Scarlett Perdereau is a performer & emerging choreographer based in London. She trained in dance and drama in London and Paris. Since the start of her career in 2002 she has been working internationally in various performance styles: contemporary and physical theatre, opera, site-specific and film.

Her training, past and ongoing, embraces a wide range of  dance techniques from Ballet to Modern and Contemporary, and movement disciplines such as Yoga, Pilates and Butoh. Feeding from her experience in both dance and drama, she has been choreographing and developing her own style of contemporary dance since 2005. 

After completing a BA in Applied Music at the University of Strathclyde, I went on to gain a first class Honours Degree in Dance and Theatre performance from Bird College.  Having specialized in choreography for my dissertation year, this has been a route I have been pursuing on and off since graduating last year. 

Whilst working as a performer with the small theatre company animate:SPACE upon graduation, I was also applying for many choreographic and contemporary dance festivals.  After becoming runner-up for a bursary awarded to emerging choreographers by Sadlers Wells and East London Dance around Christmas, I was then put in touch with Enigma Dance Festival in Guildford, for which I created a piece for in March of this year. 

An ensemble company, that works through ideas, physicalities and whims via improvisational structures and individual experience. The Ticket’s work is informed by ‘dance theatre’…by exposing humour in art; in existing and past art forms …by enjoying the body as flawed; the body as gendered… by social dance… by the importance of presentation, performance, audience… by theatricalities: the stage, the audience, the framing of performance, the bow, the before and after, the ‘offstage’… by enjoying all dance forms as valid. Lead and developed by Lexi Bradburn.

The Ticket Theatre Dance premiered its first full scale piece ‘Cosi fan Tutu’ last year at Siobhan Davies Studios: a little look at Opera through dance and cliché.

The Romantic Revolutionaries are currently rehearsing at Clarence Mews studios in Hackney where we are taking part in the Summer Creative Space programme, which is a way of creating work in a supportive and artistic environment.  We have regular sharings at the studios with the other choreographers and performers giving feedback and observations about each other’s work.

RWA has been established for 3 years and we are based in East London.We have performed our short pieces nationwide and deliver workshops to integrated classes in schools and community groups.We both have contemporary dance backgrounds and we met at a community dance class at Stratford Circus.We are supported by East London Dance and as older dancers, and a fully integrated company,we are keen to show our work to a wider audience.

Photo credit: RWA in Dancing Days:An East London Dance event as part of Centre(St)Age. Photo: Nick Gurney