Artists

Horizon focuses on forging deep, sustainable relationships between artists making performance in England and international partners.

The Horizon artist cohorts are an eclectic mix of England-based artists and companies making ground-breaking new performance. These artists have been supported by Horizon and partners to develop new work through Horizon Residency, or to present tour-ready work and connect with international presenters through Horizon Live Presentation, as part of Horizon Showcase at the Edinburgh Festivals.

Horizon Artist Cohort 2023

Action Hero & Deborah Pearson / The Talent

Presentation

On stage is a small sound booth; inside sits a woman, alone. She is a voice-over artist. Off stage, in...

Brook Tate / Birthmarked

Presentation

A young Jehovah’s Witness comes to terms with his sexuality and finds his feet (and high heels…) in a world...

BULLYACHE / TOM

Presentation

In a holding room, participants wait. A pageant is about to begin. No call time, perpetual purgatory. Blending the myth...

Figs in Wigs / Little Wimmin

Presentation

Figs in Wigs are back (again) and this time they’ve got their period (dresses). A live art, feminist ‘adaptation’ of...

Gareth Chambers / The Cult of POPPERFACE

Residency

In The Cult of POPPERFACE, the shadow-self or alter ego of artist Gareth Chambers invites audiences to bear witness to...

The Javaad Alipoor Company / Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Presentation

In 1992, Iranian pop sensation and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad – sometimes called Iran’s Tom Jones – was found brutally murdered...

Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke / Bog

Residency

Bog is a new choreographic performance with a live vocal score, directed by Jo Hellier and composed by Yas Clarke....

Haranczak / Navarre Performance Projects / Always Already

Presentation

Always Already is an 8-hour performance installation by Karen Christopher (Goat Island) and Tara Fatehi, exploring the weaving together of...

Rachael Clerke / Balancing Acts

Residency

Balancing Acts is an absurd, desperate, multitasking, celebratory and damning physical performance about precarity. It is also a published score,...

Rachel Mars / FORGE

Presentation

In 2014 the 100kg iron ‘welcome’ gate was stolen from Dachau concentration camp. A local blacksmith forged a replica. It...

Raquel Meseguer Zafe / Unchartered Collective / A Crash Course in Cloudspotting

Presentation

An invitation to pause. To rest. To listen. Raquel Meseguer Zafe has gathered over 300 stories from people living with...

Ray Young / BODIES

Presentation

Young and their collaborators transform a swimming pool into a unique immersive environment for BODIES. An interactive performance that explores...

Rhiannon Armstrong / The White Noise Factory

Residency

Rhiannon Armstrong is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist making works with empathy, interaction, and dialogue at their core, often for unfiltered...

Takeshi Matsumoto / Club Ninja

Residency

This residency explores the figure of the ninja, reimagined through light and shadow play in a participatory dance performance for...

Vicki Dela Amedume / COMMON GROUND

Residency

Framed as a good night out, COMMON GROUND will be a playful exploration of power, competition, and the limits of...

Horizon Artist Cohort 2022

Aidan Moesby / I Was Naked, Smelling Of Rain

Presentation

A heartfelt, life affirming storytelling experience exploring absence, presence, loneliness and dis/connectedness through the lens of weather, climate change and wellbeing.

Common Wealth, Speakers Corner and Bradford Modified Club with Fuel / Peaceophobia

Presentation

Peaceophobia is an unapologetic response to rising Islamophobia around the world. Part car-meet part-theatre, the show explores how you find peace in a world that tells you who you are.

Dan Daw Creative Projects / The Dan Daw Show

Presentation

After having spent a lifetime being an inspiration to others, Dan Daw is finally seizing the moment to inspire himself. By taking ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that Dan is, he lets go of who he once was, to make room for who he wants to be.

Eve Stainton with Mica Levi / Dykegeist

Presentation

Dykegeist is a choreographic performance from Manchester-born London-based artist Eve Stainton, with live sound world performed by musician Mica Levi. Dykegeist is interested in complicating the archetypal narratives assigned to the lesbian predator.

Jaz Woodcock-Stewart with Morgann Runacre-Temple / Civilisation

Presentation

A blazingly original, critically acclaimed arrangement of theatrical realism and contemporary dance excavating a day in the life of a woman following a tragic event. Civilisation is a meditation on grief, death and loss.

Marikiscrycrycry / He's Dead

Presentation

He’s Dead is a dark fantasy choreography asking the unanswerable question “Was Tupac depressed?” This conceptual group work uses dance, live action and sound to unearth the unspoken dehumanisation of marginalised people and Black experience of mental health.

RashDash / Look At Me Don't Look At Me

Presentation

Look At Me Don't Look At Me is a two-hander featuring a piano, a synth, two microphones, a shaky egg and 14 original songs that takes the audience from Lizzie Siddal "being discovered" by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to her being exhumed by her husband, Dante Rossetti.

Sonia Hughes / I Am From Reykjavik

Presentation

Part protest, part sculpture, part ceremony. I Am From Reykjavik is Sonia Hughes' attempt to be a post-racial, global citizen. As borders close and identities become narrower how is it to bring your whole self anywhere?

Sung Im Her / NUTCRUSHER

Presentation

Nutcrusher looks at sexual objectification and power by questioning how we relate to our bodies, how they are presented and re-presented, and how cultural context affects this.

the vacuum cleaner / EXPOSURE

Presentation

In autumn of 2020, the vacuum cleaner invited 47 Newham health workers into his artist studio and filmed conversations with them about their experiences of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Horizon Artist Cohort 2021

Botis Seva / BLKDOG

Presentation

Vital and gripping, BLKDOG is Botis Seva’s haunting commentary on surviving adulthood as a childlike artist. A genre-defying blend of hip hop...

Brownton Abbey / Brownton Abbey Talk Show

Presentation

The latest creation from Brownton Abbey, your Afro-Futurist performance collective centring and celebrating disabled queer people of colour Usually renowned...