PORTENT
CREATIVE & CRITICAL WORK IN MANCHESTER, UK.PORTENT is an experimental performance company based in Manchester, UK.
We are led by Clodagh Chapman.
We are currently developing Limpet and PORTENT LAB.
#1: WE MAKE NEW WORK
We are primarily an experimental performance company. We might make other things too.
We are interested in the slippages between forms: performance, theatre, live art, visual arts, prose, criticism, music, film.
We like making stuff that feels authored and weird and distinctive.
#2: WE CONNECT AND DEVELOP ARTISTS
We think our industry works best when artists talk to eachother.
We like introducing people that we think could make something brilliant together.
We are always happy to have a cuppa.
#3: WE THINK ABOUT BIG IDEAS
We are always interested in how we can work better.
We are always interested in artist advocacy, environmental responsibility and equity.
We try to make things as responsibly as we can.
© PORTENT 2025