A community of transforming solos by Yewande 103.

Join us for a gently-paced evening of mesmerising solos – where you will witness movement tenderly transforming between one performer and the next.

Many Lifetimes is a poetic new dance-installation from interdisciplinary dance company Yewande 103, accompanied by live music from Bianca Wilson and Femi Oriogun-Williams.

Beneath a suspended linen canopy and gentle rain of melting ice, Many Lifetimes continues founder Alexandrina Yewande Hemsley’s enquiries into tidal cycles of love, loss and repair. Working collaboratively with dancers, musicians and disability access advocates, this sculptural and tender performance is steeped in personal archives around change, remembrance and gathering together.

Yewande 103 creates work that delves into the sensorial, the bodily, the autobiographical and emotional – always in community. They believe in enlivened, sensitive, caring and inclusive creative projects.

Yewande 103 formalises over 17 years of Alexandrina’s work in contemporary dance nationally and internationally. Her work has been commissioned by Dance City, Somerset House, Disability Arts Online, Sadler’s Wells, Theaterformen and Battersea Arts Centre amongst others.

Special thanks to Chiron Stamp for design collaboration and to Frances Morgan for dance movement collaboration in the research and development period at Battersea Arts Centre. Special thanks to Ana Grotta, David Archer and Reiss Dendie.

Many Lifetimes has been commissioned by Dance City and the Gillian Dickinson Fund, FABRIC and Battersea Arts Centre. Additional development support has been funded by Art Council England.

Header image description: A close up of cast member Rudzani Moleya, a beautifully brown, gender fluid artist with Afro 4c hair & face freckles, lying on a wooden floor. One arm is wrapped under their head, one hand resting just above their head. They are lying on the edge of a silver mirror dance floor, speckled with remnants of melted ice & a reflection of the hanging linen canopy above.

Header image © Katarzyna Perlak