DIY Nights - Watching Me Watching You

About the Night:

Violet Savage presents the latest version of Watching Me Watching You. Developed through a series of workshops at Chisenhale since the start of the year, the project explores the blurring of process into performance and opens a space for the simultaneity of watching, listening and movement. The workshops guide participants, through a series of improvisational and accumulative tasks, into a communal practice of learning and creation. Intention is activated and subsumed by momentum, the compulsion to keep in time with one another is in tension with the energy available. Time is stretched and consciousness dispersed, opening space for self expression as both an individual and collective body. Every workshop is conceived as a vital encounter, the choreography that emerges is specific and unique to the exchange between those who are present.

About the Artist:

Violet Savage is a dancer whose work explores movement at the intersection of sonic and visual art. Her practice draws from improvisation to inhabit the charged space between extremes of self and other through workshops that engage with the tension between presence and memory to present process and outcome simultaneously. At the heart of these workshops is a desire to expand the experience of exploration from a solitary to shared creative act, to experience dance as liveness, care and learning in both individual and collective bodies, resisting the forces of competition and fatigue that pull us apart.

Watching Me Watching You has brought together a cast of movement, visual and sonic artists through a series of workshops that started in January 2026. All are choreographers and performers in the work, they are -
Ciar Wild, Imke Felicitas Gerhardt, Samara Langham, Willow Fenner, Sari Mizoe, Gian Gingh Sanghera-Warren, Jemima Colin, Nell Weatherby, Pollyanna Mann, Liv Devine, Maya Donne, Jesse Baggett Lahav, Oddalys Salcido , Johana Wichterlová, Izzy Doick, Kiera Johnson, Nick Bondar, Zia Husbands, Mateusz Piekarski, Niamh Keady, Amari Webb-Martin, Orla Hardie, Elvi Rose Christiansen, Finn Gurney , Mark Crawley, Caitlin Macleod, Maisie Faul, Louis George, Darcy Bodle, Emily Piddlesden, Peter Butler, Mirabelle Haddon, Luella Rebbeck, Anouska Lucaks, Elizabeth Ortega, James Cheng, Arnold Chukwu, Noah Bador, LWM, THE NARRATOR, aloisius

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.