Saffy Setohy

Glasgow-based Saffy Setohy works across choreography, performance, participatory work and movement direction in an expanded field. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of her work. 

​Her current practices are concerned with perception and interconnection. She is interested in how we relate with our environment and with non-human things. Over twelve years, Saffy has made various collaborative installation, outdoor, sited, stage and screen works for rural and urban contexts, commissioned and presented in the UK and internationally. ​Biography: Trained at Laban, Saffy graduated in 2007. She has worked as a performer with choreographers including Henrietta Hale, Matthias Sperling, Angela Praed, Willi Dorner, and performed in the restaging of Yvonne Rainers’ seminal post-modern work Trio A for Move: Choreographing You at the Hayward Gallery. 

Recently Saffy was awarded the choreographer bursary by Saltire Society and Scottish Dance Theatre. In 2015-2016, Saffy was selected to participate in the Dance Artist/Curator Mentorship Scheme, supported by Siobhan Davies Dance. She was an ‘emerging artist in residence’ at the Southbank Centre from 2010-2012, and is currently an associate artist of Insitu European network for art in public space, supported by UZ Arts.

​Saffy teaches and facilitates in a range of inclusive education and community contexts, and is a visiting university lecturer. She is both an artist member and board member of The Work Room, an organisation supporting the development of contemporary choreographic practices.