Elisha’s Story: Hackney Rooms
Elisha Millard, a.k.a. Electric Farmer, reflects on his time creating the EP ‘Hackney Rooms’ – a commission for Clod Ensemble in 2020. Elisha shares about his experience of ‘Hackney Rooms’...
Announcing Catalyser 2024
Clod Ensemble’s free skills and professional development programme for young creative practitioners returns in April 2024.
Blog: Reflections On The Catalyser Programme
In Autumn 2022, Clod Ensemble welcomed twenty young artists to our studio space in North Greenwich for the first iteration of our Catalyser programme. Catalyser saw these artists participate in...
eleven – working with dancers from LCDS
This year Clod Ensemble Co-Artistic Directors Suzy Willson & Paul Clark worked with a group of BA3 students from London Contemporary Dance School, to create a piece for their undergraduate...
Paul Clark on how Ear Opener can be used by educators
In this interview with UAL, Clod Ensemble Co-Artistic Director Paul Clark shares how our Ear Opener programme supports young people to develop their composition skills. Ear Opener is a series...
When music is no longer the afterthought
This interview was originally published on Arts Professional, 27 May 2020. by Paul Clark, Co-Artistic Director of CLOD ENSEMBLE. I write music for stage productions, mainly with CLOD ENSEMBLE, the...
What to expect – The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady Interview
Image – Performer: Monique Etienne. Items from the collections of Eudon Choi, Slim Barrett and Simone Rocha. In 2013 Nu Civilisation Orchestra performed Charles Mingus’s jazz masterpiece The Black...
Black Lives Matter
By Suzy Willson and Paul Clark – Artistic Directors of Clod Ensemble As white artists we are indebted to brilliant Black dancers, artists, theatre-makers, musicians, writers, thinkers, producers, educators and...
Twenty-five years of Clod Ensemble – An Invitation
To mark our 25th year we are revisiting our first production and inviting you to contribute to the creative process. Twenty-five years ago today, we began to rehearse CLOD ENSEMBLE’s first-ever production. It...
Living Room Music: adapting to new environments
When schools across the UK closed in March, we were forced to reimagine Living Room Music – the programme of composition masterclasses and performance opportunities that we run for A-Level...
Run Riot interviews Suzy Willson
This blog was originally published by Run Riot on 1 April 2019. With uncertainty and division raging in the country, CLOD ENSEMBLE’s new show is set to storm the national...
What’s the Truth About Placebo Effects?
This is one of a series of blogs commissioned for The Power of Placebo – a national programme of events that accompanied our performance, Placebo. The ‘placebo response’ describes an effect which occurs...
