Sheri King 

Sheri joined Corali’s youth company, Kick Up in 2015. Sheri has performed with Kick Up in Bowled Over (2017) and Sounds Good to Me (2020). She has also performed with Corali’s main company for 9 Windows Reimagined (2017), Ode to Edith (2022 and 2023), Excellent Together at the Royal Opera House (a collaboration with Thick & Tight) and was part of the Super Hot Hot Dog tour 2023-24. Sheri has been part of Freestylers, a collective made up of artists with and without disability, since 2019. With Freestylers she has performed in film and live work Everybody With Me Always (2021) which was toured nationally as part of the CONTINUOUS network, and Honey, you are art (2024). 

She studied performing arts at Lewisham College, graduating in June 2024 and recently completed a placement at Siobhan Davies Studios (SDS) in collaboration with Southwark College. Sheri continues to work at SDS as an Event Assistant and will be performing later in November with Corali.  

Sheri is passionate about dancing and loves contemporary dance and improvisation. 

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Akeim Toussaint Buck

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

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Subathra Subramaniam

Subathra Subramaniam is Artistic Director and Joint CEO of Akademi and a choreographer and educator working at the intersection of dance, culture and science. She spent over 20 years leading the pioneering South Asian dance companies Angika and Sadhana Dance. Trained in Bharatanatyam in London and Malaysia, she  is also a qualified science teacher, bringing a distinctive interdisciplinary perspective to her work. 

Her choreography for theatres, festivals and outdoor spaces is developed through long-term collaborations with artists, scientists and academic institutions. Recent works include Surrender, Unkindest Cut, Under My Skin, Elixir and The Shiver. She has held residencies at The Maudsley Hospital, University College London’s Environment Institute, The Place and Sura Medura, Sri Lanka.  

For Akademi, she created Plastic Drastic Fantastic, a family production exploring our relationship with plastics, Directed Pravaas an outdoor promenade dance work on climate migration and was Movement Director for two Green Space Dark Skies mass participation events involving over 600 performers.

A passionate educator, Subathra was Co-Education Director of Cape Farewell, co-leading expeditions to the High Arctic and developing science and geography resources inspired by climate research. She regularly speaks at international conferences and is a trustee of South East Dance and Turtle Key Arts.. 

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Jules Cunningham

Originally from Liverpool, Jules Cunningham (they/them) performed and toured internationally for 25 years with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Michael Clark Company and others, recognised for Outstanding Modern Performance by the Critics Circle National Dance Awards, 2014. They founded Julie Cunningham & Company (JCC) in 2017 and alongside this they continue to work as a performer most notably with Berlin-based duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz and for Michael Clark. 

Since 2016, Jules has focused on sharing movement in galleries, hospitals, theatres, community spaces, and festivals. Their practice is shaped by the edges: of dance, of community, of what counts as art.  JCC is an ongoing experiment in queering dance and centring lived experience of disability to build collaborative participatory and performance models between movement, sound, and visual art. 

Jules was the inaugural Leverhulme Choreography Fellow at Rambert in 2016, part of the dance artist/curator mentorship programme through Siobhan Davies Dance, one of 10 commissioned artists for Art Night 2019, London and a recipient of the 2021 Founders Prize Award at the Bethlem Gallery. In 2024 they became Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells.  Jules has made 18 works for JCC, most recently film F.Bird with Julie Verhoeven and JD Samson, and live work SLANT featuring dancers aged 9-71.  

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Charlie Morrissey

Charlie Morrissey has been making performances, teaching and working with people for over 35 years. His work has taken place in theatres, galleries, studios, fields, chapels, city streets and on hillsides, always exploring what can happen in a live encounter. 

His practice is an ongoing experiment in making situations where the act of paying attention is shared between performers, participants and audiences. Choreography, improvisation, conversation, hospitality and curation all become part of the same practice. He is interested in how things are framed, hosted and held; in the cared about details of structure and atmosphere that make space for people to meet each other with curiosity. 

Long working relationships with artists including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Siobhan Davies, Kirstie Simson, Becky Edmunds, K.J. Holmes, Scott Smith, Andrea Buckley, Katye Coe, Lucy Suggate and Rob Hopper continue to shape, inspire and disrupt his work. 

Alongside an international teaching practice, Charlie is Creative Director of Wainsgate Dances, an artist-led programme based in a former chapel in the Pennines. Wainsgate has become a place where his interests can come together: creating contexts for challenging work, building relationships between local and international communities, and finding ways for art to remain rigorous, relevant and generative in complex times. 

Current performance projects include Scáling with Markéta Stránská (Aerowaves 2026) – performances coming up across Europe and Asia in 26/27, and Supernature, a solo originally created to accompany Siobhan Davies’ film Transparent – performances coming up at the Hepworth Wakefield and The Mount Without, Bristol. 

Image: Charlie Morrissey

Siobhan Davies

Siobhan Davies is a renowned British choreographer who rose to prominence in the 1970s, and was Artistic Director of Siobhan Davies Dance until she stepped down in March 2021. Davies was a founding member of London Contemporary Dance Theatre and in 1982 joined forces with Richard Alston and Ian Spink to create independent dance company Second Stride. Founding Siobhan Davies Dance in 1988, she works closely with collaborating artists to ensure that their own artistic enquiry is part of the creative process. By 2002 she moved away from the traditional theatre circuit and started making work for gallery spaces. Davies applies choreography across a wide range of creative disciplines including visual arts and film. Her choreographic works have been presented at some of the most prestigious art institutions in the UK and Europe, including Lenbachhaus (Munich), Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Turner Contemporary (Margate). Davies is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. Davies was awarded a Damehood in 2020 for her continued service and contribution to the dance industry, and in 2025 she won the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement at the National Dance Awards.

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