Founded in 2008, Marc Brew Company is committed to developing innovative collaborative work that fuses a fierce physicality derivative from choreographer Marc Brew with tender expression to explore an emotional narrative in dance.

Grounded in contemporary dance technique and classical ballet and drawing on the unique physicality of each performer, the work with disabled and non-disabled artists is honest, unsentimental and recognizably human.

“Marc Brew's juxtaposition of classical and contemporary movement styles is vital and compelling” - Herald Scotland

Nocturne was commissioned from Greenwich and Docklands International Festival 2009 and the Without Walls Street Arts Consortium.

Four dancers perform this dynamic work with two specially built double beds. The day to day of couples and domesticity, unfolds into an evening of restless dreams

Nocturne

Touring across the UK, Nocturne brings inclusive high quality performance to new audiences. The work has been created to be versatile for viewing in unusual spaces and as such is suitable for outdoor courtyard spaces, indoor atrium spaces and theatre spaces with raked seating.

Duration: 20min4 Dancers2 Technicians1 Support Worker

Remember When draws upon exposure, peeling away layers, using line and extension, intricate folding, placement and re-placement, opens a conversation of remembrance.

Commissioned & Presented by East London Dance as part of Big Dance '08

Remember When is an intimate solo performance by choreographer/performer Marc Brew with a prelude screening of a short dance film projected behind the performer exploring the idea of perception - looking from past to present.

This work has been designed to be performed in theatre spaces with blackout, raked seating and a full lighting rig with projector.

Duration: 10min

With an original score by

Philip Sheppard and

acclaimed composer and

percussionist Dame Evelyn

Glennie, a cast of five dancers

will investigate the difference

and influences of the two styles,

questioning whether elements

can be fused together or if they

should remain as fragments in

isolation. Fusional Fragments

was being produced in

partnership with DanceEast.   

‘Fusional Fragments

is an opportunity to

showcase this most

unique collaboration

to the world. I am

delighted to work

with Marc Brew and

to collaborate with

the best of the best.

Being part of this

project will enable

us to create

something truly

world class.’ - Dame

Evelyn Glennie

• Fusional Fragments has been designed to be performed inmedium scale theatre spaces with blackout, dance floor, raked seating and a full lighting rig with projector.

• Performers: 5

• Number on the road: 8

• Stage size: 10m x 12m

• Get in: 1 day

• Duration: 25min

Following the widespread success of Nocturne, his first outdoor work, Marc Brew has created a new work for outdoor locations in 2014, (i)land.

Faced with life on a deserted island, three characters uncover a means of escape back to civilisation. As the narrative unfolds, the characters find pieces of a vehicle buried in the sand that will take them off the island. They work together to build the craft, only to find that it will carry just one of them.

Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme, supported by Without Walls

(i)land centres on a 6 ton pile of sandrepresenting the land the characters findthemselves in, and this provides a safedance space in which Marc can exploremovement in solo, duet and trio formsaway from his wheelchair.

Drawing inspiration from stories such asThe Lord of the Flies, Lost and Castaway,and the legends of the Highlandclearances and Australian outback,(i)land aims to engage audiences inquestions about perceptions of the bodyin dance, the politics of disability,isolation and exclusion, ingenuity andinvention.

“Marc Brew knows exactly how to touch his audience in all the right places” - The Scotsman

• Touring: May-September 2014

• Performers: 3

• Number on the road: 5

• Get in: 2 day get in

• Performing Area: ideally 10 x 10

metres

• (UK only) for up to two performances

on one day.

• Running time: 25 minutes

• Completely flat surface

• Site needs to be fully accessible by

lorry to drop off 6 tons of sand

• Good quality, loud sound system for

CD and laptop playback.

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