Irish Modern Dance Theatre – supported by the Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dublin CityCouncil, is in an exciting of period of activity.

Sponsored by Culture Ireland, IMDT will perform ‘The White Piece’ at RAMALLAH CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL – Palestine’s leading Dance Festival - at theatres in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Haifa.

IMDT then performs FALL AND RECOVER AT DUBLIN DANCE FESTIVAL.

ETERNAL – the film made with 1IFILMS, using Palestinian dancers will be screened at Dublin’s Light House Cinema during Dublin Dance Festival.

IMDT continues to develop an exciting new work with American visionary Merce Cunningham collaborator, Charles Atlas using live feed projections. John Scott and Charles Atlas recently gave an Abbey Talk at the Abbey Theatre under the AMERICAN VOICES series of Abbey talks.

John Scott and Aisling Doyle – supported by DANCE RELAND, continue a further stage of Fall and Recover workshops with SPIRASI, the Centre for Care for Survivors of Torutre.

Evening classes are being held weekly at Dance House by IMDT dancer Jonathan Mitchell.

Liz Lerman
Artistic Director, John Scott is honoured to be performing at Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process Workshop, which is presented by the Dublin Dance Festival - Create and Bealtaine. John will be performing an extract from his solo piece The Bowing Dance on December 9th at the Abbey Studio.

Eternal
IMDT are delighted to announce that an official screening of Eternal will take place on January 14th in Bethlehem, Palestine. Preview screenings were held on December 4th in Al Harah Theatre in Beit Jala, Palestine. Eternal, a collaboration between IMDT and 1Eye Films, was shot earlier this year on location in Palestine. Eternal was director by Steve Woods and features IMDT dancers Aisling Doyle and Michael Pomero.

Classes 2009
January sees the return our IMDT’s popular beginner modern dance classes. They will be held every Tuesday in DanceHouse from 6pm-7pm beginning with a special FREE taster class on January 13th. The 10-week term will be primarily taught by Jonathan Mitchell with guest teachers popping in through out the term. Booking is essential
Booking/Info: 01 671 5113 or imdt@iol.ie

APAP John Scott will be attending APAP, New York during the month of January as part of the Culture Ireland

The Bowing Dance – Sweden and Liverpool
It is Better to – National Tour
Jean Christophe Bocle – Residency
Evening Classes – Term 4

The Bowing Dance
We are delighted to announce that John Scott has been invited to perform his solo piece, The Bowing Dance, in 24 Kvadrat, Gotenburg, Sweden and Capital Nights Liverpool this October.

The Bowing Dance - a dance for me and you recently performed at LaMama Moves Festival, New York to critical acclaimed and hailed as “a brilliant piece of absurdist theatre” by the New York Times.

It Is Better To.....
Following acclaimed sell out performances in New York and Dublin Fringe Festival, Irish Modern Dance Theatre presents their most exciting and hilarious show ‘It is better to...’ by Berlin Dance innovator Thomas Lehmen for three performances only.

Nominated for both “Best Production” and “Sexiest Show at Dublin Fringe Festival 2004, ‘It is better to..’ examines the everyday human struggle of making things better.

From better sex to telling a better joke, hugely successful in New York, described by the New York Times as ‘marvellous quartet … marvellously performed’.

Choreographic material created and performed by: Marc Rees, John Scott, Patrick Michael Stewart and Cheryl Therrien.

Charles Atlas Residency
IMDT presents a collaboration between artistic director John Scott and major Dance Film Maker Charles Atlas, based on the landscape of the human body as both design and content. The residency takes place this August and will include dancers Arnau Castro, Ashley Chen, Philip Connaughton, James Hosty, Becky Reilly and Cheryl Therrien.

Charles Atlas is one of the premier interpreters of dance, theater and performance on video. His ground-breaking early works include the seminal Blue Studio: Five Segments (1975-76), evolved from a unique collaboration with Merce Cunningham, for whose dance company he was filmmaker-in-residence from 1978 to 1983. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and three Bessie Awards.

Eternal
Eternal, collaboration between IMDT and 1I films, will get its screening debut in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar in August. Shot in Palestine last March, Eternal was directed by Steve Woods and includes IMDT dancers Aisling Doyle and Michael Pomero.

Dates and times TBC

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.

Modern Dance Class (beginners/intermediate)
Summer Term - Every Tuesday
Dates: 24th June – 29th July
Time: 7pm – 8pm
Venue: DanceHouse, Foley Street, Dublin 1
Price: €12 per class (€10 concession) or €60 for 6 week term
Booking/enquires: (01) 671 5113 or imdt@iol.ie

Our classes include elements designed to improve body-tone and flexibility, technique and combination work. These classes are perfect for beginners looking for an alternative to the gym, or for intermediate-level dancers looking for an introduction to the IMDT aesthetic.

Teacher - Jonathan Mitchell who has performed with IMDT and in the acclaimed production Adventures in Motion Pictures - Swan Lake in the West End and Los Angeles.

La MaMa Moves Festival :: New York
THE BOWING DANCE
Choreography and Performance by John Scott

In MALE BONDING - A shared programme
Friday 23rd / Saturday 24th May 10 pm
Program 1
Miguel Gutierrez
John Jasperse
John Scott

Sunday 25th May 10 pm
Program 2
Andrew Dinwiddie
Nicholas Leichter
Ben Munisteri
John Scott
La MaMa Moves Festival, La MaMa ETC, New York
74A East 4th Street (b/w 2nd and Bowery)
tix: 212.475.7710 / lamama.org

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