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Tabitha Dearie

Tabitha Dearie is a performance maker from Glasgow, Scotland, who weaves together text, body-based performance, and film to create politically and emotionally charged works. Her practice is deeply rooted in collaboration and community, often drawing from personal experience to explore questions of identity, her own and that of others. Through this lens, she examines what […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Louise Van Tassel

Louise is a sound and performance artist based in Glasgow. Inspired by pop, noise, punk and opera, she makes musically infused absurdist theatre. In her most recent projects, she has explored ways to talk about/fight against imposed silences and selective erasures of history. She likes to work with other humans, machines, field recordings, inanimate objects […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Dianne McConnell

Dianne McConnell (she/her) is a contemporary performance artist whose work emerges from spiritual inquiry rooted in lived experience. Through the intersection of dance, ritual and autobiography, she offers ritual acts of becoming, where the stage becomes a site of healing, invocation, and transformation. Dianne says, ‘I am here to offer art to the void that […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Bee McQueen

Bee McQueen is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator working at the intersection of live art, poetry, participatory performance, and socially engaged practice. Her work is rooted in embodiment, intuition, and a commitment to what Johanna Hedva calls “rituals of refusal”—gestures that carve space for the sacred within systems of exhaustion, alienation, and control. A core […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Shaaray Sharif

Shaaray Sharif (she/her) is a performance maker and interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in postcolonial performance and explores power, identity, and resistance. Combining sound, movement, and text, Shaaray creates performances that challenge societal norms and amplify marginalised voices. Rooted in autobiographical material and framed through feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives, Shaaray’s practice invites audiences […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Amy Clark

Amy Clark (she/her) is a performance maker, arts producer, and facilitator originally from Cumbria, currently based in Glasgow. She creates work that is experimental in both form and content, and that sits across the disciplines of contemporary performance, experimental theatre and choreography. Using the body as a starting point, her work is often durational and […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Noa Ferder

Noa Ferder (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist creating work at the intersection of performance and visual art. Using detailed and provocative aesthetics, her work focuses on the distortion of the everyday life to constantly challenge conventional shapes and definitions and shine light on cultural, societal and internal gaps. As a bilingual artist working globally (currently […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Gemma Legan

Gemma Legan (she/her) is a Glasgow-based performer, deviser, facilitator and musician from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. She is a graduate from BA (Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Within her work, she often uses writing, Scots language, disruption, juxtapositions and contradictions to explore culture, individual and collective identity, non-conformity and barriers to […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Romany Dear

Romany Dear 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 with: Germinal (Bolivia) The Judson Church & The Movement Research Centre […]

Partnership Residency

Ebun Sodipo

Ebun Sodipo is an artist and writer who makes work for Black Trans people of the future. Guided by Black feminist study and a methodology of collage and fabulation, her work locates and produces real and imaginable narratives of Black Trans women’s presence, embodiment, and interiority across the past, present, and future. In doing this, […]

Early Career Performing Artist Residency
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Early Career Performing Artist Residency 2025

Deadline: 17 January 2025
Opportunity

James McKeon

James McKeon studied at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester and Christ’s College, Cambridge where he was the organ scholar.  He is currently Musical Director and Associate Musical Supervisor for Moulin Rouge The Musical in London, as well as Associate Musical Supervisor for the German production and the forthcoming Dutch production.  West End shows as Musical […]

Musical Theatre Writing Residency