A bear walks into a rehearsal room: In Pan Pan’s new twist on The Winter’s Tale, the animal finally gets to tell the story
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Exit, Pursued by a Bear might sound absurd, but it opens up a world of dramatic connections
John Scott
Hyperphysical: Impressively tight-knit ensemble takes on Abby Zbikowski’s punishing but fascinating dance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Future Is on the Way is followed by John Scott’s simultaneously entertaining and meditative Actions (Now)
Migration Sonata: United by a common physical language
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: The choreographer John Scott brings Ukrainian and Brazilian migrants together in this spirited dance
A Case Of You set for Royal Ascot run after lucrative win in Dubai
Trainer Ado McGuinness secures near €800k first prize with Al Quoz Sprint win
Aidan O’Brien’s Snowfall skates home to take Oaks by record 16 lengths
Irish trainer makes it a record-equalling 40th English Classic at Epsom
Performing from home: The strange new world of summer arts festivals
Events from West Cork Chamber Music Festival to Friday Opera Sessions are migrating online
Cork Lord Mayor appeals to 1920 council descendants over centenary event
Event will mark election of Sinn Féin lord mayors, MacCurtain and MacSwiney among others
Divine Madness review: Where the voice starts dancing and the body starts singing
Meredith Monk’s credo is at the heart of John Scott’s dance-based exploration of the physicality of the operatic soprano
The Stalls review: original, confident and hilarious
Skilful skewering as opera ensemble shows audience exactly what it’s like
Dublin Dance Festival 2019: stunningly artistic and utterly uplifting
Dance and technology combined to show the benign and darker sides of humanity
Inventions review: lingering hope resides in self-desctruction
John Scott’s blends choreographed madness with an 83-year-old calming presence
‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Throwing light on difficult topics while fun is found everywhere in Galway
Galway International Arts Festival review: President’s address, and hit show ‘Flight’
Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’
The ‘big, sweaty’ Dublin nightclub is successful because it ‘doesn’t have notions’
Dublin Dance Festival: Female choreographers step up
Female choreographers and their dancers possess the hearts and minds of audiences
Matilda to Beckett: the best in this week’s theatre
Like its protagonist, Matilda the Musical is not afraid to be clever, while Beckett’s words are put to music in Gare Saint Lazare’s Here All Night at the Abbey and beyond
Oona Doherty takes on Belfast’s hardest men
Part of her ‘Belfast prayer’ is a ‘big tough hug for all those dads, sons and brothers’
Refugees dance their way to freedom
A new trio dance performance evokes the trauma of refugees coming to Europe
Jean Butler: ‘It’s very exposing for both of us’
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
John Scott: ‘I’m still stimulated, inspired and angry with what is happening in the world’
For 25 years John Scott has been at the forefront of Irish dance. When it comes to making work, ‘All I need from a dancer is an open mind and generous spirit’
Lear review: a perfect balance of movement and text
John Scott and Valda Setterfield combine to dazzling effect, with warmth and humour
Feathers review: Dancing in a vast Beckettian anywhere | Tiger Dublin Fringe
A great collaboration between composer Mel Mercier and choreographer John Scott
Virtuoso organist with technical skill and emotional depth
John Scott: June 18th, 1956 - August 12th, 2015
‘Orient Express’ company Belmond jumps tracks to Ireland
Firm behind famous luxury train trip teams up with Irish Rail to offer high-end holidays
Ballet, reinvented
William Forythe, whose work comes to Ireland this weekend, has challenged fundamental assumptions about choreography and dance, influencing visual artists, architects and designers along the way
Exploring the effect of immigration on Irish theatre
‘Staging Intercultural Ireland’ brings together plays and interviews on inward migration
Tardigrade: Keeping the audience on their toes with a riot of colour and movement
Video screens, singers in stilettos, a team of dancers and a lot of body paint: mind your steps at ‘Tardigrade’, Philip Connaughton’s latest work
‘I have played men before but King Lear is a new departure’
Valda Setterfield, now 79, is enjoying tackling one of the stage’s meatiest characters in choreographer John Scott’s dance based on Shakespeare’s play
Actions: An Evening of Men in Motion
It may lack focus, but this performance of past dances side by side is razor-sharp
Three become one – and dance lovers get a trio of premieres
Three companies – Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche Dance Company and CoisCéim Dance Theatre – are touring new work together. Is it an act that other arts sectors could or should follow?
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