Three & Four Quarters

Christopher Akrill

After training at the Northern Ballet School in Manchester and early work at the Scottish Ballet, Christopher Akrill danced in the Northern Ballet Theatre, Malmö Ballet, Hannover Ballet and Deutsche Oper Am Rhein in Dusseldorf where he worked with choreographers Gillian Lynne, Hans Van Manen, Youri Vamos, Christopher Gable, Dennis Wayne, Nanette Glushak and Oleg Vinagradov and danced lead roles including Gypsy inCarmen by Mats Ek (Dusseldorf), Mercutio inRomeo and Juliet (NBT) Ebenezer Scrooge (NBT), Carabos in Sleeping Beauty(Hannover) and Mercutio and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (Dusseldorf, Malmö).

In 1998 Chris joined Cullberg Ballet in Sweden. During this time he danced several leading roles, including Prince Siegfried in Mats Ek’s Swan Lake and Presenter in Alexander Ekman’s Study of Entertainment, and worked with choreographers Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Alexander Ekman, Stijn Cellis, Johan Inger, Didy Veldman, Rui Horta and Jens Östberg.

During a 2005-08 leave of absence from Cullberg Chris worked freelance in London, performing leading roles of Captain Alving in Ibsen’s Ghosts by Cathy Marston (ROH2) and Pinocchio in Will Tuckett’s Pinocchio (ROH2) before going on to understudy and play the Emcee in Rufus Norris’s acclaimed production Cabaret, choreographed by Javier De Frutos (Lyric Theatre). Chris returned to Sweden in 2008 and in 2010, his final year at Cullberg, received two awards: The Christer Holgersons award from the Carina Ari Memorial Foundation, and the Riksteatern Award for his artistic contributions and excellence in dance.

Chris is now enjoying being based back in the UK working as a freelancer in both dance and theatre, and has since performed in The Most Incredible Thing directed by Javier De Frutos (Sadlers Wells) Dr Dee, the modern Opera directed by Rufus Norris and written by Damon Albarn (Manchester International Festival and ENO) and also played Lucky in Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot’ directed by William Oldroyd in Munich, and most recently Joe Wright’s film Anna Karenina.

Charlotte Broom

Charlotte trained at the Royal Ballet School and Elmhurst Ballet School. She then joined Northern Ballet Theatre, where she became a Principal Artist dancing roles such as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Kitri in Don Quixote, Lucy in Dracula the title roles in Cinderella and Giselle and in Didy Veldman’sCarmen.

She then spent five years with The Cullberg Ballet, Sweden, where she danced the role of Aurora in Mats Ek’s Sleeping Beauty, and worked with choreographers, Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylian, Johan Inger, Stijn Celis and Didy Veldman. She also danced in Mats Ek’s Swan Lake, She Was Black, Fluke and A Sort Of.

Since returning to the UK, she has danced the role of Mrs Alving in Cathy Marston’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts as well as roles in Marston’s Traces, Arcana  and Dust. She has also begun collaborating with Director and Choreographer Will Tuckett, creating roles of the Fox in his production of Pinocchio, the Mole in Wind in the Willows, Edie in Faeries and Princess Bee in The Thief Of Baghdad.

She then performed in Cabaret playing Texas, directed by Rufus Norris and choreographed by Javier de Frutos (The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue) and went onto work with Luca Silvestrini on The Ride for the Wapping Project.

Charlotte has performed the role of The Queen on the international tour of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and in The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler’s Wells ( Javier De Frutos).  She went on to perform in The Bacchae at The Royal Exchange (Manchester) directed by Braham Murray. She has played the Bad Angel in Dr.Faustus at The Shakespeare’s Globe and the role of Lucetta in Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre Royal, Northampton) both directed by Matthew Dunster. Most recently,  Charlotte choreographed A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre directed by Matthew Dunster.

Clemmie Sveaas

Clemmie Joined HeadSpaceDance for their first program Three and Four Quarters. As a freelance dancer she is also a part of the new Movement collective, joining them in the summer of 2013. She was recently nominated for The National Dance Critics Circle Award 2014 (outstanding female Performance) for her performance in Bern Ballet’s With Hunt choreographed by Cathy Marston. Also an Olivier Award 2014 (outstanding Achievement in Dance) for the same performance.