Recording of Lyra Festival Performance

On Saturday May 3rd 2025, we shared the first public performance of the dance with the new original music. The new music and amended dance has been created collaboratively with musicians and dancers through a series of workshops and rehearsals from November 2024 through to May 2025.

In this video (courtesy of Lyra Festival) our dancers opened for poet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa who performed Cane, Corn & Gully – weaving the dances and stories of Black Barbadian women on stage (dance starts around 10 mins in).

Decolonising Memory at Lyra Festival!

The Decolonising Memory group will be performing our memorial dance with new music for the first time at this year’s Lyra Festival! Join us on Saturday 3rd May from 3.30pm at the Arnolfini to see this unique new memorial form in action. We will be joining poet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, author of Cane, Corn & Gully ahead of her performance.

For the full festival programme and to book tickets (£5) see the website:

Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival