February 10, 2026
Bristol – April 2026
Join Jo and George at The Mount Without this April
IMPERMANENCE Presents...
The Rest of Our Lives
Created and performed by Jo Fong and George Orange
21 - 24 April @ The Mount Without, 7.30pm.
Tickets
January 23, 2026
Workshop Chester
Jo has been invited by Cheshire Dance to lead a workshop as part of their Inquiring Bodies programme of events for dance artists.
Feb 28th
University of Chester.
Liveness.
Consenting to explore the unknown.
Book on this link
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Image by Lucas Chih Peng Kao 高智鵬
December 3, 2025
Workshop Machynlleth
Exciting news!!!
We are delighted to let you know that Jo Fong will be coming to offer a two day workshop in Feb next year in Machynlleth. Please see details and info below.
Date: 7th & 8th Feb, 2026
Time: Sat & Sun 10:30 - 5pm
Venue: Y Plas, Machynlleth
Cost:
£95 for the weekend/ £80 if booked and paid in full before Jan 11th.
A non-refundable deposit of £40 to secure a place
Booking:
Please contact movingmach@gmail.com for further information and to book a place.
Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.
Thank you.
the MovingMach team
Liveness
A weekend workshop with dance artist Jo Fong
Jo invites you to a two-day workshop at
Y Plas, Machynlleth
7th and 8th Feb 2026
Sat & Sun 10am - 5pm
I like this phrase “We are consenting to explore the unknown”
What does it mean to bring people together?
Movement is my first language, I dance as a way to relate to people, to communicate or begin to understand perspectives. I work with people, bodies, histories, dreams, differences…whole lives. It is constantly evolving, I am learning and un-learning. I am practicing being with people.
My work has led me to questions about What is Community? What does diversity look like? Can the body tell us something about consent? What are the positives around uncertainty or the unsolved?
In terms of choreographic languages, I draw on a wealth of influences from somatic and improvisation techniques, self-generating prompts and tools or games that explore relationships with our bodies, spaces between people, play and working with objects.
For me, it’s about the possibility for liveness, presence.
My work is about creating the conditions so that liveness can occur.
About Jo
Jo Fong is an award-winning director, choreographer and performer working in Dance, Theatre, Film and Live Art. She lives in Pontypridd and her creative work reflects the need in these times for people to come together. Her artistic practice is an evolving, collaborative approach which puts ideas around belonging or forming community in the forefront.
Some recent highlights include collaborations with artist Sonia Hughes; Nettles: How To Disagree? presented at OFFTA, Montreal 2025, Neither Here Nor There was presented as part of Wales in Edinburgh. Sonia and Jo led on a number of film, digital and walking projects called What Will People Need?, The Sun’s Come Out, Come Rain or Shine, and To Tell You The Truth for Dublin Theatre Festival.
How Shall We Begin Again? was presented at Wales Millenium Centre 2023 and Siobhan Davies Studios London 2022, Ways of Being Together at Chapter Arts Centre 2019 and Shoreditch Town Hall 2020. A Brief History of Difference was created with DAR of Das Clarks. Sons and Mums was created with Everybody Dance in Malvern, a beautiful collaboration with 6 men who have autism and their mums.
Jo is currently contributing to research with a number of projects; IcoDaCo European Collectives project, The Choreography of Consent and The Agency of Matter together with artist Deborah Light.
And in January 2026, Jo will be heading to New York’s Under The Radar festival with The Rest Of Our Lives which was created in 2019 with clown and circus artist, George Orange and their 100th performance will be in Pontypridd this February.
Photo by Lucas Chih Peng Kao 高智鵬
November 19, 2025
ICoDaCo Blogs
Jo, Anna Seymour, Gwyn Emberton, Deborah Light and Angharad Harrop have been working together as part of the Wales Collective since early 2025.
The project brings together European Collectives within dance research and documentation. You can find results of all the artists weeks together on the ICoDaCo app.
Read the artist's blogs HERE
November 11, 2025
Workshops 2026
Save the dates
January
21st and 28th Open Studio,
Free events
Jo will be co-leading with members of ICoDaCo’s Welsh Collective.
10-11.45 with a cuppa and chat after.
21st Jan Dance House, Cardiff.
28th Jan YMa Pontypridd.
February
7th and 8th two day workshop at Y Plas, Machynlleth. Please contact movingmach@gmail.com for further information.
February 9th Butterfly Soup at Ardour Academy, Cardiff, 7.30pm - 9pm. Donations welcome.
February 28th Cheshire Dance Artist Development Programme, University of Chester, 10-5pm. Part of a series of workshops called Inquiring bodies
March
9th Workshop in London. Part of Sadlers Wells’ Disabled Artists Development Programme, 6:30pm -9:30pm
November 3, 2025
The Rest Of Our Lives
ON TOUR
2025
16th March
Peterborough Key Theatre
31st July
Theatr Brycheiniog
Brecon
30th August
Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja (Indonesia)
12th and 13th September
Homo Novus Festival (Latvia)
8th November
Belfast international Arts Centre
12th December
The Flavel, Dartmouth
ON TOUR
2026
7-17th January
Under The Radar, La MaMa, New York
14th February 2026
Hopkinstown Hall, Pontypridd
November 2, 2025
Butterfly Soup studio session
Feb 9th 2026
19:30-21:00
Ardour Academy, Cardiff.
Pay what you like.
Jo will be back at Butterfly Soup for one session.
Butterfly Soup sessions at Ardour are currently held on Monday Evenings and funded by People’s Health Trust. These creative sessions are a safe space for our queer friends and allies; designed to foster self-expression, connection, and empowerment. Led by dedicated facilitators, these sessions provide opportunities for a range of fun and creative activities such as gentle movement sessions, meditation and sometimes visual arts. There is always a cup of tea, and sessions are donation-based.
Each week a different facilitator takes the lead
See details for all the sessions HERE
October 11, 2025
Open Studio sessions Llandudno
Wales Dance Collective.
Artists Jo Fong, Anna Seymour, Deborah Light and Angharad Harrop will be leading two studio session in Llandudno this October.
The research weeks are part of ICoDaCo's European Dance Collectives
Providero 112 Mostyn st, Llandudno
10-11.30am followed by a cuppa and chat
www.jonesthedance.com
August 1, 2025
Sept – Open Studio Cardiff
Artists Jo Fong, Deborah Light and Anna Seymour will be in the studio all week please do join us for our Free mid-week Open Studio.
As the Wales Collective we are working within a wider collective of European contemporary dance artists as part of iCoDaCo - International Contemporary Dance Collective.
Our open studio is for dance artists and movement practitioners, anyone who loves to move and is curious about collaboration, collective practices and sharing practice.
Wednesday, 24th Sept 2025
10-11.30am (plus a cuppa after the session)
Man Gwyn, The Dance House, National Dance Company Wales, WMC, Cardiff
More info and sign up via the website www.jonesthedance.com
June 21, 2025
Choreography of Consent – Leicester
People Dancing Summer Intensive
Jo will be joining the team in Leicester to explore together the Choreography of Consent
24th July - all day
for more details click here
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