Webinar Wednesdays 2025

As an alumnus of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (BA) and London Contemporary Dance School (MA) Stuart’s 26 year career in the dance sector has been eclectic - performing and teaching in a wide range of educational and community settings nationally and internationally as well as touring with a range of companies and choreographers across different touring networks in the UK and overseas.

Instagram @stuart__waters

Website: https://stuartwaters.info/

Annie Edwards is a dance artist from Brighton that has been working in hip hop and contemporary dance for nearly a decade. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance School, she has performed with various companies including Candoco Dance Company, ZooNation, Boy Blue ent, Scottish Ballet and more. She is a co founder of Anhelo Collective, a choreographic collaboration that performs original works internationally. She is in mentorship with IndahouseUK and has recently competed in events throughout Europe. Her interests are founded in improvisation and exploring for disability through dance, recently receiving a DYCP to research the possibilities of disabled-led practices.

Instagram: @_annieedwards

Ming has worked as a dance artist, choreographer exploring identity and politics through movement and sound. She started her career as a production apprentice at New York Live Arts where she had the opportunity to work with Bill T. Jones, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Miguel Gutierrez. In 2018, Ming graduated with an MFA in choreography with distinction from Roehampton University. Ming is currently pursuing a PhD at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, works as a visiting lecturer at Roehampton University, and recently performed in works by H2 Dance, Nicola Conibere, Amber Jarman-Crainey, Seke Chimutengwende, and Emilyn Claid.

Instagram: @The_Movement_Ming

Charlie Morrissey is a UK-based director, performer, teacher, and curator who has worked with movement for over 35 years. His practice spans theatre, gallery, and site-specific contexts, shaped by deep collaborations with artists including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, and Siobhan Davies. Recent projects include Supernature with Siobhan Davies, Scáling with Markéta Stránska, and A Marathon of Intimacies with Anushiye Yarnell.

Instagram: @charliemorrissey

Website: http://www.charliemorrissey.com/

FABRIC is an organisation dedicated to embedding the social value of dance and movement through strategic interventions that improve the quality of practice in research, creation, performance and participation.

Our mission, is to create conditions for dance to flourish by growing the dance economy for the health, wellbeing, development and connection of communities, cultures and the individual.

Instagram: @fabric.dance

Website: https://fabric.dance/

Dance City is catalyst, convenor, and creator of excellent dance from the North-East, for the North-East and the world. We act as a home and incubator for artists; a place where participants and audiences can experience dance and a place to learn and create. This all takes place under one roof, in our purpose-built dance-house, in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Instagram: @dance_city_newcastle

Website: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/

One of Europe’s most exciting, innovative dance spaces and home to London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS); where artists from all over the world come to push creative boundaries, to experiment and to perform outstanding new work for audiences who expect to be surprised, inspired and delighted.

Instagram: @theplacelondon

Pavilion Dance South West is a registered charity based in Bournemouth. Simply put, we have a passion for dance, and recognise the potential it has to lift up and inspire local communities all over the UK.

Instagram: @pdsw_org

Website: https://www.pdsw.org.uk/

Siobhan Davies Studios believes in the power of dance for artistic and social change. We connect artists, neighbours and audiences through investigative, collaborative and inclusive activities. At our South London studios, we run activities that welcome people to be together in ways that prioritise sharing and collaboration: social gatherings, spaces to co-work and create, classes for all abilities, performances, talks and free exhibitions. Founded by choreographer Siobhan Davies, SDS has been part of the contemporary dance landscape since the 1980s. Now co-led by Annie Pui Ling Lok and Kat Bridge, we are proud to be artist and female-led.

Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer and performer working professionally in the UK and abroad for 20 years. His recent choreography, It begins in darkness explores haunting and colonial legacies and his new show, The Last Quartet, imagines a “last work” or “last attempt” at choreography. Seke is also currently presenting Long Solos: 60 minute solo improvisation performances with movement and text. As well as leading his own projects, Seke performs with Forced Entertainment having previously performed with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Lost Dog. Seke teaches improvisation in a variety of contexts internationally.

Instagram: @sekechim

Website: https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/

Eleanor Sikorski is a multidisciplinary artist based in Leeds, UK. She has worked in contemporary dance as a performer, choreographer, rehearsal director and teacher since 2010.She also works as a filmmaker and comics artist. With her partner, dance artist Lewys Holt, she co-hosts Roadhouse, a bi-monthly night of improvised dance performance in Leeds, inviting performers from across the UK to perform 20 min sets of open improvisation. They sometimes take Roadhouse ‘on the road’ to other cities nationwide. They also teach in Leeds: advocating for improvisation as a performance practice.

Instagram: @eleanor.sikorski

Website: https://eleanorsikorski.com/

Liz Rosenfeld is an interdisciplinary artist who works with performance,moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, edging questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto- theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how queer ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s.)

Instagram: @liz.rosenfeld

Website: https://www.lizrosenfeld.co/

Tamm Reynolds aka Midgitte Bardot is an artist/performer using drag, subversion, cultural historical misrepresentations of dwarfism aaaand lived experience of constant public perception to get their point across. Born in racecourse town countryside. Studied in Liverpool. Birthed Midgitte in Liverpool. Now based in London hosting the performance art evening Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot in Peckham and working/sharing solo show with a focus on the history of dwarfism/exploitation, Shooting From Below (Southbank Centre, Colchester Arts Centre, Unity Theatre etc). Recent recipient of Unlimited Partner Awards to develop solo work and collaboration.

Instagram: @midgittebardot

Katye Coe (she/they) is a dancer and dance worker, curator, teacher, Somatic Experiencing practitioner and mum Her professional dance practice spans 30 years. Katye currently works with Scottish Dance Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, The Pastoral Care Project (Temitope Ajose and Grace Nicol), Keira Greene, Matthias Sperling, Florence Peake and Charlie Morrissey. Katye is a volunteer director for Wainsgate Dances, a core group member of Freelance Dance Workers and she co-facilitates Kinship Workshop.

Instagram: @katyecoe

Website: https://katyecoe.org/about/

Bakani is a Choreographer, Performer & Improvisation Practitioner. As well as creating their own work they have performed nationally and internationally works by Theo Clinkard, Anthea Hamilton & Fevered Sleep. With practice as research at the core of his work, he explores decolonisation through improvisation practice, haptic visuality and choreographic composition. His work focuses on exploring identity, culture, and connection through dance and improvisation. With a passion for working with diverse communities, Bakani’s practice combines creativity, research, and a commitment to decolonisation in the arts.

Instagram: @bakanipickup

Website: https://www.bakanipickupcompany.com/