Loose Threads
Upcoming: 24 January 2026, 3pm & 7pm
The Swiss Church, London
Performances by Kate Ryan and Sarah White
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Loose Threads is a celebration of things that remain stubbornly incomplete; of questions that are answered only by their own echo; and of the spaces in which we find ourselves failing. Or floundering.The two performances have been created in parallel, sometimes touching, processes.
Both Sarah and Kate are interested in the gap between things - be it between forms, between reality/fiction, belief/disbelief, presence/non-presence. And the act of seeing and being seen is central to both pieces.The performances will run as a ‘double bill’, with a short break in-between.
Each is around 40 minutes.
Venue: swisschurchlondon.org.uk
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Ticket prices are on a sliding scale: £5, £10 and £15.
The ticket donation will help us cover the production costs for this performance as it is taking place without funding, with some support in kind from The Swiss Church. Prices are staggered based on what you feel able to give, all contributions will help. Thank you for your support.
Part-song, by Kate Ryan
A study in slippage, partiality and almost-existing things. Part-song is a solo choreographic installation, working in the messy places between voice, sound, and movement.
Taking inspiration from the writing of Alice Oswald, Part-song is choreographed and performed by Kate Ryan. It has been created with dramaturgical input from Zoi Dimitriou and Sarah White.
Kate Ryan is an artist and performer working in the in-between of movement, voice and text. She works with voice and sound as material substance(s), and is interested in bodily qualities of permeability and translucence. She also works a lot with singing, particularly polyphonic music. Recent significant collaborations include projects with Intercultural Performing Arts Company (France), VoiceLab (Poland) and Replica Institute (Berlin). Kate has just started a PhD in choreography at UAL, funded by Techne. www.kateryan.info
I Remember (You) Changing, by Sarah White.
with Donna Matthews, Kate Ryan and Jack Noutch
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An exploration of what it might be to 'dance in tongues': a prayerful exhortation directed to multiple people at once. It is an attempt to communicate at the edges of language. The work draws from multiple sources including a strange and absurd story of a talking donkey in the Bible.
The performance was built from an accumulation of encounters and dialogues with various collaborators, using The Building Conversations Script as a working methodology.
Sarah White is a London based artist working across somatic movement practice, dance, writing and installation. Her research thinks with, beside and between performance and faith practices, exploring the feedback loops and accumulative dialogues between them. She is interested in how her religious convictions can be changed by her dancing body, and how her perception of her moving body alters as she attends to a theological imagination. Recent public performances have been programmed by Art Night Dundee, Religion and Art Live, the Goethe Institut, Royal College of Art, Society for the Study of Theology, Koppel Project and The Swiss Church, London.
