Luke Pell is a Founding Associate of Cove Park.  Often a companion in practice to other artists and arts organisations, Luke Pell has worked at the intersections of where dance, choreography, contemporary and socially engaged performance meet with other worlds for over twenty years. With a particular focus upon effecting change in the ways people encounter, experience, engage with, and reconsider: models of identity and difference; death, dying and loss; interdependence and care.

At the heart of their practice is making space for careful conversation. Working with words &/as movement, they have created dance and performance work online, in print and in person for gardens and galleries; libraries, theatres and nightclubs; broom cupboards, ballrooms, shopping centres, park benches and beaches. Through varying roles in artist support – as dramaturg, consultant, producer – they have also designed and led labs, symposia and other processes for research and the deepening of practice with peers as part of dance, disability, LGBTQIA+, children’s and older people’s movements internationally.

A quiet creature in a loud blouse, neuro-queer, a poet – engaged choreographic thinking, Luke attempts to cultivate kindness, compassionate criticality and curiosity in all that they do. They seek to be gentle, generous and generative, working alongside artists and activists in the myriad ways they might reveal wisdoms for living.

Luke is currently the Artist Support Programme Facilitator (p/t) with The Work Room in Glasgow and an Artistic Research Associate (p/t) as part of Claire Cunningham’s Einstein Strategic Professorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance, Berlin (HZT).