The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is an opportunity for a UK artist to develop and present an early staging of a new performance-based project in Glasgow (Take Me Somewhere / BUZZCUT) and London (Battersea Arts Centre / Something To Aim For). The Award aims to celebrate the intimate work that Adrian pioneered, as well as providing an opportunity to explore new territories in the field of one to one and intimate performance. The Award provides £4,000 project commission towards the awardee’s fee and expenses in the development and presentation of the proposed project.
In a year of feeling so disconnected and unable to meet, touch and be together with people, the idea of intimate performance feels a bit of a distant concept, yet more important than ever. Therefore, this year, we framed the award around the idea of creating intimate performance remotely or online. Whilst the award is usually selected via open call, in a time of extreme difficulty and precarity, we wanted to instead offer the Award as a commission, to an artist we have admired and respected for several years.
Nwando will develop her ideas throughout 2021, with sharings across the year.
