Peter Mumford trained at the Central School of Art in London, under Ralph Koltai,[1] in the late Sixties.
In the late Seventies he became a part-time member of the faculty of the London Contemporary Dance School at The Place, teaching a course relating choreography to visual art and design and also at that time began collaborating with a number of choreographers in their early work at The Place, such as Siobhan Davies, Richard Alston, Ian Spink and many others.
[3] When the company Second Stride was formed in the early Eighties Peter was a founding collaborator as lighting designer - another working relationship that would last for nearly another decade.
[7] He produced and directed many programmes/films for Dancelines for both Channel 4 and BBC2 up until the mid- Nineties and during that period the work won many awards including OperaScreen IMZ 1991- Best New Work / DanceScreen 1992 - Best Studio Adaptation/ Video Danse Grand Prix 1994 - best series (Dance House) and an Emmy Award Nomination for the TV adaptation of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake which Peter directed.
[8] The last real work in this area was the series “48 Preludes and Fugues” (Bach) for BBC2 in 2002 - 48 short films, of which Peter directed 24 and was lighting director on the rest.