The Jellyfish Metaphor: Dealing with trauma
How are jellyfish, dna, cancer, brain waves, stained glass windows, nature, space, the universe connected? I came across this article on one of my favourite sites: Medium, and I just knew this would be the basis of my new work ‘Foreign Bodies’. “Recently, a friend told me something I didn’t know about jellyfish: that certain […]
Roots of Rumba Leeds
Thank you to Yorkshire Dance for having us, to Wardrobe, to DJ Lubi and all the amazing performers on the 20th July. It felt like a really special night: we held a Q&A with the artists (Thank you for the suggestion Ian Abbot!) and we had a beautiful jam at the end of the session. […]
ICA Live Art Festival 2018
The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) is proud to announce that the ICA Live Art Festival 2018 will take place from 1–16 September 2018. This interdisciplinary festival is designed to challenge and extend the public’s experience of live art in a non-commercial environment and make accessible the work of visual and performing artists who explore […]
Roots of Rumba CPD day in Newcastle
On Friday 13th July we held our first CPD day (Continuing Professional Development day) for selected North east artists: Patricia Verity Suarez Patricia Verity Suarez is a Movement Director based in Teesside and will be delving into her heritage as a Latin American/British person as part of her creative practice. Her main practice includes character […]
Ladylike at Dance City (The last of the chickens on tour)
We have come to the end of the road… I can’t quite believe it after three years working on this piece it has come to an end… but it has been such a beautiful and rewarding three years. Of course the reason it took this long is that being a not regularly funded company, we […]