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About the Night:
Kait Dron and Sarah White will present a double bill of works-in-progress on 17 July at Chisenhale Dance Space. Their practices intersect through a shared holding of movement research and theological study, both attending to drawing, dancing and close reading of poetic and scriptural texts to give birth to performance. These texts are kneaded like dough and chewed over in the mouth, making faith strange. Performance becomes a site of divine invocation and dialogue; an intimate, vulnerable and heightened encounter, exploring desire, liberation, faith and doubt. Performance becomes a prayerful utterance, and a transformative event, with its roots embedded in the event of incarnation.
The two performances will be developed separately between February and July 2026, giving birth to something new from the remnants and archives of what has existed in their practice prior to this moment.
Each work will be between 20-30 minutes, with a discussion time after the performances.
About the Artists:
Kait Dron is a dance artist trained in butoh primarily under the lineage of Kazuo Ohno. She has studied with influential teachers including Seiji Tanaka, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Imre Thormann and is deeply informed by land-based movement, textual arts, and mythic narratives, exploring the intersection of body, imagination, spirit and landscape. After a 10-year career in the fashion industry, Kait moved into dance and has recently completed the MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional programme at Trinity Laban, London, on a Leverhulme Scholarship. Through Butoh, landscape immersion and literary study, she contemplates body as medium and sign, theophany and gift. She views the body as poetic utterance, engaging in dialogue with the living world.
Sarah White is a London based interdisciplinary artist working across somatic movement practices, performance, writing and installation. Her research thinks with, beside and between movement research and faith practices, exploring the feedback loops and accumulative dialogues between them. Recent public performances have been programmed by Future Ritual, Nomas* Projects for Art Night Dundee, Religion and Art Live, the Goethe Institut, Royal College of Art, Society for the Study of Theology, Koppel Project and The Swiss Church.
Accessibility:
Please note, we are on the second floor of a warehouse building, accessed by a staircase only. We regret that we cannot currently adequately support wheelchair users and those for whom stairs are a barrier.
We are committed to removing other barriers to access. If you would like to talk to us about your access needs, please contact: frances@chisenhaledancespace.co.uk. Read more about our commitments to anti-ableism as part of our Artist Community Culture Document
About DIY Nights:
DIY Nights are CDS’s performance programme created in the spirit of grassroots, low stakes performance making and sharing.
Anyone can apply to run a DIY Night, and CDS programmes them on a rolling basis for artists looking for a way to try out new ideas with low financial risk.
If you are interested in running your own night, you can learn more and apply here.