Graduate School Showcase 2026 / Day 11

Step into a world of creative exploration. 

Welcome to the Graduate School Showcase 2026, a festival of performances created, choreographed and presented by our postgraduate dance students.

Tickets are free but booking required. For today’s performances, please book one ticket which will admit you for the whole afternoon. 

16:30 Xianying (Celina) Qu, MA Choreography Laban Theatre (20 mins) @Celina_Yy_yY 

Lifelines 生纹
A seed breaks through soil. A tree grows upward. Leaves become a butterfly. Lifelines follows this arc — a meditation on female strength, resilience, and the journey from constraint toward freedom. Two dancers and digital animation draw from the visual languages of Southwest China’s ethnic minorities — Naxi Dongba pictographs and Miao butterfly totems. These ancient symbols are not performed. They grow from the inside out, carried in the body until the body and the symbol become one.
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17:00 Théa Ratledge,  MA Choreography, Laban Theatre (20 mins)   

Anamorphosis
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. In this work, Thea explores the relationship between perception and reality. Shifts in perspective can completely reshape what we believe to be true. Enter a surrealist world where questions become the answers.
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17:30 Zion Martin-Hayes, MA Dance Performance, Laban Theatre (20 mins)  @zionmartinhayes

Flowers for past me
genocide. there. death. erasure. subjugation. exasperation. amongst the living. afro-pessimism. social death. here. exhaustion. black aliveness. unnamed genocide. everyday life. void. body politics. the prepolitical body. intent to destroy. protest.

what does a dance of loss look like? one version of a daily conversation with genocide. you are invited to sit close to the front. the gaze. the tea in your envelope is peppermint.

Viewer discretion Content about genocide and protest
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