DANCE
UPCOMING PROJECTS
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER | Chasm
January/February
Solo Dance Piece, Venue tbc, Performance & Choreography play by Zac Priestly
Developed from an earlier version performed at the
Camberwell College of Art’s Exhibition,
The Handbag Factory, Kennington (26/04, 2025)
Bodies in Space & Choreography
Gail Seres-Woolfson & Samuel Adebayo
Presentation
Imogen Bland
Event support
Mahan Abtahi
Tech support
Mark Wheeler
Photography
Asimina Giagoudaki
Videography
Arturo Bandinelli
COMPOSER, SOUND DESIGNER & PERFORMER | Tightrope
KWAM Collective: Performance Night at Longfield Hall (21/06, 2025)
PAST PROJECTS
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Seres-Woolfson and Adebayo mastered a nail-biting performance, balancing on nothing but two thin metal frames. Dortok reflected their physicality, agile and suspensive, in dynamic shifts on the double bass as the two ascended, then returned to the floor, drenched in gravity.’
- Dance Art Journal
In collaboration with the Royal College of Music &
The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Joint Collaborators (Composers & Performers)
Ada Campagnolo, Ana Maestri, Ayaki Lai, Johanna Burnheart,
Nick Bondar & Xiaomin Cheng
Supervisor
Mark Bowden & Darren Ellis
COMPOSER & PERFORMER | Unworn Identies
The Music & Dance Collective: Performance at Anya Linden Studio Theatre, Rambert School (28/02, 2025)
Unworn Identities is a music and dance piece incorporating a variety of musical influences and dance styles, ranging from the sounds of avant-garde jazz drumming circles, such as those of Jojo Mayer and Mark Guiliana to the contemporary works of choreographers like Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker. The piece explores the central idea of identity expressed through metaphors of clothing, musical genre, and the cultural codes associated with nightclubs. In doing so, it draws the audience’s attention to the dynamic tension between individual self-expression and the rituals that exist within these ‘contained’ cultural spaces where styles like techno first emerged.
presented by rcm electronica, featuring a live Q&A
Collaborators (Composers)
Ben Arajuo, Lucy Freia Cahyani, Ozgur Kaya, Sofia Kiviniemi, Thomas Shorthouse, Tom Bradbury, Gabrielle Dalsan & James Madrilejo
Visuals and Staging
Charles Becker & Julia Mazur
Dancer
Zac Priestly
Sound Engineer
Roee Ben-Binyamin
Poster Design
Connie Harris
Q&A Host
Diana Salazar
ORGANISER & COMPOSER | Stitched in Sound
Stitched in Sound: A Collective Sonic Tapestry, RCM Performance Studio (12/12, 2024)
Stitched in Sound is a collaborative multimedia concert inspired by the idea of the tapestry: a work made from many individual threads that come together to form a single, larger picture.
Drawing on the tradition of tapestries such as the Bayeux and Apocalypse Tapestries, where multiple makers weave together scenes of war, mythology, religion and history, the concert brings together nine composers and artists from different disciplines to create a shared sonic and visual world. Music, sound, visual art and movement are woven together throughout the performance, with each contribution forming its own thread within the larger work and creating an evolving, interconnected multimedia experience.
Saxophone Quartet
Lydia Cochrane (sop. sax.), James Harms (alto sax.), Anabella Trench (ten. sax.) & Maddie Wegg (bar. sax.)
Darbuka
Chris Marshall
Dancer & Choreographer
Mark Crawley
COMPOSER & PERFORMER | Büklüm Büklüm (Curls)
FestivALL Concert Series: Mosaic Voices, RCM Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall (23/06, 2024)
Büklüm Büklüm (Curls) draws on the traditional Turkish folk dance Horon from the Black Sea coast. The piece reflects the dance’s characteristic shifts from slow to fast tempos, beginning with a solo lament before moving into increasingly energetic passages.
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER | A Vulgar Virility
Premiered at The Wallace Collection (20-21/05, 2024)
In partnership with the English National Ballet School
Dancer & Choreographer
Oliver Hornby
Inspired by the artwork: ‘Equestrian Armour’, Germany, (c. 1485) inside the Arms and Armoury Galery III, Wallace Collection, A Vulgar Virility is a contemporary dance piece commenting on the lack of complexity and effectiveness of brute force and hyper aggression.