Tim
Etchells Choreography & Stage design

Tim Etchells is a renowned UK-based artist and author whose work spans performance, visual art, and fiction. Etchells has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the artistic director of the world-renowned Sheffield performance group Forced Entertainment, formed in 1984 and presenting original stage productions internationally since that time. Alongside his work with the group, Etchells has worked with a wide range of artists, dancers, musicians, and performers. In 2015, he choreographed a new work, ‹In Terms of Time›, commissioned for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Etchells has worked regularly with dance legend Meg Stuart, including performing in their duet ‹Shown & Told › (2016) which continues to be presented around the world. Under his leadership, Forced Entertainment received the International Ibsen Award 2016 for its groundbreaking contribution to contemporary theater and performance. His artworks are part of numerous private and public collections, and his projects and public space installations have been presented at major institutions around the world, including Tate Modern, Frieze Sculpture, Hayward Gallery (all in London), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), and Centre Pompidou (Paris). Etchells' collection of short fiction ‹Endland› was published by And Other Stories, in 2019 and his book on Forced Entertainment, ‹Certain Fragments›, is widely celebrated. Monographs on his work with Forced Entertainment and on his work in neon installation were published in 2023 by Spector Books. Etchells was awarded the Manchester Fiction Prize in 2019. He was a recipient of the Tate / Live Art Development Agency Legacy: Thinker In Residence award in 2008, the artist of the city of Lisbon in 2014, and was awarded the prestigious Spalding Gray Award in February 2016. For the 24/25 season, Tim Etchells is creating the production ‹Go With Your Heart› together with Vlatka Horvat for the main stage of Theater Basel.