Siobhan Davies Studios

💚 Meet these local organisations at Dance Market!

🌟 Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation
IRMO provides a wide range of services to support the development, agency and participation of Latin Americans and other Spanish and Portuguese speakers living in the UK.

🌟 La Cultur4
A London-based platform dedicated to celebrating and amplifying Latin American art, culture and creativity. Founded by Afro-Ecuadorian artist and creative director Karla Quiñonez León, La Cultur4 creates space for Latin American artists, creatives and communities to be seen, heard and celebrated on their own terms through exhibitions, events, photography and storytelling.

🌟 Mental Fight Club
Since 2003, Mental Fight Club has imagined, curated and delivered hundreds of public programme events – free, and open to all – in a wide range of venues and with a rich network of cultural partners and creative collaborators. They have been amongst the vanguard of organisations which stimulated debate about the ways in which the arts and mental health intersect and impact one another.

🌟 Tea & Connect
Conversation, Connection, Community. Free English classes, mentoring and support to access services and opportunities. They run monthly tea parties at SDS.

🌟 Corali
Based in South London, Corali makes exciting work which develops and showcases the talents of people with a learning disability. The company explores the intersections between dance and other art forms, creating performances, artist development opportunities, classes, and workshops that challenge perceptions within the arts.

🌟 Southwark Pensioners Action Group
SPAG has a programme of meetings and events to raise awareness and campaign on issues affecting the health, quality of life and independence of older people and their careers. They challenge and aim to influence key local and national decision makers through questions and debate.

👋🏽 Come along at anytime of the day to learn more or have a chat with them.

🎪 Dance Market is a full day of free outdoor dancing hosted by SDS. Enjoy different workshops and performances, and meet other local organisations.

😎 No experience needed—just a lot of fun and good vibes!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11am – 4 pm
📍 Outside in Walworth Square, SE17 1RS
🎟️ Free | 💃🏽 Drop-In | 🌈 All ages welcome
🔔 More information on our website: https://www.siobhandavies.com/events/dance-market/

📸 by Fikayo Adebajo

💎 The Underscore for Global Majority/ BPOC dancers is returning this July.

As people of colour, there are many additional barriers and discomforts which we may feel in our interaction with certain dance forms and spaces, Contact Improvisation being one.

Led by Nathaniel Parchment, participants will be harnessing the framework of The Underscore to go deeper and question how to create a space where Contact Improvisation can be truly inclusive through a process of conscious decoloniality.

🌟 This workshop is exclusively for dancers who identify as BPOC/Global Majority, interested in exploring their practice in relation to Contact Improvisation.

Please note this session is in collaboration with Pembroke House and will take place at Pembroke House.

🗓️ Mon 6 July, 6 -9pm
📍 Pembroke House, SE17 1QR
🎟️ £10-£15
🔗 Learn more via link in bio

📸 Photo Credits: Alessandro Sigismondi

Meet our artist for the Living Image Chapter 1.

Introducing Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus, a London raised, Margate based creative working within the dance community and in the dance industry, with 20+ years experience and a unique 360 perspective, continuing work across performance, choreography, teaching and talent management.

Tali’s choreography credits include Rita Ora, Years & Years and West End’s The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Her debut theatre work ‘mum. edit. more’, was recently added to BFI’s National Archive, and she was one of 2025’s shortlisted artists for The Arts Foundation’s Futures Award in Dance.

Tali is founder, producer and lead facilitator of identity. ideas. industry., a professional development programme delivered to close to 400 artists globally via conversation, movement and literature.

🌟 Marking SDS’s 20th anniversary, this four-chapter project (July 2026 – July 2027) invites 20 artists to deconstruct, dismantle, and reclaim movement traditions in a project that dis/honours Siobhan Davies’ original work, challenging how dance history is archived and celebrated.

🗓️ Thursday 2 July + Friday 3 July, 7 – 9 pm
🎟️ £10 - £20
🔔 More information on our website: https://www.siobhandavies.com/events/living-image-chapter-1/

📸 Image from Top Left: Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergu (Elena Cremona)

📢 We’re looking for new Studios Team Members to join our team at Siobhan Davies Studios.

🕺 Our Studios Team are the face and voice of Siobhan Davies Studios, supporting the operation of the studios as a safe and supportive creative environment for our community. We are looking for staff with weekend and evening availability, on a variable contract with a minimum commitment of 48hrs per month.

📝You can apply by filling out the application on our website. We welcome questions and informal conversations about the role, please email us at [email protected] to arrange a call.

📆 Deadline for application: 10am Monday 29 June 2026
🔗 Go to the link in our bio to find out more about the role on our website.

👥 Meet Akeim Toussaint Buck, our facilitater at the Dance Market for Beatmotion.

👀 Akeim is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. He teaches a class called To Move Together monthly on Fridays at at SDS every Friday. Akeim will be offering an Open Level session that participants can inhabit to sharpen their improvisation skills or simply excavate their internal space and find clarity. Meet us at the market at 11:35 to join the session.

😉 No experience needed!
😎 Drop in, dance and be inspired, as part of SDS’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

What else to expect at our Dance Market:
🌟 Demos & short performances from inspiring artists and local groups
🌟 Info stalls from local creative and community organisations
🌟 Come along at any time OR stay all day!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11am – 4 pm
📍 Outside in Walworth Square, SE17 1RS
🎟️ Free | 💃🏽 Drop-In | 🌈 All ages welcome
🔔 More information on our website: https://www.siobhandavies.com/events/dance-market/

Another of our Dance Market facilitators is an old SDS friend and Lindy Hop legend, Angela Andrew aka Cookie - she will be also be joined by Black Mambas Jazz and Colbert.

💃 Cookie and her Black Mambas will lead a short workshop at 2.05pm which will be an introduction to Lindy Hop, an African-American partner dance originating in the late 1920s Jazz Era. The London Community Lindy Hoppers lead by Angela an Colbert will then perform a short dance to close out the day at 3.45pm.

💫 Angela has worked with SDS as a facilitator for Unscary Saturdays and NEXT Choreography, and was also a commissioned artist as part of Artist Archive in 2024.

😉 No experience needed!
😎 Drop in, dance and be inspired, as part of SDS’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

What else to expect at our Dance Market:
🌟 Demos & short performances from inspiring artists and local groups
🌟 Info stalls from local creative and community organisations
🌟 Come along at any time OR stay all day!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11am – 4 pm
📍 Outside in Walworth Square, SE17 1RS
🎟️ Free | 💃🏽 Drop-In | 🌈 All ages welcome
🔔 More information on our website: https://www.siobhandavies.com/events/dance-market/

Looking back our the Underscore for Global Majority/ BPOC dancers II led by Nathaniel Parchment and Annie Pui Ling Lok.

💭 On the day, we were blessed with the tender shade of the setting sun in the gorgeous Upper Hall at Pembroke House. Within the framework of The Underscore, we built a safe, intimate space for Contact Improvisation—a place to meet, connect, accept, reject, and rest.

🌟 If you've missed the session or want to try out Contact Improvisation, join Annie and Nathaniel at the Dance Market, where they are facilitating a Contact Improvisation session.

🎪 Dance Market is a day of free outdoor dancing in Walworth Square. It’s part of SDS‘s 20th-anniversary celebrations, full of good vibes and fun. No experience is needed.

💚 Come along at any time and celebrate with us!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11am – 4 pm
📍 Outside in Walworth Square, SE17 1RS
🎟️ Free | 💃🏽 Drop-In | 🌈 All ages welcome
🔔 More information on our website, link in bio.

🎪 We will also have our resident Freestylers joining our Dance Market schedule. The wonderful Kavina will be representing them by sharing a solo performance at 12.10pm

🕺 Freestylers’ Sessions, which take place on Tuesday evenings at Siobhan Davies Studios, unfold in an organic and creative way — responding to everyone’s experience, skills and energy in the moment. Kavina is an older, disabled dancer. She has worked in inclusive dance for many years, including Slide and Biodanza. In 2024, Kavina was one of our Artist Archive artists and she is a regular Freestyler.

What else to expect at our Dance Market:
🌟 Demos & short performances from inspiring artists and local groups
🌟 Info stalls from local creative and community organisations
🌟 Come along at any time OR stay all day!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11am – 4 pm
📍 Outside in Walworth Square, SE17 1RS
🎟️ Free | 💃🏽 Drop-In | 🌈 All ages welcome
🔔 More information on our website, link in bio.

🎪 Introducing one of our Dance Market facilitators

🙀 You may remember Sheba from one of our Unscary Saturdays sessions back in the autumn. She is a Caribbean dance specialist, Performance Poet and a lover of life and (most) people.

🔊 Kicking off our Dance Market next weekend, Sheba will be giving a brief guided tour of Caribbean dance journeying through the music genres of Reggae, Ska, Soca, Merengue and Dancehall to nourish your body and satisfy your soul. Arrive for 11am if you don't want to miss this one!

😉 No experience needed!
😎 Drop in, dance and be inspired, as part of SDS’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

What else to expect at our Dance Market:
🌟 Demos & short performances from inspiring artists and local groups
🌟 Info stalls from local creative and community organisations
🌟 Come along at any time OR stay all day!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11am – 4 pm
📍 Outside in Walworth Square, SE17 1RS
🎟️ Free | 💃🏽 Drop-In | 🌈 All ages welcome
🔔 More information on our website, link in bio.

This event is supported by Southwark Council’s Cultural Celebrations Fund. ️