Sian Thomas
Chapter
Market Road
Cardiff CF5 1QE
T +44 (0)7740 37817
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SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 12 on the road
PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Marc Rees
Creative Producer
Siân Thomas
ARTISTIC POLICY
Marc Rees is an interdisciplinary artist with a track record for delivering ground breaking, provocative and risk taking projects, and a reputation as an accomplished artist and visionary site-responsive curator. His creative process draws on sculpture, dance, film and design, devising work across different artforms. Although diverse in its formal manifestations, Rees’ practice has, from the outset, concerned itself with the relationship between body and space. Most recently, this has led him to develop a number of more architecture-driven artworks.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘I can't readily think of another recent work that has anything like the quality of lapidary craftsmanship this one has.’ Donald Hutera, Dance Europe ()
‘A declaration of love; a story about longing, helplessness and grief.’ Berliner Zeitung ()
‘Each room, each corridor holds dreamlike yet disturbing scenes that seem to have come straight out of a Buñuel film.’ El Pais ()
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Site-responsive project in Barmouth, North Wales, June 2010, commissioned by the National Theatre Wales. Welsh and international artists develop work responding to the community archive and local history. (Time based. Artists and crew: 12.)
Produced by Tanzcompagnie Rubato, Berlin, investigates memory and grief; three male dancers explore the loss of their fathers in an evocative fusion of dance, film and sound. (1 hour, 5 on the road.)
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
‘Artist Taking the lead’ commission for London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The project incorporates ‘Avion’, a mobile arts space created from the recycled fuselage of a DC9 aeroplane that will travel across Wales, interacting with local communities and the collaboration of dance and visual artists.
WRAP-AROUND
includes extensive outreach development work in preparation for the delivery of the project. Most recent site-responsive work has included the involvement of members of the local community in the development and delivery of the project.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2009 Spain (), Germany, Spain ()
2008 Finland, Germany ()
2006 France, Turkey (), Brazil ()
TOURING AVAILABILITY
is a site-responsive work that will take place in June 2010; approaches for similar commissions are welcomed.
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