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John Scott Dance
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Dublin choreographer. Aosdana member,he/him. Bessie Nominated Begin Anywhere Performance Film, Cunningham Solos, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Strategically funded by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland
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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language
Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language
As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Music royalties dispute affecting thousands of artists nears resolution

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Music royalties dispute affecting thousands of artists nears resolution
Recorded Artists Actors Performers Ltd challenging payment system operated by record companies organisation
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November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Throwback Thursday to rehearsing the John Cage number sequence in‘Begin Anywhere’ at @Danceireland.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The ARTE YouTube channel has some bangers

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Laurie Anderson - Private concert at the Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Paris - ARTE Concert
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November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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reading about ‘Curetes’, in Greek mythology: armored male dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing, kept time to a drum and their rhythmic foot stamping. Dance, according to Greek thought, was a civilizing activity like wine-making or music
Stone frieze of six ‘Curetes’ armoured male dancers from Ancient Greek mythology, protecting baby Zeus by covering the sound of his cries with noisy armoured dancing and foot stamping, outside a cave in Mount Ida, Crete.
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Stunning
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers? @irishtimes.com #abbeytheatre

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Hugh Linehan: Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers?
If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free
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November 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”

Picasso, born on this day in 1881, on creativity: www.themarginalian.org/2014/06/24/p...
Picasso on Intuition, How Creativity Works, and Where Ideas Come From
“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.”
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October 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Meet Charm La’Donna, a Dancer’s Dancer and an Empire Builder
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October 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Men in Motion is at Ramor Arts Centre, Virginia, Co Cavan tonight ramorartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Our Begin Anywhere Performance Film #Kickstarter Campaign has only TWO DAYS to go. Join our supporters

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October 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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BIG BIG THANK YOU to all our Begin Anywhere Performance Film #Kickstarter #ProjectsWeLove donors. Only 5 Days left to support kickstarter.com/projects/133...
October 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Begin Anywhere - part 1 of François Malbranque solo. Please support our performance film on Fundraiser on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/133...
September 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Begin Anywhere - part 1 of François Malbranque solo. Please support our performance film on Fundraiser on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/133...
September 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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We’re excited about Men in Motion at Ballina Arts Centre this Saturday. Tickets available ballinaartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
September 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Begin Anywhere Performance Film needs your support. Donations start at €1 on #Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/133...
September 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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This makes total sense as a choreographer
dennismons.bsky.social Mons @dennismons.bsky.social · Feb 8
Indeed, C&H. Indeed.
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The Dance, 1933
The Dance
March 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Miley Cyrus’ amazing video ‘We Can’t Stop’ by the late brilliant Diane Martel, RIP, who died yesterday youtu.be/LrUvu1mlWco?...
Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop (Official Video)
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September 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"The secret of life is to have no fear." - Fela Kuti #quote
September 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Drum-machine driven psychedelic spirituals from an Australian Catholic nun in 1976—the latest excavation by Freedom to Spend.

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Sister Irene O'Connor - Fire (Luke 12:49) [Official Audio]
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September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Men in Motion on tour
September 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Actions duet from ‘Men in Motion’ at @droicheadarts.bsky.social. Also touring to Ballina Arts Centre, Oct 4th, Wexford Arts Centre, Oct 16th, Ramor Arts Centre Oct 18th. Dancers Vini Martins Araujo and Boris Charrion
Two young male contemporary dancers performing a duet. One Latino indigenous man, with dark hair, facing a left diagonal, is standing on both legs, wearing brown runners with his back hinged forward and head parallel to the floor. He is wearing dark clothes. On his lower back is the other male dancer is in the pose of a bird, balancing on his hips, head and upper body arching up, his legs raised behind him, left leg bent ninety degrees at the knee, left leg less bent, in white runners, his right arm forward and left arm behind. He is wearing a red tee shirt with bare arms, his head looking up. He has brown hair and a beard. The floor is a black Marley dance floor, the back wall is black
September 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM