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tensions slippages sultry clawing
body based practice MA at trinity laban
cofounder @sgor_score 🪢
Programming @tactilebosch & @filet_space

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I’m trying not to be seen.
I don’t want to disrupt.
Well, I do, but I don’t want anyone to notice.

I wanna be a spy. I’ve always wanted to be one.
Ever since I was little.
To go unnoticed. To slip through a fence with a NO TRESPASSERS sign hanging from it.

I wanna dig up the front lawn of the priory without anyone seeing me.

So you, the audience, you’ll have to help.
Be invisible.
Cast an invisible cloak over the whole site.

I’m going to get underneath the grass and blend in.
In my Sunday best.
And stroke my new, grassy belly.
Sinking into it.

Why are you hiding that smile?
A performance for Cross//Ways Tallaght, St. Mary’s Priory, 1 October 2026.

With thanks to curators Olivia Hassett and Francis Fay, Rua Red director Maolíosa Boyle, festival rapporteur Clodagh Assata Boyce, the Rua Red team, fellow artists and everyone who witnessed the work.

Photographs by Fenia Kotsopoulou 🖤

@rua_red @hassettolivia @francisfayartist @feniakotsopoulou by @tesswoof

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Recent performance ‘why are you hiding that smile?’ at @rua_red Cross//Ways Performance Festival in Dublin.

Documented by @feniakotsopoulou
Curated by @hassettolivia & @francisfayartist by @tesswoof

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11 days ago

how do we fit? where do we? can we exist at the in-between? if so how? by kinda hiding in plain sight maybe… by taking up space through pouring devotion into new ways of being in relation… not necessarily with other human beings… because… sometimes it’s more important to be in direct relation with architecture.

St Mary’s Priory, me and a handful of Yew berries.

Cross//Ways Festival, Dublin 2026
@rua_red
Why are you hiding that smile?

perfect documentation by @feniakotsopoulou by @tesswoof

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13 days ago

Why are you hiding that smile?
A new performance made for Cross//Ways Tallaght, at St. Mary’s Priory, 1 October 2026.

Thinking about hiding and revealing. What parts of ourselves do we share, with whom, and when?

The cloisters offered a place to turn over wishes and thoughts, to consider which bodies have historically been allowed space for contemplation, and what other bodies might bring into it. Voice, movement, architecture, and allowing a little more of the animal in us to come through.

Special thanks to curators Olivia Hassett and Francis Fay, Rua Red director Maolíosa Boyle and festival rapporteur Clodagh Assata Boyce. Thank you to the Rua Red team, fellow artists and everyone who came to witness the work.

Gorgeous documentation by Fenia Kotsopoulou 🖤 more pics soon!

@rua_red @hassettolivia @francisfayartist @clodaghassataboyce @feniakotsopoulou by @tesswoof

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15 days ago

by @tesswoof

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a month ago

ARCHIVE PARTY #2 **~** SUNDAY 16 AUGUST

Come and get your teeth into some tactileBOSCH history.

For our second Archive Party, we’re opening up the tactileBOSCH archive at Ffotogallery and inviting you to help us work through it.

We’ll begin with a short introduction to the project and our archival process, before spending the afternoon sorting photographs and documentation by date ~ sharing memories, stories, gossip and speculation as we go.

Were you there? Tell us what you remember.
Weren’t you there? Come and imagine what might have happened.

We’re interested in what happens when different generations of artists, audiences and curious newcomers come together around the same fragments of history.

Sunday 16 August
12–4pm
Ffotogallery

Bring yourself, an open mind and your memories ~ real, imagined or somewhere in between.

@ffotogallery @celfcymruarts @tactilebosch by @tesswoof

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2 months ago

a snippet from my dance master at trinity laban will be shown next tuesday in studio 10 if you would like to come along there is info and free tix in the link in my bio!

14th July x

it’s first and foremost my final exam but open to the public too. looking forward to sharing it more in less institutional environments so it can be rawer.

The body in negotiation is a radical body.

SILTRATE / SOAKED PANTS follows my current research of looking into landscape, materials, desire & the dancing body. Instigated by an anatomical experience of the backbody and inspired by the site of the estuary mudflats from my hometown this work explores mud as a material & mode for me to talk about non-monogamy and somatic practice and how these two ways of being inform and support each other.

Swelling sinking emptying tipping falling backwards, head over heels sharing bobbing flicking, muddied waters.

kisses x t by @tesswoof

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3 months ago

roof stwdio ~ mehefin ~ London

trying to bring in dancing regardless of how im feeling. As a way to keep digging in. Extremely hot and uncomfortable, bleeding, black eye and no running water. Very cared for and continuously greatful.

vid 1: smoking score
via 2-6: snippets from a 15 min dance. Im deffo struggling but finding pockets of yummy sinew tension, some very slow baked gentle twitching, attempts at some larger movements and nice turning and holding.
vid 8: score im exploring thinking about being sucked into meter deep mudflats. How to pull your body out of another.

+ me looking hot in my very publicly acceptable outfit.

absolutely disgraceful that i haven’t put a vid up to this song yet - loved the kylie doc ngllllll

panting by @tesswoof

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4 months ago

studio mehefin ~ bristol garage spot

vid 1: playing around with the idea of slipping, moment where im faking loosing my balance and noticing how that shifts my weight and allows me to slip n slide
vid 2: playing with the sliding, ideas of stepping into and out of mud, slippages, loosing and finding balance and pauses to let things settle
vid 3: moving and pausing hiding and revealing

moody day today in england. by @tesswoof

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4 months ago

studio workshop with florence peak programmed by tactileBOSCH at Chapter Art Centre

vid 1: Tim and I working through Florence’s container liquid score
vid 2: drawing from this exercise by participants

today I felt: exhausted, fleeting, landing, so much pleasure in dancing just let me dance all day long in the dark with a whole room of people, shy, scared, loss so much loss and fear, trust and amorphous, love for our Welsh family 🖤

@florence_peake by @tesswoof

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4 months ago

studio mai ~ trinity laban

sounds that squelch legs that fold and flop, idle and savage, bodies that attempt to - float, glide, skip and ski
bodies left stranded, submerged, silty and sunken.
# by @tesswoof

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4 months ago

mai studio ~ trinity laban greenwich

some more clips from this 11 min improv which I also posted ytd. below some snippets of the text which is recited in the vids.

vid 1: ‘level presentation… the intricacies of how air flow and external pressures support you to change, to keep moving’ then I say ‘to be perceived’
vid 2: close up moving edit of vid 1
vid 3: both mixed with the feeling of disappointment that your not around right now but simultaneously curious and enamoured
vid 4: a preserver of history, how I yearn to be swallowed up in that mud again

#dancio by @tesswoof

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