RESOLUTION 26: Rachel Elderkin, Taylor Lauren Hughes and Wayward Thread
Resolution Festival
About RESOLUTION 26: Rachel Elderkin, Taylor Lauren Hughes and Wayward Thread
HOURS
Two people, trapped by the endlessness of an imagined desert landscape.
HOURS explores the sensation of trying to move forward without knowing how. Through dance and poetry, this duet delves into feelings of being lost, directionless and exhausted, while asking how human connection can carry us through an ongoing, uncertain journey.
about rachel elderkin
Rachel Elderkin is a freelance dance artist, choreographer, writer and dramaturg. Her experience crosses dance and dance theatre, working on performances, R&D, film, outdoor, site-responsive and immersive works. She is host and founder of Dance Dialogues podcast (@dancedialoguespodcast) a platform to expand conversations on dance and give more visibility and support to freelance artists.
Creatively, Rachel is interested in how dance, writing and embodied practices can interconnect and enhance each other, through the creative process to performance. Her work has been supported by Lincoln Arts Centre
(Innovate Artist 2023-24), FABRIC/iC4C, DanceEast (Winter Makerspace) and through an Arts Council England DYCP grant (2021).
cast and creatives
Concept, Text and Sound Design: Rachel Elderkin
Performers: Sara Augieras and Rachel Elderkin
Choreography: Rachel Elderkin in collaboration with Sara Augieras and Maya Orchin
Rehearsal Director: Maya Orchin
Original Performers: Sara Augieras and Maya Orchin
Before the after
A contemporary modern dance piece and creative experiment inspired by the butterfly effect—the idea that small, subtle shifts can lead to significant outcomes.
Developed through chance-based methods, the choreography is shaped by rolling some dice to determine elements such as spacing, orientation, movement order, and relationships between dancers. While the structure is carefully constructed, it remains rooted in unpredictability.
The audience is drawn into a dream-like, parallel reality that feels spontaneous, yet reflects the invisible patterns of cause and effect that quietly shape how events unfold in both dance and life.
About Taylor Lauren Hughes
Taylor Lauren Hughes is a choreographer, contemporary movement artist, and dance educator from Thousand Oaks, California, now based in London. She trained in contemporary, jazz, ballet, and commercial dance, earning her BFA from Chapman University and MA from London Contemporary Dance School. She has worked with Geometry Dance Company and Backhaus Dance Company, and collaborated with artists including Holly Blakey, Benjamin Jonsson, Hannes Langolf, and Sarah Golding. Taylor’s movement practice explores continuity, using articulation and energetic flow to create rippling, spiralling patterns throughout the body. Her creative process values curiosity, spontaneity, and sensation, allowing movement to emerge organically.
Citizen of Grief
Si Rawlinson didn’t expect to live past the age of thirty. Born with a rare health condition, he grieved his own death, and lived for the now.
Five years ago, pioneering medication unexpectedly gave him a “normal” life - a future - and with it, the sudden and rude invitation to share the hopes and dreams of everyone else. When building a future - having kids, making a home - feels increasingly distant for many people, Si tries to make sense of a new kind of grief: that opportunities slip away.
Citizens of Grief is an irreverent, unhinged, and optimistic look at what we expect from life, sharing grief, and learning to live. A solo dance, physical theatre, and comedy show from Wayward Thread.
About Wayward Thread
Si Rawlinson is a mixed-heritage British Chinese artist, Artistic Director of Wayward Thread, Resident Artist at Curve Theatre, and former Associate Artistic Director of the National Portfolio Organisation, Kakilang.
A theatre-maker and choreographer with a background in dance, his practice is interdisciplinary, mixing dance, theatre, and comedy. His work has been performed at leading venues, including Sadler’s Wells, Southbank Centre, Barbican, the Place, Birmingham Hippodrome, Nottingham Playhouse, and Curve.
Si’s recent shows, Saving Face (2023), How to Be a Sociopath (2022), and Hand Me Down (2021), form a body of work that questions cultural misgivings and perspectives of health.
www.waywardthread.co.uk
cast and creatives
Choreographer, Writer, Performer: Si Rawlinson
Supporting Direction: Ami Okumura Jones
Associate Producer: Katrina Man
Artistic Advice: Akshay ‘Mr Shay’ Sharma and Corey Owens