SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Paul Clark
Artistic Director
Suzy Willson
General Manager
Anneliese Graham
Performance Projects Manager
Tracy Gentles
Education and Participation Projects Manager
Holly Stratton

ARTISTIC POLICY
At the heart of all the Clod Ensemble’s work is a distinctive aesthetic that integrates movement-based visual theatre with original music.
Since 1995, the company has created a huge range of performance projects, workshops, and events across the UK and internationally – making work for traditional theatre spaces, public spaces, festivals, and galleries, as well as creating projects in places where art does not usually happen, such as medical schools and centres for the elderly.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Clod Ensemble is one of those highly inventive and anarchic companies thrusting its way through traditional boundaries of drama.
The Guardian
Brilliantly powerful; at once angry, funny, defiant and euphoric. The Red Ladies are a gorgeous enigma
The Guardian (Red Ladies)
The Clod epitomise all that is best in devised and visual theatre – pure inspiration shot through with sheer imagination and verve
What’s On

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Under Glass
A collection of extraordinary human beings are contained in glass jars, cabinets and test tubes. Each illuminated vessel exhibits the fragile world of the figure within and the delicate environment they inhabit.  
40 mins, Between 3 and 13 on stage and between 6 and 17 on the road depending on site
Must
A collaboration with US performer Peggy Shaw. A poetic monologue accompanied by live music which journeys across the hills and valleys of one woman’s body – excavating the memories and images embedded in layers of bone and dirt.
50 mins, 4 on stage, 6 on the road
Red Ladies
A chorus of 18 identically dressed Red Ladies infiltrate a city with a series of mysterious, visually arresting public interventions before rendezvousing in a theatre space to perform their ‘theatrical demonstration in four movements’
50 mins, 18 on stage, 22 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops, education projects and residencies in music, covering theatre, movement, devising non-text-based theatre, and non-verbal communication skills. The company also runs a training programme using arts in medical education. www.performingmedicine.com, which are particularly suitable in accompanying Must. All education work is inspired by the teaching of Jacques Lecoq.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 USA: Must
2008 Portugal Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto: Red Ladies
2006 Argentina: It’s A Small House and We Lived In It Always

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Throughout 2009