Acclaimed International disabled 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 over 25 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 AXIS Dance Company. Marc was Associate Director with Scottish Dance Theatre, Associate Artistic Director with Ballet Cymru in Wales, Associate Artist at Tramway Theatre in Glasgow and Artistic Director of AXIS Dance Company from 2017-2021.

Since 2008 Marc dedicated time to his own choreography with Marc Brew Company. Marc’s work has been toured to critical acclaim across the world, his first outdoor work Nocturne was commissioned by Greenwich & Docklands International Festival and (i)land was commissioned for the Glasgow 2014 Cultural program and Without Walls. Brew’s Unlimited Commission Fusional Fragments was part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and a collaboration with world-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie which toured the UK and Internationally. Brew’s work BREWBAND is an immersive production that challenges perceptions of identity and blurs boundaries between art forms: melding visceral rock music with delicate soundscapes, interweaving British Sign Language and projections and blending explosive and sensitive choreography. BREWBAND has released their first album available on Spotify and Bandcamp. Marc Brew Company’s new work an Accident / a Life is a collaboration between Marc Brew and world-renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The stunning visual theatre piece unravels moments in our lives, exploring difficult things with and without words using storytelling, film, music, dance and a car.

Marc was the Victorian Arts Award Winner for the Young Australian of the Year Awards 2001 and received the Fringe Performance Award for Best Original Solo Work at the 2002 Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2003 he was a recipient of the Shine On Award from Rotary International. Marc has been presented with a Centenary Medal for Outstanding Contribution as a dancer and choreographer and in 2014 Marc was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Performance (Individual) at the prestigious Isadora Duncan Awards for his solo piece Remember When. Marc's recent solo work For Now, I am… received outstanding reviews “Exhilarating” ★★★★★ The Stage, and was listed in the Guardian’s Top 10 Dance Shows for 2016.

His recent choreographic commissions include: Hessisches Staatsballett (Germany); The Ark (Ireland); CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway); Eisenhower Dance Detroit (USA); University of South Florida (USA); Restless (Aus); San Francisco Ballet (USA); Dancing Wheels (USA); Scottish Ballet and Indepen-dance (Scotland), Ballet Cymru (Wales); YDance (Scotland); AXIS Dance Company (USA); Candoco Dance Company (UK); Touch Compass (NZ); Amy Seiwert’s Imagery (USA); and Scottish Dance Theatre.  Marc was also choreographer for the fashion industry's ultimate night of celebration the British Fashion Awards 2009. Theatre Credits include – Godspell, Pirates of Penzance, The Winters Tale and Animal Farm with Bendigo Theatre Company, The Rhinestone Rollers for Graeae Theatre Company, Mary Queen of Scot’s Got Her Head Chopped Off and Our Teacher’s a Troll with the National Theatre of Scotland as wells as Dundee Rep Theatre’s production of Elephant Man and their Christmas show’s Sleeping Beauty and The Snow Queen.

For more information www.marcbrew.com

Interested dancers are requested to apply only if they are available on all the dates and at the times indicated:

• Monday June 10^th (10 am-4 pm)
• Tuesday June 11^th (10 am-4 pm)
• Wednesday June 12^th (10 am-4 pm / 5.30 pm Public Performance)

Application by CV selection, to be submitted no later than May 12^th, 2024 at lac.edu@lugano.ch.

• The selected participants will be notified by email from mid-May 2024
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