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This site shares information about my work as a curator and producer in performance, dance, sound and visual art.
With strong interests in widening access to bold and radical practices across institutional and independent contexts, I aim to put learning, reciprocity, equity and changemaking at the heart of what I do, and to creatively and strategically support work which takes risks, transforms, delights, questions - and enriches - our understanding of the world.
Drawing on a background in performing and making, I work relationally and responsively and enjoy listening closely to artists, shaping supportive contexts for their work, and navigating the practical, emotional and strategic complexities required to bring risk-taking work to audiences. My approach is influenced and shaped by working within and outwith institutions, and alongside artists in many ways, including extensive collaboration as a producer with the artists Florence Peake (for 12 years) and Stacy Makishi.
Contexts I have produced projects in include Southbank Centre, Palais de Tokyo, De La Warr Pavilion, Leytonstone Library, National Gallery, TATE, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Dance Umbrella, Sadler’s Wells, Edinburgh Fringe and the London Paralympics.
I’m now fully freelance following roles with Independent Dance (Co-Director 2020-24), Artsadmin (Lead Artist Advisor/Producer 2004-19), Chisenhale Dance Space (Marketing Assistant and then Programme Manager 2000-4), ESOL Course Leader & Refugee Support Worker (Hackney Community College 1996-2000).
I’m currently developing LIVE EDITIONS, a new programme in Eastbourne and the South Downs; producing projects by Stacy Makishi, Umama Hamido and Graeme Miller, and doing fundraising, mentoring and consultancy for/with artists and organisations.
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I’m developing LIVE EDITIONS, a new programme supporting movement, sound and performance practices in Eastbourne and the Downs. This is emerging from a research project (2024-6) called ‘Towards’ exploring how, and whether, to create a new initiative here. This has involved conversations with artists, activists, ecologists, rangers and farmers, local councillors, community stakeholders, and curatorial staff of arts organisations; hosting pilot events in the South Downs National Park; training, consultancy, mapping and mentoring. LIVE EDITIONS will launch July 2026, with 25+ contributing artists involved in residencies, workshops, talks and performances. It will take place across a range of venues and outdoor sites in and around Eastbourne, with support from ACE and organisational partners.
Current producing work includes the UK & international tour of Stacy Makishi’s participatory project Walking Each Other Home which explores connection, community and how ritual can heal and transform (2024 - ); The Exiled Camera, a film installation by Umama Hamido about two parallel journeys of migration, displacement and homelessness. I continue to work with Graeme Miller on LINKED, an installation on lampposts across 3 miles of East London which emits the voices and stories of 60 people impacted by the demolition of 400 buildings to create the M11 Link Road in the 1990s. Originally commissioned by the Museum of London in 2003, LINKED was produced by Artsadmin for many years. -
A curated programme at Newington Green Meeting House supported by Grand Camp Maisie, with events, residencies and workshops led by Samra Mayanja with Live Art Development Agency, Stacy Makishi and Alice Gale-Feeny (2025-6)Towards; a year of research into how to create a new initiative to support live practices in Eastbourne and the Downs (2025-6)
Holy Kalohe (rascal), a short film about Stacy Makishi (2026)
Walking Each Other Home by Stacy Makishi, a touring participatory project (2024-ongoing)
LINKED by Graeme Miller, offsite commission for Radical Landscapes, Morris Gallery, London (2023 - 2024), open days at Leytonstone and Wanstead Libraries (2024-ongoing)
Factual Actual ((performance) by Florence Peake : Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023)
Factual Actual: Ensemble (performance)by Florence Peake at Southwark Park Galleries, London (2023)
Factual Actual (performance) by Florence Peake : The National Gallery, London (2021)
Carareretetatakakekerersby Normal Conditions / Nicola Conibere : produced until July 2021. Presented at Sadler’s Wells October 2021
Apparition Apparition by Florence Peake and Eve Stainton at The Place, London (2020)
Nutcrusher by Sung Im Her : at The Place, London and Cambridge Junction (2019)
W.A.Y (We Are You) by Sung Im Her : at ARKO, Seoul (2019)
Slug Horizons by Florence Peake & Eve Stainton : at Nottingham Contemporary for Nottdance (2019)
A Body Rites Itself by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome : at Powernight curated by Block Universe, E-WERK Berlin (2019)
Inchoate Buzz by Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome : at Nottdance and Sadler’s Wells (2019)
RITE: on this pliant body i slip my wow by Florence Peake: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2018)
RITE by Florence Peake at Palais de Toyko, Paris (2018)
RITE by Florence Peake: development phase (2016-2018)
Shift Construct by Florence Peake: NOW Gallery, London (2014)Dramaturgy
The Passion of Andrea 2 by Simone Mousset : at KLAP Marseille, Grand Théåtre de Luxembourg (2019), The Place, London (2020), Avignon Festival (2021)
Multiple works by Mamoru Iriguchi alongside Selina Patsoupeli
On Akka’s Shore, a film by Umama Hamido, alongside Graeme Miller
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