Allen appointed Executive Director of Protein Dance

Dance company Protein has appointed LOUISE ALLEN as its new Executive Director.

She will take over from FRANCK BORDESE, who steps down after four and a half years on September 8.

Allen has been Head of Operations at New Adventures since 2015 and previously worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

She is also a Governor and Vice Chair of Princess May Primary School in Hackney, an Arts Emergency mentor, a careers mentor for the University of Birmingham, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.