Class & Workshop dates, Performances, Presentations, Podcasts & Publications
Work in progress sharing of performance trilogy ‘story, scale, still’ by Mary Paterson, Jenny Miller and Alexandra Baybutt
30 Oct 2026, Calder bookshop, The Cut, SE1 8LF, London, UK, free
19 Nov, Something Other live, Vauxhall, Part 3, ‘still’. More details to follow.
Catch Barefoot Opera’s ‘Così fan tutte?!’
Following a premiere at the Battle Festival and run at Grimeborn, Arcola theatre, London, there are two more dates to enjoy Mozart’s opera, directed by Jenny Miller with a cast of young opera singers on 23 Sept (Maidenhead) and 3 Oct (Bourne End). This ambitious educational performance project included the cast doubling as ensemble members, and for some singers, was their first full opera role.
Director: Jenny Miller
Music director and keyboard: Lesley Anne Sammons
Vocal consultant: Penelope Randall Davis
Costume designer: Wendy Olver
Movement director: Alexandra Baybutt
Lighting design: Jack Hathaway
Assistant movement director: Maya Dagan
Assistant musical director: Boaz Johnson
Double bass: Amy Baldwin
Stage manager: Eric Moll
Performers: Joel Robson, Katerina Oikonomou, Bartosz Thiede, Oscar Castellino, Zac Conibear, Mahtab Ghmsari, Ilona Nastase, Zara Donaldson, Ruby Caddick Laurence
I am leading a dance improvisation class for Wednesday Moving about/through/with space
Wednesday 2 Dec, 6:45-8pm, Round Chapel Old School Rooms, Powerscroft Road, Hackney E5 0PU
Screening a selection of films by Ines Von Bonhorst and Yuri Pirondi
I’m hosting an evening of a selection of works by Ines and Yuri (we collaborated on a series of projects in 2014-15 under the name Tor)
26 May 2027, UCL East, Pool Street Cinema, free. Booking coming soon
Fun things that happened in summer 2026 include:
Sharing ‘Heel Rock for Radio‘ at Chisenhale Dance Space in August.
Performing/creating with Amy Mauvan and others on her invitation to be part of a 48-hour building take-over of Studio Wayne McGregor, Here East, in August.
Performing/creating with Marguerite Galizia for sculptor Rita Evans in July (film forthcoming).
Presenting some studio sharings of spontaneous composition practice with Emily Yuiming in August.
Writing some pieces that will come out next year for the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices on my work with Play As We Are/Moving Strings, and for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal edition on life transitions, with ‘A sestina for Gill and Carrie’. Maya Felixbrot and I are currently working on a video essay for the Journal of Embodied Research special edition ‘On Music’ under the guidance of Mira Benjamin and Scott McLaughlin.
Initiating a collective investigation project, the earth hath bubbles, with Avital Barak through UCL Methods Lab.
Laban/Bartenieff Movement System modular training
I’m a registered somatic movement educator and teach on ISMETA-approved training programmes: with the WholeMovement Laban/Bartenieff Movement System in Italy, and contribute to EMove Institute‘s programme in the Netherlands. This involves teaching practice and theory, assessing, supervising and contributing to curriculum development.
What is the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System?
LBMS is a system of movement analysis and observation. It is also a somatic practice.
Past event: 22 October, 6.15-8pm: ‘The Body and Moving Image’ film screening and Q+A.
The selected films centre on the presence and agency of the body in moving image. As corporeal critique, the significance for film makers and film lovers is on how moving image can explicitly work from the body to refuse a body/mind split in conveying complex topics and identities. Gitta Wigro and I warmly invite you to this compilation of films, presented for their sensuous and critical poetics, interconnected by claiming/reclaiming. Films from Jacob Lee, Wency Lam, Robbie Synge & Julie Cleves, Tuixén Benet, and Naomi Midgelow.
28 October: performing ‘score’ part 2 of a three-part duet with poet Mary Paterson at The Ivy House Nunhead, London.
First work in progress sharing was Monday 14 July 2025, LADA, London at Something Other Live. (Photo Diana Damian Martin)
Performing for Heni Hale
In 2025 I was part of a research and performance project with Heni Hale for her practice-based PhD. Here is a clip of our work that was presented at the Wellcome Trust in November.
Maya, Alex and I had a great time hosting our third summer retreat in 2025 for musicians of all kinds at OT301, Amsterdam and fourth event at the Batavierhuis, Rotterdam along with Yanna Pelser in 2026. Thank you to everyone who joined us! And who we met last summer at the Dalcroze Symposium and the European String Teachers Association. This autumn, musicians and movers are invited to join Moving Strings/Play As We Are for company class.
Listen to podcast interviews of Alexandra Baybutt
by Gemma Harman for ResDance (2024) and with Stephen Moynihan (2025) for Shapes In Motion.
alexandrabaybutt.co.uk 