RESOLUTION 26: Siyu Lu, Damara Velázquez and Evie Longstaff

Resolution Festival

This image is divided into three parts. On the left, a double-layered image featuring a portrait of a person with slicked-back black hair, yellow eyeshadow, and brown lipstick, looking toward the viewer with their mouth slightly open, overlaid with white and grey abstract shapes resembling clouds. In the centre, a dancer with long, flowing hair performs a dynamic floor move onstage, balancing on one hand with one leg extended upward. They wear a white top and dark, loose trousers, illuminated against a deep blue backdrop with shadowy figures in the background. On the right, four people lined up behind one another, each extending their right arm diagonally to the side at gradually increasing heights, creating the appearance of a bird’s wing.

About RESOLUTION 26: Siyu Lu, Damara Velázquez and Evie Longstaff

A double-layered image featuring a portrait of a person with slicked-back black hair, yellow eyeshadow, and brown lipstick, looking toward the viewer with their mouth slightly open, overlaid with white and grey abstract shapes resembling clouds.

《界·流》Interface

《界·流》Interface invites the audience into a shifting space where softness and structure coexist. Through the interplay of translucent silk and delicate wire, the dancer’s body drifts between visibility and concealment—caught and released, defined and dissolved.

Movement flows like breath across invisible borders, suggesting both confinement and freedom. The piece reflects on how boundaries - physical, emotional, and perceptual - are never fixed, but are constantly in motion.

You are invited to witness a body becoming landscape, a presence that ebbs and returns, tracing the quiet tension between fragility and resilience.

About Siyu Lu

Siyu Lu is a London-based dance artist whose practice unfolds between structure and fluidity, presence and disappearance. Rooted in intercultural movement language, her work explores transformation, constraint, and release through the body’s dialogue with space and material.

Drawing from both Eastern sensibility and contemporary form, she examines how boundaries shape identity and how movement can dissolve them. Her choreography often exists in a state of tension, between visibility and obscurity, fragility and resilience, inviting audiences to witness moments of becoming rather than arrival.

cast and credits

Created and Performed by: Siyu Lu

Original Music, Costume and Set Design: Siyu Lu

A dancer with long, flowing hair performs a dynamic floor move onstage, balancing on one hand with one leg extended upward. They wear a white top and dark, loose trousers, illuminated against a deep blue backdrop with shadowy figures in the background.

Shall we...?

Combining contemporary dance with different sign language systems, this piece delves into the power of the body as the ultimate tool for expression, breaking free from the confines of spoken language. Through movement, it explores themes of connection and understanding, highlighting how we can communicate across cultures and experiences without relying on words.

About Damara Velázquez

Damara Velázquez is a contemporary dance artist from Mexico City whose work delves into themes of equity, equality, and social justice. Throughout her career,Damara has collaborated with multidisciplinary artists and has participated in numerous international festivals, mainly in Latin America. In 2025, she was part of the International Microdance Festival Dance & Social Change in Bulgaria.

In 2022, she co-led an artistic residency in Bogotá, creating a collective choreography for the XV Festival de Danza en la Ciudad, where she addressed issues of social inequality and injustice. Her work has been recognised for its emotional depth and its ability to spark dialogue and inspire action.

Currently based in the UK, she continues to explore new avenues of creative expression, always with the goal of provoking thought, inspiring action, and bringing people closer through the transformative power of art.

cast and creatives

Choreography and performance: Damara Velázquez

Costume: Amaranta García

Photography: Alondra Galván

Four people lined up behind one another, each extending their right arm diagonally to the side at gradually increasing heights, creating the appearance of a bird’s wing.

Order Knows Its End

This work by Evie Longstaff explores the concept of entropy: the natural tendency of systems to move from order to disorder.

Entropy explains why sandcastles collapse, relationships unravel, and hot things cool. But the breakdown of structure isn’t failure – it’s inevitable. Through movement, this piece questions our preconceptions of chaos and order. What do they truly mean? How do we recognise them? And what might they look like?

What unfolds on stage is an exploration, not of answers, but of possibilities.

cast and creatives

Evie Longstaff, Phoebe Woodthorpe, Anna Ala-Korpi and Hope Germaine.

Evie Longstaff is supported by The Place's Artist Development Propeller Programme for London Contemporary Dance School graduates.