Artistic Director
LIZZI KEW ROSS is a choreographer, performer and teacher.

She trained at Roehampton University and London Contemporary Dance School graduating with a B Ed and MA in choreography.

She has been involved in performing, teaching and choreographing in many different contexts: working in theatre companies as a movement director, choreographing musicals with commissions for Arts Theatre Cambridge, performances for Yorkshire Arts with mime artist Geoffrey Stevenson, performance work in Uganda and cabarets for Hilton Hotels.

Lizzi works at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and has worked at The Place, Birkbeck College, Guildhall for the Opera Course and at Arts Ed in Chiswick.

Recent choreographic credits include: December 1952, the graphic score by Earle Brown for Chelsea Space, curated by Cally Spooner, and also performed at the South Bank as part of Move, Choreographing You at the Hayward Gallery in 2010,
Musical Director, Ian Mitchell; Harmony of the Spheres at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, directed by Stephen Montague; Colourscape on Clapham Common also directed by Stephen Montague; Mapping the Hand, an installation with dancers in response to the artist, Jake Lever’s work for Wallspace, Gallery London Wall; Space Between the Notes for Excellent at Sadler’s Wells. Also, with Douglas Finch, she co- directed In the Moment Improvisation Festival, with 350 performers over three days in site-specific locations.

Lizzi’s work abroad includes teaching at Taiwan University of the Arts, community dance projects for drug charities in Hong Kong, and a research project with Leeds University and Shanghai Theatre School where she worked with Chinese
Opera performers.

Her latest work includes: Loss of breath at Selfridges. as part of Project Ocean, and Speak but one word to me, a commission for Dance United and The Bulldog Trust in response to the William Morris exhibition at 2 Temple Place and performed at 2 Temple Place. Lizzi Kew Ross & Co also presented Please Visit The Churchyard at St. Vedast churchyard in June 2012, as part of Celebrate the City weekend, and Without Warning, a movement, sound and light piece. Without Warning, inspired by images in Brian Keenan’s memoir, An Evil Cradling, premiered at Laban Theatre in 2010 and had a 2 week run at The Old Vic Tunnels, London in February 2012.

Without Warning will be at the Belfast International Festival in November 2013 and, using the piece as source material, the company is developing an artist book app with Alpha-ville: Art, Tech, Music, Web Culture this year.

Dancer
Megan trained at Laban and with Transitions Dance Company. Megan’s work in dance and movement as an artist, performer and teacher often involves working in varied contexts and with an expanded notion of what choreography can be. She has created work for gallery spaces and performed in the work of other artists in galleries such as Tate Modern and The Hayward. She has also worked in outdoor spaces and theatres for artists such as Stephen Koplowitz and Layla Rosa. Educational work included facilitation of projects for artists such Lea Anderson, Richard Alston and Luca Silvestrini and she has choreographed dance films as learning resources for the BBC.

Dancer
Simon graduated at Swiss Scuola Teatro Dimitri (BA in the Arts of physical theatre) and deepened after that his knowledge in contemporary dance at LABAN London (UK). Since then he is touring internationally as part of the movement theatre collective Spettatori and with the dance improvisation group 50collective. As a dancer, actor and musician he works for choreographers in London and New York and creates his own pieces in Switzerland. Since 2010 he is regularly involved in the work of David Zambrano.

Dramaturg & Associate Artist
Mary Ann is a writer and dance, performance dramaturg.  Originally from Canada, she came to the UK to do a PhD on the subject of political language.  Instead, she became immersed in performance art, worked with Augusto Boal, in particular his Image Theatre, and, later, trained as a screenwriter.  She combined the screen side with writing prose, her own short stories and text for artists making artist books.

It was freelance writing of treatments, and hence the ability to write proposals, that brought her back to performance, live art and dance.  Wanting an extra specificity of vocabulary for dance and movement, she did a range of choreology workshops with Rosemary Brandt. Now, fusing film, ‘story’, dramatic structure, artist books and installation art as well as a theatrical and dance vocabulary, she has a cross-media dance/performance dramaturgy practice.

With Lizzi Kew Ross & Co, she was the dramaturg for Without Warning, including curating the accompanying events. Currently, using the live performance as source material, she is taking the lead with Alpha-ville (digital developers and producers) to create Without Warning: the artist book as an app. Also currently, she is developing The Discussion Project with and for the company.

She is the Co-President of the dramaturgs’ network (d’n) and is a trustee for the theatre company Cardboard Citizens.  

Musician
Peter studied Visual and Performing Arts at Brighton University and then Vocal Studies at Trinity College of Music. Since leaving school he has worked as a soloist for Grange Park Opera, Pimlico Opera, Opera Brava, Chelteham Festival, Unicorn Theatre. As a chorister for English National Opera, Opera North and Grange Park Opera and education workshop leader for companies such as the Royal Opera House, Opera North, Grange Park Opera, Pimlico Opera and Opera Brava. His work as one half of the contemporary music duo - 'ah! you sitting comfortably' - commissions several new pieces of contemporary music theatre pieces every year, working with new British composers and exploring various ways of telling stories.