ABOUT GARY CLARKE
Award-winning dancer and choreographer Gary Clarke has built a national reputation for creating compelling dance-works that challenge current social issues with both irony and humour. Bringing together an eclectic mix of fashion, visual art and popular culture, Gary has developed a unique movement vocabulary that is instantly recognisable. A graduate from The Electric Theatre Studios and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Gary has received both critical and audience acclaim for his groundbreaking work which has toured extensively both nationally and internationally. He has developed a wealth of choreographic experience in creating site-specific works (in pubs, clubs, graveyards and galleries) as well as creating full-length productions for stage. His work to date has been featured in a number of prestigious national and international festivals including British Dance Edition, Spring Loaded, Touchwood, Junge Hunde, North of the Wash, Pulse Fringe Festival, Leeds Light Night, Arts Forum Festival, Hull Dance, LABAN Autumn Season and Homotopia - Liverpool’s annual gay & lesbian arts festival. |
Since 2006 Gary has collaborated with a number of other artists in the creation of his work including renowned choreographers Javier De Frutos, Nigel Charnock and Wendy Houstoun, anarchic avant-garde performer The Divine David Hoyle, experimental noise artist Daniel Thomas and London Fashion Week Star Nasir Mazhar. In 2004 Gary was established as a Yorkshire Dance Partner, became Artist in Residence at NSCD and received the Artist Development Award from Danceworks UK which was presented to him by iconic choreographer Michael Clark. Gary has also choreographed work for other professional companies, institutions and organisations including StopGAP Dance Company, Ascendance REP, Ludus Dance Company, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Bedford University, County Youth Dance Company, Splinters Youth Dance Company, Pivotal Youth Dance Company, Corridor Arts, The CA Arts Festival and The Electric Theatre Studios. |
Gary has also worked as a performer with some of the most innovative dance companies in the UK and Europe including Lea Anderson's much acclaimed The Cholmondeleys & The Featherstonehaughs, Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP), balletLORENT, Bock & Vincenzi, Retina Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Maresa von Stockert & Tilted Co and The Felix Ruckert Company. He has also performed in a number of feature films and site-specific works commissioned by the BBC, Northern Stage, Opera North, Polar Produce Productions, Club Duckie and Future Cinema. |