Stone Nest

Stone Nest is an arts organisation that is working to create a new performance space housed in the Welsh Chapel, a Grade II listed building on Shaftesbury Avenue in central London.[1]

Stone Nest’s mission is to promote experimental, unexpected and daring artistic practice across a diverse range of dance, theatre, music, video and performance art, and to bring it to a wide audience in London's West End. The first performance at Stone Nest was given on 15 July 2013, by the New Movement Collective dance group,[2] with a performance called “Nest” inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.[3]

The Norman-style Welsh Chapel was built in 1888 by James Cubitt, who also designed the Union Chapel in Islington, north London.[4] The building comprises central space with an umbrella dome, a large basement, and attached manse. From 1985 to 2003 the chapel was home to the Limelight Club,[5] and subsequently a branch of the Walkabout sports bar chain.

Stone Nest is a charitable foundation[6] supported by Mikhail Verozub, a businessman and philanthropist originating from Ukraine and Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[7] Stone Nest has managed to procure the use of the Welsh Chapel through the support of Mikhail Verozub’s family and related entities.

References

  1. ↑ "Arts centre set to open on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue" - The Stage, 16 May 2013
  2. ↑ "This week's new dance" - The Guardian, 13 July 2013
  3. ↑ "New Movement Collective: Nest, Welsh Chapel - dance review" - Evening Standard, 22 July 2013
  4. ↑ British History Online - "Survey of London: Vols. 33 & 34" (1966)
  5. ↑ "West End's ex-Limelight Club transforms into arts venue" - BBC News, 19 July 2013
  6. ↑ UK Charity Commission register entry for Stone Nest
  7. ↑ Official citation from President of Italy

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