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Image: How I Faded and Disintegrated
Photographer: Roy Campbell-Moore

SEAN TUAN JOHN

Site-specific events|Site-specific|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Sean Tuan John
Creative Producer
Sian Thomas

ARTISTIC POLICY
Welsh choreographer Sean Tuan John creates movement-based performance work that explores contemporary urban culture and experience through idiosyncratic dance, evocative video, and excessive ‘acting’. Special interests include solo work, site-specific performances, and collaborative work focusing on themes of social commentary, the trash aesthetics of pop culture, psychology, and in-depth investigation into character-based dance.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Definitely engaging and stimulating, ultimately distressing and deeply poignant.
Western Mail
Sean Tuan John may yet be to choreography what Dylan Thomas is to poetry.
The Guardian
Humorous, intelligent and performed with an infectious precision and honesty.
The Times

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
How I Faded and Disintegrated
A distinct and uncompromising performance fusing film and dance to create a visually arresting socio-political performance that precariously treads the line between live art and theatre. At the heart of the production is a filmic and physical investigation of how we view and disassociate from the eventual physical and mental decline of our bodies.
1 on stage, 2 to 3 on the road
The Magic Doors
A visually dynamic and highly energetic dance show for five to seven-year-olds based on the idea of entering and exiting different worlds.
40 mins, 2 on stage, 3 on the road, with accompanying workshops

WRAP-AROUND
Creative educational situations with children and adults, focusing particularly on the fusion of professional and participatory approaches to create new presentation and working methods.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Poland, Futura
2006 Poland, The Brothers Very Grimm