Resolution 2025

Jeonghee is a delicate duet between Jiwon Oh and her grandmother, Jeonghee Jang. This intimate dialogue explores the transmission of memory across generations, revealing what is passed on, forgotten, and transformed. The performers weave a subtle yet powerful journey where the body continues silent stories, inviting the audience to unravel the invisible threads of connection.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Jiwon Oh
Performers: Jeonghee Jang and Jiwon Oh

TEKOHA investigates the intersection of body and territory, examining how movement interacts with the land in a contemporary context. The work raises questions about how ancestral connections to place shape identity and are inscribed in the body, while also confronting the dissonance of modern displacement and fragmentation.

With the raw sound of the berimbau and powerful physical performance, the piece delves into the tension between memory, language, and the body. In this space, the body becomes a vessel of stories, navigating the shifting ground of belonging, migration, and the ongoing dialogue between history and the present.

Cast & Credits

Vivian Guyrá is a Latin American Indigenous choreographer who utilizes movement as a means to raise awareness about ethnic and environmental issues. Since 2018, they have created works that reflect the experiences of Indigenous communities while addressing important political and ecological challenges. By blending indigenous-quilombola movement practices with contemporary dance language,Guyrá’sperformances explore themes of identity, cultural heritage, and the connection between people, community and nature. Their work seeks to honour Indigenous voices and highlights the significant relationship between cultural preservation and environmental care in today's context.

Blank Dress is a new solo dance work by Amy Mauvan. A woman tries to put on a wedding dress and is weighed down by all the implications of what it means, childhood dreams, getting older and whether it fits, and even what is it to be a woman? Wouldn’t it be more fun to be a jellyfish? A play between imagination and day to day, this contemporary dance piece converses with a live score and teases with elements of performance art to take us through the exploration of what this dress can be.

Cast & Credits

Musician: Will South
Lighting Design: Rachel Sampley
Dramaturg: Rachel Elderkin

Tense, intense, tender, gentle, hopeful - the piece explores the notion of 'resilience'. How do we cope with difficult, emotional and traumatic life experiences, including bereavement? What lifts us back into the light? Where are the cracks that let in glimmers of hope? What enables us to find our way through sorrow and extreme stress enough to keep on going? The performers draw on echoes and fragments of personal narratives in their search for transformation, from being literally 'floored' to somehow finding those glimmers of hope, humour, release, and even joy again: letting the light in.

Cast & Credits

Cast: Kerry Chappell; Lizzie Swinford; Pam Woods
Choreography: the cast
Costume/design: tbc
Photo: Leonie Hampton

Soledad is an experimental solo performance blending contemporary dance and live music. It explores the feeling of isolation that comes from difficulties in expressing or understanding spoken language. By analysing gestures, postures, facial expressions, and bodily movements, the performance highlights how non-verbal communication can bridge gaps where words prove insufficient. Using a new method inspired by two existing movement notation systems, the choreographer has created a performance that reflects on the power of the body to communicate. Through movement, Soledad invites audiences to consider how we can connect beyond words, emphasising the significance of bodily expression.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer and Performer: MariaSole Montacci
Musician and Sound Collaborator: Riccardo Militerno
Lighting: Irene Fiordilino

In a dimension where bizarre beauty and personal sensory perception co-exist, Fashion Sense is an abstract interdisciplinary contemporary dance piece. Inviting the dancers/models to explore their agency through a costume-led practice, the garments act as both a statement and mode of discovery. Fashion Sense celebrates the spectacularity of the fashion show whilst using the garments as stimuli to unlock movement potential. Fashion Sense urges spectators to share the performer's sensory exploration whilst immersing them into the world of eclectic and eccentric haute couture.

Cast & Credits

Dancers/Models: Lily Armah, Andrea Louca, Mercedes Prevatt, Lisa Robinson and Kato Thomas

How do you save face when your partner keeps stepping on your toes?

Terpsichore in Jest features two brave souls attempting to navigate the treacherous waters of working together, holding out for the occasional triumph when they almost get it right. What is partnership if not tolerating someone else’s nonsense?

The pressure is on, dear audience, because you are watching! With clumsiness and persistence, they hurdle forward, negotiating shared space with little ease. Let the ridiculous pursuit of harmony, symphony of side-eyes and tiny flickers of brilliance commence!

Cast & Credits

Creators/Cast: Katie Kelly & Mary Sweetnam
Rehearsal Director: Kaya Blumenthal-Rothchild

I’ll Hold You is Northern Soul meets acrobatic circus. A show that brings a story of connection through the power of music, movement and popular culture. Inspired by the athletic moves of the dance floors of Wigan Casino in the early 70s and the resurgence of the scene, proving that Northern Soul never dies.

I’ll Hold You offers audiences a heartfelt and joyful look at reconnecting with loved ones.

Cast & Credits

Daisy Minto - Director, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama MA Advanced Theatre Practice graduate 2019, Regional Theatre YoungDirectors Scheme, Gecko Theatre 2016.
Sally Malloy- Choreographer, EPA Graduate & World Northern Soul Dance Champion 2022.
Adam Fullick- Circus Captain & Performer, National Centre for Circus Arts BA Graduate 2020

The test subjects are siblings. Their sibling bond has tied them from birth till death. We are running tests to understand what it means to be related. Their risks will be rewarded, their trust is imperative, if one should fall the other must catch otherwise our experiments have failed. You will see the subjects submitted to five experiments on connection, trust and transformation. Do not feed the subjects.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer/Performer: Silas Grocott Cain
Performer:Delilah Grocott Cain
Music Producer: Luke Samuel Marley

Adam is a solo about memory, trickery, and how we come to form an identity. In a clearing, the shape of one body appears. In this unfamiliar space, a body learns he’s alive; a child learns his favourite dance; an adult learns who else he might have been. A journey of discovery culminates in the conversation between these beings across one body. Could they all be a part of the same history?

Harry Foster is keen to dive further into unlearning who he is. With a body textured and shaped by dance, in Adam he uses the tools of movement to illustrate just how plastic we are. He believes our past selves hold the power to soothe us, hold us, and help us reimagine who we are now.

Cast & Credits

Creative Assistant: Bianca Mikahil
Sound Design: Phil Wood
Musical Composition: Max Revell

"Adam can't get fooled twice. With the help of AI, you will find an Eve that will break generational curses."

AI and algorithms are everywhere, shaping our future. We may let it create our perfect partner and even our children, leaving human interaction and imperfections behind.

Eves is a dystopian fiction inspired by films such as Westworld and Ex Machina, exploring our culture's view of women, dating apps, and the power of AI. It follows the story of three women created to be perfect matches. These women represent us in a competitive environment, always racing towards perfection and productivity, asking for humanity.

Cast & Credits

Performer: Yu-Chien Cheng

Yu-Chien Cheng starts her dance training in Ballet, contemporary, and Chinese dance. In 2018, she entered Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for BA in contemporary dance, received First Class of degree in 2021 and Simone Michelle Award for outstanding achievement in Choreography.

She continues her training by joining VERVE 22 and completes a MA in Contemporary dance performance in 2022. Throughout VERVE, she performs works by Akram Khan, Sita Ostheimer, and Alesandra Seutin. The three pieces toured nationally within the UK, including The Place (London), Dance House (Cardiff), Dance City (NewCastle), Riley Theatre (Leeds)…and more, and in Grand Théâtre de Genève, Switzerland.

Performer: Kriela Carmichael

Kriela Carmichael is a London based professional freelancer, dancer, model, actress, choreographer and assistant creative director from Baltimore, Maryland whose work spans across film, TV, live performance, multimedia production and branded content. She studied at Baltimore School for the Arts, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Aandag! (Attention.) is a captivating interdisciplinary work that begins with the maternal lineage, exploring the experiences of younger generations of immigrants to the UK from African, Caribbean, and Latin diasporas. It reflects on the fragmented or dissolved connections to cultural heritages caused b geographic and colonial influences. The work calls us all to attention, inviting us to reimagine and reconnect with their roots, while creating new rites of passage for future generations.

Rooted in the choreographer’s heritage as a descendant of the indigenous Khoi and San peoples of Southern Africa, Aandag! draws from the Stepping in Situ practice, which is in direct conversation with the Nama Stap Dance—a sacred rite of passage within her lineage. The piece blends fluid hip explorations intentional hand gestures, and earthy foot percussion, reconnecting ancestral movements with contemporary diasporic experiences. Accompanied by live music and storytelling, the work reclaims and reshapes cultural identity.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Francesca Matthys
Performers and Co-Creators: Georgia Thompson, Nomakhwezi Becker, Patricia Olmo, Manuela Albrecht
Musicians and Co-Creators:Benjamin Jephta, Michael Mendones
Costume Designer: Mia Tongo Mesembe
Dramaturg: Ameera Conrad
Photographer/Videographer: Bilal Singh
Additional Creative Contribution: Xel Ortega

How is it possible to feel so familiar with a music that we never heard before?

Rooted in the traditions of southern Italy, particularly the pizzica salentina, but reimagined through a contemporary lens, this performance weaves together rhythmic patterns, hypnotic tambourine sounds, and experimental music to create a space where past and present collide.

This is not a simple tribute to folklore—it is a visceral journey, where music and movement become a conduit for transcendence, and where the body enters a state of ecstatic, meditative flow resonating with the raw, primal force that connects us all.

Cast & Credits

Choreographers and Dancers: Giada Palmisano and Brice Taupin

Inspired by the choreographer’s experiences working as a model for the past three years, Felicity delves into ideas of complicity and power within the fashion industry, using the semi-autobiographical character of the same name as a vessel for this exploration. Felicity begins to question her place as a model and the consequences of her work, as everything she once knew begins to unravel itself before her.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer/Performer: Serena Thomas
Composer: Evan Thomas (Instagram: @evanthomas804)

In The Flip Show, you’ll witness the journey of three young men navigating the gritty reality of street performance in London, hustling daily to make ends meet. But this isn’t just another survival story—it’s layered with an edgy, comedic twist. The host, armed with sharp dark humour, guides us through their world, using comedy as a lens to explore deeper societal issues like racism, migration, fatherhood, and crippling debt.

As the story unfolds, we see how these issues shape them mentally, physically, and financially—revealing the weight they carry as men trying to thrive in an unforgiving city. The humour, while biting, brings humanity to their struggles, offering a raw and unfiltered look at life in a London often hidden from the mainstream. The show not only entertains but sparks thought, shedding light on how these complex realities intertwine in the lives of young men striving for survival and success.

Cast & Credits

Director, Executive Producer, Choreographer: Kanah Flex
Assistant Choreographer/Dancer/Rapper: Chase Alphonso
Dancer: Benny Tantu, Haroon Al Abdli,C Kappa
Music Producer/Sound Design/Producer: Mr Dotz
Music Producer: Tytan UPG, Wxves, Styller Surpeme, Brnsright

A man. A woman. And a relationship that’s got stuck. It needs a reboot or, rather, a boot up the arse. They’ve tried switching it off and on again, but that didn’t work. So it’s time to get creative – to renegotiate, fight their corner, air their grievances, state their case. The process could be playful and fun, or mean and nasty – a roller coaster ride to hell and back that gets physical but is bound to achieve results. Will the outcome be the one they want, though? Enjoy the ride; it will be gloriously bumpy!

Cast & Credits

Creator and Dancer: Sarah Kent
Dancer and Producer: Andy Newman
Composer: Alice Mills
Photographer: Laura Hinski

ACNE ROMEO is a thrilling and messy dance-theatre translation of Sam Smith’s frightening new play. Boy and girl meet in a violent world. It’s a collision course. A riot. This has to be a love story.

Thrown together by chance, R and J decide to make a home for themselves. They pass the time undoing sex and want, consumed by pleasure and brute tenderness. As the world bares its teeth around them, they carve themselves into each other for safety. But as day turns to night and knives begin to shine, their star-crossed tumble of need and desire descends into a pit of gendered cruelty.

Presented by Mad Jacks Theatre, the company behind the ‘scorchingly emotional’ (★★★★ Broadway Baby) Photographs, and ‘the extraordinary commentary on art, love and life’ (★★★★ Adventures in Theatreland) Scenes with boys.

Cast & Credits

Writer-Director: Sam Smith (he/she/they)
Choreographer: Daze Hingorani (they/he)
Cast: Matisse Ciel (they/she)
Cast: Laurie Ward (she/her)
Composer: Tate Hingorani-Short (he/him)
Lighting Designer: Nye Roberts (he/him)

Raw and tender dance-theatre by award-winning filmmakers Maya Yoncali and Andy McCredie. Another Day Of Loving is a romantic and honest approach to grief in a relationship, exposing what it means to be in love in the aftermath of death. Churning between techno and 1960’s Hollywood film scores, the piece ricochets through the character’s bodies and inner turmoil, to present a heartfelt narrative on love and loss.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer, Director and Performer: Maya Yoncali
Director and Performer: Andy McCredie

Journal of 7 (JO7) delves into the untold and often taboo stories within African culture, focusing on the 'Seven Deadly Sins'. The piece stems from Olu's lived experiences of these cultural norms, the performance weaves through themes of relationships with her mother, migration, polygyny, fatal curses, and toxic doctrines passed down through generations.

Audiences will get a glimpse into the journal entries of an African woman, exploring her experiences with the seven deadly sins from an African perspective. The narrative is conveyed in an abstract manner while maintaining a strong focus on the overarching theme of the seven deadly sins using African, contemporary and street dance forms.

Cast & Credits

Writer, Choreographer and Artistic Director: Olu Alatise
Producer: Fern Crosbie
Producer: Emily Labhart
Dancers: Abisola Alli, Elsa Roy Gupta, Hazel Culliney, Leonisia Nsaku, Sarah Lisney, Sara Osaya, Amanda Pefkou, Sewit Tekle, Kenya Sterling, Anu Walters, Versha Grant, Jenni Akintola, Chaquille Osborne

Latchkey children are mythical creatures. They teach themselves the ways of the world; they are shapeshifters, monsters, hybrids, will-o'-the-wisps. Their home is wherever their keys fit. Often, this means an early end to childhood, and a feeling of being lost. A moon orbiting itself, always searching for a planet, a world of curiosity and invulnerability, where dreams are more tangible than reality. This piece explores themes of childhood, the subconscious, and the relationship between grief, reality and dreams. Latchkey Child deals with navigating between these worlds, the otherness that comes with it, and the necessity of slipping into different roles and identities in the search for belonging and identity.

Cast & Credits

The Renegade Master is a bold, dynamic dance show confronting social injustice, climate crisis and queerness. At its core is a striking image—a monstrous cape of suits symbolizing corrupt systems. Through powerful movement, dancers embody this oppressive force, then transform, shedding the “monster” to reveal liberation and hope. The performance ends in a Queer celebration of hope and unity, inviting the audience to join the performers in an uplifting, joyful finale.

Cast & Credits

Performers and Choreographers: Juan Sánchez Plaza in collaboration with Isabel Alvarez Pinazo
Costume and Scenography: Finn Price

ANIMA, 'the irrational part of the soul', is a solo work by freestyle movement artist Duran. This immersive piece offers a sensory experience that explores the interplay between freestyle movement and its environment, using lighting, sound, and set design to transport the audience into a journey of spiritual and artistic evolution. As a continuation of Duran's previous solo, Chrysalis, ANIMA delves into the challenges of transformation, presenting these themes through fresh perspectives discovered during the creative process. This captivating work invites viewers to engage deeply with the complexities of the soul and the art of self-discovery.

Cast and Credits

Artistic Director/Choreographer/performer: Duran 'Dee Dee' Abdullah
Set Design: Duran 'Dee Dee' Abdullah
Music production: Taylor DaCosta

Ombra mai fu is a visually evocative dance piece that follows an introspective journey from darkness into light. Through abstract allegories referencing Aeschylus Oresteia's tragedy, the choreography explores the human struggle to break free from the illusions and projections that cloud the mind. Shadows symbolize the unconscious, instinctive forces that alienate the self, while the interplay of light becomes a metaphor for awareness and transformation. Over the course of the performance, the shadows evolve into independent entities, culminating in a surreal and poetic "danse macabre" where they dissolve, leaving space for clarity and renewal.

Cast and Credits

Dancers: Naia Bautista, Harry Theodora Foster, Salvatore De Simone
Music: David Laurence Westcott

Two strangers at an airport fall asleep after a flight delay, slipping into shared lucid dreams. Their subconscious minds merge, transforming the mundane into a dark, surreal journey. As they unknowingly project each other’s hidden fears and desires, the piece becomes a powerful metaphor for psychological projection. Blurring the line between reality and fantasy, it unveils the delusions that shape both our dreams and waking lives through a hybrid of physical theatre and street styles.

Cast and Credits

Choreography/Concept: Vasiliki Papapostolou aka Tarantism
Performance: Spiros Paltoglou, Vasiliki Papapostolou aka Tarantism
Music/Sound designer: Christopher Nas
Photography: Frank Ippolito

David Ainsworth used to be an accountant. Then he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Now he's a choreographer, exploring how to communicate to others about his illness and trailblazing a path for a new generation of artists with neurological conditions.

What happens when you lose your signature; when it is replaced by 'the footprints of a drunken, limping spider'? Signature Moves examines the feelings of an individual who is dealing with illness, specifically Parkinson's. It explores a personal journey from denial through rationalisation to acceptance, on the way exploring interactions between partners and loved ones, agencies and the community as a whole.

Join us for this thought-provoking new work, featuring a cast of mature older dancers, for David Ainsworth's exciting London debut.

Cast and Credits

Choreography: David Ainsworth
Artistic Director: Rachel Wesson
Creative Director & Mentor: Emma Clayton
Cast: David Ainsworth, Sophie Atkinson, Emma Clayton, Barbara Dransfield, Sharon Fountain, Emma Hindley, Angela King, Frank Lee, Bren Neale, Elizabeth Nolan, Shafik Rahman, Gerry Sutton, Helen Strickland, Susan Watson, Terence Wood

What does it mean to consume and be consumed?

Inspired by Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote sketch and the relentlessness of human consumption, Feeding Time exposes the uncanny likeness between man and beast. Combining physical theatre with dynamic contemporary choreography, Banquet Theatre promises to make you squirm, shudder and salivate.

Uncompromising and unrelenting, Feeding Time challenges audiences to reflect on their own habits of consumption and what it means to disrupt natural order in pursuit of ultimate satiation.

Cast and Credits

Director: Mark Crawley
Company Manager: Sally Edible
Composers: Andrés Peña & Parsa Valiany
Lighting Designer: Liam Walton-Bell
Costume Designer: Sophie Andrews
Dancers: Spike King, Elisabeth Mulenga, Anna Smith, Finn Gurney, Polly Mann

“The cyborg would not recognise the garden of Eden, it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust." - Donna Haraway

Three performers wander an infinite landscape, their bodies merging with machine, as they grapple with images of hyper-femininity.

With the cyborg as a metaphor for fragmented identities, We Are The World looks at the space between fiction and fact, and what it means to be a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fantasy. From Artistic Director Imogen Reeve, We Are The World shares a utopian vision, investigating the partiality, irony, intimacy and perversity of human nature.

We Are The World is the third instalment of a trilogy of work by Excessive Human Collective examining gender, technology and the apocalyptic.

Cast and Credits

Idea and Direction: Imogen Reeve
Choreography:Imogen Reeve in collaboration with performers
Performer Collaborators: Allegra Vistalli, Jorden Brooks, Hannah Durkan
Scenery: Imogen Reeve
Sound: Devon Bonelli
Costume Design, Costume Realization: Imogen Reeve
Lighting Design and Production Manager: Charlotte Woods
Producer: Callum Holt

This performance invites you on an emotional journey exploring how we connect with our cultural identities in an ever-changing world. Through captivating dance, live performances, and stunning visuals, The Parallel Gap looks at how we form, lose, and rediscover our sense of self.

Expect a mix of movement, storytelling, and interactive art that pulls you into the lives of people confronting both personal and political challenges. This is more than just a performance—it's a chance to reflect, feel, and be part of a global conversation about who we are and how we belong, fostering introspection and dialogue on our collective human journey within the vast expanses of the pluriverse.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Producer, Choreographer & Artistic Director: Ophey Tsz Kwan Chan
Dancers: Dennis Hartman, Ophey Tsz Kwan Chan, Yaorao Cai, Owen Zhaowei Cai, Haiyan Deng
Dance Film Support & Photographer: Alex Fode Cheung
Composer: Max Conway Goutines
Installation Art Support: Alex Fode Cheung

In some place, at some point in time (but for now, in a theatre), Emma is meticulously preparing to execute her closest friend, Beatrice.

Why?

Well, it’s all tied up in a surreal exploration of dehumanisation and propaganda. In a combination of dance, theatre, and simple clowning, expect plenty of absurd moments as Emma faces the impossible task of reconciling her mission while her actions unravel a deeper reflection on modern society. Will she follow through? Or will the absurdity of it all hold up a mirror to us?

Oh, and by the way... Beatrice, the friend? She’s a spud.

Tyranny of the King Edwards delves into the world of dark humour, making you think while keeping it playful, showing us that when it comes to propaganda and potatoes, things can get a little mashed.

Cast & Credits

Dancer and Choreographer: Chevon Edwards
Dramaturg: Dwayne Church-Simms

Club music echoes through the floor of a dimly lit room, where merely a table will host six players throughout the night. A game inspired by Russian Roulette takes place in the rafters of a dingy nightclub that may cost someone their life… for a cash prize. Become immersed in this world controlled by the dealer, as contestants are put head to head in a high tension game of chance. Exploring themes of survival and thrill of danger, the work presents a high stakes situation, where the overarching addiction to danger is what leads these people to the Roulette.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer & Performer: Sam Reeves
Choreographer & Performer: Margherita Mattia
Dancers: Sam Reeves, Margherita Mattia, Dylan Jones, Nicole Nevitt, Naissa Bjørn, Sua Tsubokura-Aguiriano, Tom Jones
Director & Performer: Tom Jones
Performer: Daniella Powell
Costume: Aurora Mattia
Music: Colin Evans

You are invited to imagine your heart carved out of your body and affixed into the sky through an immersive performance combining poetry, dance and opera.

A mannequin cut in half with strings in-between it stands centre stage. Opera resurrects two dead bodies on the Day of Judgement as they face themselves and the Divine. The poet Bhanu Kapil reads the story of an immigrant guest and a citizen host from her T. S Elliot Prize-winning book 'How to Wash a Heart'.

And you are invited to lie between these two worlds and dream.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer/Performer/Musical Director/Set Designer/Producer: Blue Pieta
Poet:Bhanu Kapil
Dancer: Samantha Hines
Singer, Sound Designer: Kath Gifford
Musician: Ynys Barnard-Masterson

0’s & 1’s traces the evolution of data and its impact on human life. The abstract nature of information is expressed through dynamic footwork, recited syllables, sharply etched hand gestures and creative use of props. The choreography blends ensemble sequences with narratives, bringing the concept of data to life.

Rooted in the movement vocabulary of Bharatanatyam, the performance incorporates veena, vocal, and percussion music, enhanced by an electronic score and data sonification. Combined with evocative projections and futuristic costumes, it creates an immersive sensory experience that brings the beauty of data patterns to life.

Cast & Credits

Concept, choreography and artistic direction: Mathangi Keshavan
Dance Artists for the performance: Suhani Dhanki, Kirsten Newell, Akshara Mohan, Shivaangee Agrawal
Other dance collaborators: Divya Ravi, Anaya Bolar, Sai Supriya Sreecumaar

Music collaborators:
Data Sonification & Electronic Music: Adrian Lewis
Veena: Divyanand Caird
Percussion & Morsing: Mithushan Sivagurunathar
Vocals: Akshara Mohan
Nattuvangham & Sollukattu: Mathangi Keshavan

Costume Design: Sandhya Raman
Set Design: Florence Wright
Dance mentor: Suba Subramaniam

With thanks to: Bhavan, London, Linda Saunders, Supritha Aithal and Akademi

Stranded explores the emotional and physical journey of women with curly, coily, and wavy hair as they choose to transition back to their natural hair, free from chemical treatments. Through movement, the work responds to the colonial history that falsely linked Black physical features to notions of primitiveness and animality. Rather than a pursuit of beauty, the piece reflects a reclamation of Black aesthetics, celebrating the inherent beauty that has always been present.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer and performer: Sarah Santos
Costume Design and Scenography: Viviane Kiill

Hey STOP!!! is a dance piece exploring the theme of social anxiety. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining dance and installation art, the work seeks to uncover and address the deeper causes of inner fear, while inviting the audience to reflect on the psychological state of individuals as they interact with others in contemporary society. The piece aims to offer new perspectives on overcoming social anxiety, contributing to the healing of the mind.

Cast & Credits

Director/Producer: Congfang Xiao(Spring)
Choreographer: Congfang Xiao (Spring) and dancers
Costume/Installation designer: Hong Xu
Composer: Jack Smith
Photographer: Therese Ni
Lighting Designer: Mengyun Liu (Melody)
Dancers: Sheldon Ridge, Lucie Ohnisková, Moose Sverrisson, Ya Shu, Hannah Todosijczuk

Cathedrals is a provocation aimed at religious structures. Jewel-toned moonlight shines through cascading stained glass and hymns fill the vast, vaulted ceiling as six female dancers manifest reverence, rage and rebellion. In perfect symmetry, patriarchal hierarchies mirror the grandeur displays in religious spaces. Embodying years of generational pressure to conform to steep standards, dancers immerse the audience in a wrestle with twin tensions: the emotional tension women experience when holding conflict and the atmospheric tension palpable in cathedrals.

Cast & Credits

Dancers: Carys Thomas, Daphne Wright, Louise Lawson, Ming-Chin Hsieh, Noor Darwish, Sunny Coco Marko-Bennett
Lighting Designer: Mila Mussatt
Producer: Elvi Christiansen

For Steve is an improvised performance work between dancers and musicians influenced by the work of Steve Paxton and the principles of Contact Improvisation. Impacted by the pandemic and a lack of touch, the work explores how we can recall the touch of others and find ways to connect other than through the physical. Through conversation between dancers and musicians, questions explored include: When are we in contact with others? How are we in contact? Is the physical the only form to access contact? For Steve offers opportunities to delve into these questions and unpick these principles through improvised conversation amongst the two art forms of music and dance.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer and Dancer: Eve Walker
Dancer: Maria Giacchetto
Musician (keyboard): Findlay Hewitson
Musician (Saxophone): Grahame Easthope
Mentor: Theo Clinkard

Jane is a solo contemporary flamenco dance work which explores the wild inner life of an introvert, of quiet rebellion against the norm, and questions the boundaries that social expectation and routine place on our existence. Originally inspired by the figure of the madwoman in the attic in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - this piece explores our relationship with altitude and isolation.

Jane is a collaboration with composer and cellist Colin Alexander.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer & Performer: Magdalena Mannion
Original composition & Cello: Colin Alexander

Les Nuages is a mesmerizing 35-minute solo dance performance that delves into the intricate human emotions of loneliness and the yearning for connection. Through the evocative performance, the dancer explores how our perceptions of life—shaped by a blend of real experiences and imagined realities—impact these feelings. The performance navigates the delicate line between isolation and the desire for togetherness, illustrating how both tangible and intangible elements of our experiences influence our emotional landscape. Les Nuages offers a poignant reflection on the complexities of the human psyche, resonating deeply with audiences on an emotional and intellectual level.

Cast & Credits

Direction & Choreography: Bea Bidault
Performer: Bea Bidault
Rehearsal Direction: Becky Namgauds, Theo Arran, Aki Iwamoto
Associate Movement Artists: Connor Scott, Theo Arran, Bonni Bogya
Music: Mayah Kadish
Sound Programming: Jaimie Hamilton
Costume Designer: Shanti Bell
Producer: Polly Cuthbert
Producer support: Silvia Carradori

With the support of the Jaime Iddon Award granted by Blast Theory, the European Mobility Award Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre and Ugly Duck.

The soft steam of peach blossom tea swirls in the air.

Golden Leaves is a meditative dance duet combining nature-inspired floorwork with elements of butoh to contemplate on Summer’s vitality within Winter’s solitude. Immersed in a soundscape of rustling canopies, this piece offers space to encounter the glowing underside of a leaf, inviting you to lean in and wonder or lean back and ponder.

This is a performance for those seeking stillness in the busyness and warmth within Winter.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Billy Maxwell Taylor
Dancers: Maggie Tin Lok Chan & Billy Maxwell Taylor
Composer: Stefan Janik
Soundscape Artist: Billy Maxwell Taylor
Costume Designer: Dr. Lara Kipp
Company Artist: Phoebe Lester

When the world was still ending, many things were possible.

The apocalypse is pending. One dancer decides to dance themselves to death. No one asked them to do it. Some would prefer they stop.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Composer: Gia Dreyer
Assistant director: Dann Xiao
Performers: Agelos Kotzias, Cameron Jarvie, Casper Dillen, Christy Taylor, Cizzoe Yi Wang, Dann Xiao, Edgar Ocampo Pazmino, Maieuran Sathananthan, Romain Nagata, Tomio Shota, William James (JJ), Qibai Ting, Yujie Duan
Fashion Design: Dodam Gwon

"From throat to heart; From quarrel to silence; From indifferent desires to warm hearts. Who is it that watches people under the roof?"

The work gives insight into the shackles of formalism within an East Asian family where the intimate relationships are woven into one big net, and every member who tries to change is controlled, criticized, and doubted by the invisible threads. And all the emotions will eventually dissolve into silence and be digested by a complex love.

You will witness the struggle, and pain but also the warmth of emotion, this pain is not licentious, it will eventually disappear because of blood and love.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer : Shiyu Lu and Haonan Ma
Costume designer: Nicole Chen
Lighting designer: Jack Hathaway
Assistant: Qinghe Yi, Ziyu Pan

The show is an interdisciplinary exploration of borders and connection. In a world where we are many things at the same time, how do we say the things we want to say but cannot? What valuable information is lost in translation when language and our bodies are telling different stories? Different genders, cultures, and artistic practices exploring connection in a home away from home.

Cast & Credits

Created and performed by: Divija Melally and Saili Katebe
Music: George Bloomfield
Dramaturg: Vicki Hearne
Mentoring and support: Richard Chappell Dance

Through collaborating with his brother Matty, a musician, Alex’s work focusses on ideas around queer brotherhood, growing up in a queer-parented household and the experience of coming of age within these parameters. The piece aims to find a common language between the brothers, in a retrospective exploration of childhood emotional experiences.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer/Performer: Alex Whelan
Composer/Performer:Matty Whelan

What do you want to be w̶h̶e̶n̶ if you grow up?

The Darndest Things is a provocative piece of physical theatre that blends conversations with kids and hyper-detailed expressionist movement. The naivety and wonder of children crashes into the crushing realities of climate change, political upheaval, and looming threats of war to ask: can kids just be kids? Inspired by the works of Crystal Pite and Pina Bausch, The Darndest Things collides joy and dread to paint a picture of an unsettling future.

Cast & Credits

Director, performer: Marshall Stay
Performer, deviser: Tom Claxton
Performer, deviser: Adam Havsky
Performer, deviser: Eliza Scott
Performer, deviser: Jahvel Hall
Dramaturg: Izzy Edwards

89 explores themes of identity, memory, and empowerment, drawing from personal and historical narratives. Inspired by conversations between Joana and her Portuguese mother about the disappearance of her Angolan father in 1989, the piece takes the audience on a journey of a mixed-race woman reclaiming her identity. It delves into the strength of mother-daughter relationships and the universal quest for self-discovery as Joana tries to puzzle her family story together and meets a man on stage she never met in real life.

The performance combines aerial hoop, dance, original music, and dynamic sound and light design.

Cast & Credits

Creator & Performer: Joana Dias
Director/Collaborator: Vicki Dela Amedume
Composer: Finn Anderson
Dramaturg/Writer: Nuna
Producer: Fae Fichtner

89 is funded by Jerwood Arts and created in cooperation with Upswing.

Where we are now is a dance theatre duet exploring how the climate emergency is affecting our bodies now and how that may affect our relationships in the future.

Annie’s work leans into the absurd as a means to portray deep human emotions in their full complexities of expression.

This performance is an episode of a larger project. It is futuristic yet familiar, using the vigour of dance with the sensitivity of theatre to tell a story like pieces of a collage.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer and Performer: Annie Kelleher
Performer and Collaborator: Jonathan Aubrey-Bentley

Where we are now is partially funded by Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW) and supported by Swindon Dance.

From a fraught relationship with an enticing chair, to an impromptu birthday party with a nostalgic edge, No Idea What I’m Doing is an ode to the dawning realities of adulthood that emerge in our late 20s and the frisson that comes along with it. Characterised through a dynamic and coalescent solo, the movement spans from vigorous floor work to tap dancing, the atmosphere carved through spoken word, Electronic Music, and a Welsh Choral Hymn. The piece encapsulates the ambivalence of pretending that we know what we are doing, all while having absolutely no idea what is going on.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Aisha Naamani
Performer: Aisha Naamani
Production Manager: Charlie Knight

Not Even a Pin Drop is a narrative work based on Gabrielle’s experience of sudden deafness in one ear. The piece aims to translate the mixture of feelings and emotions that were faced during this time, among them: fear, hope, isolation, gratitude and disorientation. Through the use of classical music and playing with the sound in the space (or the lack thereof) the audience has the opportunity to be transported through each moment of the experience. Not Even a Pin Drop will offer an insight into the confusion that a disruption of one of the senses can cause

Cast & Credits

Choreographers: Gabrielle de Souza &Luke Cartwright

Making its striking debut at Resolution Festival, Lucy Turner’s Vitruvian Man, based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing of the same name, explores the illusion of idealistic human proportions. With an eclectic original score by Anil Kahvecioglu, the hypnotic sequencing of music and movement invites the brain to voyage through the history of fine art along with the bodies on stage. The duo intertwine, thread and paint shapes between them - celebrating the individuality within the architecture of the human body. Asking with eyes closed: ‘if I could dissect my identities apart, wouldn’t I be able to separate geometry from art?’

Cast & Credits

Choreographer & Dancer: Lucy Turner
Choreographer & Dancer: Sonny Cwynarski
Composer: Anıl Kahvecioğlu
Costume: Frances Morris, Sarah Coleman, Emma Lyth

In these 15-20 minutes, witness the imaginary world of three young women from the East. East Asian conceptions of women’s roles in society are largely derived from Confucianism, which views society based on hierarchical relationships and emphasizes family virtues such as filial piety. Our desires are always underrated or unseen by the world, even by ourselves. Listening to our innermost instinct, what do we actually feel like doing? Through fusing contemporary dance and breaking, the movement vocabularies are intertwined.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer & Director: Athena (Choi Ha Leung)
Performers & Dancer: Yochen Chiu (Yu-Chen Chiu)
Performers & Dancer: Christina Lai
Performers & Dancer: Ying Yen (Yvonne) Wang
Sound design: DT
Costume Design: Siyu Wan
Photographer: Arliugraphy

Bees and Beasts and the Horrish FishTales is a live art psychological tragicomedy exploring themes of pain, pollination and captivity. Set to Verdi’s Rigoletto, this spectacle follows an endometriosis surgeon who, after surviving a nightmarish shipwreck, finds herself trapped on an island with menacing beekeepers who want to use her womb to bring back an extinct species of bees. The absurd tale invites audience members to imagine Gilda’s dreams and nightmares as she stage manages her own death(s).

Cast & Credits

Director, writer, designer, performer: Maria Garcia
Performer: Ruby Antonowicz-Behnan

"Sometimes an Episode has already been written for us through various scenes of ourselves."

Cast & Credits

Artistic Direction: Chaquille Forrester-Osborne
Creatives and Performers: Alicia Cox,Bill Litambola, George Duker,Chantelle Dawe, Laqwarn Robinson, Kyron ‘Nykro’ Jake Anthony, Gary Clarke, Glenn Hudson, Elijah Smith, Toby Jackman, Malachi Lewis, Malachi Welch, Mason Connolly, Kurtis Agyekum, Nathan Sinclair-Marsh, Darrell Brade,Cache Thake
Creative, Performer & Music Producer: Taylor-Kae Knott
Creative, Performer BTS Photographer: Masaiya Thomas
BTS Photographer & videographer: Max Cheshire

To Quell a Storm is a solo transdisciplinary performance that weaves together personal narrative, cultural heritage, and embodied storytelling. Rooted in themes of memory, identity, and resilience, it explores the intersections of diasporic experience and collective healing. This piece evokes the internal and external forces that shape personal journeys of transformation through a combination of movement, spoken word, and immersive elements. The solo channels these seen and unseen tensions to create a visceral experience that invites audiences to reflect on their own stories of survival, heritage, and renewal. It is a journey through chaos and a meditation toward balance.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer and Performer: Keith Alexander

The piece follows 4 British-Ugandan grandchildren’s journey as they discover more about their late grandad's life, legacy and their culture, with the help of a mysterious Angel they are taken on an extraordinary and educational adventure. Using predominately hip hop and street dance styles as well as spoken word to explore Ugandan activism and the independence movement, also feelings of connection and disconnection to culture and heritage. Based on true events with a fictional twist the piece aims to shed light on the untold powerful stories of heroes from the diaspora, it will be joyful, enlightening and empowering

Cast & Credits

Choreographed and written by Jackie Kibuka
Original Music: Darren Thomas and Ezekiel Ajie
Dramaturg: Danielle ‘Rhimes” Lecointe
Creative mentor: Karthika Nair
Performers: Immaculate Lubega, Nicole Nyemi-Tei, Sarah Lisney, Kiki Oladapo, Zec Luhana

◢ Change is the only constant ◣

Repetitive patterns and regular routines in everyday life might seem monotonous and boring. How can we find joy out of this repetitive life? “Repetition” and “change” are two contrasting ideas, but they complement each other like Yin and Yang. How can we create changes in “repetitions”? Can we find certain routines in a series of changes? In this new work, Hong Kong independent choreographer Blue Ka Wing substitutes different variables of 'music' and 'dance' into her distinctive choreographer’s performing formula, exploring boundaries of performance and discovering changes and surprises in repetitions.

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Blue Ka Wing
Devising Dancer: Hung Lai Kwan, Vivian Luk, SuenNam, Carmen Yu
Music/ Sound Design: Lawrence Lau
Lighting Design: Vanessa Lee
Costume Design: Blue Ka Wing

LoonHeads: sketched delves into the intriguing clash between the comic and the uncanny. Inspired by film and animation, this piece transforms the mind into an empty house filled with vibrant caricatures, brought to life by three distorted figures known as the LoonHeads. Blending contemporary dance and physical theatre, LoonHeads: sketched is a highly physical performance that features an original sound score rich with riddles, clues, and infectious grooves. Amidst the playfulness, the work carries poignant moments inviting the audience to consider the intricacies of the mind

Cast & Credits

Choreographer: Orla Hardie
Performers: Orla Hardie, Daisy Dancer, Ella Roberts
Dance Artist Collaborator: Andrew Scott
Composer: Sam Robinson
Costume: Nell Rose
Lighting: Jules Young
Animator: Hamez Watt
Photographer: Jorden Brooks
Videographer: Davey Jay

Until the Real Thing is about the slide between sincerity and bullshit – how does what we absorb become what we offer? – and how a little absurdity, a little re-phrasing, can be both playful and protective. Until the Real Thing is created and performed by choreographer Lily Kind in collaboration with dancers Hana Carlson, Christine “Tine Machine” Gatchalian, and Lakshmi Iyengar. Like much of Kind's work, it is arranged as vaudevillian dance theater, overlapping postmodern self-awareness with musical tenderness through Black American Popular dance forms including Waacking/Punking and Vernacular Jazz. This is Kind’s London debut.

Cast & Credits

Dancers: Hana Carlson, Christine “Tine Machine” Gatchalian, Lakshmi Iyengar, and Lily Kind.

For dancer bios, music credits, and notes please visit www.lilykind.org/utrt

DE-DEOCHI is an immersive solo dance theatre piece that delves into Balkan rituals used to heal, boost livestock fertility, and even summon rain. Rooted in the concept of the "evil eye," the work explores this ancient belief, which spans cultures and centuries with deep personal and social implications. The movement and storytelling, uncovers the ritualistic disenchantments that protect against this malevolent force, offering insight into its enduring power across the world.

Cast & Credits

Director/Choreographer/Performer: Andrei Nistor
Costume Designer: Cristiano Casimiro
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Cashman
Sound Design: RAW Creatives
Music: Adrian Piciorea, David Lunca
Creative Support: Creative Re-Work, ESTUFA - Platforma Cultural, OPART E.P.E./ESTÚDIOS VICTOR CÓRDON

Special thanks to Andrea Madore and Cailin Leigh

Old habits die hard.

Deep into the night, in a remote forest clearing, a car draws up. The ritual begins, perhaps this time it will be different. It seems to be working, until before long the cracks begin to show.

Exploring themes of inevitability, forgiveness, and sacrifice; Dead End Resurrection follows two characters, cursed to live out an endless cycle of love and murder, as they struggle to reconcile their want for companionship, with an insatiable need to have the last word.

Cast & Credits

Director, choreographer, composer: Seirian Griffiths
Performer and creative collaborator: William "JJ" James
Performer and creative collaborator: Sophie Ormiston
Lighting designer: Andrew Ellis
Photographer: Genevieve Reeves

Mouths filled with soot. Moss and moisture seep in under soft feet. Shrieks glisten in the dampening air. We dance from earth to sky.

Samara Langham presents the next chapter to previous works Haku and as if almost erasing. SKYE ZONE Burial explores fragility and imagination through a dream-like sequence. In collaboration with Jasper Maurice and Edward Saunders, sound, lighting and movement converge for a bold, sensorial world.

Cast & Credits

Director / Choreographer: Samara Langham
Performers: Jesse Baggett-Lahav, Elvi Rose Christiansen Head, Mark Halton
Sound design: Jasper Mauricefeaturing 'I'll Keep Going' and ' Mob of Waters' by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates
Lighting design: Edward Saunders