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.
Workshops with Steph McMann
8 July, 9 July, 12 September and 5 December 2025
Steph McMann is a London based dancer, movement coach and choreographer, whose work fuses emotional and embodied depth with physical precision. This workshop will guide participants through a structured improvisational class grounded in somatic principles. We will explore noticing as a practice, deepening our listening and cultivating available, responsive states.
Workshops with Temitope Ajose
12 & 19 December 2025
Temitope London based Dance artists who is interested in myth, psychology and magic. This workshop will draw from Temi’s experience and interest in dream work from a Jungian perspective. She will lead a session exploring the imaginary, liminal, absurd, and ambiguous time frame that dream experiences operate within, from an embodied sense.
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.
Nathan Crossan-Smith - Creating layered dramaturgies: Lyricism, movement and creative access [in person]
9 December 2025
The session will be a celebration of the possibilities of layering and connecting movement phrases, scores and paths with poetic texts and lyrical flows, drawing on Nathan’s work in this area over the last ten years.
Jessica Carter - Literary Worlds: Creating Movement Inspired by Literature [in person]
27 January 2026
In this workshop, participants will explore ways creating movement based on literary source material. Jessica will be sharing her methods of generating movement based on literature. Jessica’s approach to movement creation is based on the disabled and neurodivergent sensory experience; however everyone can use these methods as a choreographic tool.
Vanio Papadelli & Esther Sabetpour - Kinaesthetic Stories: Body, Image, Words
3 February 2026
The session offers a space to reimagine identity and memory through guided somatic movement, witnessing scores, free writing, and partner-curated self-portraits. Together, you’ll explore past and present stories rooted in the body and a felt sense of place.
Eva Recacha & Alberto Ruiz Soler - Sound Dramaturgy
17 February 2026
This exploration is part of their creative journey towards the making of their new show, SUR, a piece about friendship and migration currently in R&D stage. To make the work accessible, they have been exploring and developing a new way of working with sound and text, which they have named Sound Dramaturgy.
Ranjini Nair - Structures of Power: The navarasas and performing emotion in times of crisis
3 March 2026
Rooted in the framework of the navarasas, or nine emotional states, this workshop invites participants to explore how these fundamental emotional states, such as wonder, fear, anger, compassion, and peace, can become tools for making sense of the unequal and fractured world we inhabit.
Sidney Barnes - Phantom Phrases
24 March 2026
Phantom phrases is a workshop for professional dancers who are physically nostalgic, haunted by phrases once rehearsed, troubled by gestures once discarded, or can hear the whispering fragments of movements that linger quietly beneath the surface.
Divija Melally - Home: Body
31 March 2026
This workshop will offer a combination of Divija’s ongoing research around the stories our bodies carry, human connection, and ‘Home’.
Disabled Artists Programme
Find further information and booking links below for monthly alternating in-person practical sessions and one-to-one support sessions.
Producer support sessions
Monday 13 October 2025
Support sessions for the Disabled Artists Programme, designed to discuss and support your practice.
Workshop with Zinzi Minott
Monday 3 November 2025
A practice-based workshop as part of the Disabled Artists Programme. This workshop will contain sections of movement and discussion.
Zinzi Minott is an award winning artist who has forged a path between visual art and dance. She is known for her large scale productions that weave together dance and film with powerful visuals and large sonic landscapes exploring the relationship between bodies and politics.
Producer support sessions
Monday 8 December 2025
Support sessions for the Disabled Artists Programme, designed to discuss and support your practice.
Workshop with Raquel Meseguer
Monday 12 January 2026
A practice-based workshop as part of the Disabled Artists Programme. This workshop will contain sections of movement and discussion.
Raquel Meseguer’s work straddles theatre, dance, installation, performative conversations and photo-documentary. In 2016 she founded Unchartered Collective to create theatrical encounters that explore the lived experience of disability.
Producer support sessions
Monday 9 February 2026
Support sessions for the Disabled Artists Programme, designed to discuss and support your practice.
Workshop with Jo Fong
Monday 9 March 2026
A practice-based workshop as part of the Disabled Artists Programme. This workshop will contain sections of movement and discussion.
About Jo Fong: I live in Wales and my creative work reflects the need in these times for people to come together. The artistic practice is an evolving, collaborative approach which puts ideas around belonging or forming community in the forefront.
Producer support sessions
Monday 13 April 2026
Support sessions for the Disabled Artists Programme, designed to discuss and support your practice.
Read more about the Artist Development Programme at Sadler’s Wells.
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