clod ensemble
Greenwich Peninsula
CLOD ENSEMBLE create provocative, finely crafted performance and participation
projects driven by movement and music. For over 25 years, director Suzy Willson
and composer Paul Clark have developed a highly original performance language,
in collaboration with dancers, actors, musicians, medics, architects and
orchestras. Our core team work from our studios in the Design District on
Greenwich Peninsula, and we work with a wide range of freelance artists on each
project. Each production has a unique visual identity and distinctive musical
score. Highlights include Silver Swan, featuring a choir of seven unaccompanied
singers; Under Glass, where performers are contained within glass cases, from a
jam jar to a test tube; An Anatomie in Four Quarters in which the audience cut a
path through the auditorium of a large theatre and Red Ladies, a chorus of
identically dressed women who transform, celebrate and interrupt the familiar
streets of a city. Our work is presented in London, across the UK and
internationally in theatres, dance houses, galleries and public spaces including
Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, The Lowry, Wales Millennium Centre, Serralves
Museum Porto and Public Theater New York. Our approach to performance making
embraces difference and ambiguity, allowing us to work with complex ideas in
complex systems. Each of our projects upholds movement, music and visual
languages as vital ways of knowing, learning, and communicating. We offer a
wide-reaching programme of education and participation projects in schools,
higher education institutions and NHS Trusts. These different areas of our work
overlap, creating fertile ground for dialogue, debate and collaboration. We
offer a rich programme of Talent Development, developing the next generation of
music, dance and interdisciplinary artists. Through learning programmes we
inspire young people through music and movement in formal education settings and
beyond. Performing Medicine is our award-winning, sector-leading initiative,
primarily focused on the education and wellbeing of healthcare workers –
developing their skills through creative practice so they can build healthier,
respectful, caring, creative communities.
