Making Wallflower: Jo Fong – dancer

I’m interested in bodies and histories and layers beyond the first impression. I always say, and somehow it’s a bit of a cliché, but I know someone better if I’ve seen someone dance or even better, danced with them. Maybe it is to do with a language beyond the verbal and the visual, a shared […]

Catalyst Evolve – new funding awarded to develop Quarantine fundraising capacity

Quarantine have been awarded funding from Arts Council England‘s ‘Catalyst Evolve’ programme to develop our fundraising capacity. Catalyst Evolve is a new initiative that aims to support organisations with a limited track record in fundraising to attract more private giving. Quarantine are one of 140 projects that will collectively receive a total of £17.5 million through […]

‘We Know That Everybody Dances’ Workshops at Juncture 2016

We Know That Everybody Dances is a series of artist-led workshops presented by Juncture 2016, exploring creative collaboration with people who aren’t trained to dance/people who think they can’t dance/people who love to dance. This series of workshops departs from the premise that non-professional dancers, and professional dance workers of all kinds, can form different modes […]

Lab Sweden at Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival

This month, Wallflower travels to Tanum in Sweden for this year’s Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (18 – 27 August), Sweden’s international festival of performing arts. As part of Quarantine’s involvement in the festival, Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea have been invited to lead a two-day workshop as part of Lab Sweden, an artistic lab […]