Our new project
The Seen. (In development)
The Seen is a bold, joyful dance theatre show celebrating lesbian visibility, history and identity. Blending contemporary dance, cabaret, verbatim testimony and an original pop soundtrack, it brings real lesbian voices centre stage with humour, honesty and heart.
From the poetry of Sappho to modern pop culture, the work explores how lesbian lives have been represented, erased and reclaimed. Drawing on interviews with queer females across generations, it weaves together stories of coming out, chosen family, belonging and resilience.
Energetic, moving and often hilarious, The Seen is a celebration - a vibrant, high-voltage experience that asks whose stories get told and makes sure lesbian voices are heard.
Our Green Touring in Practise pack is here!
We’re excited to share our Green Touring in Practise pack, created in partnership with house southeast theatre network.
The pack brings together what we learned while making Fault Lines in 2023 and touring it between February 2024 and November 2025 - the things that worked, the things that didn’t, the unexpected wins and the inevitable logistical struggles.
With Fault Lines, we wanted the climate crisis to shape not just the work itself, but how we made and toured it. That meant rethinking how we travelled, what we carried, how we worked with venues and how we balanced our environmental ambitions with the realities of being a small touring company.
It wasn’t always easy. We made mistakes, changed our plans and discovered that some seemingly simple changes could be surprisingly complicated. But we also found new ways of working that we want to carry forward.
So, rather than presenting a perfect model of sustainable touring, this pack shares what we actually did, what we learned and what we wish we’d known from the start. It’s aimed at small arts organisations and touring companies looking for practical ways to reduce their environmental impact — without losing sight of artistic ambition, company wellbeing or financial reality.
We hope it’s useful, honest and practical, and that it sparks conversations about what we can all do differently.
With huge thanks to house, and to everyone who made Fault Lines possible - our brilliant dancers, freelancers, venues, partners and the fab communities we worked with!
Monthly Professional Classes
In partnership with Worthing Theatres & Museums.
Book on for a blast of Lîla’s highly physical movement style with its complex floor patterns, expressive use the spine and dynamically charged sequences.
If you have any access requirements, that you wish to talk about, please don’t hesitate to get in touch
Above Film credits: MikeB designs. Dancers (film) Joe Darby, Amy Morvell, Luke Brown, Coralie Calfond, Yanki Yau, Ivan Merino-Gaspar. Dancer Visual description : Fault Lines by Lîla Dance exploring the climate crisis and our relationship with the changing world. The film features six dancers dressed in white and cream. Fast-paced editing captures punchy, energetic and expressive movement. A projected digital set transforms the space, creating moving white corridors that dancers squeeze through, alongside striking large-scale images, including an enormous burning sun. The highly physical choreography combines unison, partnerships and lifts. Striking images include a dancer held on poles as if being "poached"; another balanced high above the floor on a fellow dancer's single arm; wild plants projected across a dancer's back; and dancers wielding long poles as though paddling through water. The images are beautiful, but also evoke the deep threat of the climate crisis.
Photo credit 1: Amy Morvell. Dancers: Rose Lewis, Hattie Musgrove, Sophie Page Zanni CT. Photo credit 2: Dougie Evans. Dancers: Joe Darby, Amy Morvell, Luke Brown, Coralie Calfond, Yanki Yau, Ivan Merino-Gaspar. Dancer. Photo Credit 3 Hannah Mulligan: Sarah Golding, Ivan Merino Gasper.
“People are multi-layered, inconsistent and complicated. We strive to express the repercussions of this in our bodies.”
— Abi Mortimer & Carrie Whitaker, Artistic Directors