Bowie In Berlin - A Conversation with a Cultural Icon II In the summer of 1976, pop star David Bowie moves from Los Angeles to Berlin. Why Berlin? Was he attracted by the mixture of Weimar nostalgia, isolated Wall city and niche location for the new music that would later be called Krautrock? In…
A Beautiful Rhythm of Life and Death - Company Of Sirens A Play about Dorothy Edwards in three acts. Described as both "the Welsh Cinderella" and "the most sophisticated person in the room". Dorothy Edwards was one of the most lauded and admired writers of her generation. But her life came to…
JAWS/DER WEISSE HAI A Conversation With a Cultural Icon A creation of English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center By examining the (then) critical content and (dwindling) relevance of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws, its images, its music, its evocative qualities, we’re dancing…
Hitchcock Redux Company of Sirens present: Hitchcock Redux (Twelve Cabins Twelve Vacancies & Souvenirs of a Killing) On a hot August day in 1968, while watching a televised broadcast of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, his father died. Four years later a girl disappears in terrible circumstances. Two…
Un Año A new era began on March 13, 2020. The corona pandemic affects all of our lives unimaginably. There are so many questions and no answers. The dance and culture business is completely discontinued. In return, the digital space takes on a meaning that it does not deserve. There is a great…
Experimental dance video exploring the physical relationship with time, body and space. Repetition, broken time, an endless cycle, living in a continuous loop like a doll in a clockwork house, one dancer, two doors and only the supporting surfaces of the wall and floor to push against. Created and…
After Last years 'Twelve Cabins Twelve Vacancies' inspired by Hitchcock's Iconic Film 'Psycho', Souvenirs of a Killing inspired by Vertigo, is a further exploration into the connections we make between personal tragedy and art. How art directly mirrors life. People often look to return to a previous…
NORMAN BATES IS INNOCENT! How much do we really know each other, even those we love? TWELVE CABINS TWELVE VACANCIES interlinks personal tragedy with the events of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal sixties horror classic PSYCHO. “Dad died during the first broadcast of Psycho on network TV. Earlier that…
Second Skin is a performance installation project that began its R & D stage 1 at Chapter Arts Centre in August 2012. Supported by The Arts Council Wales and the Emerging artists Scheme with Volcano Theatre. Working with latex as the core material, the project is an exploration into the many skins…
The performance is a descent into a world of shadows and phantoms and takes the Greek myth of Persephone as its core inspiration. The narrative alludes to the cyclical nature of life-death and to the idea of resurrection, questioning what it means to embrace death-in-life. The audience is invited…
‘Misery has made me a fiend’ When someone kills, when their crime is so terrible, so incomprehensible, can we still call them human? Who is to blame? Who and what creates monsters? Taking Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as inspiration, THE CREATURE takes place in the mind and the prison cell of a young…
Aerial Hoop/Dance exploration working with the aerial hoop as a partner in connection with the floor and reflection of light.
A work in progress project inspired by the Willard suitcase owners. Based upon the book 'The Lives they left behind: Suitcases from a state hospital Attic' written by Darby Penney, and Peter Stastny. When Willard State Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New York State’s…
A collection of photographs from mask, clown training, bouffon and ensemble performances at LISPA now Arthaus Berlin.
Walk about Characters, street performance, and stilt walking for events, and festivals....more to come soon! If you are looking for performers for events in Berlin or Wales please get in contact for more information. New commissions welcome.
‘The Collier’s Son’ is a movement, sound and video work created By Tic Ashfield, which explores the impact of the Industrial Revolution on family and community. Featuring choreography and performance by Angharad Matthews and performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, May 2016. Creator…
A one month residency in Tokyo Japan, working Tetsuro Fukuhara Butoh Dancer, Space Dance Choreographer, artist, writer and Director of Tokyo Space Dance Museum and School. On 1972-1975, He studied “Improvisation Butoh” from Akira Kasai. He belongs to the second generation of Butoh. On 1975, He…
Ar Waith Ar Daith, A Welsh journey of myth and magic, became the largest ever outdoor production staged in Wales featuring over 600 participants involving: mass movement choreography, puppetry, a lantern procession, a parade of oarsmen and women from 25 Welsh sea rowing clubs, a new music…
Ruckus, Kitsch & Sync’s wrestling extravaganza directed by Kylie-Ann Smith. 26 performers – dancers, actresses and two bands – were brought together over two weeks to produce an hour long work in progress for an invited audience. Spring 2014 Chapter Arts Centre
Shot on location in New Zealand by Simon Clode Films Directed and created by Simon Clode Extra footage Angharad Matthews Featuring - Angharad Matthews, Simon Clode T25 Vanagon – Devon Camping Factory Conversion T2 Kombi - Westfalia Music - Only Human (instrumental) by Parade of lights, Licensed by…
a short film by TINA PASOTRA & KUSA performed by ANGHARAD MATTHEWS music written & performed by JONATHAN GRIFFITHS shot & cut by KUSA
“bodies in urban spaces” is a temporarily intervention in diversified urban architectonical environment. The intention of “bodies in urban spaces” is to point out the urban functional structure and to uncover the restricted movement possibilities and behaviour as well as rules and limitations. By…
Adain Avion was Wales’s Artists taking the lead commission, funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council of Wales, included in the London 2012 Festival and part of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. A mobile art space created from the fuselage of a DC-9 airplane, discovered and transformed by…
Various, performance collaborations with Kitsch & Sync Collective for events, festivals, and stage performances. Kitsch & Sync are a curiously quirky dance theatre and performance collective. Fusing different dance genres, character and comedy with a vintage or retro twist. They specialise in…
