Boys Don’t Dance

A blonde hair boy wearing a red jumper, white trousers, and black head phones poses mid dance on haybales. He points and looks off towards his right. His backdrop is haybales filling the image.

Boys Don’t Dance “All I wanted to do was dance but I was told “boys don’t dance” Boys Don’t Dance is a poignant dance theatre show by Marc Brew, reflecting on his journey as a boy who defied society’s expectations to embrace his love for dance. The performance unfolds through a tapestry of memories, shedding […]

an Accident / a Life

A close cropped view of a car windscreen. A man in a white beany (Marc Brew) is behind the windscreen at the steering wheel, his palm pressed against the glass. He is lit in red.

an Accident / a Life Marc Brew and world renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui bring a stunning new collaboration to international stages. an Accident / a Life is a rich visual theatre experience that unravels moments in our lives, exploring difficult things using humour, storytelling, film, music, dance and a car. Their starting point was […]

Residence

Marc And Nelson are backwards and leaning over a bench. Their heads are on the floor with their legs over the back of the bench, looking at each other. They are both wearing suits and a grey hat.

Residence Residence – A new collaboration between Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Marc Brew, a continuation of their Artistic dialogue following the international success of the solo an Accident / a Life.  Residence is a poignant duet about proximity, loss, and building a new home. What does it mean to be there for someone who has […]

Uchronia

Marc and Gizele dance in front on a large architectural tower. Seated in his wheelchair, wearing a dark suit Marc leans back, clasping his hands up towards his face. Gizele in a sleeveless dark blue dress is standing, tilting her body towards his.

A show that explores how re-inventing the past can shape an alternative future.

공·空·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time

Marc Brew and Bora Kim Performing

공·空·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time 공·空·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time is a dance performance by Marc Brew and Bora Kim.  Commissioned by the British Council, South Korea and supported by Creative Scotland, this piece was created in Seoul to be premiered at Arko Arts Theatre, Seoul as part of the closing programme the year long […]

BREWBAND

Alice Sheppard and Marta Masiero performing

BREWBAND BREWBAND is an integrated interactive music and dance production under construction, where boundaries between musicians and dancers blur as they take on each other’s role. An immersive production that challenges perceptions of identity and blurs boundaries between art forms: melding visceral rock music with delicate soundscapes, interweaving BSL and projections and blending explosive and […]

MayBe

Marc dressed in a pink vest and purple trousers leans across the stage, counter balancing Gizele.

a show that explores Encounter as a catalyst of possibilities including love and intimacy.

For Now, I am …

Marc lies on the stage infront of us, the back of his head and naked shoulders towards us, arms reaching out across the stage. He is drapped in white fabric. His image is mirrored on the dance floor below him.

An intimate solo Marc engages directly with his body as it is now. Investigating and exposing his changed form.

Quartet No 1

Dancers in rehearsals

Quartet No 1 A duet driven by the musical score of Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1 that explores the strength and fragility of two women in isolation. The Quartet was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata – “I was imagining a poor woman, tormented and run down…” -Janáček creative team Marc Brew […]

Fusional Fragments

Rebecca Evans and James Cousins, dancers on a dark stage. Legs and arms reaching outwards, white likes blurring above their heads.

Directed and choreographed by Marc Brew in partnership with DanceEast is a collaboration with world renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, composer Philip Sheppard and five very talented dancers.

(i)Land

Three castaways are on a beach by a fire. Two men hold the arm of a woman as she reaches away from them.

Faced with life on a desert island, three characters uncover a means of escape back to civilisation.

Nocturne

A couple lay on a bed. Above them another couple stands at the head of the bed. The men are wearing pyjamas the women satin slips.

Inspired by JM Whilstler’s Nocturne, an exquisite contemporary dance quartet draw you into the unseen dreams of cities at dusk.