Open Sessions
There will be opportunities along the way for dance artists to engage with open sessions as part of this programme, alongside public programmes from both the Rose Choreographic School and Academy Breakin’ Convention. This is where we will share information about these sessions so, please check back regularly.
Rose Choreographic School
Find further information about (In) Company Morning classes, curated by Lorea Burge as part of their research within the Rose Choreographic School.
Lorea Burge (In) Company with Elisa Vassena
Monday 26 – Wednesday 28 October 2026
These sessions will be hosted by Elisa Vassena. Elisa (she/they) is a London based performer and dance artist with a visual art practice, a soft tissue therapist and an aspiring (and not quite yet) drummer.
Artist-Led Sessions
Find further information and booking links below about this bi-monthly programme of sessions devised and delivered by artists for artists. We’ll add upcoming sessions to this page over the coming months, so please check back.
Shahnal Shah: Garba: A living tradition
Tuesday 10 November 2026
This workshop is an interactive exploration of traditional Garba, a folk practice from Gujarat in India. Participants will be introduced to traditional Garba songs, their meanings and cultural context, alongside rhythmic clapping patterns and rooted circular movement.
Jagoda Kamov: Interior / Exterior
Interior / Exterior is a workshop for artists interested in the physical life of text — the impulses, distances and shifts in scale that exist inside a line before it is spoken.
Tuesday 24 November 2026
Attend in person
Tuesday 1 December 2026
Attend online
Bety Pujol Cajal: From Alignment to Artistry
Tuesday 15 December 2026
From Alignment to Artistry is a movement workshop for dancers, performers and movers exploring how intelligent physical training can support coordination, freedom and expression.
Silvia Titotto: Living Systems, Moving Bodies
Tuesday 19 January 2027
This 3.5-hour laboratory will move between poetic movement and scientific observation. Led by researcher and choreographer Dr Silvia Titotto, it will function as a living inquiry into how principles of natural growth (morphogenesis) and spontaneous organisation (self-assembly) can be translated into choreographic processes and embodied experience.
Lulu Wang: BODY LAB
Tuesday 23 February 2027
BODY LAB is an artist-led movement and performance workshop exploring the body as material, archive and site of collaboration.
Casper Dillen: Sport / Choreographic Structure
Tuesday 23 March 2027
This workshop will work with the structures of sport and games as a framework for creating performance. We’ll explore how limitations, rules, physical challenges, and the drama of games can generate choreography.
Disabled Artists Programme
Find further information and booking links below for monthly alternating in-person practical sessions and one-to-one support sessions.
Workshop with Annie Edwards
Monday 2 November 2026
A practice-based workshop as part of the Disabled Artists Programme. This workshop will contain sections of movement and discussion.
Annie Edwards is a London based dance artist from Brighton. Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance school, her career has spanned UK and international touring as well as independent research and facilitation. Her approach to movement is rooted in disabled embodiment and works with revealing our bodies information as a way to know ourselves expansively.
Producer support sessions
Monday 15 June 2026
Monday 17 August 2026
Monday 5 October 2026
Monday 7 December 2026
Support sessions for the Disabled Artists Programme, designed to discuss and support your practice.
One-to-One Artist-Led Support Sessions
We aim to do what we can with the resources available to support artists to have sustainable careers in dance. We understand that sometimes a conversation can help to spark a thought or idea to support your next steps. We want to meet you wherever you are at and hold space for the conversation that you would like to have about your development.
Read more about the Artist Development Programme at Sadler’s Wells.
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