Composer & Writer/Dramaturg
Blue Touch Paper artists
Steve Potter is a composer and performer. His music embraces lively play with musical found objects, which he transforms and combines to create strange fusions and surprising contrasts. His work often incorporates text and/or staging that convey political self-consciousness, humor and the absurd. His compositions have been performed by New York City Opera, Arditti String Quartet, International Ensemble Modern Academy, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), ASKO Ensemble, members of Ensemble Modern and Philharmonia Orchestra, and others. Steve also conducts and performs experimental new work as pianist and theatrical player, having worked closely with composers Seán Clancy, Paul Clift, Matías Hancke, Federico Reuben, and Eric Wubbels, as well as with improvisational theatre group, Apocryphal Theatre. He is currently a sessional lecturer at King’s College London, where he earned his PhD in 2011. He studied music and critical theory at Amherst College, the University of Sussex and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag. Steve grew up in Chico, California.
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Kélina Gotman
Kélina Gotman is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of English at King’s College London, and Convenor of the MA in Theatre and Performance Studies. She received her PhD in Theatre from Columbia University and her BA Honours in History from Brown University. Her poetry is anthologised in Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry, Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, and the forthcoming Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam. She has collaborated on over two dozen theatre and dance productions in the USA, the UK, Canada, France and Belgium, as an actor, director, dancer, choreographer, translator, dramaturg and musician, including Krono-Metre: Catalogue Out of Time (with Steve Potter), Bone, choreography by Nadine Thouin for the Beijing Modern Dance Company with music by Jerry Snell, and Charles L. Mee’s Heaven on Earth, translated with Witness Relocation Company and compagnie ildi! eldi!. She was Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellow in the Medical Humanities at the New York Academy of Medicine, and has taught cultural and critical theory, writing, and theatre studies at KCL, Columbia, Bard College and The New School. She was born in Montréal.
