We create magic experiences using a diverse range of folkloric dance styles & aerial silks to bring the stories that we would love to have seen growing up to life.

Ella Mesma Company is a British based dance theatre company drawing upon a diverse range of folkloric dance styles to create highly-skilled theatre. Much of the company’s inspiration is borne out of the Company Director’s diverse training in Afro-Latin, Breaking and Contemporary dance, as well as the diverse skills that each individual company member brings to Ella Mesma Company.

Our goal is to make work that undoes limiting beliefs and celebrates diverse cultural and social identities on this incredible planet. Values and kindness are also at the heart of the company ethos as well as equality, self love & wellbeing and balance.

We strive to create beautiful, inspiring diaspora dance theatre to allow transformation through the honouring of our values and the telling of personal and global stories. This supports us to connect to our truest selves and to create powerful, personal and political work that also is in resonance with Mother Earth works in harmony with the planet. Where possible we try to use recycled materials and minimise our carbon footprint.

We would like to thank The Place (where Akeim Toussaint & Ella are Choreodrome artists 2023/2024) Kala Sangam, Yorkshire Dance, Open Source Arts (where Ella is an Associate Artist 2024), Dance City, Pavillion Dance South West, (where Ella was a 2020 Supported Artist). Thanks also to The Geraldine Connor Foundation, where I am an Associate and to the Arts Council England for their continued public funding support.

Ella Mesma Company also teaches workshops and works with young people to create dance projects in the community.

Ella is also a coach, mentor and director of Maya Gandaia Ltd: a company with a mission to support creatives to overcome and unlearn the stories and experiences getting in the way of their thriving and growth (Check it out HERE).