Collaborators
We work with a range of professional dancers, artists, facilitators, designers, rehearsal directors and access specialists to realise our projects.
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Pierre Babbage
Pierre (they/them) is a dance artist and movement director based in London. Working around themes of queer history and ancestry, rejection, sexualization and hope. Their practice focuses on dance, using movement to explore these themes, questions and experiences. They implore elements of contemporary dance, Paraguayan dance and their own movement language.
Influenced by poetry, surrealism, 00’s action movies and old diary entries. Their work has been shown across the UK, including presentations at the ICA, V&A Lates, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection Reading Room, The Yard, CCA Goldsmiths Gallery, Ugly Duck & The Place.
They have established a performance practice collaborating, sharing knowledge and performing for international artists Anthea Hamilton, Adham Faramawy, Ava Kouchak, Jose Funnell, Sam Williams, Wet Mess, Zoë Marden. They co-curate queer dance platform + party MIND UR HEAD.
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Bee Solomon
Multi-award nominated, winner and loser, Artist Bee Solomon (Anishinaabe niini / Irish settler) was born and raised on the land in Shebahonaning of the North Channel of Lake Huron, and is a member of Henvey Inlet First Nation.
As a Creator his work is multidisciplinary, highly expressive and full of spirit. His commissions have ranged from community-rooted works with over 40 interpreters, solos in trees, to animated installations of landfill. His works have been presented and toured across Turtle Island and many nations abroad. He has been an active Performer and Educator for Dance and Theatre companies internationally for the duration of his career.
Since he was a teenager much of Solomon’s work has been committed to Community activation with a focus on unacknowledged and underserved peoples and land. He is passionate about helping people relearn the nature of their ancient bodies, and take back the space those bodies occupy as caretakers.
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Rickae Hewitt-Martin
Rickae is a Midlands based dance artist and a recent graduate therapist (DMP). And the founder of Vehdance and movement, which is a contemporary dance company based in Derby. Her training began with ACE Dance and Music youth company and was a student on the CAT programme. She then went on to study at Northern School of Contemporary Dance where she gained a first-class (BAHons) degree in 2021. Rickae continued her studies and completed a Masters degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy 2023. She is a dancer for Yewande103 company since 2021. And is an inclusive dance practitioner/ support artist in the East-Midlands, working for SENSE and Impaca cic.
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Alice Tatge
Alice Tatge is a choreographer, dancer and live-artist working in the field of combined arts since 2004.
Of Italian-American and Eastern European descent, Alice moved to the UK from Italy in 2001.
Her practice is deeply rooted in her ongoing investigation of sense perception via a plethora of multimedia disciplines, somatic practices and dance techniques, exploring the politics of the body, questions of gender and cultural identity.
Her work has been exhibited at Hayward Gallery, Southbank, Tate Modern, Barbican, ICA, London U.K., as well as internationally across Europe and the US. Artists she has collaborated with include: Tino Sehgal, Meg Stuart, Xavier Le Roy, Mårten Spångberg, Project O, Lundahl & Seitl, Serafine 1369, Punchdrunk, Dazzle1919.
Greta Mendez MBE
Trinidadian born Mendez is a veteran in the arts she has worked as a dancer, choreographer, theatre director, performance art artist, tutor, carnivalist and filmmaker. As a performance art artist Greta has performed on the streets of Delhi, Kashmir, Yunnan province in China, her creative teaching has taken her to Italy, Greece, China, Los Angeles. Her prize winning films Kashmir's Ophelia and 'Ah! Hard Rain,' have been screened international. Mendez has created prize winning Carnival bands for Notting Hill Carnival. Artistic Director of MAAS Movers, Movement Director on plays from Shakespeare to Soyinka.
Saskia Horton
Saskia Horton’s (they/them) dream is to build structures of care and accessibility into the arts.
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As a chronically-ill, multidisciplinary artist, this action is very close to Saskia's heart. Saskia is both a violinist and hip hop dancer, creating with dance, music and words. This cross-pollination of their practice is also a form of healing.
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When founding Sensoria in 2023, Saskia's intention was to create radical accessibility by centering slowness, sustainability and play. Since then, they have worked with Streatham Space Project, East London Dance, and more. Building bridges and space to educate, express and exchange for chronically-ill, disabled and neurodivergent artists.
Angel Dust
Angel Dust is an artist, producer/project manager predominantly within live art. They have worked with The Albany theatre, Dance Art Journal and most recently as Rehearsals Director for Yewande 103. Separate to this work Angel is a chef and gardener and organises community events at their local community garden in south London.
Rūta Irbīte
RÅ«ta is a London-based performance designer. RÅ«ta trained on the BA Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins and was a shortlisted finalist for the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2013. In response to the Climate Emergency, she continued her education on the MA Material Futures courses at Central Saint Martins.
RÅ«ta's design work focuses on socially and environmentally engaged projects, devised
work and new writing. Cross-disciplinary collaboration, materiality and sustainability are at
the core of her practice.
Shivaangee Agrawal
Shivaangee is a dancer, maker and researcher with an experimental practice that orbits sound-making, collective composition and creative technology. Their choreographic approach foregrounds folk dance influences; Shivaangee is interested in relational + social virtuosity rather than more conventional forms of spectacle.
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Shivaangee works across different roles in the studio, including choreographing, rehearsal directing, facilitating and audio describing. Underpinning these different modes of working is a commitment to holding space carefully, and with accountability.
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They are constantly curious about dance as a medium through which we can stay with our multiplicities - across our physical, social, relational, autobiographical and political experiences.
Abiola Onabule
Abiola Onabule is a London-born fashion designer who draws inspiration from her own cultural heritages and through the stories and lives of women, abstracting, distorting and celebrating form through silhouette and cutting techniques.
With a masters in Womenswear from Central Saint Martins, through cultural and narrative-based interpretations and explorations, she looks to investigate the beauty and importance of individuality and difference.
Her work looks to incorporate fabrics steeped in the crafts and practices of Nigerian textile culture, exploring materials such as Aso Oke and Adire indigo practices in a present-day context.
Femi Oriogun-Williams
Femi Oriogun-Williams is a musician, composer, audio producer and writer born at 00:00 under a Taurus moon to a room of laughing people. Their album OK Galexa was originally a radio drama commissioned by Sound Art Radio in Devon and funded by Arts Council England about two AI voice assistants who survive the mass extinction of the human species.
Femi also created a one off radio special for the Goethe Institut and Weimar Radio in which they entered into dialogue with cultural african-american heavyweights Nina Simone and James Baldwin, turning to their archival legacies to seek advice over questions of identity and belonging in and on the European continent.
Bianca Wilson
Bianca Wilson aka Island girl is a multi-instrumentalist and singer from south London.
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Focusing mainly on the Banjo, their quest into music is rooted in celebrating sound as a reflection of diasporic experience; Journeying through the different musical epochs of traditional music & incorporating that into her personal style.