Webinar Wednesdays return for 2026

Ever since the pandemic, The Place has presented free weekly online sessions for dance professionals each summer, designed to foster curiosity, connection and exchange.

This year’s webinar series pairs two exceptional artists in each session to explore a shared topic from different perspectives, broadening understanding and deepening conversations around dance and dance practice.

Facilitated by The Place’s Artist Associate Ben Wright, these cross-generational conversations are resonant, practical and nourishing, offering dance professionals fresh insights and new ways to imagine their future practice.
All webinars will be interpreted in British Sign Language (BSL).

17 June: Queer Rewilding: Exploring the intersection between folklore, queerness and our natural processes

In this conversation, artist, academic and London Contemporary Dance School lecturer Andrew Sanger speaks with interdisciplinary artist Seyi Adelekun and artist, curator, and creative producer Joseph Morgan Schofield.

Together, they will discuss how their practices shape their distinct and dynamic approaches to performance. Tracing threads through nature, ceremony, ecosomatics, ritual, and fluidity, alongside their lived experiences to discover the alliances between these practices and the LGBTQIA+ experience. Drawing on queer kinship, folklore, and ancestral heritage, they'll contemplate what it means to make, hold and inhabit spaces that challenge the concept of the natural v. the unnatural.

24 June: Making Dance Heard: Building access into audience-led encounters

A conversation between dancer, maker and researcher, Shivaangee Agrawal, Meera Patel, a dance artist working across facilitation, performance and making and Amelia Lander-Cavallo, co-founder and director of Quiplash, a queer crip-led creative company who make accessible performances that platform queer disabled creatives.
Shivaangee and Meera have a close working relationship and shared practices that are rooted in classical Indian forms, and a focus on advocacy for access for performance and film. Quiplash offers consulting and training support on accessibility, disability awareness, and disability justice.

This webinar will unpack the aesthetic and ethical concerns of making access-led work that considers an audiences’ additional needs from the outset. Looking at the process of consultation with blind and visually impaired artists, how dual roles as makers and describers inform each other and the reality of conflicting access needs.

1 July: Starting Before You’re Ready: Inhabiting a space between not-knowing and action

Award-winning choreographer and performer Jeanine Durning discusses her practice  ‘Nonstopping’ with The Place’s Artist Associate, Ben Wright.

Jeanine has been developing ‘Nonstopping’ since 2009 as a compositional tool for making. It draws on a practice that The New Yorker described as holding "the potential for philosophical revelation and theatrical disaster.” Alongside choreographer, director and creative facilitator, Ben Wright, they will explore how sustained attention, faith in uncertainty, and a willingness to simply begin, even if imperfectly, might open up new possibilities for dance-making.

Jeanine is based on the East Coast of the United States so this will be an exciting opportunity for artists based in the UK and beyond to hear her speak about her work.

8 July: Change, Care and Cost: Making performance rooted in community

A conversation between freelance dance artist Dr Gillie Kleiman and the co-director of Common/Wealth, Rhiannon White. Gillie brings her own extensive experience of working from within a marginalised community and in professional dance with non-professional dancers, while Rhiannon brings Common/Wealth's long practice of making ambitious, socially engaged theatre directly with and in communities.

In this webinar, the pair will discuss what it really takes to make performance that truly belongs to a community and is not just made for it. They will explore their processes and political and personal motivations for creating site-specific and community-focused performance. You’ll hear about the slow and careful work necessary to cultivate genuine relationships and start to consider the practical, emotional, and economic demands involved with this practice. The artists will share testimony of the changes they have experienced and what changes they aspire to foster in people, places, and structures.
This conversation will be of interest to anyone looking to create work that makes a real difference within their community or already incorporating community-engaged practice in their work.

More information about the artists and booking here: Webinar Wednesdays 2026 | The Place