Josephine Burton - Salon Guest Artist

Josephine Burton is an artist, creator, director and sometimes producer of award-winning cross art-form work nationally and internationally over the last 20 years.

 

Recent highlights include Olivier-Award winning Babel by Sidi Larbi Cherkoaui, Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley at Sadler’s Wells and new work with choreographer Hofesh Shechter, the creation and direction of installation/performances spaces such as the Dash Arts Dacha, Dash Eurosquat and Dash Arts Forum with Tate Modern, British Library, Latitude Festival and other festivals across the UK; Lyrical Alliance – an ensemble of rappers from across the Arabic speaking region (UK premiere: Roundhouse 2010), Renegade Orchestra with an ensemble of musicians and performers from across the Post Soviet States, The Table with Blind Summit, Lemony Snicket’s Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming with Tall Stories and new work with jazz ensemble F-IRE Collective.

 

Josephine is also a curator and producer of over 200 gigs and productions with venues including Barbican, Roundhouse, Kennedy Center, Royal Albert Hall, Sadler’s Wells and South Bank Centre.

 

She is co-founder, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Dash Arts, an international arts organisation that creates experiences that challenge that we see the world, and for 16 years of YaD Arts, a music adviser for PRS Foundation, the regular host and chair of panel conversations and podcasts, and a professional vocalist.