11:00-11:30AM – Caribbean Dance with Sheba Montserrat

A brief guided tour of Caribbean dance with Sheba Montserrat journeying through the music genres of Reggae, Ska, Soca, Merengue and Dancehall to nourish your body and satisfy your soul.  

About Sheba: Sheba Montserrat is a Caribbean dance specialist, Performance Poet and a lover of life and (most) people.

• Sheba has been one of SDS’ facilitators for Unscary Saturdays, and teaches regularly around London.  Find out more about Sheba on Instagram @shebamontserrat, Tik Tok, Facebook and Youtube or shebamontserrat.com. 

11:35am-12:05pm Beatmotion with akeim toussaint buck

This is a light hearted Open Level session that professionals and beginners can inhabit to sharpen their improvisation skills or simply excavate their internal space and find clarity. Voice and movement are a powerful and fertile ground for surprising expressions. To Move Together is an intentional space of play where the inner child meets Akeim’s Beatmotion Practice and gives itself permission to be seen and heard.

About Akeim:  Akeim Toussaint Buck is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. Graduating from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2014, Akeim began creating his own work in 2015, launching Toussaint To Move in 2016 with the creation of ‘Windows of Displacement’. TTM’S intention is to create moving, thought provoking, accessible and free-spirited projects. Akeim’s movement is informed by methodologies of KickBoxing, Yoga, Capoeira, Caribbean Dance, Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance. Improvisation and acute listening are at the core of Toussaint’s practice of vocalisation and movement, called Beatmotion. The artist embraces the holistic potential of performance to translate the affective dimension of socio-political realities.   Instagram: @toussainttomove Photo Credit: Nick Guttridge

• Akeim teaches a class called To Move Together monthly on Fridays at Siobhan Davies Studios. Learn more: To Move Together – Siobhan Davies Studios 

12:10-12:15pm Freestylers Performance – Solo by kavina pound

About Freestylers: Freestylers is made of a team of people who have longstanding creative relationships built on care, support and trust. As our team is made up of people with and without disability we are often interrogating the idea of care because we believe it goes both ways. www.freestylers4eva.com  

About Kavina: Kavina is an older, disabled dancer. She has worked in inclusive dance for many years, including Slide and Biodanza. She and her daughter have an 
inclusive dance brand, Danzability. Kavina is involved in disability advocacy and arts, dances with Corali, and regularly performs with Freestylers. 

• Freestylers’ Sessions, which take place on Tuesday evenings at Siobhan Davies Studios, unfold in an organic and creative way — responding to everyone’s experience, skills and energy in the moment. Learn more: Freestylers’ Sessions – Siobhan Davies Studios 

12:25-12:35pm SDS’ Kids Class Performance 

Children aged 5-11 from SDS’ weekly classes will perform a short dance, with support from one of their regular teachers Kiren Virdee. Their performance is inspired by the different spaces and architecture of the Siobhan Davies Studios building, which this year celebrates its 20^th anniversary. 

• SDS hosts two different Saturday morning classes for children: Infants Creative Contemporary (2-4 years) and Junior Creative Contemporary (5-11 years). These sessions provide a stimulating environment for creativity, connection and confidence to grow. Learn more: Creative Contemporary Classes – Siobhan Davies Studios 

12:55-1:25pm Contact Improvisation with Annie pui ling lok & Nathaniel Parchment

Using simple touch-based partner exercises that invite you to share weight, lead and follow, and move together creatively. A playful and welcoming introduction to connection, trust and improvisation through dance.

• Annie & Nathaniel co-lead The Underscore for Global Majority Dancers. These sessions are for dancers interested in exploring their practice in relation to Contact Improvisation, and are run by SDS at Pembroke House. Learn more: The Underscore for BPOC/Global Majority dancers III – Siobhan Davies Studios Photo credit: Sophie Le 

1:30-2:00pm Bollywood with bollyqueer / vinay Jobanputra

Join Bollyqueer for a joyful celebration of Bollywood dance and self-expression! Through a high-energy performance and an inclusive, accessible workshop, Bollyqueer invites audiences of all ages to experience the energy, storytelling and beauty of Bollywood in a fresh and uplifting way. You will learn some short routines to some upbeat South Asian tracks, and are encouraged to move in a way that feels comfortable to you. 

About Bollyqueer:  Bollyqueer host Bollywood inclusive spaces, with the aim to empower and celebrate. At a Bollyqueer event you’ll be encouraged to dance in a way that makes your heart and body feel its happiest.

• Bollyqueer have facilitated events hosted by SDS this year and last, including our recent Summer Party with Bollyqueer, and they run their own inclusive events regularly across different venues in London. Learn more: www.bollyqueer.com @bollyqueer

2:05-2:30pm Lindy Hop  with Cookie & HER black mambas

Cookie and Her Black Mambas will perform a number showcasing iconic Lindy Hop dance sets.  They will then lead a short workshop introducing the social elements of Lindy Hop and Vernacular Jazz.

Cookie and Her Black Mambas are a Lindy Hop and Vernacular Jazz Dance collective made in east London. Through performing, teaching and community events, they share the energy, history and soul of Lindy Hop which is an African American partner dance born in the late 1920s Jazz era in Harlem, New York. Core members are Angela Andrew (Cookie), Korantema Anyimadu and Stephen Atemie.  They are currently welcoming new members. forms.gle/ebqAtjfs2xWs6ZXR6
Instagram: @blackmambasjazz 

Angela Andrew is a performer, educator and producer. Her work is informed by layers of theory and practice: street dance, partner-dancing, youth and community education and music. Angela ‘discovered’ Lindy Hop in 1991, she soon after began travelling the international Lindy Hop scene. She is renowned for her contribution to the development of the community – including mentoring new teachers and pioneering out-of-the box events – and her unique yet grounded teaching style. Her aim is for the Lindy Hop to be recognised for its duality: as a contemporary dance art form and as a popular Street / Club dance. 

• Angela has worked with SDS as a facilitator for Unscary Saturdays and NEXT Choreography, and was also a commissioned artist as part of Artist Archive in 2024. Learn more: Linktr.ee/angelaandrew

2:35-3:05pm Su Mano Amiga Latin Rhythms with anna alvarez and moyra cecilia silva rodriguez

Get moving with Latin rhythms in a dance workshop led by Anna and Moyra, alongside the women and children of SDS’s Su Mano Amiga Community Group. 

About Su Mano Amiga Creative Dance:  ‘Su mano amiga‘ means ‘your helping hand’ in Spanish. This name comes from the local charity that founded these workshops with SDS in 2021. These monthly sessions are Survivor-led movement and dance workshops offering an invitation to move, breathe, stretch, and create, and are led by expert Latinx dance artist facilitators. 

Moyra Cecilia Silva Rodriguez is a Peruvian performance maker and movement thinker. Her practice is rooted in collaborative, interdisciplinary processes that build bridges between individual experiences and collective narratives.  

Anna Alvarez is a British-Latin movement director, choreographer, dancer and educator whose practice weaves Afro-Latino movement traditions with contemporary dance and somatic approaches rooted in the Feldenkrais Method. Working across dance, theatre, opera, and film, Anna frames the body as an ecosystem: relational, adaptive, and culturally embedded. She is a faculty member at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and founder of Anna Alvarez Compañía.

3:10-3:40pm Krump Workshop with Sasha mAhfouz Shadid

Explore the street dance style and language of Krump with Sasha. This class focuses on the spirit of this dance, its potential to empower, release and uplift the dancer and the people we share space with.

About Sasha: Sasha is a British/Palestinian movement artist, painter and culture worker. His passions are Street-dance (Hip Hop, Krump, House) and traditional Palestinian dance; forms that he has learnt from renowned artists/dancers from around the world. 

• Sasha has worked with SDS on Unscary Saturdays, NEXT Choreography and EMOTION. He is also one of the artists in our upcoming Living Image Chapter 1 performances on July 2-3. 

3:45-3:55pm Lindy Hop performance by the London Community Lindy Hoppers

Witness a dance performance by a new Lindy Hop group led by Colbert & Angela Andrew.  They will be performing the Savoy 100 routine.

The London Community Lindy Hoppers is a new initiative facilitated by Colbert and Angela Andrew. The LCLH welcomes people of all levels to come together to learn and perform Lindy Hop routines, in a low stakes, high quality, fun environment. Their first performance was on 12th March 2026 which was the 100th year Anniversary of the legendary Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, New York. You can see the video of it here https://bit.ly/4eielnZ

For more info dm @xcolbert on instagram