Disrupting Leadership
This residency is part of the Disrupting Leadership research project. The Work Room (Glasgow), Independent Dance (London) and the Inter-University Centre for Dance/ HZT (Berlin) are collaborating on this embodied research project aiming to centre inclusivity, ecological thinking and sustainability. This project is in the context of Claire Cunningham’s Einstein Professorship of ‘Choreography, Dance and […]
Romany Dear
Romany Dear, born in the North of the UK, under a gemini sun, is an interdisciplinary body-based artist. Romany defines her practice as a spilling, an overflow-ing/s of words, gestures and actions that encompass speculative and critical performance practice/s, somatic-erotic touching/s, movement research, facilitation, access-led organising and experimental writing/s. Romany has performed and worked internationally […]
Tim Murray-Browne
Tim Murray-Browne is a computational artist, creative coder and AI engineer. His work connects AI, dance and algorithmically generated image and sound to explore new forms of human-machine relations that foster human wildness, autonomy and embodied thinking. It includes conversing with AI through dance, interactive audio-visual sculptures and an ensemble of new musical instruments that […]
Early Career Performing Artist Residency 2025
Luke Pell
Luke Pell is a maker, living in Scotland, tending to space. For possibility, for re-remembering, for careful conversation, imagination & emergence. Often a companion in practice to other dance artists and arts organisations – as dramaturg, facilitator, writer, researcher – they collaborate in projects and processes that attend to alterity, with hope of effecting embodied […]
Salma Francoise Faraji
Originally from Tanzania, East Africa, and now based in Glasgow, Salma has taught and performed with multi-generational communities in Scotland. Prior to volunteering in South America as a Human Rights Ambassador, she pursued a career as an Air Traffic Control Assistant. She teaches Aerobics with Soul ® The African Dance Workout, and continues studying British […]
Malcolm Sutherland
Born in Scotland, Malcolm trained at Central School of Ballet before joining Ballet Basel as an apprentice. From there, Malcolm spent seven successful years with the Ballett Staatstheater Nürnberg, where he performed works from world renowned choreographers such as Pite, Naharin, Kylian, Ek. As a choreographer he has created 2 full-length productions for the Tafelhalle. […]
Janice Parker & Emmie McLuskey
Janice Parker and Emmie McLuskey have worked together since 2016, exploring the intersection of movement with archive, influence and how dance is recorded and shared. Previous projects include 1973 – Archiving the Live at the City Arts Centre and Glasgow Womens’ Library, Notes on the Floor and To My Future Body at KW Berlin, these […]
Nocturn Dance: John Darvell & Charlie Brittain
Nocturn Dance shines a light on later life dancers with an invitation to co-create interactive digital dance adventures.
Alex McCabe, Stefanie Schwimmbeck, Emma Jayne Park
Cove Park, in collaboration with The Work Room and TanzFaktur Cologne, will welcome two of the ten dance artists joining the CROWD – international dance exchange 2022 programme this summer, funded by the Goethe-Institut, Arts Council England, NRW KULTURsekretariat, Nordisk Kulturfond and Creative Scotland. The Work Room and TanzFaktur are both members of CROWD, a collaborative network of international […]
Mele Broomes
Mele Broomes’ work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Her work GRIN was presented at Battersea Art Centre, London, alongside the film production which was also screened at Theatre Centre Canada and part of Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil. In 2021 Mele was commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre, where she […]
Saffy Setohy
Glasgow-based Saffy Setohy is a dance artist working across choreography, performance, participatory work, facilitation, mentoring and movement direction in an expanded field. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of her work. A deep interest in people, place and ecological practice threads through all of her activities, aiming to perceive and relate to the world through […]