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Mary Ann Tear – Theatre Arts, Dance and Choreography Mary Ann is a freelance Drama, Dance, and Musical Theatre exponent and an examiner for Trinity Guildhall. Mary Ann has directed and choreographed many musicals, including, most recently, 'Escape from Pterodactyl Island" adding this to a long list which includes ‘West Side Story’, ‘A Chorus Line’, ‘Wind in the Willows’, ‘Godspell’, ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Henry the Tudor Dude’, ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’, and ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, ‘Fame’, and ‘Wizard of Oz’, in which she also performed.
Mary Ann particularly enjoys working on devised pieces that include drama and dance and she has been commissioned to do several projects with students from the Universties of Hertfordshire and Middlesex, England, the most recent being 'Razor’, which explored the effects of Parkinson's disease, and 'Dance, Dance, Dance', celebrating the work of Laban, Europe’s, leading conservatoire for Dance, performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. in 2003.
For 8 years Mary Ann ran the Gordon Craig Youth Theatre in Stevenage, England, and was involved in many community projects. She has choreographed pantomimes for Kevin Wood, has worked for the National Theatre Youth Theatre (NTYT), and continues to work for Matthew Townshend Productions, with choreography for ‘Salad Days’. In the early days of her career, Mary Ann had her own Dance-Drama schools and a Cabaret group that was resident at Caesar's Palace.
Alongside all this Mary Ann has always maintained contact with education in the arts, being an experienced Performing Arts lecturer in both in Further and Higher Education. She has had a varied and interesting career, something that Mary Ann attributes to her broad training and her willingness to return to study several times during her working life. |
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