Creatives

Sally Knight

Sally Knight

Artistic Director

Sally is a choreographer, movement director, creative producer and educator, and is the Artistic Director of Cscape. 

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  • Sally is a choreographer, movement director, creative producer and educator, and is the Artistic Director of Cscape. 

    Undertaking her professional dance and choreography training at Laban (now Trinity Laban), Sally co-founded Cscape in 2003.  She has worked with Cscape on all projects and productions to date, initially working as a dancer/performer, and progressing into choreography and directing whilst producing and managing many of the company’s projects.   She has performed on stages as diverse as Glastonbury Festival and the RSC Stratford-upon-Avon, remote islands and tropical gardens and specialises in creating highly physical work, rich in character, story and humour for large scale outdoor sites and small scale indoor touring shows. Sally loves to create work that translates across all age ranges. With one foot in dance and the other firmly in theatre, Sally is a true collaborator at heart and works closely with professional dancers, actors, directors, musicians, designers and producers.

    Alongside her work with Cscape, Sally has worked with, and for many companies including:  Kneehigh Theatre (performer in Don John), Off the Wall Vertical Dance Company (associate choreographer), Minack Productions (movement director on Tom’s Midnight Garden), Mike Shepherd (movement director) Calvino NIghts), Cousin Jacks (movement director on Operation Neptune and movement consultant on the Mousehole Cat),  Jacky Lansley in View from the Shore at the ROH and Trebiggan Productions (choreographer). 

  • As an educator and movement teacher with 20 years experience, Sally has worked across a broad range of contexts from pre-schools through to care settings, and this directly feeds in to the theatre and dance work she creates which is greatly inspired by the connections and interactions she has within the community. She is an Associate Lecturer at Falmouth University specialising in Actor movement training, which she has taught for 8 years, drawing on a rich palette of physical training sources and disciplines including Laban’s work, Bartenieff fundamentals, Viewpoints (Anne Bogart) and Tadashi Suzuki’s principles, alongside movement practices such as Pilates, Yoga and dance. She is interested in the interplay between movement, dance and text, connection to the breath, and developing the performer’s ability to communicate emotionally and expressively through gesture and physical embodiment.

    Sally is a specialist Pilates and movement teacher qualifying with Pilates Foundation in 2010 teaches using her movement knowledge and experience to assist both dancers and non-dancers in rehabilitation and body conditioning – click HERE for more info

    Sally has been involved in all the company’s productions to date:

    CREDITS FOR CSCAPE

    LOST- film project Director and Producer 2021

    Tree – Producer and choreographer/director 2019-23 

  • Hansel and Gretel at Lost Gardens of Heligan – Choreographer and Co-Producer 2017 

    Neptunalia at Trebah Garden – Producer 2016

    Taste – Choreographer & Producer 2015/16     

    Somersault Festival Neptune performance – Choreographer 2015/16     

    Glendurgan Gold for National Trust Glendurgan Garden and After  dark fairies for National Trust Trelissick – Choreographer and Performer 2015/16     

    The Venus Flower and other Stories at Trebah Garden and National Trust Cotehele– Choreographer and Creative producer 2015/16     

    If the Shoe Fits – Tour manager 2013-2015     

    Tin Violin, collaboration with BishBashBosh, Choreographer / Performer 16   

    Global Gardens – Co Director, Producer, Choreographer 2010

    When the Shops Shut – Performer 2015/16     

    Enjoy Your Stay– Choreographer / Performer 2008 / 11    

    Don John with Kneehigh Theatre – performer 09/10    

    Below – Performer and co-choreographer 2008          

    Guilty Fingers – performer 2006 / 07   

    Landings – performer 2005

    Road to the Beach with Motionhouse Dance Theatre – Performer 2005

    Blonde – performer 2003 / 04    

    After Dark, Polperro Festival – co- choreographer and performer 2003          

    Within these Walls – choreographer and performer 2003           

Seamas Carey

Seamas Carey

Performer / Creative (Music)

Seamas Carey is a performer, composer and silent film pianist who grew up in Cornwall. At the age of 17 he escaped the clutches of formal education and began work as a multi-instrumentalist and composer for theatre. Since then he has toured continuously throughout the UK, Europe, Middle East and USA.

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Seamas Carey is a performer, composer and silent film pianist who grew up in Cornwall. At the age of 17 he escaped the clutches of formal education and began work as a multi-instrumentalist and composer for theatre. Since then he has toured continuously throughout the UK, Europe, Middle East and USA.

As well as touring, he’s also worked in the studio recording numerous theatre, dance and film soundtracks and is a founder member of Cornwall based theatre company Silly Boys. He recently composed and produced the solo project “Seamas Carey Meets His 4 Year Old Self” with the help of a 20 piece choir.

Other recent work includes Wolf’s Child (Wild Works), 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh), Neptunalia (Cscape), Hetty Feather (Kenny Wax) Two Punks & A Tandem (Silly Boys), 100: The Day Our World Changed (Wild Works & The Lost Gardens Of Heligan).

 

Martin Fenton

Martin Fenton

Lighting Designer

Martin is a Professional Lighting Designer, Technical Manager and Technician based in Cornwall. Since graduating from Rose Bruford with a 1st Class BA(Hons) in Lighting Design in 2013 he has worked on many productions across dance, theatre and live events in the South West and nationally. Credits include: Cscape (Taste, Neptunalia, Hansel and Gretel, When the Shops Shut), Panta Rei, Canvas Theatre, ‘Owdyado Theatre, Writer’s Block (KEAP), Grit Dance, Goldentree and Freefall Dance.

Tim Hardy

Tim Hardy

Creative (Lighting)

Tim is a lighting designer & technical practitioner whose creative passion is backed up by pragmatism & practicality.

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His most recent work includes lighting for Heather Walrond Dance Company, with ‘The Rising’ & Exim Dance Company’s ‘Etch’. He has also designed lights for ‘Creating the Spectacle’, as part of the 2102 Paralympic Opening ceremony with Susan Austin. Regular collaborative projects with co-founder of Candoco Dance, Adam Benjamin; including designs for 5 Men Dancing, Destino, Neat Timothy, Jordi Cortez and Kirsty Simpson. Production Management for Richard Alston Dance Company, the ‘Place Prize’& ‘Some of the Parts’ Festival, with London Contemporary Dance School & Rosas (with internationally renowned choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) Technical Mangement for Plymouth University, where he oversaw the technical installation of a £7million state-of-the-art theatre, hailed as one of the best dance houses in Europe. Technical Management at the Place, the Bridewell & the Gardner Arts Centre. Tim has also worked for the Eden Project as live events lead; designing and delivering a programme of live events, including the hugely popular ‘Dinosaur Uproar’ 2016 summer season… & for WildWorks. Tim has a positive & creative approach to technical challenges & a specialist interest in lighting design for dance.

Mik Weir

Mik Weir

Creative (Design)

Mik Weir is trained as a sculptor ad fabricator.  Studying at Nottingham, Trent University and also studying theatre design.

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Using these skills Mik has worked in many elements of design and fabrication, originally working in Film, Theatre and Opera, progressing into exhibition construction and theatre design. Mik has worked with the English National Opera, The Royal Opera, The National Theatre, English National Ballet, Michael Clarke Company, the BBC as well as many years at Asylum SFX on Film and Theatre productions before starting his own successful exhibition and production company: Creea Ltd.  Some of his clients have been: Hermes, Dior, Chanel, Myla, Selfridges, John Lewis, Singapore Airways, Emirates Airlines and Colebrook, Bosson and Sauders (CBS) He has worked on many films including: Aliens, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Shadow Warriors and Alexander.

Following a planned relocation to Cornwall Mik established a new workshop, Halo Designs, producing one off pieces and theatre builds. Recent work includes Cscape’s ‘Taste’, English National Opera’s ‘Trogans’ and ‘The Pearl Fisher’.  ‘Survivor Australia’ for Channel 10, Hermes UK and the Wadebridge Creative Hub.

 

Hana Backland

Hana Backland

Creative (Film)

Hana Backland is a North Cornish filmmaker and artist. She specialises in collaborating with community, arts and education settings to produce bespoke film and installation work. She also shoots behind the scenes for large scale film productions and uses camera kit to encourage people to record their own stories and experiences through one-off, often site-specific workshops.

Fiona Chivers

Fiona Chivers

Creative (Costumes)

Fiona is delighted to be collaborating with Cscape again this summer to produce Hansel and Gretel costumes . Fiona is a Scenographer working across genres to create dynamic performance spaces.  She has worked with companies such as Plymouth Theatre Royal, Kneehigh, Panta Rei Danseteater and many others.

Christina Romero-Cross

Christina Romero-Cross

Creative (Installation Artist)

Christina is a freelance  project manager working with artists and dancers to bring their projects to performance.  She is also a painter and digital installation artist whose work is primarily about ‘Home’ and feelings of homelessness.  You will find some of her house sculptures animating the routes of the Hansel and Gretel promenade at The Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Callum Mitchell

Callum Mitchell

Creative (Writer)

Callum Mitchell is a writer and performer from Newlyn. He is an Associate Artist of Hall For Cornwall and co-founder of the theatre company Silly Boys. His new play Storm, directed by Simon Harvey, will be produced by o-region and tour nationally in 2018. Recent theatre credits include: Two Punks And A Tandem (Silly Boys/Bristol Old Vic Ferment) Table Of Delights (Theatre Damfino) and The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Homemade/Newlyn Art Gallery).