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In Conversation with Lucy Glover and Lucy Bennett 

[Image description] A male wheelchair dancer and a female East Asian dancer are on the floor in an embrace. The female dancer is on her back, and the wheelchair dancer is perpendicular to the other dancer, but upside down as if in a head stand. His faced away from the camera. The East Asian dancer has her arms wrapped gently around the other dancer's back as if to support his headstand. Her eyes closed, hair draped gently on the floor. The image juxtaposes serenity and tension. The still wheel of the wheelchair is suspended in mid air, being a focal point of this image. The dancers are on a light coloured floor in light golden coloured costume. There is an amber light coming from behind the dancers cutting through the haze cast against the pitch black backdrop. Photography by Chris Parkes

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Lucy Glover who is Executive Producer and Lucy Bennett who is Co-Artistic Director of StopGap Dance Company.

In Conversation with: Tendai Humphrey Sitima

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing the sell-out run of SAMSKARA (The Yard), this brand-new work by Lanre Malaolu explores the challenge of forgiving yourself for a lifetime of suppressed emotion, while celebrating the profound bond of brotherhood and the resilience that can be found in joy.  

A powerful fusion of movement, song, and text, Now, I See is an exploration of identity, forgiveness and nature’s visceral power to heal.  

Now, I See is the second instalment in Lanre's trilogy that excavates and celebrates the truth of being a Black man in contemporary Britain. Tendai Humphrey Sitima stars in Now, I See coming to Stratford East on the 10th May.

In Conversation with: Jacob Grunberger

Reading Time: 3 minutesInspired by a book of letters and stories left to him by his late father, titled ‘For Jacob’, Stop Trying To Look At My D**k! is an autobiographical dark comedy of Jacob Grunberger’s adolescence. Through anecdotes and rap music, Jacob tells the story of the sudden death of his Jewish father when he was a child and a peripatetic childhood through Scotland and Essex as he and his mother struggled to keep afloat. Exploring challenges and encounters with drugs and mental darkness as an adult student, Jacob discusses how conversations around his father's death have always taken place in a context that he hasn’t designed. As a reflection of life, Jacob creates a space to honor his father and his experience of grief, identity, and vulnerability.