Kadence Luella Neill is a choreographer, performer, and writer working at the intersection of dance, theater, mysticism, and collective composition. Her practice investigates choreography as a devotional, durational, and philosophical mode — one that honors contradiction, ecstasy, and the fragility of presence. Originally from New York City, and currently based between Finland and New York, Kadence’s work moves across registers of research, performance, and ritual. She recently completed her MA in Choreography at the University of the Arts Helsinki. As a longtime member of the dance theater company Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Kadence has performed internationally in major venues and festivals including Wiener Festwochen, Zurcher Theater Spektakel, Kampnagel, Southbank Arts Center, HAU Berlin, the Epidaurus Festival, Steirischer Herbst, and many others. Her collaborative works have been presented in Helsinki, New York City, London, and Düsseldorf, with choreography shown at institutions such as Kokoteatteri, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Irondale Arts Center, and IKLEKTIK. Her works often explore fragmentation, mystical poetics, and the body as a site of political and spiritual tension. Kadence was a 2024 DanceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz under the mentorship of Isabel Lewis. Her ongoing collaborations draw from backgrounds in dance, theater, performance theory, and holotropic breathwork, cultivating a choreographic language that listens to and works with — grief, endings, and that which cannot be known. She holds unknowing as a deeply integral part of any creative process she undertakes.
 

This workshop-laboratory explores the relationship between the visible and the invisible, asking: what happens when dance is no longer based on the performer–audience relationship, nor on the expectation of being seen?

At a time when protests, crises, and a sense of uncertainty are becoming our everyday reality in Serbia and beyond, we ask: what does it mean to dance today? Can dance, freed from observation, become a space for personal and collective regeneration? Can it become an act of resistance, a way to rethink one’s own and collective rhythm? What is the strength of that collective rhythm, and what does it bring to us as individuals?

Participants will connect with movement principles that prioritize giving attention over seeking it. Through a shared working process, we will develop our own ways of dancing, blurring the boundaries between creation and performance, while also questioning the role of movement today: What moves us, and why?

The workshop is open to dancers and movement practitioners, as well as to anyone interested in exploring the intersections of art and personal reflections on dance.

The workshop will feature artist Kadence Luella Neill (FI/USA), joining through a Capacity Grid exchange with our partners Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia and the Moving in November Festival in Helsinki.