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OUR STORY
Park Bench Dance Theatre is a small-scale contemporary dance company based in Sussex which creates accessible dance for different locations.

Rosanna Tat and Cornelia Turner-Klier formed PBDT in 2010. First performing a structured improvisation on a park bench at White Night Festival, the company's name was decided!

Park Bench Dance Theatre is now lead by Rosanna. The copany combine intricate pedestrian gestures along with high energy contact work to create thought-provoking and accessible dance. The company is interested in exploring ideas about social landscapes, characterisation and relationships in interesting and varied spaces.
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​Rosanna Garrod (nee Tat)
is a choreographer, performer and founding member of PBDT. She is also the founder of Brighton Dance Network. Rosanna is interested in place, architecture and how we respond to locations. Before forming Park Bench Dance Theatre, Rosanna was a company member of Detour Collective for three years, culminating in an international tour in 2009. In 2010 Rosanna completed an apprenticeship with Tempered Body Dance Company and danced under the direction of Helen Palour. Most recently she has danced for Jason Kennan-Smith at Brighton Dome Theatre.
Cornelia Turner-Klier
is a choreographer, performer and founding member of PBDT. After spending 5 years with the company she has moved to Berlin where she is setting up a new and exciting life. ​
THE COMPANY
OUR DANCERS
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Chloe Emma Bishop is a dancer, choreographer and yoga instructor based in Brighton.
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Sara Johnson is a dancer who is currently studying for a masters at University of Brighton.
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Katie Dale-Everett is a choreographer and performer who is interested in dance in the digital age.
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COLLABORATORS:
Bethan Wood completed her Masters in Contemporary Dance and Digital Media at the end of 2009 where she specialised in Choreographic Practices, during which she spent time working with interactive company Troika Ranch in NYC. Bethan now works with Digital Media as a maker, choreographer and performer. She is currently working for The Progress Film Company as a producer and account director. She also blogs for the Run Riot Team as a contributor for the Dance Section.
A specialist in Digital Media she has also been an Associate Lecturer at Chichester University where she taught Dance and Film.
www.progressfilm.co.uk
www.run-riot.com
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MUSICIANS who have collaborated with us:
Dougie Evans is specialised in organic composition and sound design. His work finds ways to acommadate instruments and found sounds with electronic textures, and using familiar sounds in unfamiliar ways to create a unique world for each soundtrack.He has worked extensively for comtemporary dance with previous collaborations including Lîla Dance, Yael Flexer & Nic Sandiland, Commotion Dance, Ludus Dance, The Ballet Boyz,Bootworks Theatre Collective, The Mayakaras, 3fall, Joe Darby, Kai Downham, Liz Richards, Chloe Hunter, Katie-Joan Lawson, and Jerrel Jackson. He is Co-Artistic Director of Lila Dance.
Find out more about Dougie by clicking here.
George Art Baker (MA) is a contemporary composer, performer and producer. He specialises in evocative music for film, dance and interactive media. He is also the co founder of Koe Oto (with Pleasure Cruiser's Nic Liu), a dedicated sound design company. He is well read in semiotics and utilises this knowledge to add subtle layers of meaning to his scores. He's also pioneered his own style of melodic writing that can imbue his work with an emotive resonance whenever it is required.
Find out more about George by clicking here.

PHOTOGRAPHY
Tim Garrod is a photographer and lover of art and dance. He studied photography at Brighton University and later at Central Sussex College and has been Park Bench Dance Theatre's company photographer since its inception. The majority of photographs on this website can be attributed to him.
Find more photos by clicking here.


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