The Point is delighted to announce choreographer Ben Wright is to become its resident artist, the first Resident Artist @ The Point. 

Ben Wright and his company, bgroup, will take up the two-year residency at the 

Eastleigh venue at the end of this month (October 2012). 

As one of the UK’s most interesting and inventive contemporary choreographers Ben 

is an ideal match for The Point’s environment for nurturing and supporting 

adventurous and ambitious new work. The residency provides Ben with, among other 

things, rehearsal space and accommodation in The Point’s award-winning Creation 

Space as well as its dance studio; production time; and support from the venue’s 

creative team. The residency will also bring the choreographer into regular dialogue 

with patrons and visiting artists.  

In turn, as part of the residency Ben will become a mentor for one or more of The 

Point’s associate artists; will offer open rehearsals while in residence; host 

professional classes; and enable The Point to develop a “dance hub” – a group invited 

to follow the progress of the choreographer over the two years. 

The Resident Artist @ The Point is part of the venue’s Making Space programme that 

supports the creation of new work and practise. It marks the first time an artist has 

been invited for an extended time to the venue, with the express goal of sharing and 

facilitating the creative journey, opening up the process to new audiences. 

Speaking about the residency, The Point’s Artistic Director Sarah Brigham said: “We 

are delighted to welcome Ben as our Resident Artist. Ben’s honest and sensitive 

approach to his work and other artists around him resonates with The Point’s long 

term investment into artists through our support from Arts Council England. The 

special quality his work exudes will no doubt enable us to develop and nurture not 

only his, but our dance audiences over the next two years.” 

On becoming the first Resident Artist @ The Point, Ben said: “My company bgroup 

and I are very pleased to be Resident Artists at The Point. The Point has supported 

my work over the past few years, and this relationship will allow me to support their 

aims as well as continue to develop our relationship with their audiences, artists and 

staff.” 

About The Point 

Fast becoming known as an incubator for new and exciting artists and companies, 

The Point prides itself on putting creatives at the heart of its bustling venue and 

ambitious programme. As well as being one of the south’s leading venues for 

contemporary performance, The Point runs an extensive creative learning and 

community arts programme, constantly seeking new ways to develop the audience of 

tomorrow. 

About Ben Wright 

Ben Wright has been practicing as an internationally recognised dance artist for the 

last eighteen years. As well as his extensive performance experience and his own 

choreographic work, the full spectrum of his practice spans movement direction in 

Opera and Theatre, work as a stage director and also as a short film maker. 

As well as his teaching practice within the professional dance scene, Ben frequently 

works as an educator within the university and vocational sectors, with Youth and 

Community Dance, and leads movement workshops for professional actors and 

singers. 

In 2004 Ben won a prestigious NESTA Fellowship to explore relationships between 

choreography, directing and film. In 2002 he won a Jerwood Choreographic award as 

well as The Bonnie Bird Choreographic Prize.