John Scott’s irish modern dance theatre presents a new four-day pop-up dance festival at Project Arts Centre called Dancer from the Dance which celebrates the diversity of Irish choreography. This event will host works from the Bessie award-nominated Darrah Carr Dance Company (NY), including Trent Kowalik (USA), the youngest ever TONY award winner for his role as "Billy Elliot" on Broadway, Oona Doherty, Liam O Scanláin, Aoife McAtamney, Mufutau Yusuf, Dylan Quinn, John Scott, and Mary Nunan. This new dance festival will run at Project Arts Centre, Dance House and the Wood Quay Amphitheatre.

In partnership with Dance Ireland, Project Arts Centre, and Irish Arts Center and 92Y New York (at Harkness Dance Foundation), this exciting four-day series of dance events examines the ways in which Irish identity impacts dances choreographed by Irish and Irish-American artists. What does it mean to be Irish in a contemporary Irish society? Where do Irish traditional dance and Irish contemporary dance meet? Showcasing Irish and Irish-American choreography, while featuring work by top Irish and Irish-American choreographers representing a wide perspective on modern Irish identity and varying influences on Irish dance, from traditional to contemporary. The festival focuses on Irish choreographers both from Ireland and from the US and celebrates the vibrancy and variety of Irish choreography.

The title of the Dancer from the Danceemanates from the last line of William Butler Yeats's poem "Among School Children", which ends, "O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, / Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? / O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, / How can we know the dancer from the dance?". In this, Yeats recognizes that although people are the sum of their separate deeds, life is an amalgamation of actions, as can be extracted from the dance pieces being performed at the festival this July.

In addition to the performances at Project Arts Centre, there will be masterclasses held at Dance House, Foley Street and an open-air performance at Wood Quay Amphitheatre.