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Complicité Executive Director Application Pack and Job Description Photo by Sarah Ainslie Sarah Photo by About Complicité Complicité Executive Director Application Pack and Job Description Photo by Sarah Ainslie Sarah Photo by About Complicité Complicité is an international touring theatre Alongside Simon McBurney’s work the company based in London led by Artistic Company supports artists through the Director and co-founder Simon McBurney obe. ‘Developed with Complicité’ strands. The Complicité creates work that strengthens Company is committed to widening access and human interconnection, using the complicity pro-actively seeks to support talented artists between performer and audience that is at the who are under-represented in the theatre heart of the theatrical experience. Complicité sector. works across art forms, believing theatre, Learning and engagement are central to its opera, film, installation, publication and work and its award-winning Creative Learning participatory arts can all be sites for the and Participation programme includes collective act of imagination. Founded in 1983, professional development, work in schools and the Company has won over 50 major theatre colleges and participatory projects with a awards worldwide. range of communities. Complicité began life as a collective and this The Company is committed to responding to spirit of collective enquiry, of collaborative the climate and ecological emergency, and is a curiosity, has driven the work throughout its founder member of Culture Declares history. The Company is famous for making its Emergency. It is also committed to social work through extensive periods of research justice and is currently collaborating with and development which brings together Artistic Directors of the Future and COMMON performers, designers, writers, artists and to increase diversity and representation in the specialists from diverse fields to create the theatre sector. works – a process now known simply as ‘devising’. The main body of work has been of devised theatre pieces along with adaptations and revivals of classic texts but the Company has also created opera and worked in other media, with radio productions of Mnemonic; John Berger’s To the Wedding; and A Disappearing Number; The Noise of Time, a multidisciplinary collaboration with the Emerson Quartet; Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein, a collaboration with The Pet Shop Boys in Trafalgar Square in central London; and The Vertical Line, a multidisciplinary installation performed in a The Encounter disused tube station. Photo by Stavros Petropoulos, About the Role Following a period of enquiry into its process and working model, led by Artistic Director and P hoto by S kshop Co-Founder Simon McBurney obe and Interim arah Ainslie, Open wor Executive Director Polly Gifford, Complicité is now seeking to appoint a permanent Executive Director to work alongside Simon McBurney, the Board and The Company our staff and freelance teams to take the company Holly Foulds forward. Communications Manager This is a strategic role, responsible for ensuring that Polly Gifford there is coherence across all the company’s activity Executive Director (interim) under the creative vision of the Artistic Director. The role will provide leadership in the areas of Simon McBurney business and organisational planning, partnership Artistic Director management and development, and fundraising, and overall management of Complicité’s programme. Sarah Osgerby The Executive Director leads the small staff team and Administrator oversees the company’s relationships with its Associate Artists and freelance teams. Natalie Raaum Creative Learning Producer You will need to be dynamic and flexible, seeking out opportunities for the company that build on Laura Rolinson Complicité’s unique history and legacy and that open Project Producer (maternity leave) up new avenues and lines of enquiry. Tim Bell Project Producer (maternity cover) Louise Wiggins Finance Manager To be appointed Development Manager P h o t Board of Trustees o b y R o b Sarah Coop, Roger Graef, Frances b ie J a Hughes, Tom Morris (Chair), Nitin c k , T he Sawhney, Stephen Taylor M as ter and Margarita Current Programme Photo by Ali Wright, Wright, Ali Photo by During the COVID lockdown the Company re-broadcast The Encounter, which inspired a programme of talks and Q&A’s, both public to national and international audiences and to everything that rises must dance schools and university students. This period has stimulated thinking around the use of technology and how it can be used in a more creative way. A series of talks in the autumn will continue this journey of exploration, led by Simon McBurney. The Company develops and produces work everything that rises must dance is a across three strands: participatory dance project for 200 women of • Complicité signature productions – work by all backgrounds, ages and abilities. Created by Simon McBurney Choreographer and Associate Artists Sasha Milavic Davies and Composer Lucy Railton in • Developed with Complicité – work by and 2018 it was presented as part of Dance with other artists that develops their Umbrella at three London venues. The project practice is a celebration of female relationships, the • Complicité Creative Learning – education- way women have danced throughout history, based work and participatory projects and a living archive of contemporary female movement. At the core of the Company is the work of Artistic Director Simon McBurney. The scale “It was a profound and life changing and ambition of his productions is such that experience…” Participant they are often years in the making. The We are currently planning a UK/Australia current signature production is The Encounter, Season 2021 – 22, creating the show as part of which has toured to 12 countries and played to the Brisbane Festival 2021 and will be the almost 174,000 people since 2015. project’s Australian premiere. Combining virtuosic storytelling and ground-breaking binaural sound design, transmitted directly through headphones, Developed with… Fehinti Balogun The Encounter has collected multiple awards We are supporting actor and climate activist since its creation. Fehinti Balogun to explore the creation of a “This is masterful storytelling from a man and piece of theatre about his personal journey a company who are incapable of remaining with the climate emergency. within known theatrical boundaries” ‘Developed with Complicité’ is a new strand of The Independent work to support the next generation of theatre makers. Creative Learning Barbican Box Following many years of exciting projects with the Barbican, we embarked on another Photo by Sarah Ainslie, Voices of the Earth Barbican Box with Associate Artist Joyce Henderson. Barbican Box is curated with Voices of the Earth ideas, inspiration and provocations to Complicité is currently collaborating with encourage an imaginative, adventurous environmental charity Global Generation, the approach to arts learning. Royal College of Physicians and the British Pegasus Theatre Library, to work with children and young In January we began working in partnership people in and around King’s Cross. Inspired by with Pegasus Theatre (where life began for the history and uses of medicinal plants, Complicité in the early 1980s). Associate Artist participants spent the summer working with Clive Mendus and Oxford-based Director Associate Artist Naomi Frederick to create an Emma Webb worked with the Pegasus 16 – 25 outdoor performance, connecting the healing Young Company to establish themselves as an power of plants through theatre, gardening, ensemble, working towards a performance. storytelling, music making and art at Global Generation’s Story Garden. “I saw Complicité perform back in 1983 at Pegasus. It was a seminal moment. They are “The project excites me so much in the why I do what I do now. They unlocked a context of the current climate emergency. strange door in my imagination and It’s an opportunity to focus young minds on understanding of theatre.” the resilience and brilliance of the natural Emma Webb, Pegasus Young Company world, and to delve into the question of why Director 2020 we should fight to protect it.” Associate Artist Naomi Frederick A Studio Season In February, we presented ‘Oranges Are Not The Education Enquiry only Fruit’ and ‘Fahrenheit 451’, directed by Over the past year our Creative Learning Associate Artists Joyce Henderson and Producer has been interrogating the Catherine Alexander respectively, for a week company’s schools offer that has resulted in a at Theatre Peckham. Performed by students plan for future programme delivery offering from the Acting Collaborative and Devised teachers and students an enriched Theatre course at The Royal Central School of engagement, that stays true to the values and Speech and Drama, this project continued a integrity of Complicité, while inspiring the long-standing collaboration with the school. next generation of theatre makers. Job Description Reports to: Board of Trustees Line manages: Project Producer, Finance Manager, Communications Manager and Creative Learning Producer The Executive Director is responsible for delivering the company’s creative and organisational vision within its resources and leading it through a dynamic and sustainable partnership with Artistic Director Simon McBurney. Leadership, Strategy and Planning • Develop and implement Complicité’s organisational strategy with the Artistic Director, Board and Team, to deliver the Company’s artistic vision • Create and deliver the Company’s business plan, ensuring Complicité operates as a viable and sustainable business
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