EncoreEast: Adult Open Workshop with Shobana Jeyasingh CBE

This workshop is a rare opportunity to work with the world-renowned choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh. Suitable for those with some dance experience, the workshop is also a taster for a creation project to be performed at HOST on 5 May 2026.

Founding her company in 1989, Shobana has created over 60 critically acclaimed works for stage, screen and out and indoor sites ranging from Palladian monasteries in Venice to contemporary fountains in London.

Her work is noted for both its intellectual rigour and its visceral physicality. It is rooted in her experience and perspective of life as a female postcolonial citizen of the world. She trained in Bharata Natyam (the classical dance of Tamil Nadu), under Vazhuvoor Samaraj Pillai and read English Literature, specialising in Shakespeare at The University of Sussex. Over the course of a distinguished career she has collaborated with scientists, curators, composers, film makers, digital creatives, dancers and designers to make dynamic multi-disciplinary work that places the body centre stage in the dialogue of ideas. Her latest work, We Caliban, premiered at Snape Maltings on 20 September 2025.

“With her emotionally honest approach to choreography, she has produced more than 50 dance works that make the audience think, dream and dissent.” – The HIndu

Shobana Jeyasingh CBE - Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

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