14/09/2026
✨ MARIE CHABERT, TOMMY KHOSLA, RICH THORNTON & MIA OSTINELLI ✨
This Friday at The Playground, Marie Chabert Marie Chabert will be exploring rest, dreaming and collective imagination through Contact Improvisation, somatic exploration and devising, with pillows as the starting point. ☁️💭
Beginning from a somatic dreaming state, dancers will tune into weight, touch, sensation and imagery — exploring floating, collective rest, and bodies gathering and stacking in space.
From there, the group will explore the physical properties of pillows and how their weight, texture and density might echo, alter or extend our own physicality. Through Contact Improvisation and choreographic tasks, they’ll play with pillows and bodies in motion — throwing, catching, bouncing, falling and suspending — developing both improvisational scores and set choreography.
💭 How might our bodies collectively dream, rehearse or embody possible futures?
Marie Chabert is a performer, choreographer, Contact Improviser and teacher whose multidisciplinary practice explores touch, space, bodies, gravity and liveness through somatic and experiential approaches.
Joining Marie is Tommy Khosla Tommy Khosla , sitarist, composer and founder of interdisciplinary collective JAWARI; Rich Thornton Richard J Thornton , artist, anthropologist and theatre director, bringing together anthropology, theatre and body-focused storytelling; and Mia Ostinelli Mia Ostinelli supporting the research through assistant dance and photography.
Together, they’ll bring these different practices into the studio for an evening of movement, music, experimentation and collective dreaming. ☁️
📍 The Playground at Rambert
📅 Friday 18 September
🕡 6:30–9pm
The session is currently fully booked, but you can join the waiting list via the link in our bio.
Image credit | Adam T Deen | Moe Matoba Moe Matoba |
