Mele Broomes’ work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Her work GRIN was presented at Battersea Art Centre, London, alongside the film production which was also screened at Theatre Centre Canada and part of Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil. In 2021 Mele was commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre, where she […]
Glasgow-based Saffy Setohy is a dance artist working across choreography, performance, participatory work, facilitation, mentoring and movement direction in an expanded field. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of her work. A deep interest in people, place and ecological practice threads through all of her activities, aiming to perceive and relate to the world through […]
John Darvell creates thought-provoking, darkly cinematic, twisted scenarios which are firmly rooted in the here and now. His choreography explores human realities, laying bare individual vulnerabilities, so often wounded and unseen in the new world order of mega-corporate faceless forces. John’s professional journey into dance began in his late 30’s when he took the courageous […]
Olga Uzikaeva was born in Vladivostok (Russia) in 1991. She started her dance education in 1998 in a ballet school. From 2000 until 2014 alongside ballet she began competitive Latin American & Ballroom dancing and moved to Serbia in 2011 and to Italy in 2013 to continue her dance career. In 2014-2015 she was back […]
Laura Cantliff is a dance artist and disability advocate, from Stoke on Trent and currently based in Devon. She studied dance at De Montfort University, and has an MA in Theatre and Dance Performance from Plymouth University. Alongside her dance practice, she is conducting PhD research that focuses on performance training processes for disabled students. As […]
Suzi Cunningham is a dance/performance artist and maker. She designs and presents challenging and political work, often bespoke and immediate in responses to environments. She has significant training and experience in dance and butoh, physical theatre and outdoor performance and has presented her own solo works at Dance Live (Aberdeen), Hidden Door (Edinburgh), Festival Mirabilia (Italy), the CCA and Leith Theatre. She was chosen as Surges’ Rising Voice for ‘Eidos’ […]
SERAFINE1369 is the London based artist and dancer Jamila Johnson-Small. SERAFINE1369 works with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. Their research is presented as live performances, installations, video and writing. SERAFINE1369’s practice is relational, cumulative and often collaborative and they work in various […]
Jenna Corker is a contemporary dance artist based in Edinburgh and has been making, teaching and supporting dance work across Scotland for the past three years. Jenna is interested in how we inhabit and connect to different spaces through movement. Jenna has been awarded a #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursary presented in partnership by Citymoves Dance Agency, […]