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.
Physical Landscapes, Cloughjordan, Dublin, Black Box,
Choreographer John Scott and Irish Modern Dance Theatre, following the sell out 'Human Geography' at Galway International Arts Festival, create a 'Physical Landscape,' with six outstanding international dancers.
This thrilling and unique dance event features urgent physicality, sensuality, weighted duets, and frantic ensemble pieces. Responding to ecology and nature, 'Physical Universe' explores the themes of 'the other' and 'the witness' in a way that is both moving and life-affirming.
Dancers include Galway's Magdalena Hylak, French virtuoso Boris Charrion, Afro-Brazilian Alessandra Azeviche, and Ireland's Adam O'Reilly.
Lighting is by award-winning French artist Eric Würtz, who creates lighting for the sensational 'La Horde' collective. Choreography John Scott, Lighting Eric Würtz
St Kieran's Hall, Cloughjordan, 25th October 2026
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 27th - 31st October 2026
Black Box Theatre, 2nd November 2026
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.
