Kevin Finnan, together with Louise Richards, founded Motionhouse in 1988. As Artistic Director of Motionhouse he has created, either alone or in collaboration with Louise, each of the company's major touring productions, numbering seventeen full-length works to date as well as his smaller festival works, which have taken street festivals by storm for the last two summers.
Kevin also undertakes commissions and projects for other companies and agencies. In 1998 he founded Fierce performance company, and in 2000 created the critically acclaimed True - a performance event for the Tramway, Glasgow, in collaboration with writer A. L. Kennedy and installation artist Rosa Sanchez.
In addition to Kevin's work with Motionhouse and Fierce, credits include: Mamu [1994] for Headlines Theatre Company, Vancouver; Transform [1996] for Copenhagen European City of Culture celebrations; Peter Pan [1997] for TAG Theatre Company, Glasgow; two commissions for Blue Eyed Soul in 1998 and 2000; Taking Flight for Gravity and Levity in 2005; and Shift for Gravity and Levity in 2008.
Committed to exploring and exploding traditional use of space in performance, Kevin has a history of extraordinary site based performance work including, The Edge, a large scale performance event on the beach at Watergate Bay in Cornwall in June 2004; Dancing Inside in July 2004 with the inmates at HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire; Dreams and Ruin at the ruins of Witley Court, Worcestershire in June 2005; and the spectacular Renaissance for Greenwich and Docklands Festival in July 2005. In June 2008 he created Run! - an astounding event for Greenwich and Docklands Festival.
He has an MA in Contemporary Performing Arts from University College Bretton Hall, and a PhD in Theatre from Warwick University.
Click here for an article written by Kevin Finnan about Perfect and becoming a doctor
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Click here for an interview with Kevin Finnan about The National Dance Awards
Click here for an interview with Kevin Finnan about Perfect
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