TC Howard
UK, Performer / Artistic Associate 2004 - 2006
TC Howard graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic with a First Class (Hons) degree in Performing Arts (dance major). Widely respected in the dance field as a performer, TC’s work includes dancing with V-Tol Dance Company in Force of Fantasy and in The Snowball Effect – a Dance 4 Camera BBC short. She has worked as a performer/teacher with the David Glass Ensemble in The Hansel & Gretel Machine and in The Lost Child as part of an international project working with street children and care workers in the Third World. She choreographed for Frantic Assembly’s Sold, winner of a Time Out award and Clash for Ludus Dance Company. Other work includes: dancer in The Hot House Dance Company for the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, choreographer and First Fairy in A Midsummer Nights Dream with Barrie Rutter’s Northern Broadsides. For David Glass Ensemble TC played The Thing in Gormenghast and choreographed for La Dolce Vita. She also choreographed for Horse & Bamboo (puppet & mime); Opera Circus (physical theatre & opera) and in Holland Introdans (modern ballet). TC has created nine works with VDT and was Artistic Associate with the company from 2004 to 2006. Works include Drop Dead Gorgeous, On the House, Punch Drunk and Broken Chords. In 2005 TC choreographed Save The Last Dance for Anjali Dance Co, a professional company of dancers with learning disabilities, co-directed by Charlotte Vincent. In 2006 TC conceived and co-directed Fairy Tale with VDT, a production for 6 – 8 year olds, which drew on her vast experience of working with young people. In 2009/10 TC worked as Artistic Advisor for Generate, a project to develop children’s dance theatre with DanceWorks UK. TC Performed in Gary Clarke’s choreography for ‘OverWorlds and UnderWorlds’ as part of Leeds Canvas Artists Taking the Lead in the dark Arches of Leeds Railway Station. TC is based in Sheffield.