La MaMa Postpones FALL AND RECOVER Until 3/25
By: Nicole Rosky Mar. 09, 2011
"Fall and Recover," Irish choreographer John Scott's poignant and mesmerizing work based on the experiences and stories of survivors of torture in Africa, Asia and Rumania, will receive its
United States premiere at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, March 25-April 3, as part of Imagine Ireland. The 55-minute work is a La MaMa presentation.
three members of the Irish Modern Dance Theater, is the result of John Scott's collaboration with the Centre for the Care for Survivors of Torture in Dublin, where he conducted dance workshops for victims of torture who were offered asylum in Ireland. Movement was a means to heal, to release, transform and share experiences still too brutal to speak about. "Fall and Recover" is dedicated to the memory of Ellen Stewart, founder of LaMaMa, who remains an inspiration to the cast. John Scott, who founded Irish Modern Dance Theatre in Dublin in 1991, graduated in English literature from University College Dublin. He studied with Judith Malina and Julian Beck at The Living Theater in France and Italy before returning to Ireland to train with the Irish National College of Dance. In addition to apprenticing with the Dublin City Ballet, he studied with Andy De
Groat, Meredith Monk, Susan Buirge, Deborah Hay, and performed with Sara Rudner, Yoshiko Chuma, and Meredith Monk. He has conducted dance workshops at the Irish Centre for Care for
Survivors Torture since 2003. He also successfully challenged several Irish Government deportation orders. Most recently, Scott created a new work, "In this Moment," with the American filmmaker Charles Atlas. His duet, "Actions," which was part of the 2010 La MaMa Moves!
festival, has toured Germany, Sweden, and will be part of the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in
Scotland this summer.
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