Lîla Blog
Get to know Lîla even better with blogs from the whole team on everything from what inspires our work, research and development to the professional development we offer and our favourite warm-up games.
Calls for Interviews!
Sustainable touring - Artist’s notebook
Fault Lines @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024
Fault Lines’ community cast creation workshop.
Fault Lines Crowdfunder
A little biog about A/D Carrie Whitaker
Making outside @ Bath Spa University
Moving Portraits: Produced in Association with Lîla Dance
The Lîla Dance isn’t complete without Amy Morvell. Amy went from a Lîla dance to apprentice then creative assistant all the while being supported in building her own company – Morvell Dance. Read about Amy’s experience.
artsdepot Artists Workshop: Working with Communities
Learn how Lîla Dance make work with and for communities in this interactive online workshop with Lîla Dance’s Co-Artistic Director Carrie Whitaker.
Sarah Golding on auditioning for Lîla
In 2014 Sarah attended an open audition for Lîla. Read about her experience of Lîla's unique auditioning process.
KJ Mortimer on teaching Lîla classes online
We don't let lockdown stop us! KJ Mortimer shares her experience of teaching Lîla Dance's classes online.
Five reasons why you should use warm-up games!
Sometimes when you don’t have much time it’s tempting to skip something like a warm-up game, but are five reasons why you should reconsider.
Your Brexit Opinion
We’re want to hear from you for our new work MY BIT. We welcome anyone with strong opinions or any member of your family that have relocated to live in the UK.
My Favourite clothes to dance in
Flares! Need we say more? We do! Find out what's will keep you comfortable when dancing in the studio.
Amy Morvell
Ten essential things every dancer needs
Here are ten essential items to take with you into the dance studio (besides Lîla Dance's ebook Making Dance and album Music for Choreography).
R&D Insights: The Hotel Experience
Research and development for The Hotel Experience, seeking out some explosive physicality and investing in the details.
Becoming Lîla’s performance intern
Amy Morvell, shares her her experience of being Lîla Dance's new intern as well as the creative process being a cast member for The Hotel Experience.
R&D Insights: Early thoughts on The Hotel Experience
An insight into the beginnings of Lîla Dance’s newest work, The Hotel Experience.
R&D Reading Movement and Writing Dance: The Hotel Experience
When movement delivers poignant storytelling about what it means to be human, dance can leave a lasting impact.