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Image: How I Faded and Disintegrated / Photographer: Roy Campbell-Moore

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Photographer: Roy Campbell-Moore

SEAN TUAN JOHN

Dance theatre, Site-specific events

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–4 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Sean Tuan John

Creative Producer
Siân Thomas

ARTISTIC POLICY
Welsh choreographer Sean Tuan John creates movement-based performance work that explores contemporary urban culture and experience through idiosyncratic dance, evocative video and excessive “acting”. Special interests include solo work, site-specific performances and collaborative work, focusing on themes of social commentary, the trash aesthetics of pop culture, psychology and in depth investigation into character-based dance exploration. Sean Tuan John has a strong history of European co-productions and collaborations to create work for the conventional stage, site-specific events, film and television.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Guardian

Western Mail

The Times

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A distinct and uncompromising performance fusing film and dance to create a visually arresting socio-political performance that precariously treads the line between live art and theatre. At the heart of the production is a filmic and physical investigation of how we “view” and “disassociate” with the eventual physical and mental decline of our bodies. (1 on stage, 2–3 on the road.)

Delving into the desolate purgatory of three vaudeville has-beens, promises to entertain and disconcert with its unusual cocktail of disjoined dance, evocative text and a large dose of dark humour. (60 mins, 3 on stage, 4 on the road.)

A visually dynamic and highly energetic dance show for five- to seven-year-olds based on the idea of entering and exiting different worlds. (40 mins, 2 on stage, 3 on the road, with accompanying workshops.)

WRAP-AROUND
Creative educational situations with children and adults, focussing particularly on the fusion of professional and participatory approaches to create new presentation and working methods.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Poland ()
2006 Poland ()
2005 Belgium, Spain ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
and from January 2008
from June 2008

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