'HYPERACTIVE' , Mermaid Arts Centre, 30th September 2026
HYPERACTIVE is a high-energy human dance installation for five virtuosic outstanding male dancers with wild street energy - dancing styles from Broadway to Jazz to Afro-Brazilian. Athletic, high-energy, funny and exciting, the dancers dive into relentless, physically demanding routines that leaves them visibly exhausted, adding a sense of raw,
vulnerable honesty to the stage. It functions as a "sugar rush" of dance energy that seamlessly translates the raw electricity of street dance into a highly conceptual theatrical setting.
HYPERACTIVE shows a snapshot of contemporary Irish masculinity. Incredibly dynamic, stretching horseplay and dance to the limit and suitable for all, commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival and Dublin Dance Festival, touring internationally to Festival Racconti di Altre Danze, Italy, Espace Culturel Hermine, France and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York.
Cloud Study; Festival Racconti di Altre Danze, Livorno, Italy, 11th October 2026
Cloud Study by John Scott, with music by Ryan Vail, is part dance, part dream, made for two compelling dancers. Mufutau Yusuf, an Irish dancer born in Nigeria and Salma Ataya, a Palestinian/ Irish dancer, use the idea of clouds as a traveling dreamy mass that float above everything, witnessing, dissolving, and carrying storms. The dancers are running to somewhere or to something, speaking English, Arabic and Yorùbá, communicating with their bodies, hand signs and dance, chasing dreams, memories and home.
Ancestral Movements, Penn Live Arts, Philadelphia, 30th April 2027 and 1st May 2027
Renowned Irish choreographer John Scott makes his Penn Live Arts debut with Ancestral Movements, a powerful exploration of identity, resilience and belonging. A 26/27 season artist-in-residence, Scott will collaborate with new American citizens and other Philadelphians whose lives have been impacted by migration to co-create this evocative dance-theatre work. Performed by an ensemble of professional dancers and community members, this world premiere weaves personal histories, traditions and everyday movements into a common physical language, a profound reflection on how we carry the past—and imagine a future—together.
