We will use this residency to take our outdoor duet 'UNBOXED - Unpacking Prejudice,' into full creation and development ahead of a 2024 summer tour.

"UNBOXED" has been in development since 2020 and was initially in response to the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. The inspiration was to draw on Linden Directors, Chris and Sara's, different life experiences, as a mixed race male and white female, to explore prejudice and judgements they have experienced personally. The initial idea grew into the use of 2 large boxes representing both the weight we carry when faced with judgement and the block between two people with different life experiences.

FREE Sharing of work Thursday 22th February @7.30pm

On The Other Side《彼岸》started in 2020. In the past 3 years, there have been 5 major outputs - Trio, First Solo, Ensemble, Second Solo, Duet.《彼岸》has been taking on the imaginary perspective of people who have died, the realistic perspective(s) of people who are alive and grieving for those who are dead, and the imaginary contact between the two.

“I am looking forward to researching on how people walk through traumatic experiences involving other’s death through literature and documentary review. In the 2 weeks residency, bringing the knowledge and insight learnt, we will translate that into movement and choreography. The final performance in this residency, which is also a work in progress for this stage of《彼岸, will walk through the journey from sorrow and anger, to gaining resilience.”

FREE Sharing Thursday 7th March @7.30pm

“I would like to use this opportunity to bring myself and 1 videographer together to capture my ideas. Since 2020, like many I'm sure, I have been evolving and growing, questioning everything about myself. My research so far has giving me an idea for a solo video piece about the beauty of growing up in my household in rural Donegal. I also have a list of short video installation ideas about the primary school years of little blue uniforms and school tours and my sisters - the joy and delight that with comes from those years. A huge part of my research is about how I feel blessed among women. I have lived with 3 mother figures in my life, 3 sisters, 13 aunties, 33 female cousins. I have many many female friends who ooze nurture, who hold me in this life. I am fascinated by this depth of womanhood and what that is to me. I have short pieces of text I have written over the past 2 years that I want to explore moving to. I intend to write and move and explore many facets of this open theme, capturing short works through the eye of a camera.“

FREE Sharing Thursday 18th April @7.30pm

“During this residency I will structure movement approaches and methods, drawing from Slovenian folklore, tales, pagan rituals, and customs, to gradually extract the central idea, movement expression, feeling, and aesthetic of this work. Prior to the residency, I will be undergoing extensive theoretical research in collaboration with my sister, who is an ethnologist and cultural anthropologist.

In the studio, I will work with three dancers, and a videographer, who will be following our movement experimentations to inform a film aesthetic and technical approaches to filming that will happen later on. As a part of the film research, I want to take advantage of the beautiful Shawbrook forest and use it as a backdrop for some film tests, as well as a test for potentially placing the future live performance in a forest.”

FREE Sharing Thursday 2nd May @7.30pm