The Yorkshire & Humber region is home to a wealth of different artists, individuals and organisations working in live art.
Welcome to the Live Art Directory.
This directory aims to bring together the wealth of live art activity in the Yorkshire & Humber region.
This is an open resource for artists within and beyond the region and hopes to map some of the networks, opportunities, infrastructure and support available that can help facilitate their work.
If your organisation, space or network would like to be listed on this Directory, please follow this link to the Registration Form.
Live Art Development AgencyThe term Live Art is not a description of an artform or discipline, but a cultural strategy to include experimental processes and experiential practices that might otherwise be excluded from established curatorial, cultural and critical frameworks. Live Art is a framing device for a catalogue of approaches to the possibilities of liveness by artists who chose to work across, in between, and at the edges of more traditional artistic forms.
15 results found
Categories: Network
Compass Live Art
Based in Leeds, Compass Live Art works to support Live Art practice and infrastructure all over the North of England through commissioning, co-producing, networking and professional development activities for artists. …
Leeds, North East, North West | Curator / Programmer, Network, Organisation
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East Street Arts
East Street Arts is a contemporary arts organisation working across the UK and EU. Our mission is to support artists to create work that brings lasting change to our everyday…
Leeds | Curator / Programmer, Gallery, Network, Organisation, Performance Venue, Temporary space
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The HUB (Holbeck Underground Ballroom)
Slung Low is a company that makes adventures for audiences outside of conventional theatre spaces. Slung Low’s home is the Holbeck Underground Ballroom (The HUB). Five railway arches…
Leeds | Artist-led organisation, Curator / Programmer, Network, Organisation, Performance Venue
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Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University
Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University is a department providing unique opportunities in the theory and practice of contemporary performance. They offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for students interested in…
Leeds | Educational institution, Network, Organisation
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Live Art Bistro
Live Art Bistro is an artist led venue and programming team based in Leeds. Their common goal is to support the growth of Live Art practices in the region by…
Leeds | Artist-led organisation, Curator / Programmer, Network, Organisation, Performance Venue
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The Live Art Development Agency
Established in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency has both responded to, and impacted upon, the increasingly influential nature of Live Art practices in the UK and internationally by developing an…
Bradford, Huddersfield, Kingston upon Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, Sheffield, York, North East, North West | Curator / Programmer, Funder, Network, Organisation
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Open Dialogues
Open Dialogues is a writing collaboration that produces writing on and as performance. It was founded by Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson in 2008. This site is where we profile…
North East, North West | Artist, Curator / Programmer, Network
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Point Blank and The Riverside
Point Blank is a charitable arts organisation working across South Yorkshire supporting the performing arts in our region. Point Blank bought The Riverside in 2009, realising a long held dream of…
Sheffield | Artist-led organisation, Curator / Programmer, Network, Organisation, Performance Venue
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Proto-Type Theater
Proto-type are a company of multi-disciplinary artists led by Rachel Baynton, Gillian Lees, and Andrew Westerside. They make and produce original work that is diverse in scale, subject and medium.…
North East, North West | Artist, Artist-led organisation, Network, Organisation
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A Quiet Word
A Quiet Word is an association of artists including musicians, choreographers, sound artists, designers and spoken word artists, making performances and events with people where they live and work. We…
Leeds | Artist, Artist-led organisation, Network, Organisation
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Waymarking
An arts organisation which acts as a catalyst and an engine for: making connections and enabling dialogue and collaboration between discipline; facilitating communities to explore their urban living needs through…
Leeds | Curator / Programmer, Network, Organisation
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The West Yorkshire Playhouse
We are a creative hub for the city and beyond, a place where people and communities come to tell and share stories; to experience world class theatre that is pioneering,…
Leeds | Curator / Programmer, Network, Organisation, Performance Venue
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Yorkshire Dance
Yorkshire Dance champions the value of dance and its development in Yorkshire. We do so by raising standards, increasing knowledge and understanding and fostering creativity and innovation. We create opportunities…
Leeds | Curator / Programmer, Educational institution, Network, Organisation, Performance Venue, Temporary space
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