HYPERACTIVE

HYPERACTIVE is a high-energy human dance installation for five male dancers, whose
backgrounds range from contemporary to Afro Brazilian street dance. It’s vocabulary is
somewhere between horse play and dance. Elements include an invisible hand dance, an
all-male chorus line, arm wrestling and personal geometry. It is both anti-virtuosic and funny.
Originally commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival, HYPERACTIVE has been
performed at Dublin Dance Festival and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York and is touring to France and Italy.
Press
“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”

Eva Yaa Asantewaa/Infinite Body, New York

“It is highly charged, wonderfully high-octane exhibitionistic fun”

Seona Mac Reamoinn/The Irish Times