Join us for a special Backstage Pass session, led in collaboration with choreographer and artist Eve Stainton. Open to people from all backgrounds, the session especially welcomes those who may face barriers to participation – including experiences of marginalisation, mental health challenges, or social exclusion – offering a supportive space to explore movement and learn more about Eve's artistic practice.
Drawing on themes from Eve’s latest performance The Joystick and The Reins, the session will include guided movement tasks designed to explore how slow motion moving can build suspense and tension.
There will also be an opportunity to hear more about Eve’s artistic practice and ask questions about their work.
No dance experience is needed, just a willingness to take part, move, and try something new. The workshop is a chance to connect, express yourself, and explore choreography in a way that’s playful, inclusive, and rooted in your own experience.
About Eve Stainton: Eve Stainton is an artist and choreographer born in Manchester and living in London, UK. They create multi-disciplinary performances that involve movement practices, welded steel/live welding, digital collage, and other invisible forces like drama and suspense. Their research is rooted in community, interested in how differently marginalised people experience and come into relationship with power structures and societal conventions. Often working with codes or tropes of gender, class and threat, their work stages clunky physical negotiations and reveals 'behind the scenes' mechanisms of working together to show a kind of reality that isn’t seamless.
About Queer Minds: Queer Minds is a peer support group for LGBTQIA+ people (aged 18+) who live, work or play in Lambeth and Southwark. This group is by us, for us and is for those who are looking to connect with others. We currently run two monthly peer support groups, a trans drop-in group and various workshops and activities with partner organisations. You can find more information about the group on the Queer Minds website: selmind.org.uk/queermindsls.
This event has limited capacity, so please reserve a spot and cancel your ticket if you can no longer make it!
For details on how to get there and accessibility info, visit the Bold Tendencies website: boldtendencies.com/visit-contact.
If you have any questions, please email queermindsls@selmind.org.uk.
We hope to see you there!