Scratch Sunday Social at A+E Lab

Connect, Discover and Experience Fresh Dance Work-In-Progress in a Chilled Atmosphere

Scratch Sunday Social at A+E Lab — A+E Lab

Dance Performance / Installation / Artist Talk / Networking
Time: 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Admission: Pay-what-you-can (Suggestion £5 per person)
Age: All ages (Attendees under 16 must be accompanied by an adult)

Discover fresh dance and theatre work-in-progress at Scratch Sunday Social!

A+E Lab’s Sunday Social is back, this time with a focus on dance! This engaging event brings together artists, dance enthusiasts and A+E Lab friends (old and new!) for an afternoon of connection, discovery, and inspiration in a welcoming environment. Discover captivating performances by A+E Lab Artists in Residency (AIR 2025), Bea Bidault and Max Revell. Networking opportunities throughout the event provide a chance to connect with the vibrant creative community. Have a drink (non-alcoholic!), nibble and chat with like-minded people on a chilled Sunday afternoon. Let’s get together for a pre-Xmas!

Respect for all attendees is paramount at this event. We aim to create a safe and inclusive space for everyone. Everyone, including families and children, is welcome to attend.

Booking is required. This event is pay-what-you-can as a donation which will be directly given to the participating artists to support their work.

As we are at a gated site, we will arrange a meeting point at 1:30 pm, which you will receive closer to the event date.

There will be refreshments, but you are welcome to bring your own food and drink.

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Program:
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Arrival & Networking
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm “Les Nuages” Work in Progress by Bea Bidault x Max Revell
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Artist Talk + Q&A
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Networking

+ 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Arrival & Networking +
Arrive slowly and connect with peers, exchange ideas, and make new friends in a relaxed environment.

+ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm “Les Nuages” Work in Progress by Bea Bidault x Max Revell +
Les Nuages is a dance performance exploring loneliness and the yearning for connection. It investigates how our perceptions—formed through lived experience and imagined realities—shape the way we navigate isolation and togetherness. The performers externalize the fragility of human boundaries, showing how our projections onto others can distort or disrupt relationships. Through dance we embody memory, imagined others, and the unseen forces that shape intimacy.

+ 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Artist Talk with Bea & Max + Q&A +
Everyone is invited to join the artists as they speak about their creation, give your kind feedback for emerging artists, get involved in their creation process and integrate those reflections that can make the work in its best state.

+ 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Networking +
Expand your creative community network at Scratch Sunday Social! This is your opportunity to connect with artists, researchers, dance, graffiti and digital art enthusiasts in a relaxed and engaging environment. Meet with fellow attendees, discover new collaborators, and expand your professional network, plenty of chances to make valuable connections.

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Artists biography

Bea Bidault (SP)
As a choreographer, movement researcher and performer, Bea's work delves into the intricacies of human connection and identity. Her artistic practice blends fictional, visual and sensory elements, creating performances that are captivating and thought-provoking. Recent creations have been showcased at The Place (Resolutions), Ugly Duck, Battersea Arts Centre, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Museum of Modern Art in Valencia and Deltebre Festival.

As a performer Bea has worked with artists including Teac Damsa under Michael Keegan-Dolan's direction, choreographer Becky Namgauds, Akram Khan Company, Clementine Telesford & Lisard Tranis and Requardt & Rosenberg amongst others. Rehearsal director for Michael Keegan-Dolan and Becky Namgauds. Movement director for circus artist Loosey Smokes, Becky Namgauds’ film Thick Skin, for film director Will Clark (Jamon Productions) as well as leading movement research for a film test shoot produced by Disney.
https://www.bea-bidault.com/

Max Revell, Performer (UK)
Growing up in Cornwall, Max began training in Plymouth, taking breaking and popping classes with Street Factory from age nine, later returning there to teach. As a teenager he travelled across the UK competing in battles, and worked with several theatre companies before joining Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. In 2019 he won the BBC Young Dancer competition, graduating NSCD in 2020 he joined postgraduate company Verve.

Currently Max has been part of Akram Khan Company in the The Jungle Book Reimagined production as well as with Far From the Norm in Black Dog, he has starred as a soloist for the BBC proms 2025 festival opening.

He has directed his solo work as well as his newest choreographic work The Party, supported by Breaking Conventions, Orsalina and The Place. He was also a finalist in the popping strand of the worldwide competition Juste Debout 2025 in Paris.

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About A+E Lab
A+E Lab is an art and technology hub located in Historic Dockyard Chatham, led by AΦE, an innovative XR dance company and associate artist of the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries/University of Kent. A+E Lab democratises access to culture and digital tools, providing space, equipment and networking opportunities to creative practitioners and the local community. Since the opening in 2022, we've created 58 projects, engaged 1,7335 live audience and participants, and 687 children and young people, supported 199 artists, and delivered 252 education sessions in Medway.
https://aelab.uk/

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If you have any questions, feel free to contact us an email at A+E Lab team at hello@aoiesteban.com

This event is supported by AΦE, Medway Council through UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (iCCi) - University of Kent and Visual Elements.

Address: A+E Lab Unit 1, building 64, Main Gate Road, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, ME4 4TZ, United Kingdom