Image by Susan Hay.

What do we do when the path of life we planned suddenly changes? How much determination do we have, and can we carve out new paths as a result?

When Marc was 20 he was paralysed from the waist down after a car accident that, he assumed, would put an end to his promising dance career. But since then he has become an acclaimed director, choreographer, dancer, teacher and speaker, working in the UK and internationally. In Marc’s keynote for Per°Form, he reflects on what it means when everything in life suddenly turns upside down and what it takes to deal with such a key moment of change. He tells and performs an excerpt from his latest work “an Accident/ a Life”, a collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the story of finding new forms of movement, and to create and dance once again in a new body.

Acclaimed international disabled artist Marc Brew trained as a professional dancer at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and The Australian Ballet School. He has been working in the UK and Internationally for over 25 years as a director, choreographer, dancer, teacher and speaker; with the Australian Ballet Company, State Theatre Ballet Company of South Africa, Infinity Dance Theatre, Candoco Dance Company and AXIS Dance Company. Marc was Associate Director with Scottish Dance Theatre, Associate Artistic Director with Ballet Cymru in Wales and was Associate Artist at Tramway Theatre in Glasgow and Artistic Director of AXIS Dance Company from 2017-2021.