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.
10-11.30/45 with a cuppa and chat after.
21st Jan Dance House, Cardiff.
28th Jan venue tbc.
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
people-dancing-summer-intensive-2025
April 26, 2025
OFFTA, Montreal
"For nearly two years, at the invitation of LA SERRE - arts vivants and in partnership with Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, four artists from Wales and Quebec have come together to reflect on how we connect and form relationships. Through conversations, residencies conducted between the two territories, and the use of various performative scores, they explore notions of dissensus, hospitality, uncertainty, and wisdom, seeking pathways toward a harmonious polyphony while blurring the boundaries between performance and encounter. OFFTA presents the outcome of their experiments across different spaces in the city, engaging with community and cultural partners, as well as their neighbours.
The artists present three performances of the same work, each followed by an activity in response to the environment that hosts it.
“It feels like this moment requires new languages or to unearth the ancient.
We have been huddling trying to find our way out of the mess. We’ve tried long talking, walking, dancing, swimming, cooking, listening, mending, making, stretching, gardening our way out of it. We’ve tried together. We invited other people. Here and there. This is how far we’ve got:
Courage is a matter of the heart
This is progress
It’s not going to be solved in our lifetime
An ongoing conversation
We’d now like to invite people in Ahuntsic, Centre Sud, and Verdun to join the conversation. If you want to come, you’re invited.”
—Jo, Sonia, Marilou and Spicey"
Jo Fong, Sonia Hughes, Marilou Craft & Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé
Friday, May 30: 12pm*
Venue: Pavillon d’accueil du Parcours Gouin
*Followed by a shared meal on the shore of the Rivière des Prairies
Saturday, May 31: 12pm*
Venue: Salle George-Martin de l’Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud (ASCCS)*
*Followed by a swim at the sports center
The performances are presented in English.
FREE!
Book your ticket here: nettles-how-to-disagree
April 24, 2025
Open Studio Cardiff, Dance, Law and Consent
An invitation - FREE EVENT
Open Studio
Common Room, Chapter, Cardiff
8th May 2025
2.30 - 6pm
Hi everyone,
I’ve come together with anthropologist James Leach and we are both involved in a research project called The Choreography of Consent. The project brings together Dance and Law practitioners with a question around the movement of consent.
We invite you to an informal Open Studio.
James and I are approaching this from the angle of how do we “come into contract”, and by this I don't necessarily mean the written, sign on the dotted line version or not even the spoken or physical understandings that come into play.
James and I understand, as community practitioners, that consent is complex, messy, layered and continuous. I like the idea of consent being continuous, a navigation, that success, even if it goes wrong, success is how we might go about continuing or ending well..
Many of us like our law to perhaps be able to protect us or even free us.
Our law colleagues Sean and Jess talked about how we like our law to be clean, bright lines and they are the first to admit it just isn’t, its blurry and that as far as law and the everyday is concerned, Jess said "law doesn’t really capture the everyday"
And as I write this I'm wondering if they would consent to me writing this in a public invitation? (endless layers…)
I'm holding this phrase dear
“We are consenting to explore the unknown."
We’ll be devising ways to meet (moving, listening, dancing, walking…) and devise ways to document and reflect on what is happening together.
With James’ anthropological hat on there maybe things to notice or acknowledge, feedback or gather
For us there will be no clear line at the end but we hope to begin to articulate what is happening and honouring the idea consent is complex, evolving and takes into consideration everything including space, time, who, how and why.
In general, as a facilitator, I never ask anyone to do anything, I simply ask people to be themselves, which as we have learnt can often be a work in itself.
I will make sure there will be fruit and snacks!
Photo Cheniece Warner @chen_lightcapturer
Please email jofongjofong@gmail.com to book a place.
And of course, if you have access needs you would like to tell me about, just let me know.
Photo Cheniece Warner @chen_lightcapturer
