Name: Hyperactive by John Scott
Start: 2024-04-16T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Pump House

Hyperactive by John Scott

The Five Lamps Arts Festival

Get ready to unleash your energy at "Hyperactive " - an electrifying event that will leave you buzzing all night long!

The Pump House

An explosive piece, HYPERACTIVE is a live, high-energy human dance installation with wild street energy produce by John Scott, dancer, choreographer and founder of <a href="https://www.irishmoderndancetheatre.com/" title="https://www.irishmoderndancetheatre.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Irish Modern Dance Theatre</a>. ‘Hyperactive’ is hugely athletic, funny and exciting. Stretching horseplay and dance to the limit, this high-energy piece features a diverse cast of four virtuosic outstanding male dancers, whose backgrounds range from Broadway to downtown to Afro Brazilian street dance. Premiered at Galway Arts Festival 2013 and Dublin Dance Festival 2014, and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival 2015. Irish tour: Visual GB Shaw Carlow, The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon, Garage, Monaghan. HYPERACTIVE shows a snapshot of contemporary Irish masculinity and diversity.

<h2>Reviews</h2> “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... And four butts are worked off, relentlessly, for the entire fifty minutes.” - Eva Yaa Asantewaa/Infinite Body, New York "Raising their arms and inhabiting an open space seems to come naturally to the five athletic performers of Hyperactive, as they transform gravelly Wolfe Tone Square into a sandpit teeming with dance energy and boyish glee. Under John Scott’s instruction, their red tennis shoes and immaculate whites are soon bearing all the marks of the get-down-and-dirty dance. It is highly charged, wonderfully high-octane exhibitionistic fun, an entertaining sugar rush for all involved." - Seona Mac Reamoinn/The Irish Times

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