Laura Cantliff
Laura Cantliff is a dance artist and disability advocate, from Stoke on Trent and currently based in Devon. She studied dance at De Montfort University, and has an MA in Theatre and Dance Performance from Plymouth University. Alongside her dance practice, she is conducting PhD research that focuses on performance training processes for disabled students. As […]
Toria Banks
Toria Banks is a disabled writer, director and dramaturg. In 2018, she co-founded Hera to make inclusive music theatre by gender-minoritised artists, with Linda Hirst and Simone Ibbett-Brown. In 2021 she made ‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ with composer Amble Skuse: a digital opera commissioned by Sound Festival and made remotely by an all-disabled team […]
Amble Skuse
Amble is a composer and sound artist who uses disability theory, body sensor technology, spoken word interviews and electronics to create unique sound works. She is interested in the interface between the disabled body and the exterior world, and has explored this through numerous sound walks using her wheelchair. Amble’s work has been performed by […]
Tricky Hat
The Flames is a performance company for creative people aged 50 plus, who wish to create high quality, collaborative work. Tricky Hat first established The Flames in Autumn 2016 as part of the Luminate Festival with participants working with professional artists to explore ideas, before devising pieces for live performance. Tricky Hat is a Glasgow-based […]
Digital Archive: A Compendium of Climate Literacies
Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte is a Glasgow-based composer, sound artist, and arranger. In 2012 he completed a practice-based PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Aberdeen where his field of research was concerned with impermanence in audio-visual intermedia and headphone-specific composition. His compositional output often includes collaborations with artists of disciplines different from his own, including […]
Carrie Rhys-Davies
Carrie Rhys-Davies is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Bristol. For fifteen years Carrie focused on her work as a creative producer, collaborating with a wide range of artists and companies to develop and produce performance and engagement projects through roles with Tobacco Factory Theatres, Theatre Bristol, Bristol Old Vic, Terrestrial, Bristol Festival of Puppetry […]
The Play Park
Curious Seed
Award-winning performance company, Curious Seed, was formed in 2005 by Scottish choreographer, Christine Devaney. Based in Edinburgh, we produce and present compelling, dance theatre work that questions the world we live in; work which touches and moves people, unlocking new ways of experiencing and feeling something different about the world. Committed to exploring new ways […]
Winter Subsidised Residencies 2022
Nelly Kelly
Nelly Kelly is a proudly trans and autistic playwright, dramaturg and drag performer. Currently they are interested in making work around themes of unapologetic and defiant trans joy as a resistance to the trauma connected to when trans people are usually given space to speak in art and media. They are coming to Cove Park […]
Sally Charlton
We are delighted to be partnering with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to offer a recent graduate from the Contemporary Performance Practice a research residency at Cove Park. In 2021, the residency has been awarded to Sally Charlton. Sally Charlton is a multidisciplinary performance artist based in Glasgow. Sally graduated from the CPP programme in […]