No Dress Code is our informal scratch night. We welcome you to our studio theatre to watch new dance works-in-progress* by dance artists and companies. This is a pay-what-you-can event with a suggested donation of £5.00 which goes directly to the artists who perform.

The Yorkshire Dance bar will be open before the performances and following the performances will be a chance to share your feedback.

View information about access here.

Age guidance 16+ (Contains adult content and references to mental health)

No Dress Code 2024 Programme

We Are The World by Excessive Human Collective

“The cyborg would not recognise the garden of Eden, it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.” Donna Harraway

With the cyborg as a metaphor for fragmented identities, We Are The World looks at the space between fiction and fact. What it means to be a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fantasy. From Artistic Director Imogen Reeve, We Are The World shares a utopian vision, investigating the partiality, irony, intimacy and perversity of human nature.

gut, gut, quiet by Inari Hulkkonen

gut, gut, quiet takes as a starting point the idea of gut, heart, and brain as the three brains of the body. It poetically examines their roles in connection, stress and trauma responses, with a particular interest in the gut as a centre of intelligence and emotion.

Combining movement and projected text, gut, gut, quiet is a performance installation interested in the poetic and the visceral. It uses anatomy and metaphor to describes the body as a holder of things, a chaos archive of history and feeling. It is an attempt to hold old pain, to understand the workings of the physical body within emotional responses and to view the body as a source for healing.

Voices by Zoe Katsilerou

Voices explores the traditions of Balkan polyphonic songs & contemporary dance-theatre. Co-created by Balkan vocalist, choreographer and theatre maker Zoe Katsilerou, poet-dancer Izzy Britain and four dancers/musicians, Voices addresses universal narratives of ecology, community and multiculturalism through celebrating songs that live in and come from the body.

Find us and access

Yorkshire Dance is opposite BBC Yorkshire and Leeds Conservatoire. Full access information for Yorkshire Dance is available here.

Yorkshire Dance aims to be an accessible and inclusive place for all. This means you will be welcomed by our staff. We create a ‘braver space’, where you feel able to express yourself in a supportive and empowering way. You will be treated with respect by Yorkshire Dance staff and we expect and encourage everyone who uses our building to do the same. Learn more here.

Images (Top to bottom): Elly Welford, Inari Hulkkonen and Karol Wyszynski