2024/2025 Clore Fellow, Phil Douglas is Chief Executive for leading LGBTQIA+ arts and youth charity Curious Arts. He has spent the past 16 years developing and delivering events, festivals and artistic projects across the North. Passionate about LGBTQIA+ culture, outdoor arts and dance, Phil is currently Trustee of theatre and creative learning charity Mortal Fools and charity Birkheads Wild where children build better futures for themselves using the outdoors. He’s a big fan of festivals, human rights, dogs and cake too.

Andy trained and received BA (hons) in both

Theatre and Dance, and has a PGDip from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, with a distinction. He currently performs as a dance artist and actor whilst working as a freelance dramaturg, (Rendez-Vous dance The Monocle, What songs may do... and Act. Zoielogic Dance Theatre's Ride, Heist and Sleuth) rehearsal director and teacher.

Andrew has worked with UK based Dance and Theatre companies such as New Art Club, Anatomical, bgroup, Protein Dance, Curious Seed, ZoieLogic Dance Theatre, Ricardo Buscarini, Jamie Fletcher Company, James

Wilton RLWC14, Casson and Friends, Smallpetitklein, Encounter, LaBanda, Simon McBurneys' The Rakes Progress' (Igor Stravinsky) in collaboration with Festival Aix and The DNO. Andy is also the Artistic Director of Society of Strays (an interdisciplinary performance company based in Newcastle) and

has directed, devised and performed in their outdoor work 'Cycle' co-commissioned by Dance City and Nexus

For all media enquiries please contact mathieu.geffre@rendez-vousdance.com

Rachel is a highly experienced production/technical manager and lighting designer. She specialises in

small and medium scale dance and performance, nurturing shows through the production period to

first night, and then taking them out on tour, responsible for relighting, staging, and operation of

lighting (and sometimes sound).

She has toured extensively through the UK and Europe, and also to North America, Australasia and the near and far East. She has production managed and toured with

Akram Khan, Shobana Jeyasingh, Nigel Charnock, Protein Dance and H2 Dance amongst many

others. She is also production manager for Spitalfields Music Festival. Recent touring projects include The Little Prince for Protein Dance and The Monocle for Rendez-vous dance. Recent lighting designs include Bleak House for David Glass Ensemble and Macbeth for

Flabbergast Theatre Company.

Rachel is co-director and founder of Moving Art Management, and is a freelance producer, teacher, dancer and creative entrepreneur, specialising in dance.

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Sarah Trist is a dedicated dance producer and tour booker who really wants to contribute to the success of dance in the UK.

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She connects artists with presenters, communicates with audiences nationally and internationally and meets a range of cultural objectives.

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Since the beginning, STDMA has centred on the individual needs of the artist, developing market opportunities to facilitate artistic growth and career progression.  STDMA has provided sophisticated management support to dance artists in the UK for nearly thirty years, and now focuses full-time on tour booking.