Escape the Nowhere

A team of skilled dance and film professionals mentored Paul and the cast working to support and animate the dancers ideas, guiding them to build the structure, content and storyline.

Making of Escape to Nowhere

A short documentary illuminating the creative process behind Escape the Nowhere.

Find Your Way

The dancers draw their imagined worlds and landscapes. These drawings inspired movement which was placed in locations around Bethlem Gallery Grounds.

Back to Blackheath

The dancers explore the history, stories, atmosphere and architecture of London’s oldest cultural venue, Blackheath Halls, in this inclusive dance film.

Tick & Cross

The film, through a simple act of affection, offers an inquiry of social judgements, acceptance of differences, and superficial assumptions of the “other”.

Origami – Satchie Noro & Silvain Ohl

‘Origami’ sees the unlikely pairing of a monumental shipping container and a gravity-defying dancer.

Vinicius Salles – GLITCh

Are we in contact with everything surrounding us? Living in a world where we are immersed in fast technological apparatus, we are supposed to be in easy, instant contact.

Shane Shambhu – Confessions Of A Cockney Temple Dancer

Shane shares his life experience of growing up in East London, speaking two languages and living within many more cultures.

Magpie – There were definitely Swans

4 performers try and re-stage Swan Lake. Reality and fiction become confused, emotions run high. Swan Lake comes to life in the most unique of settings.

Tom O’Gorman – Perpetual

Perpetual – an exploration between contemporary dance and martial arts, drawing from Tom’s own experiences and embodied responses.

Shivaangee Agarwal – This Junction

‘This Junction’ is about fighting for space and finding my place amongst the native inhabitants of this urban chaos.

Corali – Dreams of Flying

Dreams of Flying was inspired by Paul’s interest in gymnastics. The research included looking at the artwork of Aaron Siskind’s ‘The Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation’, alongside exploring Paul’s own creative writing. 

Archana Ballal – As Small as a World and as Large as Alone

‘As Small as a World and as Large as Alone’ is a glance into the world of a woman living with anxiety and agoraphobia, as she plans a holiday.

SLiDE – Sometimes by myself

We don’t always like to dance with others. Sometimes we like to explore our own movements while inviting others in to observe our journey. 

Tara-Brigitte Bhavnani – Life

Seven months pregnant, Tara-Brigitte will be performing a short solo choreographed by herself exploring her journey into Motherhood.