HYPERACTIVE at Espace l'Hermine
Friday 15 November
Sarzeau, Bretagne, France
in their Regard sur Irlande series
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HYPERACTIVE is described by choreographer John Scott (interpreter in Oona Doherty’s Hard To Be Soft) as a high-energy human dance installation for five male dancers, whose backgrounds range from contemporary to Afro Brazilian street dance. It’s vocabulary is somewhere between horse play and dance. Elements include an invisible hand dance, an all-male chorus line, arm wrestling and personal geometry. It is both anti-virtuosic and funny. Originally commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival, HYPERACTIVE has been performed at Dublin Dance Festival , Five Lamps Arts Festival and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York.
This performance is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.
“As a writer, I will never keep up with what John Scott's dancers do in HYPERACTIVE …. Scott's sense of funny scrambles over any flimsy barrier. What is an "invisible hand dance?" Don't ask. What does an all-male chorus line and a Mack truck have in common? ……… What might it be like to stop to smell the roses only to have a heard of bison gallop by only inches away? What's the DMZ between exhilarating exuberance and bodily danger? ….. The work embraces transparency and anti-virtuosity in its raucousness, its grin at failure, its refusal to go anywhere near pretty payoff or uplift”
-Eva Yaa Asantewaa/Infinite Body, New York
“It is highly charged, wonderfully high-octane exhibitionistic fun”
-Seona Mac Reamoinn/The Irish Times
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