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Partnership — RCS Contemporary Performance Practice

Cove Park is pleased to expand its valued partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland by offering a dedicated group residency in 2024 and 2025 for all graduating students of the Contemporary Performance Practice (CPP) programme. This initiative reflects Cove Park’s ongoing commitment to nurturing emerging talent in the performing arts.

From 2021-2023, Cove Park supported one recent CPP graduate each summer, providing space and time for creative development. Past residents include Sally Charlton, Nell O’Hara, and Margot Conde Arenas. The group residency marks a significant evolution of this partnership, offering a collaborative opportunity for the 2024 and 2025 cohorts to further their artistic practice in a supportive and inspiring environment.

This residency underscores Cove Park’s aims to support the next generation of artists at a pivotal stage in their careers.

RCS CPP Cohort, Summer 2024

Residencies


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

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

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

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
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Marcus Richardson

Marcus (they/them) is a theatre maker. Their practice leads them to direct, perform, and write. Their work often centres around autoethnography and autobiography to explore the multiplicity of identities that we as individuals possess. They seek to create work that explores the complex relationships, not just between characters, but also the performer and the audience. […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

RCS CPP 2024 Graduates

We are delighted to expand our partnership with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and offer a special group residency for the 2024 graduates of the Contemporary Performance Practice programme. Every summer since 2021, Cove Park has hosted one recent graduate of the CPP programme including Sally Charlton, Nell O’Hara, and Margot Conde Arenas. This year, […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

Margot Conde Arenas

Margot Conde Arenas is a Venezuelan, Colombian, Welsh and Dutch multidisciplinary artist, performer and facilitator based in Glasgow. Working across live performance, video art and movement, her work explores decoloniality; migration and displacement; homelands; traumatised bodies; womanhood; biophilia; and ancestry. Creating and collaborating in socially engaged contexts, her arts practice focuses on amplifying unheard human […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency
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Nell O'Hara

We are delighted to continue our partnership with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to offer a recent graduate from the Contemporary Performance Practice a research residency at Cove Park. In 2022, the residency has been awarded to Nell O’Hara. In 2021, this residency was awarded to Sally Charlton. Nell O’Hara is a Bristol born, Glasgow […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice Graduate Residency

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 […]

RCS – Contemporary Performance Practice

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