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 change in the ways people encounter, engage with and reconsider death, dying and loss; queer and disabled cultures, experience and divergence; interdependence, community and care.

A long term associate of performance company Fevered Sleep and Janice Parker Projects they dramaturg and Research Associate with Professor Claire Cunningham’s Crip | Choreo | Care team at the HZT (Inter-university Dance Centre) Berlin and one of Cove Park’s Founding Associates.

Luke is returning to Cove Park for the first time since before the Covid pandemic for a dedicated period of creative reflection, replenishment and reorientation. As a Founding Associate, Cove Park has been the place where most of Luke’s own artistic projects were seeded and researched, as well as having joined a range of other Scotland-based artists during their time at Cove as a companion in practice.

At the beginning of this new year, Luke will be using their time at Cove to write and to move, reflecting on recurring themes, concerns and dramaturgies in projects they have been working on prior to and since the pandemic, in order to lean into early research for an emergent choreo-poetic performance project.