Ingredients & Motifs
Tiny seeds of ideas for re-interpreting an existing story.
This is a mixture of images I have made that I find inspiring and movement phrases I might use as starting points for my collaborators, collected up in a video montage.
Previous Work
My performance making showreel in very brief form.
Showing work I have made based in improvisation, improvised work that became a video piece and a solo exploration.
‘Contents in Touch’ - Dancers Marta Polak, Robyn Anne Holder, Francesco Migliaccio.
‘Social Experiments’ - Dancers Marta Valverde, Alexis Zelda Stevens
‘Don’t Open the Box’ - Dancer Alexis Zelda Stevens
The Playground Community - a test space for choreographers, myself & Marta pictured below. A monthly community attended by highly skilled professional dancers. I would test my ideas on a bigger group here.
R&D Collaborators
Lexi Zelda Stevens
An artist making performance, video and sculpture interested in using movement to explore psychological states and to make relatable work for audiences. She studied dance performance at Birkbeck and has received support from Sadler’s Wells and studied Tanztheatre with Adrian Look. Her performance videos have been shown in art galleries and sold to a private collection.
Lead Artist 
Marta Valverde
A dance artist with strong technical skills in contemporary and urban dance styles, tanztheatre and performance. With her twin sister Leah she choreographs, movement directs and teaches. Back2Basixs credits include Lifeguards The Musical (Four Headed Dragon), Jimmy Brixton, NUM-0 Live Immersive Installation, Elisabeth Schilling Dance, Blackberry, IUtBF film (Eddie Sternberg), Open Art Surgery - Breakin' Convention / Sadler's Wells, Crystal Palace at GDIF, The Maze Immersive Residency, No Limit Amsterdam, Netflix and Amex TVC.
Dancer 
Dance Artist Leah Valverde
A highly skilled dancer and performer with strong contemporary and urban styles and experienced in making work for screen. With her twin sister Marta she choreographs, movement directs and teaches. Back2Basixs credits include Lifeguards The Musical (Riverside Studios/Four Headed Dragon), Jimmy Brixton, NUM-0 Live Immersive Installation, Invisible Dances LDN (Elisabeth Schilling Dance), Blackberry, IUtBF film (Eddie Sternberg), Open Art Surgery (Breakin' Convention / Sadler's Wells), Crystal Palace at GDIF, The Maze Immersive Residency, No Limit Amsterdam, Netflix and Amex TVC.
Joseph Lynch
Coaching Support A movement director, creative coach and Artistic Director of Babel Theatre and its artist development programmes. Babel creates raw, provocative, powerful, visual performances that aim unpack the contemporary experience of living. He has facilitated at Barbican, Brixton Project, Complicité, David Glass Ensemble, HOME, National Children’s Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra Tamasha, and Redbridge Drama Centre amongst others.
Critical Friend Si Rawlinson
Si Rawlinson is a theatre-maker with a background in dance, his practice is interdisciplinary, mixing hip hop and contemporary dance, physical performance, and theatre. His work has been performed at leading venues in the UK including The Place, Sadler’s Wells, Southbank Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Curve Theatre, and Nottingham Playhouse. He’s been supported by Dance4, Breakin’ Convention and the British Council. Most recently he has performed as a puppeteer in the Royal Shakespeare Company's critically acclaimed stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro at Barbican.
Tchaikovsky
Music from Sleeping Beauty I fear I am almost 140 years too late… so I am going to work with a classical musician to work with parts of The Rose Adage and explore what performing in the space would be like instead sorry Pyotr!
