Christine Devaney
Artistic Director
Contact: christine@curious-seed.co.uk
Born in Glasgow, Christine trained at London Contemporary Dance School and has been performing,
choreographing and teaching throughout her extensive career, which started with Dundee Rep Dance Company (Scottish Dance Theatre). She performed and was Associate Director with V-tol Dance Company for 9 years. Her work spans across dance and theatre. Companies she has worked with include Plan B, Quarantine, Frantic Assembly, Yolande Snaith Theatre Dance, TAG, The Unicorn, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, and Lung Ha Theatre Company. Her work for The National Theatre of Scotland includes movement direction on their production of Macbeth (2012, Broadway run 2013), The Wheel (2011), and co-directing the award-winning Venus as a Boy (2007). Christine was an associate artist with Imaginate 2011-2013 and in 2014 was the recipient of a Creative Scotland Artists' Bursary. Christine is committed to contributing to the development of the dance community across Scotland.
Leigh Robieson-Cleaver & Vicky Rutherford-O’Leary
Producer (job share)
Contact: leigh@curious-seed.co.uk or vicky@curious-seed.co.uk
Between them, Vicky and Leigh have over 30 years’ experience of working with a range of dance artists and companies supporting their artistic and strategic development across all areas of activity, incorporating a deep understanding of the producing relationship, which can help artists to thrive and achieve their vision and ambitions. Their work spans producing and touring dance at home and abroad, financial management, company management, building teams, developing strategic partnerships and artist development.
Kae Sakurai
Freelance Bookkeeper
Kae is a qualified bookkeeper as well as a performing artist. Kae understands the bookkeeping needs of artists and arts organisations. She set up Arts and Accounts in 2019 after 11 years as Finance Officer with Scottish Ballet and has a wide experience of finance in the arts, bringing her experience to help us to manage our financial systems.
DAN BROWN
Engagement Artist
Dan is a queer, working-class dance artist, theatre maker and practitioner from Blackburn West Lothian, now living in Glasgow. His practice is based in dance and theatre making, utilising persona and popular iconography to contextualise meaning and mediate his own autobiography, opening up the micro to relate to the macro. Dan has worked on a range of projects in dance and theatre with companies such as 21COMMON, The National Theatre of Scotland and Imaginate. He consistently challenges the expected ways of seeing a socially engaged practice, interrogating and subverting accepted outcomes. Dan co-creates processes and performances for non-performers to become autonomous makers and thinkers, to step into their agency by owning their autobiography.