Residency

Suzi Cunningham

Duration

6 – 10 October 2025

Courtesy of Suzi Cunningham

Residency Types

Magnetic North Space / Time Open

Artforms

Choreography Dance Performance

Image: Courtesy of 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 extensively toured Scotland with her solo work Eidos and Rules To Live By. In 2020 she co-created Buff and Sheen, a dancing clowning show about window cleaning, as a direct need to make live work that still connected people during the pandemic. She is a performer and collaborator in Oceanallover, and co-founded MoonSlide and Nomoss who specialise in interdisciplinary and inclusive outdoor performance, that cross barriers of access to the live arts.

Magnetic North’s Space/Time is a paid creative retreat for experienced artists from all disciplines that asks the question “How does an artist keep developing?” It aims to refresh participants through a stimulating examination of creativity. During the residency, we will explore how creativity can be nourished and how artists can continue to challenge themselves to develop. The residency combines facilitated dialogue – built around a series of self-generated questions – with time for individual reflection and work. It is led by Nicholas Bone and Alice McGrath.

Magnetic North was founded in 1999. Led by Artistic Director Nicholas Bone and Producer Anna Hodgart, the company combines developing and producing live theatre with innovative multi-artform artist development. They collaborate with playwrights, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performers and other artists to create a wide range of work including plays, music-theatre, installations, online events and films. Their comprehensive artist development strand has supported over 250 independent artists to continue developing.

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