PRESENT FUTURES - Key Persons
Through the Present Futures Associateship Bursary performance maker Althea Young (she/they) has begun to research and develop a new piece asking ‘How we reckon with the desire to bear children when we don't feel we have the means to offer a child the tools to thrive in an increasingly uninhabitable world?'. This choreographic-text based work is a memoir of a person and generation carrying an unprecedented responsibility and grief for children yet to exist.
Althea attempts to illustrate a series of dreams she has had in which she carries a baby. Most of these dreams are set against a back drop of post-apocalypse- dreams of journeying through broken landscapes holding a baby in one arm, a sword in the other. Some are simpler dreams- a baby lays on her chest small and warm. It is the simple dreams which carry the most weight, of love, heartbreak and violence, more than the visions of apocalypse. Drawing from a wealth of references; from the iconic film aesthetics of post-apocalypse, dystopia and horror, confessional feminist writers like Dodie Bellamy and Sylvia Plath, and her own messy autobiography, Althea performs a love letter (sometimes hate letter) to the baby that lives in her dreams.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Associateship Artist Mentoring Support and Advice
Colette Sadler is a Scottish choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist. Since 2007 her work has been presented nationally and internationally in theatre and museum contexts including Tanz im August Berlin, Tokyo Festival, Theatre De Liege, Tramway Glasgow, Kaai Theatre Brussels, SouthBank Centre London, Impulstanz Vienna, Nottingham Contemporary, Les Lattitudes Contemporains France and OGR Turin Italy. In 2022 Colette Sadler presented her first solo exhibition "ARK 1 - Towards a Future Archaeology" at Nordic House Reykjavik Iceland as part of Goethe*Morph Iceland. Trained in ballet and contemporary dance, Sadler's work operates at the intersection of performance, dance, sculpture and digital art. Her interdisciplinary performances often explore the relationship between the human and the non-human, as well as the relationship between real and virtual spaces. In her performances, she stages bodies and identities in moments of transformation, using fiction and prosthetics to create transitions between real and virtual realms. Her 2022 work "Oracle Leaves- Portraits of Daphne" was presented and co-produced by Tramway. In 2024 she will collaborate with multi-media composer Alexander Schubert on a new performance work "Extra Life". Her upcoming work "Book of Songs" is co-produced by HAU (Hebbel Am Ufer) Berlin and Tanzhaus NRW. Since 2016 she is the curator of the multi-disciplinary art festival "Present Futures" based at CCA (Centre of Contemporary Arts Glasgow, UK).
Job Titles:
- Producers and Co - Curators