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WALES DANCE CONSORTIUM
‘a collaborative network
committed to developing
dance programmes that
excite audiences -
bringing the best of UK
and international dance
to stages in Wales’
www.creucymru.com
Cai Tomos Photo: Gemma Riggs
About Creu Cymru
Creu Cymru (Creating Wales) is the development agency for theatres
and arts centres in Wales. Our members represent virtually all of the
nation’s professionally run venues, at a diverse range of scales.
Creu Cymru is, first and foremost, a collaborative network; we share
information, expertise, research, touring, co-productions… and above
all, a will to develop programmes and audiences. We work together to
support an ever more resilient resource at the heart of communities
across Wales.
Developing a vibrant dance sector with theatres and artists in Wales
Dance is at the forefront of our work
With 45 member theatres we run Wales Dance Consortium, a development initiative to increase the
quality of dance production and presentation in theatres and arts centres across Wales.
It is one of 3 similar groups, the others being music and drama, who meet and work together regularly
to actively develop the quality of their programmes and reach new audiences.
Wales Dance Consortium is committed to working with Wales-based practitioners to develop dance
programmes that excite audiences; to bringing productions from the rest of the UK and the best of
international dance to stages in Wales; to developing a programme of performances for children and
families; and to raising the bar in marketing and audience development across our membership.
Taliesin Arts Centre
& Phil Williams,
Cascade Dance Theatre
Situated in the heart of the
university campus, Taliesin is
a Regional Performing Arts
Centre serving the City of
Swansea and the region.
Taliesin produces / co-
produces / tours and presents
a range of work with particular
emphasis on contemporary
dance & drama; world music &
dance ; jazz and film.
There is a single auditorium
seating 330/367. Adaptable
end stage. Max. performing
area 15.9m x 11.5m.
Contact: Sybil Crouch, Head of Cultural Services
www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk
Collidron Photo: Roy Campbell-Moore
Cascade Dance Theatre
Artistic Director: Phil Williams
‘Stylish, humorous, gorgeous – and hugely entertaining. A pulse
racing company.’
Cascade Dance Theatre is a repertory touring company working
with the Creu Cymru dance touring network to provide
ensemble dance that is artist-led with a Wales and international
perspective, having high production values and with an equal
emphasis on quality of the art and a passion to speak to a
general public audience.
Current repertoire: Collidron by Phil Williams, Quite
Discontinuous by Jasper van Luijk and Poppet by Jem Treays
Creative Producer, Ann Sholem
www.cascadedancetheatre.co.uk
DANCE BUDDY
Pontio
& Angharad Harrop
Pontio is Bangor University’s
brand new arts and innovation
centre. The Grimshaw-
designed building in the centre
of Bangor is home to a flexible
mid-scale theatre, a studio
theatre which holds up to 120
people, a 200-seater digital
cinema, a cutting-edge
Innovation Centre and a wide
range of facilities for students.
Pontio offers an eclectic mix of
entertainment seven days a
week, from the latest film
releases to dance, music and
drama, gigs, contemporary
circus and aerial theatre,
cabaret shows and more.
Contact:
Shari Llewelyn,
Creative Producer
www.pontio.co.uk
Angharad Harrop
Angharad Harrop is an Independent Dance Artist working in
North Wales and the North West. Her choreographic interests
lie in exploring the use of folk dance in contemporary
performance.
Angharad holds a first class BA (Hons) Dance and MA in Dance
and Professional Practice from De Montfort University where
she is currently doing research for her PhD.
As a dancer she has worked for choreographers including, La
Ribot, Filipa Francisco, Willi Dorner and James Wilton. She has
been awarded several grants from the Arts Council of Wales
and been supported by the Arts Council England, to develop her
practice as a choreographer and film maker.
www.angharadharrop.com
DANCE BUDDY
Photo by James Kelly
Galeri, Caernarfon
& Cai Tomos
Galeri, located at Caernarfon’s
Victoria Dock area, opened in
March 2005. It houses a 395-
seat theatre, two large
rehearsal studios, art space,
café bar, conference facilities,
rooms for hire and workspace
units.
Galeri offers a varied and
exciting programme of artistic
events throughout the year.
The centre can stage
small-mid scale productions
and regularly programmes
dramas (Welsh and English),
music, dance, films, comedy
nights, “an evening with”
events, literature, workshops,
visual arts as well as giving
local children/young people
and community groups an
opportunity to perform in a
professional theatre.
Contact:
Mari Emlyn, Artistic Director
mari.emlyn@galericaernarfon.
com
www.galericaernarfon.com
Gymanfa Photo by: John Nickson
Cai Tomos
Cai Tomos is a movement artist and choreographer. He has
worked both nationally and internationally as dancer,
choreographer and movement director. He has toured
extensively as a performer and presented his work in festivals in
Spain, South America, and mainland Europe.
Cai’s work is influenced by his preoccupation with the
psychological and psychosocial aspects related to dance and
dancing, his work includes performance and installation. His
interest lies in a fluidity of working with both professionals and
non-professionals. Much of his work is based on offering the
stage to bodies that don’t often get seen in dance and in
theatre, and for those who have never performed, challenging
the aesthetics in dance, and uncovering people’s own
movement styles are part of his preoccupations.
He works in participatory arts offering workshops in dance for
those in Hospital contexts, mental health, those with addiction,
and older people in the UK and abroad.
www.caitomos.com
DANCE BUDDY
National Dance Company
Wales: Dance House
& Karol Cysewski
The Dance House is not only
home to National Dance
Company Wales but also a
world-class production facility
as well as a performance and
rehearsal space for local
artists, youth groups and
touring companies across the
UK and beyond.
The main production studio,
the Blue Room, has the
highest quality technical
specification for producing and
presenting dance, including
100 tiered and retractable
seats. The second studio, Man
Gwyn, is a simple square
rehearsal studio complete with
ballet barres, mirrors and full
circle grey drapes. Ideal for
rehearsal, auditions or intimate
presentations.
Contact:
Paul Kaynes, Chief Executive
www.ndcwales.co.uk
Homo Irrationalis Photo by Noel Dacey
Karol Cysewski
Polish-born Karol Cysewski is a Cardiff-based choreographer
and dancer.
Karol studied at The State Ballet School in Poznan, Poland and
went on to train at Laban Centre London graduating in 2001.
Karol has since worked for several dance companies including
Polish Dance Theatre, Carte Blanche in Norway, and National
Dance Company Wales.
After seven years at National Dance Company Wales, he left in
2012 to concentrate on creating his own work. His funny and
physical choreography has won him audience praise, and
ultimately a 4* review in the Guardian during his sell-out run at
Dance Base for the Edinburgh Fringe.
http://karolcysewski.tumblr.com
DANCE BUDDY
Torch Theatre
& Zosia Jo
The Torch Theatre is a modern
and vibrant centre for the arts,
that prides itself on extending
a warm Pembrokeshire
welcome to all visitors.
The Torch exists to produce
quality theatre for Milford
Haven and the County of
Pembrokeshire, providing a
mix of diverse, challenging and
stimulating live theatre events.
The Theatre’s Main House has
a seating capacity of 297, with
4 wheelchair spaces and 2
further wheelchair spaces in a
private box.
The Studio Theatre has a
comfortable and intimate
environment, with 102
retractable seats.
Contact:
Peter Doran, Artistic Director
www.torchtheatre.co.uk
Zosia Jo: Herstory Photo by Adrian Lincoln
Zosia Jo
Zosia Jo is a dance artist with a diverse portfolio career. She
trained at The Place and the Northern School of Contemporary
Dance. She has pursued her own choreographic work and
performs for other choreographers as well as in theatre
companies. She also writes and performs poetry.
Zosia's work can be characterised by her 3 main
fascinations...1) How dancers find words and integrate natural
human speech into their physical expression (and conversely
how actors find fluidity and clarity in their physicality); 2) How
audiences and performers relate; how we can encourage an
audience to have an equally embodied and holistic response to
the work as those who are performing it do; and 3) how we
might widen audiences and increase participants in dance and
offer all the enrichment it brings to more and more people.
Zosia is currently based between Wales, London and Cairo, Egypt.
www.zosiajo.com
DANCE BUDDY
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
with Sean Tuan John & Gwyn Emberton Dance
Aberystwyth Arts Centre is
Wales’ largest arts centre and
recognised as a ‘national
flagship for the arts’. A
department of Aberystwyth
University, it has a wide-
ranging artistic programme,
both producing and presenting,
across all art forms including
drama, dance, music, visual
arts, applied arts, film, new
media and community arts. It
has a wide participatory and
artist development programme
and its own Dance School.
The Arts Centre’s theatre
seats audiences of 312 in its
normal setting. The theatre is
the main venue for touring
companies of national and
international reputation. The
Centre also houses a concert
hall, studio theatre and 2
gallery spaces.
Contact:
Gareth Lloyd-Roberts, Director
Gill Ogden, Artistic Programme
Manager
aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
Sean Tuan John
Sean Tuan John, is one of
Wales’ most successful
independent
choreographers who over
the last 20 years, has been
creating dance/theatre and
film projects that have been
screened and performed in
festivals around the world.
His work teeters on the
borders between theatre
and dance and fuses idiosyncratic and darkly humorous
choreography with social commentary. His work is both
structurally disconcerting and driven by an emotional honesty and
provokes strong opinions and equally strong emotional reactions.
He has been described as everything from ‘the bad boy of British
dance’ to ‘a one off eccentric and a marvel’, from a ‘diabolical
choreographer’ to ‘the Dylan Thomas of choreography’. The work
ranges from intimate and intense solo work to larger ensemble
pieces and includes site based and large scale participatory
outdoor projects.
[email protected] / www.seantuanjohn.com
DANCE BUDDY
Sean Tuan John
Gwyn Emberton Dance is
the dance theatre company of
award winning Welsh
choreographer Gwyn
Emberton. The company
brings together the highest
caliber of dancers, composers
and designers to create
intimate dance theatre on an
ambitious scale. Expect
visually rich and deeply
affecting work for the mid
scale. The work responds to
Gwyn’s own Anglo/Welsh
heritage and draws on other art forms, allowing us to make
reference to our collective experience. The aim is that through
each work, we can explore our own emotional and physical
existence in a wholly original but universal way.
[email protected] / www.gwynembertondance.com
Shadow of a Quiet Society Photo: Warren Orchard
DANCE BUDDY
Venue Cymru
& Lisa Spaull
Venue Cymru is situated on the
coast of undoubtedly one of the
most beautiful settings within
the British Isles being located
on the long crescent promenade
of Llandudno.
Its diverse programme of events
covers virtually every form of
live performance from opera
and West End shows, to
comedy and pantomime.
The theatre consists of a 1500
seat auditorium and is a fully
equipped receiving house able
to stage large touring
productions.
The Arena is ideally suited for
anything from exhibitions to gigs
with maximum capacity of 2500
standing.
The conference centre has all
sizes of rooms with capacities of
35 to over 160.
Contact:
Sarah Ecob
General Manager
www.venuecymru.co.uk
Lisa Spaull: Vertical Dance Workshop Photo: Wren Ball
Lisa Spaull
Lisa Spaull is an Independent Dance Artist based in North
Wales. Since graduating with a BA Degree in Dance from
Chichester University, Lisa has worked in the UK, Canada and
China and has over 15 years’ experience, delivering dance
projects to all ages and abilities in a variety of settings. She
regularly works with Kate Lawrence and Everybody Dance on
Vertical Dance and Aerial Dance projects across the UK and
Europe.
In 2014, Lisa and Rob set up Little Light Dance and Digital
Theatre Company, which makes dance theatre shows for family
audiences.
Lisa also collaborates with Rob Spaull / Mediapod to create
dance on film. Their films have been shown at festivals in
Burgundy, France, Vo’Arte Film Festival in Lisbon, Portugal and
with Migrations touring film programme across Wales.
[email protected] / www.lisaspaull.co.uk
[email protected] / www.little-light.co.uk
DANCE BUDDY
Wales Millennium Centre
& Chloe Loftus
Wales Millennium Centre has
established its reputation as one
of the world’s iconic arts and
cultural destinations, attracting
over 1.5 million visitors
annually.
The vision of the Centre is to be
an internationally significant
cultural landmark and centre for
the performing arts, renowned
for inspiration, excellence and
leadership.
The Centre is a focal point for
the culture, identity and talents
of Wales, providing a world
class showcase for musical
theatre, opera, contemporary
dance and ballet, comedy, as
well as education and visual
arts.
As well as the Donald Gordon
Theatre and the Weston Studio,
the Centre has a Dance House,
a 350 seat recital hall and state
of the art recording facilities.
Contact:
Louise Miles-Crust
Head of Programming
www.wmc.org.uk
Chloe Loftus James Hudson Photography
Chloe Loftus Dance
Over the past decade, Chloe Loftus Dance has been creating
vibrant choreographic work that has toured extensively to critical
acclaim. Chloe specialises in outdoor performances and
engages new audiences to dance theatre through daring
contact work, athleticism, evocativeness and humour.
Chloe is Dance Buddy with the Wales Millennium Centre and
was nominated for a Theatre Critics of Wales Award for Best
Small Scale Dance Production.
‘Extraordinary movement and beautifully choreographed’
GDIF 2016
www.chloeloftus.co.uk
DANCE BUDDY
THE MET
& FFIN DANCE
A unique blend of the traditional
and the ultra modern, The Met
has stood at the heart of the
community of Abertillery for over
100 years. Originally known as
the Metropole Theatre and
Dance Hall, it has had a
significant role in the history of
Abertillery since it's construction
in 1892, and has always been
recognised as a hub in the
cultural life of the community.
The Met is recognised as the
centre for cultural events,
activities and performances in
Abertillery, as well as operating
as a successful conference and
meeting venue. Along with the
professional artists, local
societies and businesses which
utilise the excellent facilities, the
building is a base for FFIN
DANCE as the Dance Company
in Residence.
Contact:
Nyree Davies-Jones
Arts Development Manager
Nyree.davies-
www.the-met.co.uk
Image by Paul Trask copyright@FFIN DANCE
FFIN DANCE
"Small company with big resonance" Donald Hutera 2016
FFIN DANCE makes works in Wales and exports it all over the
UK and Europe: this season FFIN celebrates its 10th
anniversary.
The work is centred around athletic, technical dancing that is
intricately woven together with detail to musical form and
structure.
The company is resident in the heart of the South Wales valleys
at The Metropole in Abertillery. As well as making and touring
work, it has a passion for working with the community to achieve
excellence through high quality dance and movement activity.
"Duetti in Women GOlive sails & soars atop Bjork songs.
Rigorous, thoughtful, heroic, human, ecstatic. Diolch!" Donald
Hutera July 2016
www.ffindance.co.uk
Dance in Wales Wales has a vibrant and developing dance sector with many artists creating and
performing work nationally and internationally.
As well as the Dance Buddies who are linked to Creu Cymru member theatres and arts
centres, there are many other professionals who wish to take their work to the
international stage.
For further information about Wales Dance Consortium and the Dance Buddy Scheme
please visit www.creucymru.com
Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence (VDKL) creates bespoke,
high quality performance projects in non-theatre and theatre
locations; provides training, responds to commissions and
networks with vertical dance artists nationally and
internationally. VDKL encourages the public to look up and
see the world from different perspective. They work with
climbing equipment to find creative and exciting solutions to
choreographic concepts. The company is small and
creatively flexible and work is usually developed in close
collaboration with a range of individuals and institutions.
www.verticaldancekatelawrence.com
Gareth Chambers is a Welsh Visual Dance Artist who
works in the liminal space between dance and live art. His
work is visually poetic, visceral and transgressive. His pieces
often investigate the notions of the autobiographical as a
catharsis, the powers of the Queer dancing body and the use
of the abject in Live Art.
Gareth is also a dance critic and editor for the dance
magazine Bellyflop.
www.GarethChambers.wales
www.bellyflopmag.com
VDKL Photo: Paul Sampson
Llaith Photo: Jorge Lizalde
Taikabox
Choreographer/dancer Tanja Råman and artist/designer/dj
John Collingswood make work together as TaikaBox.
Combining expressive movement, ancient ritual and cutting
edge technology, their mission is to create new ways for
people to experience dance.
TaikaBox functions simultaneously in Wales and Northern
Finland, making work for international stages, public spaces
and galleries, whilst introducing the wonders of dance/
technology to all types of people with their flexible and
comprehensive workshop program.
www.taikabox.com
Award winning artist Caroline Sabin is an eclectic and
collaborative maker of visual and kinetic treats. Immersive,
touching, funny and creepy her shows, films and installations
incorporate movement, image, text and song to deliver work
that is visually exquisite and deeply entertaining.
A self-confessed ‘nerd’, she is passionate about sharing
intriguing and paradigm shifting ideas found in neuroscience,
cosmology and anthropology. Her polished, high quality work
can be placed in art galleries, theatres or unusual site
specific locations.
Blood on the Snow / Small Tides
Mike Williams is an emerging independent dance artist
based within the Swansea and Cardiff areas of South Wales.
Having toured his first professional solo with great success
throughout the UK, Mike has begun to further explore his
choreographic voice. Creating highly intricate, detailed and
athletic choreography that pushes the body to its fullest
capabilities. Mike’s work explores the beauty of the human
body in its rawest form at a deeply personal level, honest and
open to all.
http://mwilliamsdance0.wixsite.com/mysite Mike Williams Photo: Roy Campbell-Moore
Photography in the Forest ©Antti Karppinen/Alias
Blood on the Snow Photo: Gerald Tyler
Siriol Joyner is a dance artist from Aberystwyth, she
presents her work in Wales and internationally working both
as solo artist and in collaboration. A current focus for her
practice is the relationship between movement & language
and the notion of translation: its possibilities and
impossibilities. She is creating movement, text and object
works that employ a principle of hybridity and assemblage.
Siriol’s interests are informed by her Welsh identity and the
minority status of her mother tongue, Cymraeg (Welsh).
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Harnisch-Lacey Dance is the dance company of award-
winning German-born choreographer Sandra Harnisch-
Lacey. The company mixes contemporary dance,
breakdance and parkour and produces high quality original
dance theatre which is both breathtaking and inspiring.
Dynamically rich, intricate and powerful sequences offer
audiences the opportunity to embark on their own personal
journeys. The company also have a wide ranging Education
and Outreach programme, which is adapted to suit specific
needs of participants.
'Breathtaking' Stuttgarter Nachrichten
www.harnischlacey.com
Run Ragged creates and tours intelligent, vibrant dance
and theatre work for young, adult and family audiences.
They look to push the artistic boundaries of contemporary
dance and the elitist stigma that is associated with it. Under
the Artistic Direction of Jem Treays, they create
understandable yet layered narratives, using subtle, witty and
thoughtful choreography performed by skillful dancers.
Run Ragged have co-produced with and been supported by
National Theatre Wales, Theatr Iolo and Creu Cymru and
have achieved sustained critical acclaim for their work.
runraggedproductions.co.uk
Jem & Ella photo credit: Theatr Iolo
Buzzcut Festival Glasgow 2015 Photo: Brian Hartley
TÂN
Jessie Brett trained at London Contemporary Dance
School and the California Institute of the Arts. She has
worked with a range of established composers, designers
and film-makers, as well as other dance artists. Her
choreography has been presented at Festivals, theatres and
other unique performance spaces throughout the UK,
Sardinia, Spain, Tenerife, Germany and Ethiopia.
Inspired by her curiosity in people, her personal experiences.
Jessie continues to produce both site specific, outdoor and
stage work that explores new and exciting methods of
performance with dancers with and without disability in the
UK and Ethiopia.
www.jessiebrett.com
Deborah Claire Procter / Clear Insight Productions
Deborah’s mixed performing arts background circles a
fascination with the sculptural aspect of the body in space
both on screen and live.
‘These layers of interest have led to practice of martial arts,
new and contemporary dance; alongside a study of
performance from Samuel Beckett to Body Weather, and the
use of the body in art history. The sense of “presence” and
the lines between the trained and non-trained fascinate me,
leading to work with dressage horses.’
www.clearinsight.co.uk
Jessica Lerner graduated in Fine Art from Goldsmiths
College in 1989. She was a member of the International
Performance Network and also spent a year studying at the
European Dance Development Centre in Arnhem.
In 2012 Jessica gained an MA in Fine Art and Contemporary
Dialogues investigating areas such as philosophy, feminism
and performance theory. The entry into motherhood has had
a strong influence on her work including The Conception
Vessell (2009), Holding (2012) and Giving space and time to
just being (2014).
www.axisweb.org/p/jessicalerner Performance Days photo: Ludger Schneider
Elevator Photo: Roger Graham
“A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare” Photo: Anthony Griffiths
Sally Marie, director of Sweetshop Revolution trained at
Central School of Ballet and performed with Sean Tuan John,
Protein Dance, Jasmin Vardimon, Tilted Productions and
others. She received 4 nominations as Best Female
Performer from Dance Europe and The National Critics
Circle, New Adventures Choreography Award 2013 and The
Children’s Award 2014 (The Place & Sadler’s Wells).
Her work ‘I loved you and I loved you’ was nominated as Best
Dance Production by The Welsh Theatre Awards 2015 and
toured to 20 venues, gaining 4 star reviews in both the Times
and Guardian.
www.sweetshoprevolution.com
Marega Palser is a performance based artist living and
working in Newport, South Wales.
Trained in both dance and Fine Art, she has worked and
played solidly in the grey area that lies in between disciplines
since the mid-eighties, making work that is both engaging
and visually stimulating.
Her practice varies from durational time based work to
creating performance that can be housed in a more formal
studio setting. Marega’s work has been described as both
arousing and disturbing as well as fragile and bold.
www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk
Simon Whitehead is a Movement Artist. His works
respond to circumstance through movement and image and
may manifest as solo actions or social choreographies, often
working with the public, other artists, animals and places.
Studies for Maynard is a meditation on dislocation; the
always unfinished practices of making home and sheltering;
referencing the biography of an embryo; the Apollo 9 mission;
the territorial behaviour of ravens, the writings and walks of
Rajah Shehadah and Starman by David Bowie. Home here is
more than a place; it is a network of resonances, as fragile
and changeable as weather.
www.simonwhitehead.net Studies for Maynard photo: Ray Jacobs
Marega Palser
I loved you and I loved you photo: Danilo Moroni
Contact Us
PO Box 242
Aberystwyth
SY23 9AX
Wales
UK
+44 1970 822222
www.creucymru.com
Creu Cymru’s members across Wales represent virtually all of the
nation’s professionally run theatres and arts centres, at a wide range
of scales. At any one time there are around 45 theatres and arts
centres in membership.
Creu Cymru’s mission is to develop a vibrant, sustainable sector of
theatres and arts centres for the people and communities of
Wales. Sector leadership: ensuring continuing professional
development for theatre and arts centre professionals.
Creative collaboration: delivering performances for audiences
across Wales through an innovative and expanding network of
national and international partnerships.
Action-based research: developing new ways of working, based on
frontline delivery and action-based research.
Details of all of our members can be found on our website including
programming, technical and contact information.
The membership organisation for Theatres and Arts Centres of Wales
CREU CYMRU
‘We develop the skills and
capacity of theatre and arts
centre professionals,
through a targeted
programme of Continuing
Professional Development.’
www.creucymru.com
Creu Cymru’s work is supported by:
Lucy May Constantini is a Welsh and French dance
artist. Her choreography explores the meeting places of
martial arts (kalarippayattu and aikido), meditative practice
and postmodern dance. She works internationally as
choreographer, performer, mentor and facilitator.
“The audience remained transfixed, focused within your
channelled energy… there is something about you, Lucy, that
draws away from the physical environment and draws us into
you.”
http://lucymayconstantini.wordpress.com Lucy May Constantini Photo: Broadsides
