In Summary
About the show
BREWBAND is an inclusive music and dance performance that blurs boundaries between musicians and dancers and challenges audience’s perceptions of what live performance is.
The work will be explosive and memorable. Created by Marc Brew, this dance performance with live music brings together top Scottish indie rock artists Graeme Smillie (Unwinding Hours, The Vaselines, Emma Pollock, A Mote Of Dust), Jill O’Sullivan (BDY_PRTS, Sparrow And The Workshop), Peter Kelly (Galchen/The Kills/ Jonnie Common) with talented dancers Martyn Garside (San Francisco Ballet, Goteborg Dance Company), Marta Masiero (Scottish Dance Theatre, Van Huynh Company) and Alice Sheppard (Axis Dance Company).
Premiering at Sadler’s Wells in London on the 25th of April, then touring around the UK the show will excite audiences. A parallel education project will be run with young people that uses the same creative process to create an opener for the shows.
About Marc Brew
Acclaimed International choreographer Marc Brew trained as a professional dancer at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and The Australian Ballet School. He has been working in the UK and Internationally for the past 19 years as a director, choreographer, dancer, teacher and speaker; with the Australian Ballet Company, State Theatre Ballet Company of South Africa, Infinity Dance Theatre, CandoCo Dance Company and as Associate Director with Scottish Dance Theatre and Artistic Director with AXIS Dance Company.
Since 2008 Marc has been dedicating time to his own choreography with Marc Brew Company and is currently Associate Artistic Director with Ballet Cymru in Wales and was Associate Artist in 2015 at Tramway Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland where he is now based. Marc was featured by Time Out Magazine as the best of the new breed of London’s Rising Dance Talent and was presented with a Centenary Medal for Outstanding Contribution as a dancer and choreographer. His work Remember When was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Performance (individual) and his recent solo work For Now, I am... was listed in the Guardian’s Top 10 Dance Shows for 2016.
Founded in 2008, the Marc Brew Company fuses a fierce physicality with tender expression to explore an emotional narrative in dance. Grounded in contemporary 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 recognisably human.
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Why the campaign is important to us
Described as a "new art form" BREWBAND will push boundaries and showcase high quality exciting inclusive practice.
With this funding campaign we would be able to create stunning costumes for our performers and a fully inclusive experience for audiences.
This means that people with any kind of impairments will be able to attend and enjoy the performance throughout the overall company's tour and the costumes will be made locally, having less impact our environment.
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What We Need & What You Get
We have 2 great goals for this campaign: create a show fully accessible and making visually stunning costumes.
To make the performance fully accessible we need to raise £3,000 to:
- Create audio description for blind and partially sighted audience
- Offer an Access Tour before the show
- Have BSL and captions for deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
To pursue our aim of presenting visually stunning work for audiences we need to raise £2,000 to design and create costumes for our six performers.
You with your support, will allow us to achieve our goals and in exchange:
- You will help make performances inclusive for members of our community who have additional support needs
- You will help create an exciting production that is a "new art form"
- You will benefit from our special perks that you can find on the right side of this page.
The Impact
In UK there are over 11 million people with a limiting long term illness, impairment or disability and the prevalence of disability rises with age. Disabled people remain significantly less likely to participate in cultural and leisure activities than non-disabled people.
By supporting BREWBAND you will allow a portion of those millions of people to have part, maybe for the first time, in a cultural event.
Support us to make it achievable.
As the awarded fashion designer Eileen Fisher outlined: "The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world... second only to oil". Given that with BREWBAND, Marc Brew Company is keen to make their costumes sustainable with less of an impact on the environment.
Support us to make it achievable.
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Risks & Challenges
The risk related to our campaign is to achieve our goals only partially.
This means that less people will have access to the show and that we will have a larger impact on our ecosystem.
Although we have managed to secure funds from other sources, we are still needing to fill the funding gaps. Your help will make a difference.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you can't contribute directly with a donation, you might also help us spread our campaign and come to see BREWBAND during the tour:
- Tuesday 25 April - Lilian Bayliss Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London - 8pm
- Friday 28 April - Ayr Gaiety - 8pm
- Saturday 29 April - The Brunton, Musselburgh - 7.30pm
- Wednesday 3 May - Eastgate Theatre, Peebles - 7.30pm
- Thursday 4 May - MacArts, Galashiels - 7.30pm
- Friday 5 May - Gardyne Theatre, Dundee - 7.30pm
- Saturday 6 May - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - 7.30pm
Also touring 19-28 October to Platform, Glasgow; Paisley Town Hall (part of Spree Festival); Dance Live, Aberdeen; Dumfries & Galloway.
Further dates to be announced, please our website: www.marcbrew.com
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