RESOLUTION 26: AmyFoskettDance, Host Bodies Dance Collective and Antonello Sangirardi

Resolution Festival

This image is divided into two parts. On the left, a person dressed in a satin bra and black blazer leans backward, covering their open mouth with one hand and extending the other arm above their head to touch the head of another person embracing them from behind, who is wearing a grey blazer and has long, curly ginger hair. On the right, two people in white bathrobes, blue rubber gloves, and sheet face masks captured from the waist up, one seated lower holding a book and a glass while the other stands behind pouring white liquid from a silver cocktail shaker into the glass.

About RESOLUTION 26: AmyFoskettDance, Host Bodies Dance Collective and Antonello Sangirardi

A person dressed in a satin bra and black blazer leans backward, covering their open mouth with one hand and extending the other arm above their head to touch the head of another person embracing them from behind, who is wearing a grey blazer and has long, curly ginger hair.

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A contemporary dance that delves into the allure and destructiveness of greed. It examines the lengths we go to to satisfy insatiable desire and the cost of losing ourselves in the pursuit. The piece follows an episodic journey in which the dancers embody the internal and external battle of craving, ambition, and excess.

The work explores the complexities of human nature; an endless reaching that both fuels and unsettles us. It reveals both the intensity of desire and the hollowness that lingers beneath it.

cast and creatives

Dancers: Ellie McDonald, Olivia Wallis-Jackson and Amy Foskett

Two people in white bathrobes, blue rubber gloves, and sheet face masks captured from the waist up, one seated lower holding a book and a glass while the other stands behind pouring white liquid from a silver cocktail shaker into the glass.

Anatomy of A Siren

Drink the milk. Steal the soul.
Summon the spirit. Banish the God.

In a space between lecture hall and spa resort, Host Bodies Dance Collective reach for Shibari ropes and razor blades to dig deep into the siren archetype; from the figure’s origins in ancient Mesopotamian folklore, to its infiltration of modern-day fashion, medicine, religion and motherhood.

Accompanied by the haunting sounds of Emily Izen Row’s angelic voice and lyre, Anatomy of a Siren confronts the ugly, the sexy and the scary in an attempt to shed light on what’s been hiding all along underneath a veil of Hollywood glamour and Christian piety.

About Host Bodies Dance Collective

Host Bodies Dance Collective creates critically engaged ecofeminist works motivated by private and political frustrations. Formed by Chiara Martina Halter and Ronan Cardoza, their practice interrogates myths of power through collaboration with FLINTA and neurodiverse artists, embedding those perspectives at the heart of their work.

Host Bodies collaborates with experimental musicians and designers, using contemporary dance, text, sound, and objects to stage complex topics in tension with moments of care and tenderness.

Drawing from pop culture, theory, and fantasy, the collective’s work unfolds through dark humour and an arresting, lingering visual and physical language.

cast and creatives

Choreography: Host Bodies Dance Collective; Ronan Cardoza and Chiara Martina Halter

Music: Emily Izen Row

Leoni da Tastiera

We live in a socially, physically, digitally and morally fractured world. Leoni da Tastiera (meaning Keyboard Lions) translates as a social commentary dissecting this separation.

It exposes the all too visible, useless and toxic virtual battles raging across platforms like YouTube, Instagram and X. Never before have we been so intensely polarised, with recent global events only fuelling further division.

cast and creatives

Antonello Sangirardi, Jodi Rabinowitz, Liam Francis