Simon Dove

Simon Dove is currently Executive Director of CEC ArtsLink and an independent curator and educator, co-curating Crossing the Line, the annual trans-disciplinary fall festival in New York City from 2008 to 2018. He was Professor of Practice and Director of the School of Dance at Arizona State University from 2007 to 2012 and curator and Artistic Director of Springdance, the international festival of new developments in dance and performance in the Netherlands from 2000 to 2007. Prior to that he ran one of the first National Dance Agencies in the U.K, the Yorkshire Dance Centre in Leeds, was the founder and Artistic Director of Vivarta – the first contemporary South Asian performance festival in the U.K., contributed to national dance policy development with the Arts Council of Great Britain, and programmed an innovative arts centre in London. He has participated in numerous panels and conferences on arts policy and has written articles for the Performance and South Asian press, devised and presented a series for BBC Radio 3 on Dance and Music, and extensively mentors students and professional artists from many countries in developing their creative practices.