CHAMELEON PRESENTS: UPLIFT

This November, We are proud to share 3 new works in progress made by this years’ UPLIFT Artists! Throughout autumn, we are hosting 3 companies in residence at our home studios. The artists have had the chance to create, adapt and develop dance works with the support of Chameleon’s Creative team.

Join us, on Fri 15 November, for a chance to see what they've been up to and have the opportunity to feedback on the work so far!

This Year's Supported Artists are:

Lily Antonia (She/They) and Maisha Kungu (they/them)
Lily is a dance artist, performer, teacher, and choreographer. Her work centres around storytelling and human relationships, using dance as a form to share inner and outer worlds. As a neurodivergent queer artist, Lily says “I’m here to celebrate individually and empower others to express themselves.”
Maisha is a neurodivergent queer artist, choreographer, performer, and movement director, whose vibrant, kind-hearted, educational, and actively anti-racist work uses structured improvisation to harness authentic groove within body and soul.
On Instagram at: @lily.antonia & @maisha.kungu.dance

Jen Malarkey (she/her)

Jen is Artistic Director of Encounter, making work across dance, theatre and screen. She has toured and collaborated with organisations including Northern Stage, Soho Theatre, The Yard, The Lowry, The Place, The Albany, Live Theatre, Lancaster Arts, Z Arts, Traverse Theatre and Fuel Theatre. Alongside creating shows with Encounter, she freelances as a movement director and teaches actor movement in Higher Education with a special interest in access and inclusion.

As part of her residency, Jen will work with Carl Harrison, an award-winning performer from Manchester, who has worked with Punchdrunk Theatre, Protein Dance, Encounter and Thick & Tight. Carl recently directed the cabaret in Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City, and he is currently making a solo show called Apocalypse Wow!

On Instagram: @jennifermalarkey

Max Lee (he/him)
Max is a choreographer, dancer, actor, movement coach and video designer. He is currently Art Director of creative platform, Room 9 Dance Theatre. After graduating from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and London Contemporary Dance School, he studied contemporary dance at The Place in London.On Instagram @shesomadance

Max has choreographed for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, performed at the opening ceremony of the Doha Asian Games and created a short dance film, Fish, which was commissioned by Jumping Frames as part of the Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival.

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