SIZE OF COMPANY
From 8–16 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-, middle- and large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Joint Artistic Directors
Jessica Cohen
Jim Ennis

General Manager
Stephan Stockton

Education Officer
Donna Marie Morris

ARTISTIC POLICY
Earthfall looks at choreography and physical interaction as political and emotional and strives to ensure that its performance and educational work stimulates, provokes and affects its audience. Earthfall seeks a personal honesty, passion and economy of movement in devising vibrant and relevant contemporary work using live music, film and powerful stage environments for theatres and site-specific locations.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘Earthfall are a 21st century phenomenon, inspired by gritty reality and glitzy technology, creating miniature epics with extreme physicality.’ The Guardian

‘Gorgeous… fearless… beautiful.’ The Independent

‘Stunning.’ The Stage

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
At Swim, Two Boys Performed in water, depicts the love between two teenage boys set against the backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland and war in mainland Europe. (65 mins.4 on stage. 8 on the road.)

…After the Birds A co-production with Theatre Chorea, Poland, dealing with fanaticism. A highly physicalised choir in an adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy, in English, Greek and Polish. (60 mins, 13 on stage, 16 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Gravitas A physical tragi-comedy exploring imprisonment without charge and the censorship of words, resistance and action, the paradox of freedom of speech and the nature of power and protest. (70 mins, 7 on stage, 10 on the road)

WRAP-AROUND
Earthfall provides pre- and post-performance discussions, residencies, workshops and lecture demonstrations for both amateurs and professionals, which are generic in content or specific to the themes of the current touring works. The workshops cover multi-disciplinary content, including choreography, composing live music and text for performance, developing themes through improvisation, creating film, developing stage architecture, lighting and sound and using the latest technology. Earthfall also provides workshops in how to run and sustain a performance company, including all aspects of marketing and administration. Workshops are typically aimed at 16–35 year olds. Earthfall is currently collaborating with sports academies and schools, developing mutually beneficial training regimes for physical performers/dancers, rugby players and athletes.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005–07 Poland (…After the Birds)
2005-06 Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands (At Swim, Two boys)
2004–05 Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands (I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
...After the Birds available from January 2008
Gravitas available from April 2008
At Swim, Two boys available from June 2008