Graduate School Showcase 2026 / Day 7

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.

14:30 Tess Wood, MFA Creative Practice Studio 10, Laban Building @tesswood 

SILTRATE / SOAKED PANTS 
SILTRATE / SOAKED PANTS is a live installation composed of movement, text, sound and estuarine matter. Developed through six months of walking, dancing and writing, the work follows the currents between landscape, desire, memory and transformation. Drawing on experiences of moving through mud flats, intimate relationships and somatic practice, fragments emerge and disappear across live bodies, recorded voices and shifting text. The estuary becomes both material and metaphor: a place of swelling, sinking, exchange and return. Audiences are invited to spend time inside an unfolding environment and consider their own relationship to place. What calls us towards a landscape? What does it mean to step off the path? How might we be altered by what we enter, and what memories might a place hold of us? 

Viewer discretion Contains themes of sexuality, intimacy, grief and bodily experience. Includes mud and live performance elements. Contains possible partial nudity.
Audience experience Maximum 30 people 

17:00 Ruotong (Lexie) Wang, MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Studio 8, Laban Building (10-15 mins)  

Close to the Ground: A Body Listening to Voices
This is a live sharing of my movement research. Through crawling close to the floor, I explore how rules, voices, and being watched affect the body. During the performance, audience comments and observations become part of the sound and influence how I move. Rather than presenting a finished dance piece, this work shows a body moving through pressure, expectations, and personal choices.