About Inside/Among

Liam Francis, winner of the Emerging Artist award at the National Dance Award 2025, is a leading figure in a new generation reframing the British dance scene.

In this powerful double bill he explores the space between self and collective, featuring the award-winning duet Dual Till The Death alongside the quartet, A Body of Rumours.

Dual Till The Death looks at the contradictions we each carry within ourselves. We can be serious and playful, aggressive and tender, mature and youthful, often all at once. Francis transforms these inner tensions into psychologically charged dance theatre. The dancers move between opposing impulses, revealing the complexity, humour and vulnerability of what it means to be human.

A Body of Rumours looks outward towards community, connection and belonging. Inspired by the concept of brotherhood; it looks at a relationship forged from a shared understanding of experience, culture, hopes, similarities, wants, and difference. Drawing on his experience as a Black dancer, Francis also considers the unspoken practices and tensions that have shaped his experience alongside his desire for connection. Chloé Mason captures the sounds of their dancing bodies in real time with a layered and multifaceted soundscape.

Together, the two works form a portrait of identity from both sides: the many selves within the individual, and the self within the collective.

5 Stars
The dance company has a bright future ahead of them and definitely one to watch
London Pub Theatre

Cast & Creatives

Dual Till The Death
Choreographer: Liam Francis
Lighting Designer: Zoé Ritchie
Sound Composer: Wouter Gulikers
Technical Director: Zoé Ritchie
Executive Producer: Steph Bergé

A Body of Rumours
Choreographer: Liam Francis
Lighting Designer: Joshie Harriette
Associate Lighting Designer: Zoé Ritchie
Live Music Composer & Sound Artist: Chloe Mason
Executive Producer: Steph Bergé

About Liam Francis Dance Company

Building on an established track record as an international choreographer and performer, Liam Francis launched the Brighton-based Liam Francis Dance Company in 2025. Bringing street dance, contemporary and ballet together on equal terms, the company makes hybrid works that disrupt boundaries and open up new movement possibilities. Working with artists across sound, fashion and design, each piece finds its story through the shifting relationship between movement, rhythm and image, shaped by atmosphere, texture and the space in between.

The company approaches dance as a form of artistic and emotional inquiry, a way to process experience, embody vulnerability and connect human stories through abstraction and non-linear expression. The work seeks to spark conversation about identity, community and liberation: the freedom to be seen, to be multiple, and to belong. Through creation, touring and outreach, Liam Francis Dance Company creates spaces where movement becomes a language of empathy and coexistence, inviting audiences to encounter the complexity and beauty of shared human experience.

https://liamfrancis.co.uk

Instagram: @liamfrancisdance

Credits

Dual Till The Death is co-commissioned by The Place and South EastDance and is receiving support from Arts Council England, Rinova and the Abderrahim Crickmay charity.

A Body of Rumours is co-commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville with the support of Caisse des Dépôts, The Lowry and The Place. The work has received support from Arts Council England, Cndc Angers, FABRIC, Studio Wayne McGregor Resident 6, Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage, South EastDance, Brighton Dome, London StudioCentre, Rinova and the Abderrahim Crickmay charity.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Liam Francis Dance Company’s patrons Nicolas Pinnock, Oona Van Den Berg, Serendipity, Cait Morrison and Philip Selway, Mike and Caroline Howes, for their generous contribution which was instrumental in bringing this project to fruition.

Liam Francis Dance Company is supported by Fondation BNP Paribas.