We are…
Scotland’s national organisation for the promotion and development of radical performance practice.
a boundary pushing international, biennial festival.
a year-round sector support organisation
a portal for international gaze and global network connector.
on mains stages, in churches and gardens; we are overseas, in digital worlds and across forms; we are at home in Studio Somewhere.
Our vision
To ensure Scotland is the place to experience and create radical performance.
Our mission
We create unparalleled conditions for radical performance.
We commission and present era-defining, transformative, experimental performance that inspires and resonates locally and globally.
We are in service to artists and audiences, acting as a portal for dialogue and exchange between Scotland and the wider world. We respond to artist and community needs, encourage ambition and hold spaces for new-thinking
Our Values
Our values exist to guide the way we work - what we care about and how these things inform our decisions-making, our interactions with people, and how we move in the world.
POROUS: Remaining open and attentive to artists that invent the future and audiences voracious for new experiences. Encouraging new thinking to permeate, inform our practices and amplify outwards.
MINDFUL: Recognising we work in an unequal society and the importance of care and an ever-evolving approach in supporting and presenting radical and/or politically activated work.
INTREPID: Working at the cusp of the not-yet-known, supporting experiment, risk and change-making.
COLLABORATIVE: Working with artists, organisations and communities in Scotland and across the world towards shared goals.
VIGOROUS: We centre joy where we can, working with effort and enthusiasm for what we do.