About the performance

Search & Find explores the idea of connection and disconnection between people, as two protagonists search for a way to find a sense of shared understanding and purpose.

Physically awesome and emotionally poignant the work, commissioned by Dance Initiative Greater Manchester, invites you to consider your connection with others. It features an original sound score from composer/musician Miguel Marin.

Key Personnel

Kevin Edward Turner - Performer / Choreographer / Co-Artistic Director
Anthony Missen - Performer / Choreographer / Co-Artistic Director
Miguel Marin - Composer
Dance Initiative Greater Mancheser (DiGM) - Commissioner

Production Information

Running time at full length: 17 minutes

Suitable for all ages

No text

Use of recorded music

Does not require a clear understanding of English or another language

Touring Information

Scale of show: Small scalle (up to 400 seats)

Appropriate setting: Outdoor - flat, smooth surface with site lines for audience. No Grass. No Cobbles.

Number of people on tour: 3 (2 performers + 1 lighting/sound technician)

Number of peformers on stage: 2

Touring availability: present - Autumn 2012

Outreach and Educational Work

Company Chameleon, crediting their roots in inner-city Manchester youth dance theatre community, seek to continue to support the invaluable legacy once offered to them, by delivering high quality educational programmes.

They particularly wish to act as role models to young males from a demographic such as their own. Through presenting their work out of the conventional theatre setting they hope to encourage participation and viewing from new audiences whom art forms such as this seldom reach.

Company History

Company Chameleon Dance Theatre was formed in 2007. Co-Artistic Directors Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner began their collaboration in 1994 at Trafford Youth Dance Theatre, and both received formal dance training at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Upon graduating they worked with some of the most innovative British/International Dance companies.


The thread of mentorship and collaboration between them has been uncut. In creating Company Chameleon the duo have come together to develop and present their own works.

Recent Productions / Tours

'Scribe' - Performed at: LEAP Festival Liverpool 2009.
'Baka' - Performed at: Decibel The Greenroom Manchester 2009, Baxter Theatre Cape Town South Africa 2010
'Rites' - Perfomed at: The Lowry Manchester 2009 & 2011, DanceBase Edinburgh 2009, Riley Theatre Leeds 2009, Auditori Torrent Valencia Spain 2009, Dundee Rep Theatre Scotland 2010, The Patrick Centre Birmingham 2010, The Brindley Cheshire 2010, SAT! Theatre Barcelona Spain 2010, The Place London 2010, Auditori De Santander Spain 2010, Deda Derby 2010, Brewery Arts Lake District 2010, Pegasus Theatre Oxford 2011, Hull Truck Theatre Hull 2011.
'Before Night Fell' - Performed at: The Lowry Manchester 2009 & 2010, Dundee Rep Theatre Scotland 2010, The Place London 2010, Deda Derby 2010, Brewey Arts Lake District 2010, Riley Theatre Leeds 2010, Pegasus Theatre Oxford 2011, Hull Truck Theatre Hull 2011.
'Search & Find' - Performed at: Trayectos Festival Zaragoza Spain 2010, Urban Moves Manchester 2010, Baxter Theatre Cape Town South Africa 2010, Tanzende Stadt Belgium 2010, Corpi Urbani Genova Italy 2010, Dantza Hirian Bayonne Spain 2010, Zurmadia Alameda Spain 2010, Chez Christophe Mouthemet South France 2010, The Lowry 2011.
'Shattered' – Performed at: Contact Theatre Manchester 2011, The Lowry Manchester 2011
'Second Grace' – Performed at: Contact Theatre Manchester 2011, The Lowry Manchester 2011

Reviews

"One of the most powerful works of the festival had to be Baka, by Company Chameleon duo Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner" "This is dance theatre at its most raw - a pulsating, violent interaction...... that is sometimes hard to watch, but impossible not to." "The addition of Company Chameleon to this year's festival was a stroke of genius." Cape Times, Review of The Annual Baxter Dance Festival, Thursday 2nd Sept 2010 "Company Chameleon was at the BDE with its young men's group and those dancers were impressing all who saw them. The education work from this company is inspiring and life changing."
The Stage, Article on Companies marking important milestones, Thursday 16th Dec 2010