Ella Mesma Company

Leading Diaspora Dance Theatre in the UK

“This was an excellent start to a workshop, I can see how everything you (Ella) have done with them up to this point, how you’ve planted the seeds through all the different exercises, and built them towards the creative task…I also love your music!…it’s now just a case of the students letting go and committing to it as performers. A really gentle but strong workshop.”

Drama lecturer, Jon Davis

Carrying that vital spark of originality Graham Watts (Chairman of Critics’ Circle Dance Section UK)

Ella Mesma has worked with dance, poetry, theatre, paint and circus to explore identity and transformation. The work is often layered in meaning and uses folkloric dance forms in a contemporary context.