John Scott

Throwing light on difficult topics while fun is found everywhere in Galway

Galway International Arts Festival review: President’s address, and hit show ‘Flight’

Mon Jul 23 2018 - 13:22

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’

Tue Jul 10 2018 - 06:00

Dublin Dance Festival: Female choreographers step up

Female choreographers and their dancers possess the hearts and minds of audiences

Tue May 22 2018 - 10:00

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

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00

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’

Wed Oct 25 2017 - 10:11

Refugees dance their way to freedom

A new trio dance performance evokes the trauma of refugees coming to Europe

Wed May 17 2017 - 05:00

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

Mon Feb 06 2017 - 05:00

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’

Thu Dec 08 2016 - 15:30

Lear review: a perfect balance of movement and text

John Scott and Valda Setterfield combine to dazzling effect, with warmth and humour

Thu Oct 27 2016 - 17:52

Feathers review: Dancing in a vast Beckettian anywhere | Tiger Dublin Fringe

A great collaboration between composer Mel Mercier and choreographer John Scott

Wed Sept 09 2015 - 15:06

Virtuoso organist with technical skill and emotional depth

John Scott: June 18th, 1956 - August 12th, 2015

Sat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00

‘Orient Express’ company Belmond jumps tracks to Ireland

Firm behind famous luxury train trip teams up with Irish Rail to offer high-end holidays

Wed Apr 22 2015 - 01:00

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

Sat Mar 28 2015 - 01:00

Exploring the effect of immigration on Irish theatre

‘Staging Intercultural Ireland’ brings together plays and interviews on inward migration

Thu Dec 18 2014 - 06:00

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

Mon Sept 08 2014 - 01:00

‘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

Thu Aug 07 2014 - 01:00

Actions: An Evening of Men in Motion

It may lack focus, but this performance of past dances side by side is razor-sharp

Wed Jan 29 2014 - 16:29

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?

Sat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00