
Research + Projects
ID collaborates with many artists and organisations to co-create projects every year. These aim to offer spaces for radical enquiry, learning and community-building and range across forms; conversations, research initiatives, publications, and small-scale festivals


Spring Gathering
18–19 April

Touch as Language
2025 – ongoing

ID Conversations

ID Bursary Awards 2026

Disrupting Leadership: anti-ableist approaches to artistry and access in dance

Gill Clarke Bursary Awards 2024
Bursary awards available for MA/MFA Creatve Practice: Dance Professional students

dance it, dance it; artistic approaches to access & inclusive leadership
a programme focus running throughout 2023

International Festival of Learning (IFL.2)
3 - 16 December 2022
Vida Vojić / Miranda Tufnell / Cai Tomos / Filipa Pereira-Stubbs / Lucinda Jarrett / Galit Criden / Harold Offeh / Shivaangee Agrawal / Mandeep Raikhy / Building Conversation / Nic Conibere / Rebecca Swift / Denise Rowe / Brian Lobel / Mary Pearson / Michael Gagawala Kaddu / pavleheidler / Carolina van Eps / Elvan Tek / George Maund / Ava Riby-Williams / Aleasha Chaunte / Mira Hirtz / Rosalie Wahlfrid / Teresa Skamletz / Alisa Oleva / Christopher Matthews / Sarah Sigal / Adam Moore / Abby Nocon / Erin Robinsong / Sophie Seita / Florence Uniacke / Flora Wellesley-Wesley / Annie Pui Ling Lok / THE BAND THAT DANCES

Audio Dancing : a project by Gaby Agis
A series of audio scores composed by Gaby Agis + interviews with accompanying guest artists

FLOURISH
2020 - ongoing
An intergenerational reciprocal mentoring scheme stemming from discussions around age and influence in dance

Dance, Intimacy and the Civic
2021 - ongoing
A programme of research exploring dance in relationship to the civic realm and the potential for dance to influence social change