Hamish MacPherson
COMMISSIONS
2021
Honk, Scuttle, Plop! w. Alison Alexander
Waltham Forest [Jump Festival]
Digital Bones w. Emma Backlund
Hoxton Gallery [Performing Dawns]
2020 It is urgent that we take our time
Paraphilia Collective [DO_Gooders magazine]
Metaform
Wellcome Collection [Play Well]
Swallowsfeet Collective [Oops at Oh]
Shadows over Croydon w. Una Hamilton Helle
Croydon Arts Store
2019 Zu Vier Handen w. Kimberley Harvey
Sophiensæle, Berlin [The Space Inbetween/No Limits 2019]
2017 In which we prepare for…Commissioned by Alessia Cargnelli/ Catalyst Arts
Catalyst Arts, Belfast [Black Mountain]
Improvising Politics: Out of Touch Commissioned by Valerio Del Baglivo and Anna Santomauro
Grand Union, Birmingham [VOZ RARA]
Doomsday is Just Not Coming Commissioned by The Bad Vibes Club
Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry
Institute of Contemporary Art, London [In Formation]
Open School East, Margate
Non Existent Activity
York St John University, York [SLAP festival]
The Old Market, Brighton [Swallowsfeet festival]
MOVEMENT 6 Commissioned by Rene Carmichael/ Flee Immediately
Published in Flee Immediately Issue 02: Dance and Code
2016 Breastbeating Commissioned by Manual Labours
Showroom 2016 [The Complaining Body]
Peltz Gallery 2016 [The Complaining Body]
MOVEMENT 4 Commissioned by AirSpace Gallery
AirSpace Gallery [Decapod]
Maps w. Adam James and Sivan Rubenstein. Commissioned by Sivan Rubenstein
Attenborough Centre, Leicester
SELECTED WORKS
2020 Horny? Likely? *Lonely?
The Bad Vibes Club, Online
2019 Metaform
Mansions of the Future, Lincoln [inDialogue 2019]
MOVEMENT 12 (FLOATING)
Chisenhale Dance Space [Making an Exit]
It is urgent that we take our time
CCA Derry~Londonderry [URGENCIES]
2018 NO CLIMAX YET
Spill Central, Ipswich [Spill Festival]
Zu Vier Handen w. Kimberley Harvey
Metal Liverpool [Dadafest]
Southbank Centre, London [Unlimited]
Breathe: Imperative w. Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Display Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Somerset House Studios London
Alien Phenomenology w. Sarah Jury
The Space, London [Adam James: An Extension of Us]
2017 🙊🚪🕖 w. Adam James.
Tate Britain, London [Family Festival]
🌳✋🔦 w. Adam James
Theatre Delicatessen, London [The Smoke int’l larp convention]
2016 There she lies motionless w. Francesca Cavello.
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich [Manifesta 11]
EDUCATION
2012-14 University of Roehampton. MRes: Choreography and Performance
2010-13 Birkbeck College. Foundation Degree in Performance: Dance
2006-08 King’s College London. MA: Human Values & Contemp’ Global Ethics
1997-00 University of Glamorgan. BA (Hon’s) Humanities
1996-97 Kent Institute of Art and Design. BTEC Foundation in Art and Design
TEACHING
2019 Institut für Theater, Film und Medienwissenschaft Goethe Universität Frankfurt
2019 Goldsmiths MA Design
2018 Syllabus IV cohort
2018 LSE Philosophy Forum
2018 Birkbeck arts PhD candidates
2018 Alt MFA
2017 Goldsmiths PhD candidates
2017 London School for Contemporary Dance MA
2015 Birkbeck BA Dance
2015 Independent Dance’s Crossing Borders
2014 Dance Art Foundation‘s Dance Critical Theory Group.
2013 Open School East
ARTICLES
Hughes, P. and MacPherson, H. 2018. I could never imagine where I am now so how can I imagine where I will be next. Paper. Digital Echoes 2018, Center for Dance Research in Coventry University
MacPherson, H. 2016. Puppies, Participants and Patients. Paper. Performing Care, Central School for Speech and Drama
MacPherson, H. 2016. ‘What Are Screendance Competitions Even For? A Response to the 2015 Leeds International Film Festival Screendance Competition’ in The International Journal of Screendance. Vol 6. 2016
MacPherson, H. 2014. Between intuition & analysis: Choreography after Henri Bergson. Paper. The Young conference. University of Groningen MacPherson, H. 2014. The World is at Your Feet: Perspectives on Choreography from Conceptual Metaphor. Paper. On Feet symposium. Roehampton University.
AWARDS
2018 SPILL Festival SPILL OPEN, UK
2018 LADA DIY, UK
2017 METAL Changemakers LAB participant, UK
2017 Dance on the Radio award
2016 Golden Cobra Award: Game with best use of somatic elements
2015 danceWEB scholarship, Austria/EU
2014 Outstanding Masters Research 2014.
Roehampton University Dance Department, UK
2013 Independent Dance’s mentoring programme, UK
RESIDENCIES
2017 Siobhan Davies Studios Open Choreography Residency, UK
2016 Performing Politics/Politicising Performance:
Summer School of Political Dissent. University of Warwick, UK
2016 AirSpace Gallery artist in residence, UK
2015 Meg Stuart/ Porto Sessions, Portugal
2015 Tanteo, UK
2015 PAF London, Independent Dance, UK
2013-5 Paradise Lost, Retreat, UK
2012 Dramaturgs’ Network ft. Hildegard de Vuyst, Dramaturgy and Dance, UK
EMPLOYMENT
2012- Independent artist
2019- Visitor Experience Assistant p/t. The Old Royal Naval College
2017- Learning Assistant p/t. Horniman Museum
2016-17 House Manager p/t. Chisenhale Dance Space
2015 Trainee Producer (Community Engagement). Chisenhale Dance Space
2010-12 Senior Policy Advisor, Integration. Department for Communities and Local Government
2007-9 Topic Lead, Ethnicity, National Identity, Language & Religion. Office for National Statistics
2006-7 Senior Policy Officer, Government & Integration. Commission for Racial Equality
2004-6 Social Policy Manager. Department for Culture Media & Sport
2001-4 Policy Advisor, Holocaust Memorial Day & Faith. Home Office