"(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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