2004 Residency Programme

The 2004 programme brings together leading national and international visual artists, curators, applied artists, poets, writers, choreographers, composers, musicians, film makers, stage designers and performers. The residency strands and participating artists are:

Critical Writing

Will Bradley

Curator, Writer and co-founder of Glasgow's The Modern Institute , Will Bradley is working on new writing and curatorial projects. On residency at Cove Park throughout June, he will return in September.

Visual Arts

Hugh Watt

Irish artist Hugh Watt was awarded a three-month Visual Arts Residency (funded by the Scottish Arts Council). Based in Glasgow and a tutor at Glasgow School of Art, Hugh works with video, employing a variety of filming techniques to explore landscape, natural phenomena and notions of place, memory and belonging

Crafts

Sophie Horton

London-based artist Sophie Horton was awarded a three-month Crafts Residency (funded by the Scottish Arts Council). Sophie's work frequently combines traditional making skills, such as knitting and crochet, with an interest in urban architecture and landscape. She has also undertaken a number of projects within gardens and forests, removing her work in textiles from its traditional associations with the domestic environment.

SAC International Literary Fellowship and Creative Writing Residencies

Yang Lian

Cove Park's International Literary Fellowship was awarded to the acclaimed Chinese poet Yang Lian. During the 1970s Lian was one of a group of young underground poets who published the influential Chinese literary magazine Jintian. Since then he has published seven selections of poetry translated into more than 20 languages. Lian will be based at Cove Park during July and October this year. His residency will continue in August 2005 when he will also contribute to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The Scottish poet and translator Harvey Holton, a Galashiels poet who writes in Scots Border dialect, and the Oxford-based poet Polly Clark both joined Lian at Cove Park in July for residencies which explored issues surrounding the translation of work from one language and culture to another.

Performing Arts

Choreographic Development

Early in 2004 Cove Park was invited by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the Scottish Arts Council to run a choreographic development programme. This gives Scotland's leading dance makers the opportunity to expand their practice by working with artists outside their own fields. Six choreographers will participate: Rosie Kay, Karl Lewin, Steinvor Palsson, Claire Pençak, Vanessa Smith, Eric Tessier-Lavigne and Maria Zanotti.

Claire Pençak with John Clifford (June)

A graduate of the Laban Centre, London. Claire is currently Artistic Director of the Tabula Rasa Dance Company. Her creative work has encompassed cross-cultural collaborations, cross-art form projects, contemporary dance and physical theatre. John Clifford is Professor of Theatre at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. He is author of over 65 plays, adaptations and translations in every dramatic medium.

Eric Tessier-Lavigne and John Harvey (June)

Eric Tessier-Lavigne has worked nationally and internationally and is one of Scotland's leading choreographers. John Harvey has had over 70 pieces of work produced during 25 years of writing in Scotland. He has worked with numerous theatre companies, including: TAG, Communicado and Dundee Rep. He has also written text for dance companies and solo performers.

Vanessa Smith and Andy McAvoy (July)

Vanessa Smith trained at the Laban Centre in London and has run her own company Group N, presenting her work, and also commissioning choreographer Rosemary Butcher. She has been Dance Artist in Residence at East Kilbride Arts Centre and Tramway, Glasgow. Most recently she took part in a Creative Lab at CCA, Glasgow.  Architect Andy McAvoy is based in Glasgow and a Senior Partner with the company Blast Architects. The architect of Cove Park's own ‘Pods', Andy is known for radical designs that address the requirements of rural landscape and environmental concerns.

Steinvor Palsson with Dmytro Morykit (July)

Based in Edinburgh, Palsson has worked on numerous performances with organisations such as Dance Base, Scottish Opera and The Ensemble Group. She also works as a tutor at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in Norwegian literature.  Dmytro Morykit has worked in a variety of contexts, from solo to group and ensemble performances, and has explored a diverse range of musical projects. A student of the Royal College of Music in London, Morykit has also collaborated previously with dancers and choreographers throughout the UK.

Marisa Zanotti with Rowan Gillespie (September)

Director/choreographer Marisa Zanotti has been creating work in different mediums since 1987.  Recent works include: the direction of ‘San Diego', commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow (writer, David Greig); ‘Shift/Shify Dreams' (video installation, Tramway, Glasgow, 2003) and ‘Butterfly' for Scottish Opera Steps Out. During her residency Marisa worked with the Glasgow-based dancer Rowan Gillespie.

Rosie Kay with Kamal Arafa and Sarah Fahie (September)

Rosie Kay trained at the London Contemporary Dance School. She went on to dance with the Polish Dance Theatre, Green Candle Dance Company (UK) and The Blue Bird Dance Theatre (Berlin). Since 1999 she has created her own choreographic work, touring throughout Europe. She is currently based in London. During her residency, Rosie worked with the actor/performer Kamal Arafa and choreographer/dancer Sarah Fahie.

Colette Sadler with Thomas Charbonne (October)

Colette Sadler studied at both the West School of Classical Ballet and the Laban Centre, London. Since 1995 she has performed in productions throughout the UK and in Europe and she was awarded a New Work Commission by Tramway, Glasgow, for 2005.  Colette is working with the Berlin-based composer Thomas Charbonne.

Jerwood Dance Residency

Cathy Marston is one of the UK's leading choreographers. Having studied at the Royal Ballet Upper School in 1992, she graduated to join the Zurich Ballet from where she went on to join the Luzern Ballet and the Bern Ballet. She returned to London in 2000 to work as an independent choreographer and dancer. She was recently appointed the first Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House.

At Cove Park in July, Marston worked with two creative teams: the first with film director Margaret Williams and producer Peter Anderson, working on dance commissions for Channel 4 TV; the second with stage designer Jon Bausor and composers Dave Maric and Stuart McRae, developing a new commission for Royal Opera House.

Royal Opera House: ROH2

ROH2 is the artists' development initiative of the ROH that presents cross art form productions in the organisation's two studios. This residency programme began with Cathy Marston and continued with composer Dominique LeGendre and Ben Park.

Dominique LeGendre

Dominique LeGendre was born and educated in Trinidad. Classically trained as a guitarist in Paris, she came to the UK in 1987. LeGendre has just been named as an Associate Artist of the ROH and at Cove Park will be working on a commission for the House based on Caribbean folklore and religion.

Ben Park Composer

Ben Park is co-founder of Walker Dance Park Music, a company he created with choreographer Fin Walker in 1998. The company has an international reputation for fresh choreographic ideas and striking musical composition. Ben has also composed for film and television and produced compositions for live performance for theatre and dance.

Springboard Residency Programme

The Springboard Residencies are offered to visual artists, architects, designers and performance artists who have recently graduated from leading UK art schools and colleges. Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, this programme enables artists at a key stage in their career to develop their practice and to meet peers working in different art forms:  Lucy Clout (visual artist, Goldsmith's College, London); Mairi Lafferty (visual artist, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee); Won Wern Lim (fashion designer, University of Northumbria, Newcastle); and Michael Stumpf (visual artist, Glasgow School of Art).

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Katrina Brown, Curator at Dundee Contemporary Arts, returns to Cove Park in October this year. During her first visit in 2002 she met Graham Eatough, Artistic Director of Suspect Culture, the Glasgow-based theatre company. This meeting has led to the development of a new project for DCA that will bring Eatough together with the internationally acclaimed visual artist Graham Fagen.