DANCES FOR INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
Join a thrilling and fast moving dance explosion of 8 stunning dancers from Ireland, Nigeria, France, Poland and Ethiopia, unleashed in a live performance to celebrate life, athleticism and joy. A cycle of dances for our times, created by John Scott and the determined dancers of Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dances for Inside and Outside is a coming together of vastly different, virtuosic dancers, searching for safe space and trying to be together. They are celebrating life and searching for joy, despite the limitations imposed by Covid-19. Dances for Inside and Outside was made using social distancing and the limits of bodies being together in a space as a movement inspiration. The work embodies what we have all been through and what our reality is now. There is a vital physicality and necessity in how the dancers interact together, mixing joy and fear and trying to be safe.
Dances for Inside and Outside premiered online in 2020, it was filmed at The Complex Arts Centre, Dublin, and streamed on Friday 2 October. Then it was shown at Philadelphia Dance Projects. In 2021 Dances for Inside and Outside went on a national tour.
Reviews
“Exuberant confidence, synchronicity and fluidity of movement... we watch, dazzled both by the light and the sureness and clarity of these fine dancers" - Seona Mac Reamoinn, The Irish Times
“Words and gestures somewhere between Beckett, Chaplin and Monty Python” - Thomas Hahn/tanz magazine, Germany
DANCES FOR INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
Streamed from The Complex Arts Centre, Dublin
Team 2020:
Choreography: John Scott
Lighting Design: Gearóid Ó Hallmhuráin
Dancers: Diarmuid Armstrong, Kevin Coquelard, Conor Thomas Doherty, Minte Getachew Wolde, Dylan Holly, Sebastiao Kamalandua, Rebecca Reilly, Sarah Ryan
Filmmaker: Luca Truffarelli
Photography: Ewa Figaszewska
Music: BLACKFISH (JG Everest and Joel Pickard) | Sixty Forty by Nico
Assistant choreographer: Muirne Bloomer
Costumes: Justine Doswell, Luna Hosty
Production manager: Rob Furey
Stage manager: Mags Mulvey
Company manager: Greta Bourke
Covid compliance officer: Kevin Smith
DANCES FOR INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
Philadelphia Dance Projects
A HUGE ‘Thank You’ to Philadelphia Dance Projects
for hosting a great ‘informance’ showing of ‘Dances for Inside and Outside’
Irish Modern Dance Theatre at Philadelphia Dance Projects, USA
DANCE UP CLOSE | WINTER/SPRING 2021
March 14 | 2021
Dances for inside and Outside
Choreography: John Scott
Music: BLACKFISH (JG Everest and Joël Pickard) | Sixty Forty by Nico
Dancers: Diarmuid Armstrong, Kevin Coquelard, Conor Thomas Doherty, Minte Getachew Wolde, Dylan Holly, Sebastiao Kamalandua, Rebecca Reilly, Sarah Ryan
Filmmaker: Luca Truffarelli
Lighting: Gearóid Ó Hallmhurain
Photography: Ewa Figaszewska
Costumes: Justine Doswell & Luna Hosty
Funded by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council
https://www.philadanceprojects.org/
DANCES FOR INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
National Tour 2021
Team 2021:
Choreography: John Scott
Lighting Design: Gearóid Ó Hallmhuráin | Re-Light: Síofra Nic Liam
Dancers: Diarmuid Armstrong, Ashley Chen, Dylan Holly, Magdalena Hylak, Favour Odusola, Rebecca Reilly, Sarah Ryan, Mintesinot Wolde
Photography: Noel Shelley
Music: BLACKFISH (JG Everest and Joel Pickard) | Sixty Forty by Nico
TOUR DATES & LOCATIONS
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray: October 5 | 2021
Tipperary Dance at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles: October 8 | 2021
Roscommon Arts Centre, Roscommon: October 12 | 2021
Town Hall Theatre, Galway: October 13 | 2021
Siamsa Tíre, Tralee: October 16 | 2021
