NARC NEWS: AN EVENING WITH ELLA MESMA @ DANCE CITY BY HELEN REDFERN ON TUESDAY, JULY 3RD, 2018
Image: Ella Mesma by Camilla Greenwell Award-winning dancer, curator and choreographer Ella Mesma creates deeply personal and empowering work, using dance and theatre as a platform to express ideas around politics, society and community. Her latest piece, Ladylike, which is at Dance City on Thursday 12th July, is a celebration of wonderful women and a provocative protest against sexual violence, […]
All things Roots of Rumba
Roots of Rumba (established 2013 at Richmix) began as a mission to create a platform for established professionals and emerging Latin dance artists to present Dance Theatre with Afro-Latin dance and themes at the heart. I am super excited to announce that this year Roots of Rumba will be funded by Arts Council of England […]
Collabo with Avant Garde at Circomedia
On the 23rd June, I presented an extract of Papyllon for Collabo’s first Bristol event, held at Circomedia. Collaboration with Toni Stuart #Papyllon Performed the first 7 minutes yesterday and it felt beautiful to share it! @circomedia @avantgardedance #collabo A post shared by Ella Mesma (@ellamesma) on Jun 23, 2018 at 11:58pm PDT There are […]
A historical trail of the dancestyles we work with at Ella Mesma Company and some ponderings over the people at the top…
I recently went to an audition in London that had advertised for Afro Cuban dancers for a Latin show touring the world (how exciting!). The audition was fun: though we mostly danced hip hop choreo. The cut came and they called Ella (I was actually surprised about getting through as I retired as a bgirl […]
We are Lukas Finalists 2018
Nossa! Thank you everyone for your support… we aere through to the finals for ‘BEST DANCE PRODUCTION’ alongside… THE FINALISTS ARE… ‘Acosta Dance’ by Carlos Acosta @ Sadlers Wells ‘Born a Shadow’ by Compañía Rafaela Carrasco @ Sadlers Wells Ímpetus’ by Ballet Flamenco Jesús Carmona @ Sadlers Wells ‘Ladylike’ by Ella Mesma @ Trinity (Bristol) […]