RESOLUTION 26: Anna Zhimolokhova, Elisabeth Mulenga and Cailin Leigh & Co
Resolution Festival
About RESOLUTION 26: Anna Zhimolokhova, Elisabeth Mulenga and Cailin Leigh & Co
The Breakouts
The Breakouts explores how the individual emerges within the collective - through fear, repetition, and the longing for freedom. Black and white photography by renowned artist Sasha Gusov, AI-driven projections, and sculptural lighting create an immersive, cinematic landscape in which bodies move in unison, tremble, and resist, revealing how conformity inhabits the flesh. Each rupture becomes a small act of liberation, each fall a return to the human.
With an original score by Jui-Ying Huang, the work leads audiences from alienation to awakening – a journey toward presence, authenticity, and embodied freedom.
In this sense, it is not so much about escape as it is about noticing – noticing the moment when something breaks, not loudly, but quietly; inwardly.
about Anna Zhimolokhova
Anna Zhimolokhova (MA Choreography, Trinity Laban 2025) creates choreography that fuses cinematic imagery, physical precision, and emotional depth. Trained as a classical ballet dancer, she builds performances where dance, music, and visual language form living dialogues rather than illustration. Her work explores how the body carries memory and emotion, revealing the struggle between social control and inner freedom. Anna's practice draws on her long-term collaboration with renowned photographer Sasha Gusov, whose work— exploring mass psychology, crowd behaviour, and human absurdity - becomes integral to her scenography, animating the stage and dialogue with the body. This dialogue led her to view the body as a living image and the stage as a lens of truth. Anna's choreography asks the simplest, most radical question: Is there a human being there?
"The stage for her is a frame, like a photograph. Everything inside that frame must be composed with precision."
Narrative has always been central to her practice, consistently beginning with a story. Her training continues to influence her work, now unfolding through abstraction, fragmentation, and contemporary aesthetics. The company features dancers Edward Pepper and Viktoria Skittidi (BA3, Trinity Laban 2026), with composer Jui-Ying Huang (PhD, Trinity Laban) as collaborator. Together they explore the interplay between movement, sound, and visual storytelling, creating performances that are immersive and transformative. Anna's choreographic language seeks honest, intimate, and resonant encounters with the audience, highlighting the individual emerging from collective structures, and exploring how gestures, pauses, and ruptures reveal the inner truth of the human body and psyche.
cast and creatives
Choreographer: Anna Zhimolokhova
Performers: Edward Pepper, Viktoria Skittidi
Music: Jui-Ying Huang
Photography: Sasha Gusov
Multimedia: Evangelina Mavrina
The Back Of Her Neck
The Back of Her Neck follows a person caught in an intimate dance with their shame. Flickering between vulnerability and concealment, this solo performance explores how remembering and exemplifying shame can bring pleasure. The solo examines how shame is performed, and questions whether shamelessness is truly liberating or deeply destructive.
About elisabeth Mulenga
Elisabeth Mulenga, a Sadler’s Wells’ Young Associate (2023-2025), is a choreographer and dancer creating provocative, autobiographical work that examines themes around grief, dysfunctional intimacy, and hauntology. Influenced by her Pentecostal Christian upbringing, her choreography embraces supernaturalism, ritual, and the sensation of constant surveillance. Her work is rooted in a deep awareness of the interplay between physical sensation and emotional reaction. Elisabeth has presented work at venues such as The Royal Ballet and Opera, Sadler's Wells, and The Roundhouse, and was awarded the Choreographic Innovation Award in BBC Young Dancers' 2022 Grand Final.
cast and creatives
Cast and creatives: Choreographer and Performer: Elisabeth Mulenga
Error 404
Error 404 occupies the space between reality and its digital reflection. Blending stage and screen, this hybrid work invites audiences to confront their relationship with technology in an age of constant connection and overload. As innovation outpaces human comprehension, we ask: what happens to our capacity to truly connect? How have digital worlds reshaped our sense of self and one another? At its core lies a collision of absurdity, exhaustion, confusion, and yearning — a mirror to our contemporary condition. Your own identity becomes the lens through which you experience technology, and, ultimately, yourself.
About Cailin Leigh & Co
Cailin Leigh is a choreographic artist working across the stage and the screen with an interest in the social, political and anthropological themes of life.
Together with her collaborators, they explore the space where the world of screendance and live work can exist to make work that explicitly comments on our relationship with technology in the digital age.