Dancers include... |
Musicians include |
Nicholas Bone, Ian Cameron, Matthew Hawkins, Merav Israel, Amy Longmuir, Sheila Macdougall, Rosalind Masson, Alex McCabe, Brigid McCarthy, Tony Mills, Claire Pençak and Amy Robertson
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Bill Thomson, Peter Nelson
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Nicholas Bone
Nicholas Bone is a director, performer and collaborator. He is Artistic Director of Magnetic North, running their Artist Development programme and directing all their productions. Recent work for Magnetic North includes Our Fathers (co-written and performed with Rob Drummond), A Walk at the Edge of the World (co-created with Sans facon and Ian Cameron), Sex and God by Linda McLean and Some Other Stars by Clare Duffy. Other directing work includes Kora by Tom McGrath (Dundee Rep) and Osama the Hero (NIDA, Sydney). Nicholas has been a member of In The Making since 2016. |
Matthew Hawkins
Matthew Hawkins has first hand experience of working and studying with Sir Frederick Ashton, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Steve Paxton, Siobhan Davies and David Gordon. He is a Jerwood Choreography Prize winner and recipient of the Chris de Marigny Dance Writing award: Arts Council England International Fellowship and Creative Scotland Choreographic Futures awardee. Hawkins is currently in the steering group of In the Making, as invited by Merav Israel and Claire Pencak. In this context he is airing methods and practical strategies for real-time composition. Relevant also are his studies and collaborations in different cultural contexts. These illuminate and hinge on how variously collaborative projects are structured and presented - and why. In the Making is also sheds light on ideas of experimentation beyond the taste and style of the work of any individual. |
Merav Israel
Dance artist, Feldenkrais Method Practitioner (and trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy) My work is defined by embodied practices and dance performance that is responsive to space and installation either present or created using different mediums and mainly placed in non theatrical spaces or galleries. I move between composition and live composition practice, improvisation and creating scores for engagement and creation of work and in training for groups of dancers or in interdisciplinary contexts. www.meravisrael.com |
Amy Longmuir
Amy is an Edinburgh based dance and circus artist. They have worked with a variety of companies and choreographers including Matthew Hawkins, Royston Maldoom, Imogene Newland, Liminal Dance, Circus Alba and Circus Arts Scotland. Amy is currently co-creating Q-fforia, a dance theatre show for young people which explores LGBTQ+ identities, with Angharad Jones and Ben Seal. They have performed extensively as half of acro duo Amy and Saya and are currently working with All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre and Éowyn Emerald and Dancers. |
Sheila Macdougall
Sheila Macdougall is a performer, choreographer, director and arts educator with many years of experience. She has worked both inside and outside numerous galleries in Scotland (e.g. Dundee Contemporary, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Talbot Rice) and at other site specific venues, and has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, directors, dancers, actors and choreographers to create work with a strong sense of spatial and architectural relationships. Sheila was a lecturer for ten years at San Diego State University in the Department of Theatre, Television and Film. She trained in Six Viewpoints with Mary Overlie and Anne Bogart, and is a qualified Critical Response Process (CRP) facilitator,having trained with LizLerman and Jon Borstel. Sheila is an Associate Artist with Seven Doors Theatre Company and a practitioner with Hearts&Minds Elderflower programme, which encompasses therapeutic clowning in settings for ladies and gentlemen living with dementia – a practice with a strong basis in improvisation and real- time composition. |
Brigid McCarthy
Brigid McCarthy is an independent dancer artist with a particular interest in collaboration and site specific performance. She has been a creative on several large-scale performances working with a mix of professional and community casts (with National Theatre of Scotland, Iron Oxide, Mark Murphy) and has also worked as a dramaturg within a dance context. She is also involved with movement/visual art crossover, performing 52 with Michael Popper for a 3 week residency at the Royal Scottish Academy and has an on-going collaboration with visual artist, Su Grierson. In 2016, Brigid was the Movement Director for Scotland on We’re Here Because We’re Here, a large scale performance installation directed by Jeremy Deller and the National Theatre. She was also a recipient of a Choreographic Futures Award which she used to explore making film. Brigid has been a pioneering advocate for Pilates, Gyrotonic and Scaravelli Yoga in Scotland since the 1980s. |
Tony Mills
Tony Mills is a founder member of Random Aspekts B Boy crew and hails from the Orkney Isles. Since giving up veterinary surgery whites for tights, he has worked with Freshmess Dance Company, State of Emergency, Off Kilter, Iron Oxide, Curious Seed, David Hughes Dance Productions, All or Nothing, Russian physical theatre maestros, Derevo, and the international street-dance show, Blaze, which toured to Thailand, Russia, Australia, London and Taiwan. Tony is a keen ambassador for the breakdance scene in Scotland and has been involved in the production and hosting of major dance events including Castle Rocks Breakdance Championships and the Scottish leg of the national Breakin’ Convention tours from 2007 - ‘14. Tony continually creates work for his own company, Room 2 Manoeuvre, which has seen the company perform across the UK and internationally. The company's work is a blend of hip hop, contemporary dance and physical theatre. Tony is a die hard coffee fan and has a lingering penchant for croissants. |
Claire Pençak
Claire Pençak is an independent dancer and choreographer with an investigative research and performance practice. Her work reveals itself in different ways - as performance, writings from improvisation, moving image installation, events, and as an approach to collaborative and cross- disciplinary working and creative leadership. She is currently doing a practice - led PhD at Northumbria University within the department of Visual and Material Culture and is the CABN Advocate for Place-making and Collaboration in the Scottish Borders. She works from The Bakery Studio, Jedburgh. clairepencak.wordpress.com workingthetweed.co.uk/blog |
Ian Cameron
Ian Cameron is a performer, director and visual artist. He originally trained as a painter at Central School of Art and Design in London and subsequently in classical mime, clowning, puppetry and mask with such teachers as Lecoq, Gaulier, Monique Pagneaux, Pierre Byland, Théâtre du Mouvement and Desmond Jones. He has been a director/co-creator and/or performer in various award winning productions such as Shona Reppe's 'Cinderella'; Magnetic North's 'A Walk At The Edge Of The World’; Catherine Wheels Theatre multi award winning‘White', and 'The Voice Thief'. He has performed with such companies as the English National Opera, in Harrison Birtwhistle's 'The Mask of Orpheus’; The Royal National Theatre(commissioned work); London Sinfonietta in da Falla’s 'Master Peter's Puppet Show' conducted by Simon Rattle; as a puppeteer with the Montreal puppet company Theatre Sans Fil; The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester co-production ‘Little Sister’ directed by Mark Storor; and in pantomime at the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh. He is co-founder with Tim Licata of the theatre company Plutôt La Vie, and for the last twenty years he was a part time theatre practitioner with Hearts & Minds performing as a Clowndoctor. More recently he co-directed Magnetic North's and Traverse Theatre’s co-production 'Our Fathers’, and co-directed the Traverse Theatre and Red Bridge Arts award winning co-production ‘Black Beaty’, and most recently co-created, with Andy Manley, and directed ‘Stick by Me’, a commission by the Boing Festival in Canterbury. He has toured widely internationally with ‘White’, and this summer will be touring Japan and China. His visual art work is in various public and private collections, including the Arts Council of England. |
Amy Robertson
Independent dance artist. |