BIO

*-* @_a_lawrence

I’m an Artist, Producer and Dramaturg based in Manchester,UK, creating performative and visual projects using experimental choreography, audio and visual arts often in the form of gatherings, via curated events/ workshop and immersive experiences across Galleries, Theatre and site specific locations in public spaces. I enjoy collaborating with ensembles of people and marginalised bodies to navigate lived experiences of identity in a socially-engaged practise using everyday gesture, un/popular culture,  real and imagined worlds to create a patchwork representation of contemporary racial and gendered politics.

Recent projects include performance-project KINGS, exploring blackness and masculinity in city spaces at night with support from ACE and Royal Exchange Theatre. I am also Supported Artist alumni at the Royal Exchange Theatre (2018-19) and currently the ‘Young Persons’ Board Representative’ for the Manchester International Festival and Jerwood Fellow (MIF17.) Current projects include ‘SWET’ a ‘Develop’ commission by HOME alongside Schools and public projects with Barbican, Joshua Sofaer/Greater Manchester Arts and as an artist for ‘New Creatives’ supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts and delivered by Tyneside Cinema.

A big part of what I do is producing platforms of live, experimental work, professional development for artists/public and young people across arts organisations often engaged in issues of representation and equality since 2013.  Through 2019 I project-managed ‘Diverse Actions’ (maternity cover) an ACE funded project promoting diversity in the Live Art Sector for Live Art UK culminating in a day long symposium event ‘SKIN in the GAME’ (Z-Arts.) Alongside an interest in DIY projects, from 2015-2018 I co-ran LEGROOM, a DIY, choreographic curatorial project with Juliet Davis delivering a series of international and local artists residencies exploring movement and liveness. I have more recently begun offering Consultations for arts organisations around Anti-Racism actions and policy making.

CV available on request.

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