Dash Arts

Dash Arts Dash Arts makes new theatre, music, art and dance with international artists that bridge divides We are a small responsive charity.

Dash Arts creates exceptional artistic experiences that bridge divides across art-forms, cultures, languages and communities. Our international productions, live and digital events and education programmes expand the way we see the world. Led by our Artistic Director, Josephine Burton, we immerse ourselves in a particular culture, a question or a theme over an extended period of time to research,

create and produce new work. Over the last 15 years, we’ve created award-winning new work with over 9,000 artists and participants to audiences of over 350,000 across the world. Our partners include Sadler’s Wells, Edinburgh International Festival, Roundhouse, Brighton Festival, Lincoln Center Festival and Luminato Festival, Toronto. Major tours in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America have been widely acclaimed and led to numerous awards and nominations including Olivier, Evening Standard, TMA, Herald Angel and Dora awards.

⭐️ The Reckoning WORLD PREMIERE this May! ⭐️A journalist meets a man in a ruined village outside Kyiv.- Why don’t you st...
25/04/2025

⭐️ The Reckoning WORLD PREMIERE this May! ⭐️

A journalist meets a man in a ruined village outside Kyiv.

- Why don’t you start with when the war began for you?

Written by Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton, and directed by Burton, The Reckoning is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.

Based on real events within The Reckoning Project's verified archive of witness testimonies of the Russian war in Ukraine, The Reckoning is both playful and unsettling, blending storytelling with movement, music and cooking.

Every show ends with Food For Thought, a brief insight from an invited special guest - a journalist, activist, lawyer, and those with lived experience of the conflict.

The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June
🔗 More info here: dasharts.org.uk/the-reckoning
🎟️ arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/the-reckoning/

📸 Photo by Rich Lakos Photography, Design by Desk Tidy Design

The Reckoning has been made possible with the support of partners The Reckoning Project, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Award from the University of Cambridge, Лабораторія журналістики суспільного інтересу, Open Society Foundations, Nick Tranter in the name of 4Ukraine Humanitarian Aid, Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Goethe-Institut im Exil, Goethe-Institut London, SAV Group, The Golsoncott Foundation, and individual giving.

We realised we haven't posted our beautiful The Reckoning image on its own, so here it is!📸 Photo by Rich Lakos Photogra...
23/04/2025

We realised we haven't posted our beautiful The Reckoning image on its own, so here it is!

📸 Photo by Rich Lakos Photography, Design by Desk Tidy Design

Next up in our The Reckoning schedule: Rehearsals! 👀

And stay tuned for more Food For Thought announcements soon.

The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June
🔗 More info here: dasharts.org.uk/the-reckoning
🎟️ Tickets here: arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/the-reckoning/

The Reckoning has been made possible with the support of partners The Reckoning Project, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Award from the University of Cambridge, Лабораторія журналістики суспільного інтересу, Open Society Foundations, Nick Tranter in the name of 4Ukraine Humanitarian Aid, Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Goethe-Institut im Exil, Goethe-Institut London, SAV Group, The Golsoncott Foundation, and individual giving.

20/04/2025

🎧 Listen to our latest podcast episode, The Reckoning: Dill and Sour Cream, where we join acclaimed Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules around her kitchen table to talk cooking and storytelling in our latest production. 🍅

The Reckoning premieres at Arcola Theatre on 29 May, and in the podcast you can find out much more about Olia's insights and beautiful cooking, and its role in the Reckoning.

In the podcast, we hear from:
Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts
Olia Hercules - Chef & Food Consultant
Zoë Hurwitz - Set Designer

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi and throughout you can hear Tykho feat Syoda by composer of The Reckoning, Anton Baibakov.

🎧 Listen to the full episode on all platforms or via our website: dasharts.org.uk/podcast-1/the-reckoning-dill-and-sourcream 🔗

🎟️ The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June, and you can book tickets via our website.

Next brilliant group of speakers for Food For Thought.Food For Thought is the end part of each The Reckoning performance...
17/04/2025

Next brilliant group of speakers for Food For Thought.

Food For Thought is the end part of each The Reckoning performance.
Every show ends with a brief insight from an invited special guest - a journalist, activist, lawyer, and those with lived experience of the conflict.

🍅 Val Voshchevska
🍅 Anna Reid
🍅 Orysia Lutsevych OBE
🍅 Martin Bright - Index on Censorship
🍅 Nataliya Gumenyuk
🍅 Olga Tokariuk

Scroll through to read about them.

🎟️ The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June, and you can book tickets via our website dasharts.org.uk/the-reckoning

Food for Thought is programmed in association with Byline Times, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, English PEN, UK Friends of Ukraine, Index on Censorship, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), Лабораторія журналістики суспільного інтересу, The Reckoning Project.

Special thanks to Nataliya Gumenyuk, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, Anna Lukanina, Daniella Peled and Peter Pomerantsev.

Another wonderful batch of speakers for Food For Thought.Every performance of The Reckoning ends with Food for Thought, ...
14/04/2025

Another wonderful batch of speakers for Food For Thought.

Every performance of The Reckoning ends with Food for Thought, a brief insight from an invited special guest - a journalist, activist, lawyer, and those with lived experience of the conflict.

🍅 Viv Groskop
🍅 Luke Harding
🍅 Professor Rory Finnin
🍅 Oliver Bullough
🍅 Dr. Uilleam Blacker

Scroll through to read about them.

🎟️ The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June, and you can book tickets via our website dasharts.org.uk/the-reckoning

Food for Thought is programmed in association with Byline Times, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, English PEN, UK Friends of Ukraine, Index on Censorship, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), Лабораторія журналістики суспільного інтересу, The Reckoning Project.

Special thanks to Nataliya Gumenyuk, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, Anna Lukanina, Daniella Peled and Peter Pomerantsev.

Next wonderful batch of speakers for Food For Thought.Food For Thought is the end part of each The Reckoning performance...
08/04/2025

Next wonderful batch of speakers for Food For Thought.

Food For Thought is the end part of each The Reckoning performance.
Every show ends with a brief insight from an invited special guest - a journalist, activist, lawyer, and those with lived experience of the conflict.

🍅 Alissa Timoshkina
🍅 Lord Charles Banner KC
🍅 Hanna Komar
🍅 Dr. Olesya Khromeychuk

Scroll through to read about them.

🎟️ The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June, and you can book tickets via our website dasharts.org.uk/the-reckoning

Food for Thought is programmed in association with Byline Times, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, English PEN, UK Friends of Ukraine, Index on Censorship, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), Лабораторія журналістики суспільного інтересу, The Reckoning Project.

Special thanks to Nataliya Gumenyuk, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, Anna Lukanina, Daniella Peled and Peter Pomerantsev.

The Reckoning opens NEXT MONTH, and we're thrilled to announce our speakers for Food For Thought!Every show ends with a ...
07/04/2025

The Reckoning opens NEXT MONTH, and we're thrilled to announce our speakers for Food For Thought!

Every show ends with a brief insight from an invited special guest - a journalist, activist, lawyer, and those with lived experience of the conflict.

Here's the first wonderful batch of speakers:

🍅 Anastasiia Kosodii, co-writer of The Reckoning
🍅 Aarif Abraham
🍅 Inna Hryhorovych
🍅 Olia Hercules
🍅 Max Marcus
🍅 Dr Molly Flynn

Scroll through to read about them.

🎟️ The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June, and you can book tickets via our website dasharts.org.uk/the-reckoning

Food for Thought is programmed in association with Byline Times, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, English PEN, UK Friends of Ukraine, Index on Censorship, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), Лабораторія журналістики суспільного інтересу, The Reckoning Project.

Special thanks to Nataliya Gumenyuk, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, Anna Lukanina, Daniella Peled and Peter Pomerantsev.

We're about to reveal some exciting announcements: Food for Thought is a unique coda of each The Reckoning performance. ...
07/04/2025

We're about to reveal some exciting announcements: Food for Thought is a unique coda of each The Reckoning performance. Stay tuned.

"It's time our water returned to the tribe, to the people and to the public. We can do it better!" Burton worked with Cl...
03/04/2025

"It's time our water returned to the tribe, to the people and to the public. We can do it better!"

Burton worked with Clive Lewis MP to shape his speech for a Private Members’ Bill, advocating for water to be publicly owned and for citizens assemblies. We enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in our society, extend our brilliant Speak Out! workshops into Parliament and to demonstrate the power of well-crafted words in action.

🎙️Watch the speech here: youtube.com/watch?v=5gIOTHnvxEI

🚰 Support the campaign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-your-mp-to-attend-my-water-bill-debate

02/04/2025

🎧 New podcast out today! The Reckoning: Dill and Sour Cream 🍅

Join us round the kitchen table with acclaimed Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules and Dash’s Artistic Director Josephine Burton as they weave together cooking and storytelling in our latest production.

Dash’s new production, The Reckoning, is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.

Co-writers Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton created the play from The Reckoning Project's verified archive of witness testimonies of the Russian war in Ukraine. Find out why Olia’s insights and beautiful cooking is so vital to our staging of these experiences.

In the podcast, we hear from:
Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts
Olia Hercules - Chef & Food Consultant
Zoë Hurwitz - Set Designer

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi and throughout you can hear Tykho feat Syoda by composer of The Reckoning, Anton Baibakov.

🎧 Listen to the full episode on all platforms or via our website: dasharts.org.uk/podcast-1/the-reckoning-dill-and-sourcream 🔗

🎟️ The Reckoning will play at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June, and you can book tickets via our website.

Happy World Theatre Day! At Dash Arts, theatre is at the heart of everything we do. For 20 years, theatre has enabled us...
27/03/2025

Happy World Theatre Day! At Dash Arts, theatre is at the heart of everything we do. For 20 years, theatre has enabled us to spark global conversations, create award-winning productions and tackle the urgent questions of our time.

Today, we celebrate with our colleagues, friends and Dash family, and hope you are celebrating, too! 🎭

Images:
Dido's Bar, Ali Wright
Crimea 5am, Ikin Yum
The Great Middlemarch Mystery, Ikin Yum

This week we celebrate achieving (and exceeding) our £20,000 target through Arts for Impact from the Big Give. Thanks to...
26/03/2025

This week we celebrate achieving (and exceeding) our £20,000 target through Arts for Impact from the Big Give. Thanks to the Big Give, an anonymous pledge donor, and a group of amazing supporters, Dash is all set to empower communities through art & storytelling! This is such a financial and energy boost as we head into our 20th anniversary year.

from Big Give

The Reckoning Director + Co-writer Josephine and Producer Cristina stood in as extras on our photo shoot for our quickly...
24/03/2025

The Reckoning Director + Co-writer Josephine and Producer Cristina stood in as extras on our photo shoot for our quickly approaching production, The Reckoning.

Keep your eyes peeled on our page for the final poster, photographed by Rich Lakos, and designed by Desk Tidy Design. We can't wait to reveal this beautiful imagery! 📸

Speaker Call Out - we need your help!As part of our upcoming theatre production, The Reckoning, we are inviting speakers...
21/03/2025

Speaker Call Out - we need your help!

As part of our upcoming theatre production, The Reckoning, we are inviting speakers—journalists, lawyers, activists and those with lived experience of the war in Ukraine to close out every performance.

We are looking for speakers who can share their insights and depth to conversations surrounding The Reckoning, in a short (10 min max) post-show reflection.

1️⃣ If you are interested in being a guest speaker, DM us
2️⃣ If you know a person or an organisation we should reach out to, tag them in the comments!

Thank you 🙏

20/03/2025

🎧 Another small clip from our latest podcast episode: At Loggerheads with Reality, featuring Hattie Naylor, Playwright and Visual Artist, explaining how psychiatric patients' art in the beginning of the 1900s changed the way we see and understand art.

Hattie and Josephine are researching a future Dash Arts production, The Degenerates, which you can read more about here: dasharts.org.uk/blog/our-artistic-director-on-research-for-a-new-dash-production

Listen to the full podcast episode, that took us to see two powerful exhibitions showcasing art that reframes women’s stories and reclaims narratives of mental wellbeing (pictures from both in the clip - and an image of Hattie and Josephine on a research trip):
🖼 Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists – curated by Lisa Appignanesi and Bryony Davies at Freud Museum London
🎨 Charlotte Johnson Wahl: What It Felt Like – at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

🎧 Listen on all platforms or our website: dasharts.org.uk/podcast-1/at-loggerheads-with-reality

📣 Introducing... The Reckoning Cast 📣 The Reckoning, playing at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June features: Marianne Oldha...
19/03/2025

📣 Introducing... The Reckoning Cast 📣
The Reckoning, playing at Arcola Theatre 29 May - 28 June features:

Marianne Oldham as The Journalist,
Tom Godwin as The Man from Stoyanka,
Olga Safronova as Olga,
Simeon Kyslyi as Sam.

The writers behind The Reckoning: Our Artistic Director, Josephine Burton, and Anastasiia Kosodii have been crafting the...
14/03/2025

The writers behind The Reckoning:

Our Artistic Director, Josephine Burton, and Anastasiia Kosodii have been crafting the script since Summer 2023. Soon, it will take the stage at Arcola Theatre in May and June 2025. Josephine and Anastasiia have passed the script between Berlin - London - Ukraine, and have met several times to work on the script in person.

"We are creating a work of theatre - a show that we hope will hold fast to our audiences, bringing a vital human face to a tragedy that is unfolding on the other side of the continent, moving beyond the scrolling ticker of countless nameless tragedies to tell a story of real people whom our audience can care about."

Read more about their creation of The Reckoning script here: dasharts.org.uk/blog/the-reckoning-crafting-the-script

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Work of profound worldwide artistic significance, awakening us to new styles, beliefs and voices” Toronto Star

Dash Arts creates artistic experiences that challenge the way we see the world.

Founded in 2005, Dash Arts has emerged as a unique international creative force, producing new theatre, dance, music and art events in collaboration with more than 3000 exceptional artists from abroad and the UK. Dash Arts is led by Chief Executive and Artistic Director Josephine Burton. Co-founder Tim Supple is Director of Dash TransNational Theatre.