After an extraordinary few months of reading and discussing an abundance of brave and brilliant ideas from artists all across the country, we are thrilled to announce our I Like it What is It residents.

Meet the fourth and final of our I Like It. What is It? Residents, Malik Nashad Sharpe. Based in London, Malik is a choreographer and movement director working with dance, dark fantasy, and horror. Creating primarily underneath the alias Marikiscrycrycry, he makes provocative performance works that are engaged with the formal construction of affect, atmosphere, and dramaturgy from the marginal perspective.

Luca is a Newcastle based artist asking big questions with playfulness. She makes theatre, public art, dance theatre, short film and sound art. During her residency, Luca is experimenting with how we are hardlined about being soft; how we are serious about playing; how quickly we can connect to the power of slowness.

Kit Hall, one of our I Like It. What is It? residents, is a dancer, choreographer, performer, producer and holistic massage therapist based in Bristol, UK. Their dancing is currently curious with: the material of the body, improvisation, exploring what it is to stay(dance) in touch, attention, liveness, growing imagination and community building.

A Crash Course in Cloudspotting, the immersive installation from dance theatre practitioner Raquel Meseguer Zafe, will be presented at Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a part of Horizon Showcase.

We’re looking for an experienced, creative, detailed producer to join our friendly, dynamic team in Bristol.

Award-winning theatre maker Jamie Hale will be a resident with us for a week in autumn as part of a bespoke artist support offer made possible through a new collaboration with Unlimited.

Over the past few years, we’ve been developing a new electronic musical with Sleepdogs. Today we’re releasing an album of songs from the show, recorded lovingly over that weird time when we were either in lockdown or in that strange limbo. Releasing this album is a means of opening up the world of the show to you, and to move the reality of making the live work a bit closer. To mark the launch of the album, Sleepdogs’ Timothy X Atack has written this blog that tells the story of one of the tracks. Enjoy.

Be part of an exciting new performance installation taking place in Bristol this May.

A new two-year residency for artists to explore ideas that feel challenging, elusive, or untameable. Supported by Jerwood Arts.