The Place has announced that Amy Bell, Claire Cunningham and Vicki Igbokwe will be its new associate dance artists.
Work Place, the associate artist programme at The Place, gives dance makers space to create and platforms for performance in a programme tailored to each choreographer’s individual needs.
Founded in 2011, the Work Place scheme supports 11 choreographers at different points in their careers to develop new ideas and make those ideas a reality. The current associate artists are Tony Adigun, Amy Bell, James Cousins, Claire Cunningham, Ben Duke, Vicki Igbokwe, Rosemary Lee, Frauke Requardt, Luca Silvestrini, Moreno Solinas and Igor Urzelai.
Performances supported by the Work Place programme across 2018 are Juliet & Romeo: A guide to a long life and happy marriage by Ben Duke’s Lost Dog (co-commissioned by The Place and Battersea Arts Centre, The Forecast, a new solo by Amy Bell exploring the shifting nature of gender, and Splayed, a three-day festival curated by Bell challenging ideas of femininity.
Vicki Igbokwe is creating her first family show with Uchenna Dance; the R&D stages include a live feedback work in progress performance on 23 March called Shape It before it premières in December at The Place.