past associates
Artists who have been supported by The Point
through our Associate Artists Scheme and other
structured support include;
The River People
The River People create honest handmade
theatre through the use of dark folk storytelling, puppetry and
live music. In 2009 they won Best Emerging Company at the Total
Theatre Awards 2009 and the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe
Prize 2009. As well as creating and touring theatrical
productions, the company also offer a wide range of educational and
skills based workshops for adults and young people and
undertake puppet and set making commissions. www.theriverpeople.co.uk
Rough Fiction
Rough Fiction is a multi-disciplinary theatre company.
They use existing fiction as a launch pad to create live and
immediate contemporary performance. With backgrounds in new-writing
and physical theatre, the company strive to produce cutting edge
theatre by putting their own stamp on traditional theatre
forms and celebrate the live and communal aspects of performance.
Championing ensemble acting with equal emphasis on text, movement
and musicality, Rough Fiction’s work can be like going to a gig,
viewing a painting and reading a much loved book all rolled into
one. www.roughfiction.com
Seedsew
SeedSew formed in 2008. Performance artists
Natalie Adams and Benjamin Martin work with performance, visual and
digital art, sound and improvisation. Their work aims to
present something exceptionally exciting and unique in the
performance art scene, stimulating new ways of seeing, accepting
and reading performance. www.seedsew.co.uk
Lost Banditos
Lost Banditos' work concentrates on
finding a current story or topic that can be experimented with,
re-worked and played with using humour and subversion to tell
“perhaps” a poignant tale. They work with personal
stories, the individual against the machine, against common
ignorance or intolerance and want to share those stories
with their audience so they don’t belong just to one person,
but to all of us. www.lostbanditos.com
Hofesh
Schecter
Hofesh Shechter has been identified as one of
the UK’s most exciting artists. Recognised as both a
choreographer and composer, Hofesh was the very first Creative
Associate of The Point in 2006. Hofesh is now an Associate Artist
of Sadler’s Wells and Hofesh Shechter Company is Resident Company
at Brighton Dome. Hofesh’s work has garnered universal acclaim and
won numerous awards. www.hofesh.co.uk
StopGap
StopGAP were also one of the fist set of
Creative Associates at The Point. They are a leading contemporary
dance company consisting of dancers with and without disabilities.
StopGAP is a dance company that challenges traditional notions
about dance by using each dancer's physical and intellectual
potential as a starting point for creating new work. The company
recognise and celebrate individuality and the differences between
people whilst continually seeking artistic and technical
excellence. www.stopgap.uk.com