Since 2022, and against the pressured backdrops of permacrisis and accelerating depletion, Choreographic Devices has been testing how bodies, material assemblages, organisational forms and modes of being alongside one another might be choreographed otherwise. Drawing on a broad ecology of practices and bringing together local and international protagonists, the platform understands choreographic inquiry as extending beyond the event itself into its organisational architectures. Its modular and scalable format moves fluidly between integrated multi-day programmes, screenings, discursive exchanges, workshops and performative gatherings.

For its sixth iteration at Sadler’s Wells East and hosted by Rose Choreographic School, Choreographic Devices functions as a studio for rehearsal, for pre-enactments, and for finding ways of dealing with the detritus and remnants that accumulate as they are left behind from public facing work, and for making things ready. Across its two days, the event arranges contributions from Funmi Adewole Elliott, Neve Harrington, Antonija Livingstone, Noémie Solomon, Eve Stainton, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Tuur van Balen, Aliaskar Abarkas and Andros Zins-Browne.

Choreographic Devices 6 is convened by Murat Adash, Ofri Cnaani, Martin Hargreaves and Edgar Schmitz, and produced by Izzy Galbraith. The event is a collaboration between the Choreographic Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Rose Choreographic School at Sadler’s Wells East. It is generously supported by the AHRC through CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and Arts in the South East) as well as Goldsmiths and Sadler’s Wells.

Date: 17th and 18th October 2026

Time: 12pm-6pm

Location: Sadler's Wells East, Stratford

Sign up to attend the event here - Saturday 17th October

Sign up to attend the event here - Sunday 18th October