Wavelengths festival

17/06/2026

Time: 10am - 11.30am

Location start: Jock's Pitch, East Cliff, Wear Bay Road, Folkestone, CT19 6PR

Join Elly Rutherford for a sensory movement journey around East Cliff park and Sunny Sands using playful movement, sensory materials and guided meditation. Together, we’ll also explore last year's Triennial artwork Oceans Tree of Life by Jennifer Tee and the surrounding nature.

What would it feel like to be an artwork or a plant? How can we become an extension of it using our body and tactile materials?

Creative Folkestone

East cliff and sunny sands

17/06/2026

We are moving location today from the amazing Kollectiv to the amazing Grand.

We’ll Take It From Here, Dear (Work in Progress)
Wavelengths Festival
The Green Room at The Grand, Folkestone, CT20 2XL
Wednesday 17 June, 6-7pm

Join Moving Memory for a special sharing of new work in progress – a 20 minute performance emerging from recent research and development, followed by a short animated film and an open Q&A.

Moving Memory Dance Theatre Instep Dance Company Screen South MCDC - Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company

17/06/2026

Ok from 11 am to 5 pm films, documentaries

Strangelove Festival Beton Collective @

Screenings on loop

16/06/2026

We’ll Take It From Here, Dear (Work in Progress)
Wavelengths Festival
The Green Room at The Grand, Folkestone, CT20 2XL
Wednesday 17 June, 6-7pm

Join Moving Memory for a special sharing of new work in progress – a 20 minute performance emerging from recent research and development, followed by a short animated film and an open Q&A.

At the heart of the event is We’ll Take It From Here, Dear – a striking new theatre piece that places older women’s bodies unapologetically front and centre. Moving Memory Dance Theatre Instep Dance Company 1DegreeEast Strangelove Festival Screen South

Join Moving Memory for a special sharing of new work in progress – a 20 minute performance emerging from recent research and development, followed by a short animated film and an open Q&A.

16/06/2026

Join us for a dynamic double bill celebrating the next generation of dance. Featuring award-nominated local company InStep alongside 3Fall Dance Company from the University of Chichester, showcasing exciting new contemporary work from emerging performers and choreographers.

16/06/2026

We Are Improv Dancers

workshop

"Dance dance dance. We meet like ocean waves, we share our rhythm, our gifts, we rise together, we crash together. We hum, we spin, we breathe. And suddenly we are creators of a dance"

This is a call to come and explore how to create a non-choreographic, collective dance. Together we will explore the tools used in movement improvisation: the body's natural movement range and rhythms, solo and as a group. Through movement games, music, witnessing and automatic writing, we will open new creative pathways and translate them from a dancer's perspective. We may step outdoors to gather inspiration from our environment bringing those impressions back into the dance.

Along the way, we'll learn from our own movement, witness others, and discover what becomes possible when individual creativity meets collective imagination. The workshop will culminate in the creation of an improvised group piece, shared within a supportive, and non-performative environment.

11 am -2pm

Bring: Comfortable clothes to move

Suitable for everybody

Faciliator: Erendira Canedo

Beton Collective Instep Dance Company Moving Memory Dance Theatre Creative Folkestone

WORKSHOP

16/06/2026

TODAY IN FOLKESTONE 16 JUNE 11am KOLLLECTIV

We Are Improv Dancers

workshop

"Dance dance dance. We meet like ocean waves, we share our rhythm, our gifts, we rise together, we crash together. We hum, we spin, we breathe. And suddenly we are creators of a dance"

Join Erendira Canedo for this amazing experience

This is a call to come and explore how to create a non-choreographic, collective dance. Together we will explore the tools used in movement improvisation: the body's natural movement range and rhythms, solo and as a group. Through movement games, music, witnessing and automatic writing, we will open new creative pathways and translate them from a dancer's perspective. We may step outdoors to gather inspiration from our environment bringing those impressions back into the dance.

Along the way, we'll learn from our own movement, witness others, and discover what becomes possible when individual creativity meets collective imagination. The workshop will culminate in the creation of an improvised group piece, shared within a supportive, and non-performative environment.

11 am -2pm

Bring: Comfortable clothes to move

Suitable for everybody

Beton Collective 1DegreeEast Strangelove Festival Instep Dance Company Moving Memory Dance Theatre Matthew Bourne's New Adventures Terry Smith

WORKSHOP

15/06/2026

MOVEMENT AS DIALOGUE
Today at Kollectiv, dance researchers Emma Meehan and Sidonie Carey-Green led a fascinating discussion around Dialogue in Amerta Movement, a new book by Emma Meehan and Indonesian scholar Samsul Maarif.
Gathered in a circle surrounded by objects, materials and candles, participants explored ideas of ritual, improvisation, connection, spirituality and the ways we engage with one another through movement.
What emerged was a rich and thought-provoking conversation that only just scratched the surface, revealing the depth of knowledge, research and lived experience that informs contemporary movement practice.
A reminder that dance is not only something we watch or perform — it can also be a powerful way of thinking, questioning and understanding the world around us.

15/06/2026

The programme for the week. From screenings talks and performances Beton Collective Instep Dance Company 1DegreeEast Screen South Moving Memory Dance Theatre Creative Folkestone

Festival highlights include a Quarterhouse double bill featuring InStep and 3Fall Dance Company; An Obscure Camera, an interactive installation and outdoor performance project by Flexer & Sandiland; Dialogue in Amerta Movement, a discussion with author and dance researcher Emma Meehan in conversatio...