Mike Scott-Harding and Gerrard Martin are teachers/workshop facillitaters as well as performing artists.
Watch the promo for our latest piece
Rage and Breathe...
CREDITS
Andre Edwards, (Dancer)
Nathaniel Parchment, (Dancer)
Dee Ovens, (Dancer)
Seeta Patel, (Dancer)
CJ December, (Film/photographer)
Andrew Harmer, (Editor)
Hassan Martin, (Visual Artist, Director of Small Mercies)
Coral Messam, (Voice Artist)
Bubu, (Aural Architect, music production)
Stephen Wright, ( Musician, producer, Artistic Director of Reeform Dance)
Brian Foreman, (Music production)
David Goldworthy, (Lighting consultant/ venue consultant)
Susanna Cole, ( Location consultant)
GERRARD MARTIN
Dancer/Choreographer
Gerrard Martin was born in Northampton, and studied at DeMontfort University (BA Hons in English Literature and Performing Arts), and at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He has performed in The Lion King (West End) and in Robert North’s The Snowman (Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Birmingham Rep) among many other musicals and pantomimes.
He toured nationally with Phoenix Dance Company, as well as dancing with Ballet Black, Union Dance Company, Aletta Collins Dance Company and Sakoba Dance Theatre. Most recently (2007), he performed in Zero Culture’s Find Me Amongst The Black (choreographed by Darshan Singh Bhuller) at mac Birmingham and Purcell Room London, and on national tour, including Birmingham Rep Theatre and Oval House London, in Sampad/Tara Arts’ Motherland (choreographed by Bawren Tavaziva and Santosh Nair).
Apart from modeling and film engagements, Gerrard has also danced for the National Theatre (Mappa Mundi), English National Opera (The Faery Queen), The Royal Opera (Don Giovanni) and with many commercial artists or bands, including Lionel Ritchie, Misteeq, Jamelia, Eternal, Shola Ama and Shaggy.
Gerrard also choreographs his own work, with support from Arts Council England East Midlands, most recently a dance, text and film collaboration Rage… and Breathe. He also joined Saju Hari and Sin-Man Yué to create, devise and choreograph a young people’s dance production Animal Cavalcade: The Tarka Awards, at Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe (April-May 2007).
Gerrard is an Associate Artist at UK Foundation for Dance.
Michael Scott-Harding was born in London and has toured & performed (both as a solo singer, and as a member of many Soul Groups) extensively in and around the UK, as well as many other parts of the world (including Dubai, Sweden, Spain, Geece, and both Southern & Northern Ireland).
He has performed as a solo artist, in many London venues (including PJ’s , and Octave Bar,West End), singing Jazz & Blues Standards, as well as Soul, and Pop.
Michael has lent his talents as a session singer, both live and in the studio, to Da Lata (one of the most prominent Brazilian/fusion groups in Europe), as well as to The Extraordinaires, one of the pre-eminent Blues/Doo-Wop groups in Europe.
He is a seasoned singer/songwriter, who is currently working with re-knowned Kiss FM DJ: Patrick Forge on a collection of original tunes (an example of this writing collaboration can be heard with “ As I watch you sleeping”).
Michael has wide experience as a vocal coach/facilitator (specifically at The Actors Institute, Holloway)
Alongside Jana Dugal, he led workshops for all age-ranges/technical levels (independently & in conjunction with their acting/performing arts course).
biggerthanME productions aim to generate dance and multi-media inspired performance-art. To create and establish educational packages, and workshops, thereby encouraging greater understanding of individuality and self-expression, through the medium of dance and music.
To explore the bond between music, movement, spoken-word, and song whilst seeking to push the boundaries of both form and format.
To produce contemporary works of art which stimulate the senses, raise political issues/awareness, entertain, inform and celebrate humanity..........
where imagination, creativity and expression blossom:biggerthanME.....
Mike Scott-Harding and Gerrard Martin.
THE SONG and THE DANCE..........
these are the two elements of expression which are, not only intrinsic to our physical & social development, but also form our link to Nature and, indeed, our spiritual search for the 'divine'.
Mike & Gerrard's artistry is both fuelled, and informed, by their urban, multi-cultural environment;
they seek to fuse their love of 'the song' and 'the dance' (in all their many forms) with an appreciation of the varied media now being used to entertain, educate, and placate us.
'biggerthanME' is a spring-board for creating multi-media pieces that will invite debate (through topic), excite emotions (through empathy), and inspire plaudits (through articulate execution).
In using such diverse art-forms as film, photography, painting, 3-D sculpting, grafitti-art, spoken-word poetry, and comedy to amplify 'the song' and 'the dance', the aim is to create interesting new pieces in a range of formats, and for any number of different types of venue.
In this way, through the idea of QUALITY ECLECTICISM and COLLABORATION, all their work will strive to be.......
Hey guys, just thought I would share this with you all.
BETTER THEN - free download
The inspiration behind this song, I don’t even think it’s an inspiration but a sadness behind it, is the loss of my brother, Andile James Makiwne, who died in a car accident in April 2006. For a while after that, everything went blank for me, I couldn’t write music, I had no inspiration whatsoever and saw how hard it was for my mother to take the loss, and knowing that the relationship that I had with him will be no more.
I know that there are people who lost someone they loved through street crime, accidents, wars, and death as a whole that will relate to what I felt when I lost my brother. I kept this song to myself for years but hope this acoustic performance of it would touch someone.
You can download the song for FREE HERE!
Blessings
great to hear what you're up too, sounds fab ;-) nice to look back at how we were all those years ago, dreaming up our lives, and to see that we stuck with it! I'm at Fabric on the 23rd March and Shinky Shonky on April 23rd, be fab to see u xxxxxxxxxx
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hi how r u? i'm good thanxs for asking. i've moved to new york and i'm just trying to make a name for myself out here. it's a challenge but it's kinda worth it! by the way i love "rage" i think it's great!
GERRARD MARTIN
MICHAEL SCOTT-HARDING
