I had to fight for my life and learn to dance again
Australian dancer Marc Brew鈥檚 life was upended by a car crash caused by a drunk driver that killed three friends and left him paralysed from the chest down. He kept dancing.
Marc Brew grew up in Jerilderie, a small rural town in Australia, where he was the only boy who danced. Raised by his mother, a single parent and his biggest supporter, he won a scholarship to a boarding arts school in Melbourne. In his early twenties, while working with a dance company in South Africa, the car he was travelling in was hit by a drunk driver. The three other passengers were killed, and Marc was left paralysed from the chest down. Two years after the accident, Marc returned to dance. His work includes An Accident/A Life, which examines the crash and its aftermath, and a new dance-theatre piece, Boys Don鈥檛 Dance, reflecting on his childhood.
Presenter: Asya Fouks
Producer: Emily Naylor
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(Photo: Marc Brew during his dance-theatre production An Accident/A Life, co-created with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Marc is balanced on one foot and arm low to the ground on a dark stage, with a car behind him facing the audience with its headlights on. Credit: Filip Van Roer)
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