Beth Cassani is a Dramaturg, award winning Choreographer and Teacher. Based in Leeds she works extensively as an artist mentor and dramaturg with independent artists, also teaching company class for dance companies internationally and improvisation and choreographic workshops. Beth has developed the new MA Choreography programme at Leeds Beckett University where she lectures and co-directs an ongoing research project Questioning the Contemporary which curates and presents research events. Beth is currently an artist mentor and performer in Vanessa Grasse’s Mesh project in the Great Exhibition of the North and is collaborating with Joseph Mercier on a new choreographic work.