Florence Logan
About
I am a Scottish-French contemporary performance maker, mover and facilitator. My work is collaborative, joyful and research-centred.
I also perform in other people’s work.
Inspired by the clowns and physical theatre makers I grew up watching in rural France, I make experimental, accessible and expansive forms of storytelling which centre around the audience's imagination -merging our inner and outer worlds together. I invite in the invisible and the impossible, by using extravagant mental imagery through oral storytelling and movement in order to explore and emphasise the fantastical potential of everyday things. I make work for both adult and young audiences. Recurring themes in my work include obsession, mothering, care, the natural world, reverie and revolt (as in 'to disgust' or 'to be disgusting' and 'to rebel against'). I often work with smaller spaces and audiences.
Experimenting with strength and flexibility, I work with movement that feels delicious, fleshy and indulgent. My physical practice is rooted in Ashtanga yoga and inspired by Bouffon practices and Butoh exercises. I often combine somatic movement practices with commercial dance iconography.
In my performance-duet with Romi Sarfaty, we are currently working on Radical Touch, a movement-research which explores the touch practices and rituals of girl/womanhood, mothering, and female friendship in order to change the way we communally care for each other.
In my collaboration with Hope Kennedy, we make physical theatre with/for children.
I graduated from Contemporary Performance Practice (CPP) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2024. I was awarded the Drama in Education Prize as well as a Take Me Somewhere/Tramway graduate residency
I am currently working at the Village Storytelling Centre as a storyteller assistant for three of their community groups, support artist for Toonspeak and leader of Creative Hangouts' early years group.