December Updates

Waaaah! It is nearly 2019!

Welcome all our friends and supporters to our December updates… the season of Sagittarius!

We have many things to share with you… plus an incredible discount on our classes (almost half price) for our loyal newsletter readers.

Sagittarius is a time to dream bigger and envision new possibilities, and we have been doing just that!

Above is a fabulous photo taken by the extremely talented and visionary Nathalie Teitler for part of her ‘Dancing Words’ series.

I danced for two poems this year: for poet Mimi Khalvati, and my absolute hero, Warsan Shire (who wrote some of my favourite bits of the Lemonade album for Beyonce herself!)

Sneak preview clips from Mimi Khalvati and Warsan Shire poems are below as well as info on how to come and see the full length footage.

Below you can also read all about next months workshops which I am super excited to be touring across the UK and further afield next year….
(plus get an exclusive discount available to subscribers only!)

And you can watch the trailer/interview below (which we made during the R&D for our new project Foreign Bodies). We are now in the planning phase for part two… excited doesn’t cut it… audience…promoters… the world… I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly!

I graduated with an MA from LSCD (I still can’t quite believe it! Blog post coming soon!)

Tichea Brade and I curated WCOL at Richmix, a beautiful event sharing the talents of so many amazing artists from DJ to beatboxer to a chocolate yoga meditation!

I toured Roots of Rumba to 6 venues and sold out in London working with some incredible artists (watch the highlights here: It was such a delight to be able to tour some of my absolute favourite artists around the UK!)

I began touring a series of 7 workshops (which I hope to be touring much more in 2019 across the UK and further afield!)

Our team of wonderful women finished the Ladylike tour (Oh chickens I miss you so!)

We began the creation of a new work (Foreign Bodies: An Underwater Love Story) (as mentioned more below)

Toni Stuart (poet) and I premiered Papyllon in South Africa (It was also my first time ever to visit Africa:which was pretty life changing): If you haven’t already check out my blog posts about the experience here.

All this as well as lots of teaching dance and yoga, and moving to Leeds to work part time as a Dance Development Artist for Yorkshire Dances’ Dance On project. (We just take it all with big Martha Graham style strides)

We are also excited to announce our becoming a resident at Pervasive Media Studio in 2019 (we are doing the running man right now to celebrate) and Trinity Bristol Associate Artist. Plus I am super excited to be travelling back to Africa this month: I am headed to Nigeria with Global Grooves for a Christmas Carnival show!

Wishing you a beautiful and festive month creating what you love!

Much love,
Ella xxx