In Process with Thomas Page Dances

Thursday 20 March 2025, 10am - 6pm

Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College

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Join TPD in the studio as they embark on a new creative process exploring the intersection of theories concerned with Queering space, collaging, reference, and poetry in conversation with choreographic practice and the theme of Queer love as part of the research and development for their new work Steeped in Honey.

This creative exploration aims to offer new perspectives on the timelessness of Queer love, engaging with the past to inform and empower present-day understandings of desire, connection, and identity. We will play with notions of fantasy and dream state in relation to desire, and the relationship between the subject’s dreaming and their subsequent encounter with the dreamed object in the moments between sleep and of wakefulness.

The day will run as follows:

10:00-11:30: Open class. Company class will be open for local professional dancers to join for free. This mixed technique class will draw on elements of release, grounded, and floor work based techniques to warm up the body ready for a day of dance!

14:00: Open studio – just come and go as you please.

17.00-18.00: Showing, followed by drinks.

To book your free place for the showing, please sign up here.

Thomas Page (He/They) is a Queer choreographer, teacher, researcher and the Artistic Director of Thomas Page Dances based in Oxford.Their choreography focuses on exploring socio-political ideas through the medium of contemporary dance working with a network of freelance artists on a project-by-project basis, their work has been performed across the UK and Europe.

With thanks for support from TORCH Sleep and Rhythms of Life Project.

For more information visit the event page.

Find out more about Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) here; Find out more about the Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network here.