Resolution: Paxton Ricketts, Two Moves Later, Alara Vural

Resolution 2027

1: A figure, draped in sequined garments, resembling a dazzling monster, waves to us from a seated position on the floor. 2: Female dancers on a stage in front of a brick wall, lighting is warm and welcoming. They are placed in a row with the first one from the left is sat on the floor, second one standing, third sat on a chair and the fourth one is standing. They are all tilting their head to the right. Stacked under it is an image has the 4 dancers draped on each other in the middle of the stage. 3: Dancer Alara Vural arches backward inside a woven net frame, arm reaching skyward, flanked by a cellist and percussionist against sea and hills — a moment of raw tension between freedom and entanglement.

About Resolution: Paxton Ricketts, Two Moves Later, Alara Vural

IDIOM IDIOT by Paxton Ricketts

IDIOM IDIOT is a duet, questioning the decisions made in the moment and those ingrained within us.

Language follows a well-trodden path laid by grammar and norms, like water finding the path of least resistance. Idioms are passed down through culture, their origins antiquated, offering shortcuts to feelings.

Movement carries the same history. Dance today is shaped by experiences of previous generations, like DNA. The idioms of movement.

What remains beautiful or necessary in this inheritance, and what do we carry forward out of habit, long after its purpose has been forgotten?

This work is an expansion of a work that won the Prix Osipova 2026 Cambridge Edition.

About Paxton Ricketts

Paxton Ricketts is a Danish-Canadian choreographer, dancer, and teacher who trained at Arts Umbrella Dance. He performed with NederlandsDans Theater from 2014 to 2024, touring worldwide. He has also performed with Bodies In Action, Adam Linder Productions, and Ballet BC.

Paxton has created dozens of works for stage, film, and site-specific venues, including commissions for GöteborgsOperansDanskompani, The Place, Kammerballetten, Equinox Festival, and ThorvaldsensMuseum. He was an Aerowaves Twenty25 Artist and won Best Choreography at the Prix Osipova 2026 Cambridge Edition. He often performs in his own work, blending a kinesthetic language with musicality and playfulness.

Cast and Creatives

Choreographer: Paxton Ricketts

Performed by Liam Boswell and Paxton Ricketts

Lighting design by Joshie Harriette

Dripping Taps: Mornings I Didn’t Speak Of by Two Moves Later (Cornelia Burman & Zenab Bukkar)

This performance unfolds as a collection of memories shaped by surviving heavy mornings, when feelings had to be contained before the day could begin.

Written in the space between internal collapse and public composure, the works explore what happens when emotions are managed, masked and carried quietly.

Through spoken word and movement, Dripping Taps gives form to what often remains unseen, tracing how the body holds so much and keeps going. Rather than offering resolution, the work invites audiences into a space where vulnerability becomes a shared language, and connection is allowed to be soft.

About Two Moves Later (Zenab Bukkar and Cornelia Burman)

Zenab Bukkar and Cornelia Burman began working together around two years ago, creating short videos inspired by poems they discovered on social media. What started as a small creative collaboration has gradually grown into Dripping Taps.

In early 2026, they shared the first draft of a chapter from Dripping Taps at the Company Jinks Fundraiser. Alongside their creative practice, they have facilitated spoken word workshops, with participants describing the experience as “creatively stimulating, connected, light and joyful.”

Cast and Creatives:

Co- Choreographers: Cornelia Eriksson Burman, Zenab Bukkar

Dancers: Thi-an Nguyen, Beth Clare, Lizzie Zrada, Yasmin Grant

INtangled by Alara Vural

What holds us can also trap us.

In this solo performance, a woman moves inside a custom-built elastic net – pulled, caught, released, entangled. INtangled is an exploration of the attachments we turn to for safety: love, technology, substances, each other. How far will we go to avoid being alone? When does comfort become a cage?

The performance is accompanied by a soundscape built from the audience’s own voices, collected before the show, layered with original electronic music by Yildiray Yener and an improvised dialogue between live musicians.

About Alara Vural

Alara Vural is an independent Turkish-English contemporary dance artist and choreographer whose work invites audiences into unexplored internal landscapes. Her movement language, rooted at the intersection of visual and performing arts, combines image-based choreography, athletic physicality, gesture-led communication and somatic practices. Her training is self-directed through residencies, intensives and 1-1 mentorships across the UK, Europe, Turkey and India, with key influences including Penelope Morout, Kalakeli Movement Arts and Roots of Play. She is also the founder of Think With The Body, which uses movement and nature-led practices as a means of instigating an embodied understanding of strategy conversations among tech teams.
https://www.alaravural.com/artist

Cast and Creatives

Performer and Choreographer: Alara Vural

Artistic Mentor and Dramaturgical Advisor: Penelope Morout

Composer: Yildiray Yener