Marina
Mascarell
Creative producing
Marina Mascarell is one of the most exciting voices in European dance. She is interested in a rebellious body characterised by questioning ‘normativity’: the dancing body as a form of resistance, deeply rooted in a political and social action.
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Together with Marina I have established a new foundation Stichting MEI (S): an alternative space and structure and a nurturing and listening environment, that both makes art pieces and that impacts art practices.
Photo © Mila Ercoli
Vasco
Mendonça
Creative producing
Vasco is a Portuguese composer whose music has been widely commissioned and performed internationally at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh Music, Musica Nova Helsinki, Philharmonie de Paris, Lincoln Center, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, La Monnaie, Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, Elbphilharmonie, Casa da Música and Gulbenkian Foundation. His distinctions include the Lopes Graça Composition Award, ROLEX Mentor and Protegé Arts Initiative and representing Portugal at UNESCO’s International Rostrum of Composers.
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I work with Vasco on his independent projects, which currently includes a new opera for children The Girl, the Hunter and the Wolf (world premiere, Dutch National Opera, October 2022) and a documentary series Opera Today for broadcast in 2024/25.
Photo © Koen Broos
Macnas
Strategic planning (2022)
Macnas is an internationally acclaimed spectacle and theatre performance company in Galway, Ireland. Masters of storytelling and spectacle, Macnas creates large-scale interactive, immersive spectacle events transforming cities, venues and public sites into playgrounds of imagination.
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I supported MACNAS in developing a plan to sustain and grow the vision, identifying future opportunities nationally and internationally to fulfil its vision that ‘imagination is the axis for change.’
Photo © Julia Dunin
Scottish
Ballet Health
Strategic planning + advice
(2019–2021)
Scottish Ballet Health pioneers models to promote health and wellbeing across the lifespan.
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I worked with the health and engagement team, directors and board to complete a Strategic Business Case for the future sustainability of Scottish Ballet’s Health Programme followed by an extended period of advice and mentoring focused on strategic partnerships across funding, research evidence and programme delivery.
Photo © Andy Ross
Netizenship
Convening
I co-created (with Georgina Bednar, No Ordinary Experience) and led the project Netizenship for the British Council in Spring 2021, bringing together 38 young filmmakers from youth-led media platforms Boubli in Tunisia and Million Youth Media in the UK, with the twin objective of sharing experiences and making a joint film about an issue that mattered to them.
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The film Blossom | زهر received its online premiere at Raindance Film Festival in 2021.
espaço
agora now
Founder
espaço agora now is an ambitious project that celebrates radical imagination and radical artists as illuminating and galvanising forces in the centre of society.
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The vision is to create a network of spaces for residencies in different cities around the world, where artists in the performance fields will have time, kinship and resources to explore and test ideas at the earliest point in the creative process. They will be welcoming spaces that offer artists and communities an alternative space to gather and exchange ideas. The project started as the seed of an idea in 2019 and is now driven by a growing movement of 200 extraordinary artists representing 42 nationalities. We expect to open 5 first spaces in 5 different cities around the world in 2024.
Photo © Hugo Glendinning
