DIY Night - The Duets Project

Two performers enter an empty space with no plans, neither one know what will happen. Feeling the room, inspired by bodily sensations, accessing memory and imagination they conjure a one-off spontaneous performance.

Two veteran improvisers. Instant composition.

Movement, voice and text. Unpredictable.

Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer and improviser based in London and working internationally for over 20 years. His recent choreography, It begins in darkness explores haunting and colonial legacies and his new show, The Last Quartet, imagines a “last work” or “last attempt” at choreography. Seke is also currently presenting Long Solos: 60 minute solo improvisation performances with movement and text. As well as leading his own projects, Seke performs with Forced Entertainment having previously performed with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Lost Dog. Seke teaches improvisation in a variety of contexts internationally.

Sten Rudstrom, Improviser/performer/choreographer, Berlin. He founded Action Theater™ Berlin; two improvisation ensembles: Streugut; and EAT (International Action Theater Ensemble). Recent performances: Next Step Is /Berlin (2025); ONCE! Festival/Freiburg (2023); 48Hours Neukölln (2020). He is the artistic director of the NOW! Festival of Improvisation/Berlin; holds an MFA Creative Writing/Poetics; MFA Live Art/ Performance; Jury Award Winner 2022 Solo/Duo Festival, Barnes Crossing /Köln; and supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, and Dis-Tanzen Solo.

Kate Hilder is a physical theatre practitioner and a certified Feldenkrais teacher who has been teaching and performing across Europe since 2004. She recently moved to Ireland from the UK and teaches dance and voice students at the University of Limerick. She is a certified Action Theater™ teacher and has also been influenced by training with Andrew Morrish, Roy Hart Theatre voice teachers, and in dance improvisation. She performs solo, duets with Seke Chimutengwende and ensemble with EAT (European Action Theater).

Please note, we are on the second floor of a warehouse building, accessed by a staircase only. We regret that we cannot currently adequately support wheelchair users and those for whom stairs are a barrier.

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DIY Nights are CDS’s performance programme created in the spirit of grassroots, low stakes performance making and sharing.

Anyone can apply to run a DIY Night, and CDS programmes them on a rolling basis for artists looking for a way to try out new ideas with low financial risk.

If you are interested in running your own night, you can learn more and apply here.

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