ELLA MESMA COMPANY TIMELINE

Since its formation in 2011, with a premiere at Breakin’ Convention (Sadler’s Wells), the have been commissioned and performed for a number of leading arts organisations and highly regarded venues & festivals including Sadler’s Wells (Wildcard 2017), Women’s International Leadership Conference, New York City (2017), National Circus Centre (2018), ICA Festival, Capetown South Africa (2018), IETM Hull (2019). Ella Mesma Company were residents with Casa Latin American Festival 2015, Associate Artists at dance City (2017), Associate Artist at Trinity Centre Bristol (2018). In 2013, Ella Mesma was selected as a future Dance Leader for the ABLE leadership program and in 2015 awarded a Bench fellowship for emerging female choreographers and a resident at Pervasive Media Studio. The company were runners up for the ‘Best Dance Production of The Year’ by the Latino Life LUKAS Awards 2018. In 2019, the company were comissioned to perform Ladylike in Hull and Ella became a Slate World artist. In 2020, just before lockdown began, Ella became an Associate Artist at PDSW and got very creative about what that looked like. Ella was also commissioned to make a show for the Little Amal project at the Manchester International Festival. In 2022, Maya and Toussaint (a collaboration with Akeim Toussaint Buck) was born and the creation of Okan as Choreodrome artists began. Ella is currently Associate at Open Source Arts in Leeds and is touring The Rainbow Butterfly whilst also creating A Jellyfish Love Song and beginning early stages of the creation of Indra’s Web.