Cloud Study

Cloud Study, a duet by John Scott, commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival, uses the idea of clouds as a traveling, dreamy mass that floats above everything, witnessing, dissolving, and carrying storms. Music by DJ/Composer Ryan Vail, two compelling dancers: Mufutau Yusuf , an Irish dancer born in Nigeria and Salma Ataya, a Palestinian contemporary dance artist, are running to somewhere or from something, speaking English and Yorùbá, communicating with their bodies, hand signs, and dance.

Cloud Study tours: La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York, 2022, FIrst Fortnight Festival Dublin, 2022, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen 2022, Dance Limerick 2018, Smock Alley Dublin 2018, Galway International Arts Festival 2018. 

Press:  “NYC Season Highlight … effervescent … highly physical and metaphysical … terrific dancing and wonderous rapport” Wendy Perron, Editor at Large, Dance Magazine

“bold, innovative  …. we feel as if we are emerging from a complex and provocative dream”   Theo Boguszewski The Dance Enthusiast, New York

“beautiful and powerful sequences stepped in vitality and immediacy…. “Cloud Study” brings the thunder, delivering a downpour full of powerful and mesmerising moments”   Chris O’Rourke/The Arts Review