Hands holding the book Tu interni…io libero by Gian Butturini. Courtesy Oltre il Giardino, Trieste.

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Since 2022, and against the pressured backdrops of permacrisis and accelerating depletion, Choreographic Devices has been testing how bodies, material assemblages, organisational forms and modes of being alongside one another might be choreographed otherwise. Drawing on a broad ecology of practices and bringing together local and international protagonists, the platform understands choreographic inquiry as extending beyond the event itself into its organisational architectures. Its modular and scalable format moves fluidly between integrated multi-day programmes, screenings, discursive exchanges, workshops and performative gatherings.

For its sixth iteration at Sadler’s Wells East and hosted by Rose Choreographic School, Choreographic Devices functions as a studio for rehearsal, for pre-enactments, and for finding ways of dealing with the detritus and remnants that accumulate as they are left behind from public facing work, and for making things ready. Across its two days, the event arranges contributions from Funmi Adewole Elliott, Aliaskar Abarkas, Neve Harrington, A. Livingstone, Noémie Solomon, Eve Stainton, Sara Sassanelli, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Tuur van Balen and Revital Cohen, Lewis Walker, and Andros Zins-Browne.

Choreographic Devices 6 is convened by Murat Adash, Ofri Cnaani, Martin Hargreaves and Edgar Schmitz, and produced by Izzy Galbraith. The event is a collaboration between the Choreographic Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Rose Choreographic School at Sadler’s Wells East. It is generously supported by the AHRC through CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and Arts in the South East) as well as Goldsmiths and Sadler’s Wells.

Date: 17th and 18th October 2026

Time: 12pm-6pm

Location: Sadler's Wells East, Stratford

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Schedule:

Saturday 17th October

12:00 - 18:00pm: Tuur van Balen maybe soundscape for Choreographic Devices 6

12:30 - 13:30pm: Seun Olayiwola Undo Me or Eat Me

13:45 - 14:45pm: Eve Stainton and Sara Sassenelli ​​In Conversation, Joystick and process

14:45 - 15:00pm : Murat Adash A Figure Gathers

15:00 - 15:45pm: A.Livingstone remains unnamed, at this time

16:45 - 17:30pm: Neve Harrington even an animal can’t move sometimes, they wait and move later

17:30 - 17:35pm: Funmi Adewole Elliott: The Dramaturgy of the Choreographic Device (1/ 3)

17:35 - 18:00pm: Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen: Full Cry

Sunday 18th October:

12:00-18:00: Lewis Walker Bornsick on Film

12:30 - 13:30pm: Andros Zins-Browne (title tbc)

13:30 - 13:35pm: Funmi Adewole Elliott: The Dramaturgy of the Choreographic Device (2/ 3)

13:50 - 14:20pm - Funmi Adewole Elliott: The Dramaturgy of the Choreographic Device (3/3)

15:00 - 16:15pm: Noémie Solomon and Ofri Cnaani: Choreographic Annotations

16:30 - 17:30pm - Aliaskar Abarkas As many as we are, as lonely as I am