David GOTHARD

David Gothard is the former artistic director of Riverside Studios where his pioneer work with Tadeusz Kantor, Miro, Shuji Tereyama and many others bridged performance and theatre with contemporary movement and the birth of Dance Umbrella. Performance there saw collaboration with Sol LeWitt, Rauschenberg, Clemente, Dan Graham, Bruce McLean, John Latham and the opening chapter of New Music. Major architecture events included Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Will Alsop and Cedric Price. As a director he works between the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Derry, Northern Ireland and the Writers Workshop in the University of Iowa. In London he is a guest speaker at the Slade and he teaches at Chelsea College of Art and the National Film School.