mother tongue of the performers: Farsi, Portuguese, Lingalla and English. The cast – the company – is a collection of real people ranging from highly trained professional dancers to less trained performers, all playing themselves and working to make a dance and exist together in the space.
Summer Evening Classes
Beginners Modern Dance
24th June – 29th July
Every Tuesday 7pm – 8pm
DanceHouse, Foley Street, Dublin 1
Price - €12 per class (€10 concession) or €60 for term
We are back for a summer term of our popular beginner modern dance classes where we aim to teach individuals the basic techniques of modern dance. The term runs for six weeks and booking is essential – please see below for details
Booking/enquires (01) 671 5113 or imdt@iol.ie
John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre present the eagerly awaited return of their sell out (like) Silver performing in and Scenario Pub.bli.co, Catania, Sicily 1-2 March
Tel +39 095 250 3147
www.compagniazappala.it
Garage Theatre Monaghan 5 March
Tel: 047 - 81597
www.garagetheatre.com
Next to Skin: from the world inside and outside
Choreography & Text by John Scott
Lighting & Set Design by Eric Würtz (Paris)
10 Dancers
January/February 2008 – Project Arts Centre & National Tour
With: Joanna Banks, Ashley Chen, Kate Doherty, Lucy Dundon, Lucius Romeo Fromm, Faranak Mehdi Golhini, Werner Nigg, Loui Osman, Rebecca Reilly, Cheryl Therrien and Poudima Florence Welalo.
JOHN SCOTT’s new work crawls onto the stage with no fear of getting dirty. A magnificent cast of ten international dancers explore the world and each other from every possible angle, inside and out.
Beginners Modern Dance Classes 2008
FIRST CLASS – FREE!!
Dance House, Foley Street, Dublin 1
Every Tuesday
6pm – 7pm
Term 1 8th January (Free) – 12th February
Term 2 1st April – 29th April
Term 3 9th September – 30th September
Term 4 4th November – 2nd December
Booking is essential
Price €15 (€12 concession) or €12 (€10 concession) for full term
Bookings or enquires - imdt@iol.ie or call 01 671 5113
We are back with our hugely popular beginner modern dance classes where we aim to teach individuals the basic techniques of modern dance. As part of Dance House anniversary celebrations our first class of 2008 is FREE!!
Directions to DanceHouse check out their website: www.danceireland.ie
Romeo and Juliet: la sfocatura dei corpi(bodies out of focus)
Music Sergei Prokofieff
Foulplay–inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Play
Music:Frédéric Chopin (préludes for piano)
Sologroove
Performers Daniela Bendini, Wei Meng Poon, Paola Valenti, Roberto Zappalà
“an exhilirating form of perpetual motion”
Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino/Ballettanz magazine
Civic Theatre, Tallaght
One night only - Decemeber 10th at 8pm
www.civictheatre.ie
Box Office 01 4627477
‘lively, brilliant dance’
Marinella Guatterini /Il Sole 24 Ore – Italian Magazine
IMDT, Assisted by Italian Cultural Institute, Dublin, is delighted to present Italy’s most exciting contemporary dance companys for one night only in SOLO, DUO, TRIO: a triple bill consisting of a thrilling version of (1)Romeo and Juliet (2) “Foulplay” - inspired by Samuel Beckett’s “Play” and (3) Sologroove. Compagnia Zappala Danza is known for its exceptionally gifted dancers and exciting choreography.
The “history” of Compagnia Zappalà Danza is tightly bound to the figure of Roberto Zappalà, whose choreographic style, after years of research on movement looking into the most different universes of the corporal reality together with his dancers – from the elegance of classical tradition, to the fluid and dynamic modern dance, all the way to strongly visual athletics – has become an extremely original and versatile language sometime sided by new technologies. The company has developed partnerships with important organizations such as Teatro Vittorio Emanuele of Messina , Teatro A.Ponchielli of Cremona, Fondazione I TEATRI of Reggio Emilia, Swiss Insitute of Rome and Teatro Giuditta Pasta of Saronno. Such partnerships supported the company in the realization of some of its productions, which toured all over Italy, and in Switzerland, Morocco, Sweden, Spain, Germany, France and South America . The company has produced more than 25 choreographies. Since 2002, the company is resident in the new performing centre SCENARIO PUB.BLI.CO in Catania (Sicily). In March 2008, Irish Modern Dance Theatre will present John Scott’s (like) SILVER at SCENARIO PUB.BLI.CO.
Dancer Wei Meng Poon will teach masterclasses in association with Dance Ireland on 7,8 December at Dance House, Foley Street, Dublin.
IMDT in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival Presents Sara Rudner’s THIS DANCING LIFE
Choreographed by Sara Rudner
Music: William Catanzaro & Jerome Morris
Lighting: Eric Wurtz
A celebration of dance and dancers, a marathon installation in non-theatrical time and space, breaking down the distinction between dance as performance and dance as a way of life….. Structured like a massive orchestral work, with a cast of 20 dancers and two musicians, and lasting for four hours, the audience is free to come and go throughout the event.
“I do not address why we dance but rather, that we dance. The very effort holds meaning and significance for those who participate and hopefully, for our witnesses.” Sara Rudner
Sara Rudner is a living dance legend, revered as choreographer and dancer. Her dance performances include the Milos Forman films Ragtime, Hair and Amadeus and the lead in David Byrne/Twyla Tharp’s Catherine Wheel. Her choreographies include Heartbeat for Mikhail Baryshnikov and major work for leading European festivals Dance Umbrella, Festival D’Automne and the Salzburg Festival.
‘To watch a Rudner dance is to see a constant interplay of impulses: The hips shift gorgeously from side to side, while the knees bend, the insteps tread, the shoulders shift…..a rich, witty lyricism that is at once intoxicating and as natural as bird song’Alastair Macaulay, New York Times
‘Tenderness, feistiness, craziness and wit mingle in this banquet of dancing’ – The Village Voice
SS Michael & Johns
Dates: Sunday 12th August (Preview)
Friday 17th August
Sunday 19th August
Watch this space for Box Office/Ticket info+booking details!
Kilkenny Arts Festival - The Carlton Ballroom, Chapel Lane, Kilkenny
Date: Wednesday 15 August (Premiere)
Time: 6.30pm
Price: €12/€10
Tickets: Contact Kilkenny Arts Box Office on 056-7752175 or book on-line www.kilkennyarts.ie
PS 122 
Tel: 212.477.5288
RESIDENCY IN PARIS - Centre Culturel Irlandais
8 January 2007 19h
A site-specific installation, CLOSE UPS - I don't want to die yet, is a fluid connected work with structures and cracks with pure dance that penetrates like a thorn or a sword. This pure dance tries to reflect the heart and mind and personal aspirations. It is does NOT focus on losses, unachieved dreams.
Choreography: John Scott
Lighting/Set Design: Eric Würtz
Dancers
Joanna Banks
Ashley Chen
Philip Connaughton
Kathleen Doherty
James Hosty
Kiribu
Julian Odja Twima
Crinela Nina Oiplea
Becky Reilly
John Scott
Cheryl Therrien
"Voices reciting and singing in French, Spanish and other less recognisable languages echo through the space, adding to a sensory confusion that makes you feel vulnerable yet intrigued." - Christine Madden/The Irish Times
"John Scott's 'Close Ups' nudged viewers to create.. their own piece.. In some curious way, seeing what was simply there to look at fostered the fleeting illusion that-in an implied context of imprisonment, torture, and survival-you were seeing things you were not supposed to see" - Deborah Jowitt/Village Voice critic
"Close Ups represents a creative way of making space for possible alternative ways of thinking and being..Close Ups..exemplify theatre's dance's potential to create a shared space of reciprocity in which to imagine a possible future communality and a politics to come" - Dr Ramsay Burt/International Federation for Theatre Research
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