Lucy Allan
Lucy Allan is a pianist for ballet and contemporary dance in the School of Dance, specialising in improvisation. She is a lecturer in Piano for Dance at the Conservatoire and is passionate about developing students’ practical musicianship skills. Lucy is also a frequent musical collaborator at Scottish Ballet.
Stylistically, Lucy’s work draws influence from jazz, minimalism and commercial dance music. Alongside her career as a pianist, Lucy is an electronic composer-producer and has created original music for various choreographic pieces. Separately from her work with dance, she releases music and performs under the moniker imo-Lu.
Lucy is currently undertaking a part-time PhD, which is a practice-led exploration of expertise in improvised piano accompaniment for professional-level ballet class. She is particularly interested in the methodological tensions between dance and music research and the written-word conventions of traditional academia.