An evening of works created and performed by members of the Legem community, celebrating our 1 year anniversary!
WHAT'S ON
DIY Night – Legaversary Scratch Night
Event details
21 November 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Pay What You Can £8/£10/£12
Please note, we are on the second floor, accessed by a staircase only. Regrettably the studios are not wheelchair accessible.
About the Show:
Legaversary is a sharing of 5 New / Work-In-Progress pieces, following an eclectic medley of practices from 10 emerging artists working in and around Legem Dance Cooperative. Celebrating a year of offering free, open and inclusive classes at Chisenhale Dance Space, we are excited to platform work from: Ciar Wild X Violet Savage – Martha Tribe – Olivia Devine – Kin Dance Company – Esme Wales X Annarose Atamian.
The show journeys through a diverse line-up of 5 different pieces featuring contact methodologies; chance operations; intimacy and desire; improvisation; audience engagement and more!!
We are very excited to put on this night, and proud of the work we have accomplished, so please join us at the Legaversary Scratch Night, a fun and relaxed performance of anything and everything Legem as we mark our anniversary!!
About the Artist:
Ciar Wild and Violet Savage are a duo based in London who have come together to research and perform a contact improvisation practice. Putting sensation over aesthetics, they explore narratives of collective consciousness in a variety of collaborations and performance settings, notably Iklectic Art Lab, The Burrows Gallery and Spanners Brixton.
Martha Tribe is a dance artist working between Ireland and the UK with a practice background in folk dance, contemporary, ballet, improvisational techniques and acting.
Her award winning research into space and place as danced phenomena is currently being developed towards publication. Using GPS technology to track pathways, she explores the application of this to dance, aiming to unpack how movement can help us understand our relationship to space and place.
Olivia‘s work discusses ideas of femininity from a lens of queer theory, creating strong atmospheres that recognise and allow audiences and dancers to enter the piece as a shared world or environment. With foundations in modern and post-modern dance philosophies, Olivia explores functional movement that incorporates abstract forms of gesture to evoke an emotional response from the audience. Referencing ideas of Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, the work is rooted in ideas of embodied knowledge and acknowledges our dispositions as defining how and who we are as individuals.
KIN is a dance company born from the curiosity to make and to share. Made up of five artists, KIN is a space for play, a place where exploration leads, and choreography becomes a shared language. Rooted in the idea of kinship, we value closeness, care, and collaboration, connection to each other, to our ideas, and to the communities around us.
Esme Wales is a London based artist. She was part of Verve 2024 at NSCD, following her BA at LCDS. Through her work she assembles immersive cacophonies of sound, setting and movement seeded with human sensitivity and cathexis. How can we indulge, purge and free parts of ourselves through intensified and assiduous acts of performance?
Annarose Atamian is an American-born movement artist based in London. Her work extracts and dismantles experience from the archival body into intensified and surrealist identities. She uses improvisational play constrained with the endurance of repetitive patterns to realise relational and personal catharsis.
About DIY Nights:
DIY Nights are CDS’s performance programme created in the spirit of grassroots, low stakes performance making and sharing.
Anyone can apply to run a DIY Night, and CDS programmes them on a rolling basis for artists looking for a way to try out new ideas with low financial risk.
If you are interested in running your own night, you can learn more and apply here.