Graduate School Showcase 2026 / Day 14

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. Please book separate tickets for 15:30 and the 17:00 Double Bill. 

15:30 Haley Andrews, MA Choreography Laban Theatre (20 mins, repeated x 2), @Andrews_Movement, @haleyandrews22, www.andrewsmovement.com

1 Step Forward, 30 Years Back
Interactive Contemporary dance work 1 Step Forward, 30 Years Back investigates how interactive systems challenge traditional hierarchies between choreographer, performer, and audience, and what ethical considerations arise when audiences become active agents within that choreographed system? It also explores how improvisational choreographic frameworks structured through improvisation respond to interactive inputs. The work encompasses a variety contemporary dance vignettes exploring autobiographical themes surrounding gender binary, the desire to disrupt it, and its ability to stunt one’s personal growth. 

Viewer discretion Music contains profanities
Audience experience Audience onstage. Capacity x 30

17:00 Jo Jo  (Jiayu Zhou, MA Choreography, Laban Theatre (20 mins) @zhou_jyu_

Am I Allowed to Sound Like This?
This work draws its initial impulse from a suit suspended on a tangle of wires — preserving its form amid disorder, yet unanchored. Rooted in the phenomenon of involution, the piece interrogates the chronic negotiation endured by a generation of young people in contemporary China: suspended between social prescription and interior truth, exerting more only to remain still, performing composure while privately consuming the weight of collapse. Through the real-time tension between movement and experimental sound design, the work seeks to embody what resists articulation — tracing an arc from suppression and resistance toward the fragile possibility of breath found within fracture.
Audience experience Theatre seating

17:30 Eka (Jiacong) Li, MA Choreography, Laban Theatre (20 mins)

The Day 

My piece explores how the body changes in different cultural environments. And I combined traditional Tibetan music with modern music to create contrasting atmospheres.