Join the Artistic Cohort to play with the choreographic through dancing, thinking, dreaming, witnessing and studying together.

Across these sessions the Artistic Cohort are opening some of the individual and collective questions they've been busy with across the last two years of Rose Choreographic School:

What can we do in a studio?

How can our practices pollute each other?

How do we think and learn through difference?

How do we sustain being in relation to one another?

We have no answers, the studios are open: Come speculate with us.

Event Name: Reverberant forms

Event Date: Friday 30th October 2026

Event Time: 6:30 - 8pm

Event Location: Sadler's Wells East, Stratford

This session is presented by Yewande YoYo Odunubi, in collaboration with invited curator Pelumi Odubanjo.

Beginning with an invitation to share practice, Yewande and Pelumi bring their respective artistic and curatorial research into conversation, exploring shared interests in acts of translation and transmission: how knowledge, collective memory and culture are shaped and carried across African and b/Black diasporic contexts. Joined by practitioners brother portrait, Auclair, afromerm and Adedamola Bajomo, they ask what might emerge when research is opened up through live practice, collective encounter and exchange, and freestyle-improvisation.

Drawing on ideas, materials and provocations developed during a series of closed study sessions in the days before, the group will continue to interpret, remix, and reconfigure them through their individual practices and in live response to one another.

This public sharing opens their ongoing process to an audience, inviting reflection on how these exchanges are absorbed, reworked and transformed as they move between people, practices and contexts.

This event is funded by the Four Nations International Fund through Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland, and Wales Arts International.

Other notes:

You’re welcome to sit with the work in whatever way feels comfortable: watch, take notes and / or draw using pens and paper provided. Seating will be available on the floor, chairs and beanbags.

Please note that the sharing will be audio-recorded, with a videographer and photographer present. If you prefer not to be photographed and / or filmed, please let us know on the day.

If you would like to attend this session, please fill out this form.