Current Members
Hannah Sullivan, Jo Hellier, Tom Bailey, Sam Powell, Adrian Spring, Danny Prosser, Neil Puttick, Gareth Mayer, Lina B. Frank, Kathleen Downie, Martha King, Alice Tatton-Brown, Hannah Kew, Fraisia Dunn, Eleanor Fogg, Lydia Mason and Rachael Clerke
Hannah Kew
Hannah is a performer who is currently focusing her attentions in Bristol towards making Dance Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, and movement work both live and through film.
She is currently working in collaboration with Dancer Isabelle Cressy on their piece, ‘What are you trying to say?’ which presented at Ausform and is due for completion in the Spring.
Some past work:
Guard/Maid/Ensemble, Hotel Medea; Para Active/Zecora Ura Co.
Growtowski Ensemble training with Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat)
Founding member of Breaded goods – informal Dance Theatre collective/collaborations (Bristol based)
TV/Film/Radio:
The Gemma Factor, The Bill, Eastenders, Shameless, Radio 4 afternoon play ‘On It’, You and me and Summer breeze – both shorts and festival winners.
Full CV http://www.spotlight.com/3813-8974-0827.
Kathleen Downie
I am an interdisciplinary artist, performer and dance maker. http://kathleendownie.com/
Current projects: Work in Progress solo movement piece developed with Brenda Wait.Dancer in Hidden Fields http://danceroom-spec.com
My background in visual art has strongly influences the way I work, often exploring ideas through visual poetry rather than narrative, although I write a lot and recently have been looking at ways of weaving my words and voice into movement and movement into words. I have a degree in fine art painting where I focussed on time based media, created live art performance, collaborative and process based work inspired by happenings and feminist artists in the 1970’s. I went on to create life art performance work in underground venues around London including Area 10 in Peckham.
I then trained at Circommedia in circus and physical theatre where I realised my love of dance and clown. I have been exploring dance ever since with a particular focus on training in contact improvisation which I now teach see http://contactdance.co.uk/
Previous projects and collaborations have included:A38 improvised movement collective, Noel Perkins residency, movement impro with Natasha Fewings at IDST Catnap, movement impro with Fleur Darkin Ensemble in DISGO, character work and audience intereraction with The Wonder Club in The Lamentable Tragedy, Ariel dance and movement performance at Carneyville, Stilt dancer in Insight directed by Judith Jarvis from http://www.gyroscopic.org/
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Hannah Sullivan
Hannah Sullivan is a Bristol based performance maker and producer. As a performer Hannah devises studio based work from autobiographical material. Hannah creates solo performance work and is also part of the performance duo Squires and Sullivan (with creative partner Joanna Squires). As a producer Hannah works with Ausform Performance delivering a bi-annual platform for new performance work. Hannah is also part of The Showroom Project ltd who programme and manage The Parlour Showrooms a fine art and performance venue in the empty shops below The Parlour. Hannah is a freelance Production Manager and Arts Producer and also reviews for Total Theatre Magazine and Fringe Review.
Hannahs website: www.hannahjanesullivan.wordpress.com
Squires and Sullivan blog: http://www.squiresandsullivan.blogspot.com
Jo Hellier
Jo Hellier is a Bristol based artist who works with performance, video and audio to create work that engages with the culture, people and places she is surrounded by. Her work takes a surreal stance to examine humanity and the everyday and explores what can be demonstrated about humanity through the lens of surrealism. She studied Devised Theatre at Dartington and after graduating formed the performance company BOOKHOUSE BOYS who completed residencies in London, Falmouth, Lisbon and Oslo last year. Jo is an associate artist of Falmouth University and guest lectured on their BA Theatre course as well as the Advanced Theatre Practice MA at Central School of Speech and Drama last year. She has recently come back from a three month research project in Mexico, where she did a video project and performed with BOOKHOUSE BOYS.
Jo’s website is: www.johellier.com
To see all my video’s go to: www.vimeo.com/johellier
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Massive Owl
Massive Owl are a Bristol based theatre company made up of three artistic leads, Adrian Spring, Danny Prosser and Sam Powell. They also collaborate with three associate artists, Harriet Quinn, Katharina Walsh and Jack Jago.
Massive Owl formed while studying at Dartington College of Arts/University College Falmouth in 2009. They devise performance that explores fractured and multi-layered narratives, cinematic imagery, physical exertion, endurance and task based processes. Material often stems from explorations into real sites and places through kinaesthetic investigation, task-based responses and improvisations. The company then translates the essence of these spaces and the process of interacting with them through movement, text and abstracted imagery. In performance, collaboration is fastened with the audience by making their imagination essential to the transmission of the material.
Their first performance 4 Bar and Rising was selected for the National Student Drama Festival 2010 and won the Judge’s Award for Devised Theatre. Their performance The “See You Later” Capital was nominated for NEU\NOW Festival 2011, in Estonia and furthermore was selected for the festival’s online showcase.
Along with devising their own performance, Massive Owl also lead workshops in devised theatre.
Massive Owl’s website is: www.massiveowltheatre.com
Tom Bailey
Tom is a Director and Theatre Maker producing work through his company, The Mechanical Animal Corporation. The company has made site-specific work, installation, and performance that explores themes in biology/natural history.
Lina B. Frank
I’m a producer for contemporary circus, dance, live art, contemporary and unusual theatre. I work to develop artists, to help the wider performance sector and make useful connections on a European level. I run a company called Ausform Performance as Artistic Director and Producer. I work as Assistant Producer for Bristol Ferment which is the artist development department at Bristol Old Vic. Through my work I assist in the programming of work in a series of venues in Bristol.
As well as being a member of INTERVAL I’m in the process of helping set up the Bristol Dance Hub. I occasionally work as Associate Producer (Circus) and Researcher for Theatre Bristol, I’m a Board Member of Circomedia and member of the European platform Circostrada Network. I volunteer at the Cube and give producing support to the artist Edward Rapley.
I also have a life 🙂 where I play accordion, do knitting and make stuff occasionally for public display.
I’m Swedish, but have been based in England since 2000. In Sweden you find me on Österlen in Ystad Kommun, though on occassion in Malmö and Stockholm.
MARTHA KING
Martha King is a performer and live artist based in Bristol, with an MA from CSM and BA in Drama from Exeter University. Martha specializes in multimedia performance and scenography practice. She has made site based installations of varying scales, experimental theatre and solo live art work, that has shown and toured nationally and internationally. http://mking-performances.blogspot.co.uk/
Martha is also a member of The Showroom Projects Ltd who manage The Parlour Showrooms, a fine art and performance venue in the empty shops below The Parlour. www.parlourshowrooms.co.uk
Neil Puttick
@companyofwords @idst @serratedbyanaif
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ELEANOR FOGG
Eleanor is a Bristol-based performance maker and theatre director. Recent directing credits include Theatre Uncut 2012 and BENCH by Greg Shewring which was selected to debut as part of Mayfest Off the Peg 2012. Eleanor has worked as Assistant Director at Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Court and the Arcola.
Eleanor makes immersive audio experiences with her company wait and see: http://www.waitandseeblog.tumblr.com/. Credits with wait and see include Come here often? (Ausform Platform) and Lonesome (Sprint Festival, BLOP and Itch at the Wardrobe).
Eleanor is currently working on a solo show called Desperately Seeking Susan which she scratched at Drunken Nights, and continuing to develop the script of BENCH.
RACHAEL CLERKE
Rachael Clerke is a multi-disciplinary artist primarily concerned with making performance.
has created work in and about Istanbul, Devon, Scotland and Cornwall.
is one half of Clerke and Joy with Josephine Joy.
is a post-Scottish artist who is single handedly responsible for bringing down Ranger’s football club.
graduated from Dartington College of Arts/University College Falmouth in 2012 with a first class degree in Theatre & Textual Practices.
‘s work has been described as “Humorous, fearless, political and challenging”
(but she also once received a review that said “either learn to paint or sculpt or fuck off”)
http://www.rachaelclerke.com
http://www.clerkeandjoy.com
@rachaelclerke
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