Cloud Study by Irish Modern Dance Theatre

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 from something, speaking English, Arabic and Yorùbá, communicating with their bodies, hand signs and dance, chasing dreams, memories and home.

Irish Modern Dance Theatre, founded in 1991 by dancer and choreographer John Scott, is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. John Scott is a choreographer, performer, founder/ Artistic Director of John Scott Dance and Dancer from the Dance Festival, and member of Aosdána. His choreographic works include Begin Anywhere, Migration Sonata, Heroes, Evolutions, Dances for Inside and Outside, Divine Madness, Inventions, Lear, Fall and Recover, and Actions, all performed in Ireland and internationally. He dances in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft and in Meredith Monk’s Quarry and for Yoshiko Chuma, Sara Rudner, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmann.

Choreography John Scott
Dancers Salma Ataya and Mufutau Yusuf
Music Ryan Vail

Supported by The Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland. Commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival.