PRESENT CONDITIONS

“I am a dance artist, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, teacher and mentor, and co-director of a Dog Kennel Hill Project creative performance collective with Henrietta Hale and Rachel Lopez de la Nieta. My practice spans across live performance and embodied practice, including theatre, galleries, film and site-responsive work in urban and rural environments.

My artistic and therapeutic practices share an interest in presence, perception and relational encounter. Through movement, gesture and action, I explore how meaning emerges between bodies, materials and environments, and how embodied awareness can support creative decision-making and new ways of knowing. I bring together somatic movement practice and Craniosacral Therapy, alongside ongoing study of Biodynamic Embryological morphology and Dzogchen, a non-dual Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Through these creative, performance and therapeutic practices, I am interested in creating spaces for attention, experimentation and shared inquiry—where embodied experience can become a resource for navigating uncertainty, cultivating connection and opening possibilities for creative action.”

zanni CT (they/them) formerly zanni tonietto, is a dancer, maker and facilitator working across the UK and Italy. They work with the body and movement to explore possibilities, choice, multiplicity. They see dance and movement as creating spaces for exploring and practicing ways of being, ways of relating, ways of approaching life, ways of being in space; for creating alternatives to the normative structures and systems of power. Spaces for practicing presence; practicing dissidence, disrupting and resisting; practicing play and curiosity. zanni is passionate about exploring the body and movement through a queer and trans lens - queering up the body and reclaiming the potential and possibilities of dissident bodies, with their imaginative and revolutionary superpowers.

Virginia Farman is a site-dance choreographer-researcher whose practice investigates ways dance might engage with the affective and agentive potential of non-theatre sites, so that they become a dynamic aspect of choreographic form. This is done through improvisational and compositional processes that aim to cultivate dialogues between individuals and environments with trained and non-trained dancers. Recent productions include, Smorgasbord (2026), (Dances for) Cloud, Gate and Tree (2020) Children’s Games (2020), Souvenir (2019).

Virginia originally trained and danced with choreographers Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie in Divas, and continues to be enthused by a sensibility for Expressionism, humour and the absurd.

She lives in East Sussex, is a senior lecturer in choreography and research at the University of Chichester; holds a practice-led PhD in site-dance and has written book chapter for publications Encountering Environments Through the Arts (Chubb & Hunter (ed) 2025) and Situated Ecologies of Care (Lieberman and Alessandro (ed) 2026).

Keil Haggar (formerly Morris) has studied Contemporary and Hip Hop for many years, working alongside renowned B Boy and B Girls in competitions and touring work with contemporary choreographers. Keil has a hand in market research for Humanhood Dance Company and supported their diverse artistic vision in the midlands. Whilst in the Midlands Keil also worked in the research and development phases for ACE dance, developing martial arts and African dance practices. He has also fronted many adverts for Flashmobs and lectured for a few years at East Sussex College. Now, albeit slightly on pause, Keil is focussing his practice in his local area of Eastbourne and studying communication and language needs, hoping to provide a holistic approach to his work. Keil is also developing community outreach work with local schools and using his nurturing abilities to fine tune the need for restoration in the wellbeing of young people.

Heni Hale is a movement and performance artist practicing across interdisciplinary fields including somatic and kinaesthetic awarenesses in relation to social sciences and history. Her current PhD research is with the archive of Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, centring group relations, automation and industrial systems, and through the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. Tuning in to psychosocial phenomena, she explores how encountering archives through movement and embodied re-enactment can activate and reimagine past events. She co-founded Dog Kennel Hill Project, (DKHP) in 2004, as a collective research laboratory. Their productions spanned theatre dance pieces, video works, site-specific productions in outdoor or unusual spaces, gallery exhibitions and installations. Heni is Lead Tutor and lecturer in embodied practices for MA/MFA Creative Practice, a partnership between Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios and Trinity Laban.

Rachel Lopez de la Nieta is a dance artist, choreographer, performer and educator whose practice spans over three decades. She is co-founder and co-director of Dog Kennel Hill Project, creating interdisciplinary work across performance, visual art, participatory practice and research. Her work has been presented in theatres, galleries, outdoor and community settings, including the Barbican, Modern Art Oxford, Camden Arts Centre and Brighton CCA.

Rachel’s practice is rooted in embodied and collaborative approaches, with a particular interest in how movement can create encounters between people, places, objects and ideas. Her work explores materiality, interdependence and the shifting relationships between performer, audience and environment, and has included site-responsive projects, public participation, cross-cultural collaboration and interdisciplinary research with neuroscientists at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her artistic and embodied practice is also informed by her long-term study and practice of Dzogchen Buddhism, bringing an ongoing curiosity about attention, perception, presence and our interconnected relationship with the world.