Hello!
This site is about the freelance practice I’ve developed alongside roles with Independent Dance (Co-Director 2020-2024), and Artsadmin (Lead Artist Advisor/Producer & other roles 2004-2019).
I work in producing, curating, dramaturgy and mentoring, with strong interests in performance, participation, and widening access to bold and radical work in galleries, theatres, public spaces and found sites.
My approach is influenced by a background in making and performing, and through working alongside artists and partners in different ways for 25+ years.
With a spirit of learning, reciprocity and changemaking at the heart of this, I am keen to creatively and strategically support work which takes risks, transforms, delights, troubles - and enriches - our understanding of the world.
- Producing UK & international tour of Walking Each Other Home, a participatory project by Stacy Makishi
- Collaborating with Arts on the Green to develop the programme at Newington Green Meeting House in London; curating/producing a new residency programme, and developing a partnership project with Live Art Development Agency
- Developing curatorial research project Towards supported (thank you!) by an ACE grant. Exploring how to create a new platform for live work in the coastal area between Eastbourne and Newhaven.
- Producing LINKED by Graeme Miller. A sound work installed on lamp posts across 3 miles of East London which transmits the voices and stories of 60 people displaced by the building of the M11 Link Road
- Producing BEHELD by Graeme Miller
- Supporting development of new installation work by Umama Hamido
- Trustee of queer-led Hastings-based Home Live Art
2020-24: Co-Director, Independent Dance (ID).
ID is an artist-led, learning-based organisation in London which supports the development of dance through radical enquiry, learning, community-building and audience engagement. As Co-Director alongside Heni Hale I steered creative strategy and led on partnerships, communications, finance, fundraising, governance. Heni and I initiated and co-curated editions of International Festival of Learning and year-long programme Dance it Dance it; artistic approaches to access & inclusive leadership. We co-led the creation of ID’s open-access Digital Library of 140 transcribed artist talks.
Freelance work has involved supporting performance-makers and visual artists to create and present projects in galleries, theatres and found sites. For 13 years I collaborated with Florence Peake; initially as performer in five early works at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, BALTIC, Hayward Gallery, Space Studios, Moving Museum for Frieze, then through Florence being an Associate Artist through Artsadmin, and then as freelance producer of her performance works at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), De La Warr Pavilion, National Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Somerset House and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh between 2014 - 2023.
Other artists I have collaborated with as a freelance producer include Sung Im Her, Fernanda Muńoz-Newsome, and Nic Conibere. As a dramaturg I have worked with Simone Mousset, Mamoru Iriguchi and Umama Hamido. Recent mentoring/project development support relationships with Marina Collard, Jessica Lerner, Charlotte Spencer, Anna-Maria Nabirye & Darragh O’Leary, Craig Mccorquodale.
2004 - 2019: As Artsadmin’s Lead Artist Advisor/Producer, I shaped artist development schemes, co-curated public artworks, and started a European network to critically explore the ethics of participation. Projects included live works by Stacy Makishi, supporting associate artists including Freddie Opoku-Addaie and Mamoru Iriguchi, curating Weekender Labs with artists ranging from La Ribot to Vlatka Horvat and The Freedom Theatre Palestine, and live works for Southbank’s Paralympic Culture Programme 2012.
2000-4: Programme Manager with Chisenhale Dance Space
Before working in the arts, in the 90s, I was an ESOL Lecturer leading a course for women at Hackney Community College, where I was also Refugee Support Worker. Before this I lived in Spain, teaching English and running a market stall.
Artists’ projects produced freelance: 2016-2025
Walking Each Other Home by Stacy Makishi, a touring participatory project (2024-26)
BEHELD by Graeme Miller, an installation (2025)
LINKED by Graeme Miller, offsite commission for Radical Landscapes, Morris Gallery, London (2023 - 2024), open days at Leytonstone and Wanstead Libraries (2024-25)
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)
Carareretetatakakekerers by 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) - fundraising through Jerwood Choreographic Research Project and ACE, partnership development, logistics and performers’ support during making at Somerset House Studios
Shift Construct by Florence Peake: NOW Gallery, London
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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