Keep experimentation essential
Experimental forms challenge convention and open new possibilities for how movement is made and experienced.
Movement / dance / embodied practice
We create projects and facilitate activities that shift how we sense ourselves, each other and the worlds we inhabit.
We are a collective of four artists and curators, primarily producing movement, dance and performance that works at the edges of the mainstream. We hold a shared studio space, open to others for experimentation, participation and exchange. Several members of the collective also offer therapeutic and somatic work with individuals and groups.
Born in Manchester, working across and beyond the North of England
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Our orientation
Aims
Open up the field
We widen who is invited to perform, witness and participate, and work to dismantle barriers to taking part.
Support artists and ideas
We cultivate space for unfinished work, shared enquiry and artist-led exchange.
Begin with the body
Somatic attention helps us make work, meet difference and create powerful shared experiences.
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Somatic and creative practice
Workshops and Events
Alongside our artistic programme, we are developing therapeutic and somatic work for individuals and groups, offered by practitioners connected to the collective. Current workshops are led primarily by Amy Voris and draw on experiential anatomy, movement improvisation and the mover-witness framework. New online and in-person opportunities will be posted here.
7 Oct – 11 Nov 2026
Online · Wednesdays · 9.00–10.15am or 6.30–7.45pmExperiential anatomy into movement — The presence of bone
Six weekly sessions exploring the materiality of the body as a sensory, poetic and imaginative resource. The same class is offered twice each Wednesday.
Oct 2026 – Jun 2027
In person · Six weekends · ManchesterExperiential anatomy into movement workshop series
A six-weekend series moving through the presence of bones, organs and fluids, with guided movement, hands-on work, reflection and integration.
1 Nov 2026
In person · 10.00am–5.30pm · Near LancasterAn introduction to Authentic Movement
A one-day introduction to the mover-witness framework, with guided movement, quiet attention and reflection through drawing, writing and conversation.
28–29 Nov 2026
In person · Hebden BridgeBouquet — Practices of gathering and arranging
Embodied, improvisational and site-responsive practices exploring composition as a process of gathering and arranging movement in relation to place.
Feb – Jul 2027
OnlineTransitions and Transformations
Somatic movement and coaching for artists, coaches, educators and therapists exploring processes of change from embodied and creative perspectives.
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Selected work
Projects
Ongoing
Studio 307
A shared Manchester studio for artists developing experimental and therapeutic movement, performance, somatic and interdisciplinary practices.
Perch by Amy Voris, a Studio 307 residency and performance
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2016
Gathering 1
A participatory gathering of durational movement, conversation and film exploring the work, play and histories carried between generations.
Gathering 1
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2016
Precarious Assembly — Gathering 2
Twelve commissioned, site-responsive works assembled across the Whitworth through performance, installation, video and movement.
Ply by Dual Works
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A Shrine to Women’s Work
An exhibition and participatory archive of eleven artists’ responses to paid, unpaid, familial and creative work.
Installation view of A Shrine to Women’s Work
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