Suzi Cunningham
Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Butoh dancer. Her solo work is highly physical, political and responsive to its unique environment, enriched with her sense of design and musical composition. Suzi explores relationships with all life forms as well as manufactured materials, making embodied connections in a way that borders transformation. She has […]
Pik Kei Wong
Wong Pik Kei choreographs and performs across Scotland and Hong Kong, exploring gender, sexuality, and embodied experience through innovative dance theatre. Her work challenges boundaries, creating intimate performer-audience dialogues. Her solo “Bird-Watching” explores female desire, earning five-star (Summer hall) Edinburgh Fringe reviews. Recent works “Vermin,” VR piece “A Thousand Plateaus,” and “Under∞Line” advance dance’s social […]
Yuvel Soria
Yuvel Soria (he/him) (b. Bolivia) is a Dance Artist-Creator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. As a British-Bolivian diasporic artist, his work explores identity, belonging, and culture. Rooted in traditional Bolivian, Latin, and contemporary dance, his multidisciplinary practice emphasises collaboration, immersion, and audience interaction. He creates sensory-rich, participatory works that span performance and live art, fostering […]
Susanne Grau
Susanne Grau (*1988, Germany) works as a dancer, choreographer and Rolfing practitioner based in Berlin. Across projects, she explores relationships of language, physicality, imagination and rhythm. She likes to see performative practice as a facilitation of encounters, as a kind of seance and psychomagical field of experimentation. With the support of Seitenwechsel e.V. she is organising […]
Juana del Mar Jiménez Infante
Juana del Mar born in Bogotá, Colombia and currently lives in Berlin. She grounds her artistic practice, research, and pedagogy in dance and performance exploring the body, its tensions, and its complexities as singular and collective experiences in relation to context and encounter with others. Her projects often unfold in collaboration with artists from diverse […]
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. […]