Biography:

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)