About me

My name is Martin Butler, a creative art director and concept developer of live events and presentations specializing in the meeting of fashion, art, performance, installation, and design.

I was trained originally in theatre and performance in England and then later choreography and performance in the Netherlands, but have been for the last eight years working as a freelance art director and show designer and have created presentations and events in the past for clients such as Fila, Diesel, Camel Active, Diesel Black Gold, Johan Cruyff, Elle prêt-a-porter, Dimensione Danza, See by Chlöe, MCQ, Coming Soon, Andrea Crews, and Harmont and Blaine, amongst others ( see attached my CV and resume as pdf)

I am recognized equally as a stage and visual artist as a creative director, and my work strives to create a balance between fashion forward thinking, content and experience, tailored made to the needs of the client some examples of my work can be seen on my online portfolio.

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I would be very interested to see if there could be any chance of possible collaboration, in the field of art direction, and concept development and direction for live events.

Bringing my experience of working in both creative and commercial fields, makes me believe that I could be a great team player and creative event specialist .

I look very much forward to hearing from you,

Yours with best wishes

Martin Butler

Resume:

Martin Butler is a British born Choreographer , Stage Director and Art Director.

He was trained in Drama at Manchester University, and than later Choreography and Performance at Amsterdam School of the Arts, in the Netherlands.

On graduating he won the Prince Bernhard prize for most promising graduate, the year later he received the Amsterdam Encouragement prize for Choreography for his short piece with the Dutch National Ballet, and came first in the NL/ NRW competition for new Dutch and German choreographers. Since 1998 he has been staging dance and performance work, at various theatres and festivals in Europe. His work always bridged and combined various disciplines, dance, theatre, music, film, performance, new media, and fashion, and through this interdisciplinary approach his work explores the new dramatic that the combination of different genres facilitate.

Since 1993 he has also been working as a commercial Art Director for fashion related events, and has collaborated with Diesel, Diesel Black Gold, Moshino, Lee jeans, Harmont and Blaine, Aliveshoes, Camel active, FILA, And Beyond, Andrea Crews, and Elle, amongst many others.

He has collaborated in the past with the Dutch National Ballet, Dansgroup Kriztina de Chatel, Yoyoi Kusama /Andrea Crews, Wiels Museum in Brussels, Hochschule for Neue Media Köln, Masahiro Miwa and Annimax Multimedia Theater Bonn, David Linton, New York , The Drama Academy of Cluj- Napoca, Romania, Renée Coraij, Flora and fauna visions, Berlin, Chen Shi Zheng and Paul Daniel, Bregenz festival in Austria, amongst many others next to developing his own productions with the Liminal Institute that he was artistic director of until 2012.

His New media and installation work has been shown in the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück, Fondacion Telefonica in Lima, Pixxelpoint festival in Slovenia, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Marres, Masstricht, Salon Amsterdam and Mediamatic, amongst many others. In 2009 he created a flash mob performance for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, where 10,000 people remade the path of the original wall route .

From he has been working on the creative and curatorial team of Mediamatic, Amsterdam, developing exhibitions and events, including the Amsterdam Bienalle and the IK, IK, IK series of exhibitions dealing with self representation.

In he collaborated as researcher and writer, for a project of Delft University and Prof. Caroline Nevejan, examining performance presence and trust in the internet age, the book will be published in Autumn 2012.

Apart from creating a shadow play version of Lully's Baroque Opera, "Persée" for children, together with the Italian Baroque Ensemble L'Aura Rilucente premiering this summer at the International Theatre Festival of Almagro, Spain, and he will premiere two new short films at the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Turkey in Fall, and is developing a new opera based on the Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World" for 2013/2014.

Clients

Aliveshoes, And Beyond, Andrea Crews, Artez fashion Academy, Camel Active, Coming Soon, DIESEL, Diesel Black Gold, Elle, Fashion Institute Arnhem, Fila, Harmont and Blaine, Hyun Yeu, Joline Jolink, Lee Jeans, Marlies Dekkers, MCQ, Moshino, Qouc Thang, Rietveld Fashion Academy, See by Chloe