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I write in support of Catherine Hoffmann’s application to Grants for the Arts, on behalf of my organisation (hÅb) and promoting project Word of Warning.

‘A Free Lunch With The Stench Wench’ explored the current climate of austerity through the medium of working class story and song. Its aim to stimulate a sense of community and hope in the face of adversity is a vitally important area of socially engaged practice to which Catherine can bring very real personal experience. Support at this stage will be vital to transform personal experience into well honed public outcome, and thereby to maximise the opportunity for real positive impact on an audience well beyond the normal arts reach, the ambition for which should be applauded and endorsed.

Tamsin Drury, HAb Arts

 

 

Catherine Hoffmann’s work is accessible, intelligent, entertaining and possessed of great integrity, which has a palpable, powerful impact on a diverse range of audiences. She is also an excellent workshop leader.

 

I am committed to offering time in-kind as part of her application, to support the creative development of the named project through feedback sessions; to share my experience of managing comparable professional development activity; to make available my existing network toward Catherine extending her field of contacts; and to help target opportunities for ongoing presentation and distribution of Catherine’s work. Catherine has a huge amount to offer within the landscape of live art in England. I have witnessed her work reach across audiences beyond those already interested in live art and I have great confidence in her work continuing to attract and develop new audiences. I commend her application wholeheartedly.

 

Dickie Beau, Research Fellow, School of English & Drama, Queen Mary University of London, Research Fellow, Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London, Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award-winner, 2014

 

 

Home Live Art has a longstanding working relationship with Catherine Hoffmann, supporting the development of a number of performance pieces. .

Catherine’s work is inquiring, challenging and experimental whilst remaining accessible and responsive to a very broad audience range - arts and non-arts alike. Catherine has the experience, skill and sensitivity to devise performative interactions that have humour, empathy, intimacy and insight giving audience members a sense of genuine exchange.

Home Live Art very much supports the application to develop a new solo project and to further her professional development in this particular line of work.

 

Mimi Banks, Director of Home Live Art

 

 

Catherine’s work weaves texts and voices into intricate layers of song and spoken word, poems, rants, movement and actions of yearning, rage, wit and wisdom. It is insightful, gutsy and deft with a sincerity of address.

 

Lisa Alexander, Curator and producer, Love Letters to a (Post-)Europe (2015)

 

 

Catherine's ability to discover a really integrated theatrical language is, on evidence, remarkable- the work is highly articulate even in its most ambivalent or contingent moments. The ideas are frequently surprising, the tonal qualities of the work rich and various. The textures are often dense but the organisation of elements, the total choreography of the work, is absolutely persuasive.

 

Chris Goode, Director and writer