Within This Party is an improvisational dance performance based on the Palestinian traditional dance "Dabkeh" and hip-hop dance. The show attempts to search for a creative way to build and choreograph.

"I try to find the personal/intimate within the collective. Do you know how, when you watch someone doing breakdance, we say he has a style although he is doing the same movement as everyone else? It is the same with Dabkeh or any other dance form. In my work I try to drop the technique (the collective) and keep the style (the private). I do it with music and dance. In this show, I use Palestinian traditional music with a collective way of dance on it. But as a dancer, I always create my own way to move within it." - Amir Sabra

This short duet was specially commissioned by Opera Ballet of Flanders for the International Day of Dance 2023. The soundscape used is by Irish music duo The Cope. The theme of the work is the break down of a long term partnership and how much bravery it takes to leave something that fits but is no longer fulfilling.

Tearmann Aiteach/Queer Sanctuary is part of an ongoing exploration of queer flourishing and solidarity. It’s a developing choreographic process, in which we practise and perform how to create malleable spaces that support emergent identities. It is a dance project that has grown out of the aligning of the two separate artistic practices of Isabella and Fearghus. Their dancing asks what arrangements of support and desire are available between these queer bodies and others as we gather.

Isabella and Fearghus have been in creative conversation with other queer artists, including fashion designer Gregor Pituch and performance maker and dramaturg, Luke Pell. In this performance, they will be creating a space for transformation, exchange and spritely sparkle.

In creating spaces for queerness and queering, it is not so much about trying to establish fixed borders that have to be protected, as a space of specific care and attention. These are spaces of sanctuary made from relationships, open to shift, but no less precise in the moment.

ACTIONS (now) is a physical conversation between two individuals in an empty space. Two outstanding male dancers merge and break apart - the painful coming together – a forceful resistance to merging, where the breaking up is the movement’s ulterior motivation.

The dance material is a battle through the space using physicality, lifts, falls, text and sound, the dancers alternately throwing their bodies together to then fragmenting into threads of raw movement.

ACTIONS (now) is funny, tender and human; it is performed like a ’work in progress’ – the dancers are both engaged in a task of executing difficult and exerting dance while also, in an act of self-reflection, they comment on the dance and their states of mind.

The original movement material was developed with Lorcan Roche, Marcus Bellamy and Marc Mann in 2009. In 2023, John Scott has created a new version of ACTIONS - revised from the original source material – with a next generation cast and their contemporary physicalities.