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"(Bruce)
names his dancers after gods, goddesses, and characters from
the Iliad and the Oresteia . Roles are then re-assigned, stories
overlaid, and appropriate tracks from Bruce's playlist assigned
to each tableau. Sometimes the irony is wonderfully apposite,
as when Joanne Fong's prophetess Cassandra, who can foresee
her own onrushing death, dances with anguished intensity to
Tom Waits's 'You Can Never Hold Back Spring'." (Observer)
The
Mark Bruce Company have just completed their 2010
tour of LOVE AND WAR, an arresting new work
set in the round and featuring a
soundtrack that included music by Sparklehorse, The White
Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age and György Ligeti.
Love and War followed the critically acclaimed
Sea of Bones which toured in 2007 and 2008;
the MBC were recently appointed as Associate Artists at the
Tobacco Factory Theatre in Bristol and Affiliated Artists
of the Merlin Theatre, Frome, Somerset.
Mark
recently
published his own collection of short stories, Blackout
Zones, featuring tales of mystery, imagination, the
supernatural and the very strange...
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