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Jose Funnell leads Monday Night Improvisation next week, inviting you to find pleasure in movement and engage in dance as a life-affirming practice 🌿⁠
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📅 Monday 21 September, 6.30pm-8pm⁠
🎟️ £10 / £8 a class with a Class Card⁠
🔗 Book Monday Night Improvisation via link in our bio⁠
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Informed by Jose’s experience in somatics, meditation and the queer club space, you will use movement to generate present moment awareness and collective joy whilst dancing together and alone. The focus is on embodiment — both the sensory experience of inhabiting a body and how movement might help us access or embody certain ideas or images.⁠
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Photo credit: Queer Clash Diary 2025 by Raze Collective at Artsadmin. Photo by @angryjalebi.⁠
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@jwfunnell⁠
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#JoseFunnell #EmbodiedMovement #Somatics #LifeAffirmingPractice #IndependentDance ⁠
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[Image description: A landscape image ofJose, a mixed race, non-binary person with brown skin, a tall, slim build and black hair tied in a bun. Jose is found facilitating a space full of participants - kneeling on the floor, arms spread, gesturing to the group. The energy is active yet serene.] taken in Independent Dance by @jwfunnell

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25 days ago

Today is African Emancipation Day in the UK, an important moment to remember that, despite endless efforts to distort history, the 500-year holocaust of plantation slavery did not end because of Western benevolence. Though its logics continue in many forms of labour exploitation today, plantation slavery ended because of sustained collective struggle: through maroonage, sabotage, refusal, boycotts, radical education, the dissemination of subversive literature, and an unyielding commitment to cultural and artistic traditions that carried spiritual, political and communal significance for African and Black diasporic people.

Over the last few months we have been working together to develop a reparations learning game for our communities and the organisations that resource them. We chose to create something rooted in African heritage value systems, esoteric knowledges and divination traditions because, as Audre Lorde reminds us, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” We believe that play, storytelling and collective learning can become part of the ongoing work of imagining and building liberatory futures.

This game is one small contribution to that tradition, and we are filled with deep gratitude for everyone who has helped shape it so far. Thank you to everyone who joined our first and second play-throughs. We are learning so much through this process, and having a lot of fun along the way. 🐚✨🌱

Many of the beautiful pics here are taken by the incredible @denisha_anderson 📸 by @jwfunnell

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2 months ago

What does the collective soul of humanity sing in its last breath?

Somerset House Studios artist Jose Funnell (@jwfunnell) explores this through a series of lamentations, an embodied attempt to grieve the present state of humanity.

In this collaboration with @lie__ning, Jose draws on the figure of the zombie, rooted in Haitian Voodoo and the horrors of slavery, repurposed as a metaphor for consumption and collapse.

This performance took place in December 2025 as part of Grounding Practice: Performance Symposium.

Film directed by @phedavies. by @jwfunnell

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4 months ago

Living Dead
(3/3)

Work in progress sharing on 12/2025 with @lie__ning 🤍

Special thanks to @marina_doriti8 @mrlaurentjohn and @somersethousestudios for production support

Special thanks to @wesleycmanners for stunning threads 🥺🧵

Huge thanks to @_annetetzlaff_ for capturing these moments 📸🙏 taken in Somerset House by @jwfunnell

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8 months ago

Living Dead (2/3)

Work in progress 12/2025 with @lie__ning 🤍

Special thanks to @marina_doriti8 @mrlaurentjohn and @somersethousestudios for production support

Special thanks to @wesleycmanners for stunning threads 🧵

Photos @_annetetzlaff_ 🙏 taken in Somerset House by @jwfunnell

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9 months ago

Living Dead (1/3)

Work in progress 12/2025 with @lie__ning 🤍

Special thanks to @marina_doriti8 @mrlaurentjohn and @somersethousestudios for production support

Special thanks to @wesleycmanners for stunning threads 🧵

Photos @_annetetzlaff_ 🙏 taken in Somerset House by @jwfunnell

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9 months ago

DEEP APPRECIATION POST💫
Hard to find words to describe how grateful and blessed I feel to know and have worked with the shining light and star that is @lie__ning ✨🥹🤍

Over just four days we were able to bring something special to life and I’m forever enriched by everything I have learnt from you 🙏 I’m so looking forward to the next chapter ✨

Deepest thanks also to @wesleycmanners for providing another star of the show 🧶🧵🪡🙏 was so special to perform in such a beautiful hand crafted garment - tbh a dream come true

Deepest gratitude also to @rose__moya for providing an original hood + various forms of material support + most importantly emotional support 🤍

Will post more about ‘ LIVING DEAD ‘ in due course but for now sitting with and expressing this gratitude 🫶🏽 taken in Somerset House by @jwfunnell

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10 months ago

✴️ Interdisciplinary artist, dancer and activist @jwfunell is also taking part in our current season, Then & There vol 2

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Jose Funnell is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer and activist based in London. Through live performance, sound, film and the workshop space, they explore the radical potential of embodiment as a site of liberation, healing and exchange in service of collective transformation.

Using somatics, social dance, and various technologies of the gaze, their work examines practices of looking and representing as historic mechanisms of power, as well as the role fantasy and collective imagery play in world building.
Working towards creating anti-oppressive structures, justice and equity, their practice brings awareness to the experiential dynamics of sharing space and the emancipatory potential of generating agency within contexts of marginalisation.

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📸 Credit
1: Anne Tetzlaff
2: Rocio Chacon taken in QUEERCIRCLE by @jwfunnell

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a year ago

Introducing interdisciplinary artist and dancer Jose Funnell, one of three artists joining Somerset House Studios as part of our new Performance in Practice residency.

Based in London, Jose works across live performance, sound, film and workshops to explore the radical potential of embodiment as a tool for liberation, healing and collective transformation. Their work examines practices of looking and representation as historic mechanisms of power, as well as the role fantasy and collective imagery play in world building

Jose’s work actively engages with anti-oppressive structures and equity, bringing critical awareness to the dynamics of space-sharing and the possibilities of agency particularly amongst marginalised people. by @jwfunnell

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a year ago

HUMAN PUZZLE by Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx

PERFORMERS
Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx
Louisa Fernando @_louisa.fernando_
Harri James Eiffert @harrijames_eiffert
Jose Funnell @jwfunnell

OUTFIT
Rombaut @rombautofficial
a.v. vattev @avvattev
René Scheibenbauer @renescheibenbauer MM6 Maison Margiela @mm6maisonmargiela
KCD @kcdworldwide

STYLING CONSULTANT
Nicola Neri @nicola.neri

PHOTOGRAPHER
Yiling Zhao @yiling_zhao_

ASSISTANT:
@ployfrommars

LOCATION
Oppenheim Studios @oppenheimstudios by @jwfunnell

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2 years ago

Stills from HUMAN PUZZLE by Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx

PERFORMERS
Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx
Louisa Fernando @_louisa.fernando_
Harri James Eiffert @harrijames_eiffert
Jose Funnell @jwfunnell

OUTFIT
Rombaut @rombautofficial
a.v. vattev @avvattev
René Scheibenbauer @renescheibenbauer MM6 Maison Margiela @mm6maisonmargiela
KCD @kcdworldwide

STYLING CONSULTANT
Nicola Neri @nicola.neri

PHOTOGRAPHER
Yiling Zhao @yiling_zhao_

ASSISTANT:
@ployfrommars

LOCATION
Oppenheim Studios @oppenheimstudios by @jwfunnell

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2 years ago

Join us 25.05.2024 for a transformative somatic movement and dance workshop exploring the relationship between self-perception and the external gaze led by interdisciplinary artist and dancer @jwfunnell

Expect:
◽ Accessible movement explorations
◽ Mindfulness exercises
◽ Reflection on what it means to be seen

We'll also delve into our embodied relationships with mobile phones, bringing awareness to the psychosomatic effects of a life mediated by devices.

Discover a fundamental sense of being by connecting to your body and finding comfort in the present moment.

✳️This workshop is open to all, no dance experience needed.
🔗 Register with the link in bio taken in QUEERCIRCLE by @jwfunnell

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