'Cloud Study' by John Scott with music by Ryan Vail
Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement
Presented by: Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company| 0 | DERRY: Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company (info) |
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| P | Saturday 8th March, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 6:45pm Start time: 7:00pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Other |
Event information
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, who use the idea of clouds as a traveling, dreamy mass that float above everything, witnessing, dissolving, and carrying storms. They are running to somewhere or from something, speaking English, Arabic and Yorùbá, communicating with their bodies, hand signs, and dance, chasing dreams, memories and home. Commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival, tours include La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York.
Choreography: John Scott
Dancers: Salma Ataya and Mufutau Yusuf
Music: Ryan Vail
Duration +/- 50mins
Press
“effervescent … highly physical and metaphysical … terrific dancing and wonderous rapport”
Wendy Perron/Dance Magazine, New York
“Throughout, the chemistry between Yusuf and Ataya is exquisite, as is their ownership of the space, be they combative or cohering around complementary or conflicting patterns …. beautiful and powerful sequences stepped in vitality and immediacy…. “Cloud Study” brings the thunder, delivering a downpour full of powerful and mesmerising moments"
Chris O'Rourke, The Arts Review
John Scott is a Dublin born, choreographer, performer, founder/Artistic Director of John Scott Dance, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána, an affiliation of Ireland’s 250 most outstanding creative artists under the patronage of President Michael D Higgins. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet 1982-85 in works by Anton Dolin, Anna Sokolow, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. His choreographic works include ‘Migration Sonata’, ‘Heroes’, ‘Evolutions’, ‘Dances for Inside and Outside’, ‘Divine Madness’, ‘Inventions’, ‘Cloud Study’, ‘Lear’, ‘Fall and Recover’, ‘Actions’ performed in Ireland and internationally. He has taught at Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, The Body in Performance, Drama Department NUIG and at Drexel University, Philadelphia.
