Irish Modern Dance Theatre produces Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography, an online gathering gathering Irish and irish identifying Choreographers, crossing national borders, practices, ethnicities and generations, curated by John Scott. IMDT is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble, we create distinctive dance works with diverse casts, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. Our works include ‘Lear', ‘Inventions', Actions' and ‘Fall and Recover' - all recognised for their intelligence, honesty and humanity. Our work crosses disciplines, subverts expectations of dance and dancers and finds new ways to explore contemporary issues. Recent performances include ‘Divine Madness', Project Arts Centre, ‘Inventions', Dublin Dance Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival, Oona Doherty's ‘Almost Blue', Cork Midsummer Festival, ‘Actions', John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC, Visual Carlow, Five Lamps Arts Festival, and Racconti Di Altre Danza, Italy, Merce Cunningham Centenary performances for Theatre de la Ville, Paris at Espace Pierre Cardin and Dance Place, Washington, Cloud Study at Galway International Arts Festival and Dance Limerick, Lear at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London, New York Live Arts and DanceBase, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. IMDT has commissioned works by international dance visionaries including Merce Cunningham, Sarah Rudner, Kyle Abraham, Thomas Lehmen, Adrienne Truscott, John Jasperse and Sean Curran. Irish Modern Dance Theatre has also founded ‘Dancer from the Dance Festival of New Irish Choreography' running in New York and Dublin #ProjectArtsCentre and #DanceIreland #DancerFromTheDanceFest. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Culture Ireland and Iris O'Brien Foundation