Bex Anson (1983) is a Glasgow-based director and performer working across expanded choreography and site-responsive performance. Her practice explores the relationships between bodies, objects, environments and social systems, transforming everyday civic spaces into sites of collective encounter.
Since 2015, she has worked closely with producer Feral across the development and touring of participatory and large-scale outdoor performance projects.
Working in playgrounds, back lanes, rooftops, city wastelands and under motorways, her work moves between the social, the surreal and the unruly, engaging with urban ecologies and questions of place, belonging and public life.
Her projects have included large-scale spectacle for music festivals and community parades, a contemporary dance performance beneath the M77 motorway, and the creation of a temporary sculpture park within a Glasgow wasteland. Much of her work takes place outside traditional theatre contexts, touring extensively across Scotland to town centres, housing estates and suburban communities.
Anson collaborates with both professional and non-professional performers to create bold, playful and visually charged works shaped by collective expression and the transformative joy of making together.
TRAINING
Anson trained in Visual Art at Glasgow School of Art before continuing her development in physical theatre, dramaturgy and participatory practice. Her training includes work with Philippe Gaulier, Mick Barnfather, Hilary Westlake, Agnes Limbos, Lou Cope, John and Sue Fox, Itay Yatuv (ContaKids) and Ned Glasier, amongst others.
She has also toured internationally as a stage manager with The Tiger Lillies and worked as company assistant for Circolombia.