Biography - Cai Tomos


Cai Tomos is an independent dance artist working within the UK.

His work aims to portray a brutal honesty in his storytelling. He uses a combination of powerful imagery combined with choreography ,text, props.

 His works are deeply influenced by personal stories combining dark humour  and honest physicality. Recounting,  re-enacting, and recalling memory. His themes revolve around human nature.
The mind, the heart ,and what it is to be human.

His current work is an ongoing project entitled “calon” meaning heart in welsh.

This new work is a combination of the personal and the scientific combined.

Looking in detail at the heart, weaving personnel stories with fact based science.   Using dance, moving image, text, sound, objects. It traces a journey of the heart from the beginning to the very last moment.

 Cai Tomos studied dance at Coventry University. On leaving he  University he went on to become a performer with Earthfall Physical Theatre. He toured with the company for four years performing in “AD”, “I cant stand up for falling down” and “at swim two boys”.

Cai has worked as a choreographer/director with Earthfall and Diversions Dance Company on the alternative routes tour.

Cai is co founder of the Uru-Wales Project, a regular collaborative project with Director Martin inthamossou that takes place in Montevideo South America.

Cai has presented two major works “ breakdown” (2005) “Gwyrth” (2007) as part of the Horizons Dance festival in South Wales and as part of the Festival of Dance in non conventional spaces, Uruguay.

Cai also worked as the Dance co-ordinator for the one year full-time training course at Rubicon Dance Cardiff. Cai was awarded a creative Wales award (Arts Council) to develop his work. Cai works as an independent artist, and teaches at the place in London on the evening school. He is currently associate lecturer at Chichester University and regularly teaches back in Wales with a host of community groups, professional artists and young people.Cai participates in regular workshops and training as part of his on- going professional development. He has taken workshops with: Martin Keogh (USA) KJ Holmes (USA) Lucia Walker (UK) Gill Clark (UK) Fin Walker (UK) Mary Fulkerson (UK) David Zambrano (NL) Joe Moran (UK) Miranda Tufnell (UK)

Biography - Annie Suganami


Annie Morgan Suganami , musician, composer, performer lives in Wales. She established the ‘a cappella’ duo Cusan Tan with singer/actress Sue Jones- Davies , in 1985 .The duo developed into a four-piece acoustic group with triple -harpist Robin Huw- Bowen and guitarist, Howard Evans.

Cusan Tan recorded two albums of Suganami’s original compositions,-songs and instrumental pieces,- and they performed regularly at venues and festivals in Wales, the Purcell Rooms, South Bank and at the Barbican Centre in London and toured the USA extensively from 1990-1995.

Sue and Annie devised and performed an Arts Council of Wales sponsored two-woman show in 1995,’Beth Sydd Imi’ and since 2004 they have both toured with jazz bassist Sigurd Ulveseth and guitarist Arild Seim in Hordaland County, Norway.

Cusan Tan continues as a flexible ensemble and Sue and Annie are currently rehearsing for recording the chamber mass, ‘Imaginum’ this Spring, for which Annie, along with ,movement artist/dancer Cai Tomos was awarded an Arts Council of Wales grant in March 2010, to compose and record the mass as well as using the mass as a musical spine for Suganami and Cai Tomos’s performance piece , ’re:’-a two-person, multi-disciplined work celebrating ‘Relationship’, to be toured in September 2010.

In 2006, Suganami was awarded an ACW grant to compose songs for performance and recording, an English Arts Council/ACW/PRS grant in 2007 to compose music for ‘Attitude Dance Company’ and given a study grant in 2007 to attend a workshop in Oslo, Norway, given by the ‘Complete Vocal Technique’ Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Annie studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music, London from 1969-1973 and has since studied with flautists William Bennett, the late Lenore Smith, Richard Davies and Douglas Townsend and she been devoted to exploring her own style of playing for her compositions and improvising.

In the 70’s she was a member of the acoustic group ‘Two Rivers’, in the Yukon, Canada and they toured Canada and Alaska, performing at various folk-festivals.

As a singer, she has studied voice since 1985 and as a composer has composed vocal works for various theatre productions and radio and is now developing her performing by exploring and using movement and dance to give her creativity a fuller means of expression.