NEWS AND EVENTS

Informing the Performing Arts Through Multiple Lenses

James Boyd provides national and international audiences with both subjective artistic insight and objective, research-driven information across the performing arts and sciences. By bridging embodied experience with analytical inquiry, his work offers a comprehensive understanding of performance as both an expressive art form and a measurable human system.

Through choreography, pedagogy, scholarly research, and media engagement, Boyd translates complex artistic processes and scientific concepts into accessible knowledge for diverse audiences. His approach respects tradition while embracing innovation, ensuring that artistic intuition, cultural context, and empirical data are presented in thoughtful balance.

By engaging with multiple perspectives of artists, educators, scientists, and audiences, James Boyd fosters informed dialogue and shared understanding across disciplines and borders. This commitment to clarity, inclusivity, and intellectual rigor ensures that evolving practices in the performing arts remain visible, relevant, and understood on a global scale.

Two dancers performing a contemporary dance move on stage with a purple background, one dancer balancing on one leg with the other extended, the other dancer supporting and holding the extended leg.

Two performers standing against a dark background, with their arms raised and hands open, one with white hair and the other with dark hair, possibly in a dance or theatrical pose.

Two performers on a dark stage, one leaning forward with arms extended and the other behind, both in dramatic poses with haze and lighting effects.

Performances Coming to the United States: A Global Dance - Future - Sensation

James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight are award-winning choreographers and directors and the founders of PCK Dance, an internationally touring company recognised by the Critics’ Circle as one of the most exciting independent dance companies emerging from the UK. Both former dancers with Company Wayne McGregor, Michael Clarke Company, New Adventures, and Richard Alston Dance have built a reputation for visually arresting, high-impact work that resonates with audiences worldwide.

In 2026, PCK Dance becomes Company in Residence at Eden Court Theatre in Scotland, marking a significant expansion of the company’s scale and infrastructure. Alongside this, the company continues to be invited by the British Council to represent the United Kingdom internationally through major cultural programmes, including performances marking the 75th Anniversary of UK–Indonesia diplomatic relations, as well as cultural exchange projects across Malaysia, Thailand and wider Asia, positioning PCK Dance as a key ambassador for British contemporary dance on the global stage.

Alongside their touring and creation, PCK Dance maintains a strong commitment to education and outreach. Through workshops, residencies and their PCK Moves programme, the company has engaged thousands of participants across diverse communities, from young dancers to older adults, alongside international programmes including Creative Ageing initiatives and work with underrepresented communities.

With a growing repertoire of over twenty works for stage and screen, PCK Dance continues to expand its reach through touring, commissions, and large-scale productions, creating work that is visually distinctive, physically driven, and emotionally resonant, and that continues to push the boundaries of contemporary dance on an international stage.