Past Programme – Independent Dance

Here you will find a selection of projects from ID’s past programme. As archival work on ID’s near-40 year history evolves in the coming months, more projects will appear here.

Moving Modes of Encounter with Alexandra Baybutt (2022)

VIRTUAL SPACE

Emerging from the rapid shift online during the pandemic - a space for artists to share thoughts around the problematics and benefits of online teaching and learning

Kinesthesia (2021)

Featuring work by 30+ artists from around the world, Kinesthesia invites you to experience film from an embodied perspective.

ACCESS: CC

How to be Afraid? (2021) : a research space with mayfield brooks & Mary Pearson

From the archive. Research, performances and talks exploring fear and trust through improvisation, in the context of the legacy of transatlantic slave trade

Contemporary Dance and Whiteness

A two-year project exploring how race and racism mark the cultures, institutions and aesthetics underpinning contemporary dance

ID ONLINE (2020–21)

In March 2020 Siobhan Davies Studios had to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic and ID moved online

Crossing Borders (2007 – 2019)

A 12-year programme of talks criss-crossing disciplines

WinLab (2001 – 2019)

A festival programme of workshops, talks and presentations by leading international artists

Memory at Work: Rosemary Butcher in the Present Tense (2016)

A shared space for remembering Butcher and her work, tracing the legacies of this key British choreographer

Re:imagine India (2015 – 2016)

A joint project with Gati Dance Forum (New Delhi) which fed independent dance practice in India and the UK

The What Festivals (2009 – 2016)

Emphasizing process over product, this series challenged expectations of what a festival might be

5th Gill Clarke Day (2016)

Co-director of ID and pioneering dance artist Gill Clarke died in 2011. Gill’s day invites both her friends and those who didn’t know her to discuss her legacy.