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Club Luz
Photograph Dave Daggers
eddie ladd

Dance theatre, Interdisciplinary, New media

SIZE OF COMPANY
Small scale (up to 5 people on the road)

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-scale, minimum 9mx9m

PERMANENT STAFF
Performer
Eddie Ladd

Creative Producer
Siân Thomas

ARTISTIC POLICY
Culturally-located, site-specific and theatre-based work. Bilingual performances mix movement, text, music and imagery with new technologies.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'An astonishingly expressive artist... her body seems often to defy gravity and changes abruptly from amazing energy to perfect stillness.' Western Mail (Club Luz)

'A flash of brilliance.' Le Monde (Fideotek 1)

'A superb achievement... exquisitely executed. Work of this calibre has quite rightly earned its place...on an international stage.' Western Mail (Sawn-off Scarface)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Scarface* Tribute to Brian de Palma’s 1983 gangster film, performed against chromakey with the performer mixed live into video backgrounds and the result projected onto a cinema-sized screen. (45 mins, 1 on stage, 3 on the road)

Sawn-off Scarface Short and basic version of Scarface* . Performed to a synopsis of the plot, it is a no-technology attempt on filmic effects and the theatrics of the gangster genre. (12 mins, 2 on stage, 3 on the road)

Club Luz Club night of electro songs and B-movie visuals, featuring a 12-number solo set. Strong back-projected video and installation/gig feel. (45 mins plus 15 -minute DJ set, 1 on stage, 1 DJ, 3 on the road)

Bonnie+Clyde Site-specific duet with drive-in audience and radio-broadcast soundtrack. (55 mins, 2 performers, 4 on the road, 1 local perfomer)

Lla’th A poetic narrative on rural life featuring the St Matthew Passion and Yuri Gagarin. Performed on an 8m long table with the audience sat along the sides. (55 mins, 1 performer, 3 on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
New show (title tbc) Commission for ROH2/Linbury Studio. Post-colonial dance essay featuring part-improvised dance with text and music. Set in a responsive digital environment.

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Physical-, site-, media-based workshops as required

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 France (Fideotek 1+2, Scarface*, Sawn-off Scarface)
2005 Spain (Scarface*, Club Luz, Bonnie+Clyde), France (Scarface*, Sawn-off Scarface, Club Luz, Lla’th), Greece (Club Luz), Canada (ClubLuz)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All current productions available from February 2007.