TRIBUTES from across the arts world have been paid to Roanne Dods, an influential figure in the arts world throughout the UK and beyond, who died on Monday, aged 52.
Ms Dods was the founding director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and had held various other positions, including vice chair of Scottish Ballet, a board member at various times of the Young Vic, the International Futures Forum, and Make Works.
She was also the producer of Small is Beautiful and Imagination: Scotland's Festival of Ideas. She worked for the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Mission Models Money, and the Work Room at Tramway, and also did work for Cove Park, Glasgow Life and many other organisations and arts and creative industries companies.
Ms Dods trained as a lawyer, specialising in urgent litigation around family violence, and was also a dancer, having trained at the Laban Centre, London.
Born in Lima, Peru, she lived and worked in Glasgow.
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SHAPER/CAPER of Dundee are to present their dance-theatre production, Within This Dust, at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City on April 21, as part of the museum’s 15-year anniversary programme.
Within This Dust explores the events of 9/11 and is inspired by a series of images by photographer Richard Drew, that capture a man falling from the World Trade Center during the attacks.
The show is created by Thomas Small, of Dundee, a multi-award winning choreographer and also the first ever Artist in Residence at BBC Radio 2.
Shaper/Caper is a charity based in Dundee, which delivers a range of dance workshops including Well Good, a project delivered in partnership with NHS Tayside that visits 116 primary schools in Dundee, Perth & Kinross and Angus each year to raise awareness around tobacco.
Within This Dust can be seen Dundee Rep Theatre on February 3 at 8 pm.
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PLAYWRIGHT, actress and musician Morna Young has been appointed to the 2017 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship. The Fellowship was inaugurated by Creative Scotland in 2013 and provides a writer with time and support to develop their work in partnership with an organisation.
In response to this year’s theme, The Folk, Language and Landscape of the Northeast, Morna will produce a full-length play exploring under-represented female voices in the Northeast of Scotland.
Kaite Welsh, Literature Officer at Creative Scotland, said: “We’re delighted to appoint Morna Young as the 2017 Gavin Wallace Fellow – the way her writing is infused with the language and landscape of the North East makes her a perfect choice to work with Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Learning team on what we’re sure will be an exciting, electric piece of writing.”
The selected Fellow receives a stipend of £20,000 and Creative Learning will receive £5,000 to enable the hosting of the Fellowship.
The Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship was launched in 2013.
The first host organisation selected was the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) at the University of Glasgow.
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