Luke Dixon

Luke Dixon - Beekeeper and Performance Maker

Beekeeper

For twenty years, Luke’s organisation Urban and Community Beekeeping ran beekeeping projects throughout London and across the UK. Clients included The Bank of England, The London School of Economics, The London College of Fashion, Bloomberg, City University, Novotel and Kensington Palace.

He has undertaken consultancies for The Department of the Environment, Heathrow Airport and The City of Malaga.

For many years Luke was Beekeeper in Residence at London’s Natural History Museum.

His many publications include ‘Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities’.

For the past ten years, Luke’s apiarist work has focused on The Bee Friendly Trust, an environmental charity devoted to creating habitats for bees and other pollinators, educational projects, and the commissioning of bee related public art.

Luke is currently advising Nando’s, Govia Thameslink Railways and Arriva Rail on bee related projects.

Performance Maker

For half a century Luke has been an innovative performance maker. His ground-breaking, gender-bending, site-specific, experimental and community work has been seen in China, North America, South Africa, Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Czech and Slovak Republics, Spain, and throughout the UK.

Luke’s academic and teaching work has included Senior Lecturer at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, Visiting Lecturer at UFRGE (University of Porto Alegre) Brazil, Dalhousie University Canada, Institute of American Indian Arts and the College of Santa Fe in the US. He has led residencies at The Banff Centre Canada, run workshops around the world, taught widely in the London drama schools and colleges and for ten years was Artistic Director of the International Workshop Festival bringing leading theatre practitioners from around the world to the UK to run workshops, give performances and demonstrations and create work.

He has devised and led participatory theatre workshops in refugee camps in Sudan, post-conflict Kosovo, townships in the Eastern Cape.

His many publications include ‘Playacting, a guide to theatre workshops’.