Choreography

Full Moon

Nuss Nuss is a new dance acro duo formed by Fleur Hall and Katherine Miriam, born of their love of narrative dance theatre and its possibilities. The name Nuss Nuss means half half in Darija, and comes from a Moroccan coffee which is half coffee and milk. Fleur and Kat met at FlexLab which is a retreat for Global Majority Heritage Artists. This retreat inspired them to work together to explore ways to create work touching on their shared experiences as mixed heritage women in their day to day lives and as performance artists. The way these experiences have shaped them, the different dynamics they have experienced within black majority or white majority cultures/environments, weaving in themes of identity, power dynamics, finding your place in the world, within their communities and society in general.

Fleur and Kat use a combination of dance, acro and physical theatre to explore the intersection of these narratives. Full Moon (working title) explores new and relevant narratives both for us as artists and for our future audiences. Stories are like souls and when we share them we allow each other to grow.

A section will be shared at as a part of Brainfool’s Scratch Night at Jackson’s Lane Theatre on 25 April 2025.

Portrait of a Rebellion

Kindred: Our Roots Entwined

Kindred is a multi-disciplinary project run by Fleur Hall in collaboration with artists in the Midlands and Bristol.

Photography and Videography by Alexandra Hackett

Poetry by Katharine Baxter

Music by Leon Bailey

Funded by Arts Council England, The Crystal Hare with Support from The Hub at St Mary’s and Lichfield

Kindred explores our individual and collective relationship with nature through dance, music, photography and the written word. The individual creations interact,  weaving a narrative that explores who we are when we immerse ourselves in the world around us and how Nature can change us as much as we change it.

 In the last twenty years, scientific research by Dr. Simard and others has proven what aboriginal peoples have known for millennia. Beneath the forest floor, a complex web of fungal connections brings trees together in a community that depends upon the Mother Tree. By communicating with the Mother Tree, groups of trees thrive. When trees are allowed to form these connections, the forest becomes a diverse habitat. 

Lunar Ladies

Lunar Ladies was a piece of work was created during a series of free workshops for women over 30. This project was funded by Arts Council England, and made with the support of Vanhulle Dance Theatre. The group performed at the Tilestone Studio in the Arena Theatre as a curtain raiser for the premiere of VDT’s ‘Yin’.

The project explored womanhood, and what it means to be a woman. Through chroreography and creative tasks the group explored what our own expectations are of ourselves as women, and how this is affected by society’s perception of a woman. The process lead to so many beautiful moments, including the poem at the end of the video, where you can see Shobana read out a poem she wrote after a session where she had worked closely with another dancer.