Charlie Morrissey has worked in live performance for over 35 years, across a wide range of contexts — from large-scale productions to intimate, low-tech work.
His practice spans different environments and disciplines, often in collaboration with people from varied backgrounds. He has made work in theatres, galleries and across landscapes — on water, in fields, streets and buildings — always responding to what is already present.
He is interested in performance as a live situation: how it is made, how it unfolds, and how attention shapes what becomes visible. For him, process and outcome are part of the same thing – making is performing and performing is making.
Alongside making and performing, he teaches and collaborates internationally, and his work is inspired and informed by long-term relationships with artists including Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson.
He co-directs Wainsgate Dances with his partner Rob Hopper, Lucy Suggate, and a wider group of artists — an ongoing, artist-led programme based in a rural chapel in Yorkshire, creating space for experimental dance to happen in direct relation to people and place. It’s both local and international – a space for ideas and perspectives to meet.