Against the alienation and fragmentation of contemporary life, Future Ritual creates and holds spaces for curious publics to gather, to think and to feel through place, desire, belief, loss and mystery.
We are based in Peckham (London) and work from STUDIO: Future Ritual.
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Intensive Workshop with Ron Athey & Michele Occelli
Deep dive into the practices of hypnosis, trance movement, mortification of the flesh and pageantry that have informed Ron Athey’s legendary works.
11 - 15 November, Peckham
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Intensive Workshop with gustaf broms
Explore London’s hidden stories, restless energies and feral undersides through performance art action.
22 - 26 November, Peckham
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join our STUDIO as a Resident
Join our community of practice at STUDIO: Future Ritual, a new space for gathering, performance and embodied practice in Peckham.
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Watch Our Work
Some of the performances, projects and events we have worked on are available to watch online
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emilyn claid and Heidi Rustgaard, SKINNED, Venice International Performance Art Week 2024. Photography by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
a monthly workshop process with emilyn claid, Peckham (London),
Saturdays: 20 February, 20 March, 17 April, 15 May, 12 June 2027
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This workshop draws on emilyn’s extensive experience of performance, choreography and performed ambiguities of gender and desire. Together we’ll explore cruising as a performance of relational presence and seduction.
- Cruising – Like playing hunter and hunted, where the power and pleasure is in the physicality of the hunt.
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- Cruising - A sustained practice of seductive relational exchange in performance
- Cruising - Working with the physicality of power, pleasure, seduction, ambiguity, cool, desire, femininity, masculinity and androgyny in performance. (Androgyny, not as neutrality, but as an ambiguous trans-ing across the arc of gendered performances)
Each day will include: a physical workout following somatic principles; live art tasks and movement improvisation; discussion of seduction and gendered ambiguity in performance; embodied work with the qualities of power and pleasure; making performances, cruising scores between performers, and between performers and spectators. We will finish each day with an extended improvisation.
This workshop process builds on two intensive workshops led by emilyn in 2026. In this iteration, we will gather monthly over five months. We’re interested in the ways that working together and getting to know each other over a longer time shifts the relational process.
> collaborator: emilyn claid
who is this for?
- feel confident to move physically
- feel confident to perform for each other and for audience
- open to discuss a wide range of perspectives on gender’s qualities in movement
- happy to experiment and take risks with embodied expressions of power and pleasure
- interested in choreography and performance.
- embrace queerness
The studio is located on the second floor of the Bussey Building, a former industrial warehouse. Regrettably, there is currently no lift access to this studio.
There are 44 steps, across 5 flights with between 5 and 10 steps each. There is a handrail along the stairs. There are bathrooms on the same floor as the studio.
If there are other ways we can facilitate your access during the workshop, please let us know on the info form when making your booking - or write to us with any questions.
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to participate
- £450 - If you have external funding or are financially secure, you are comfortably able to afford modest luxuries like overseas holidays or to set money aside in savings.
- £360 - If you have a reliable source of income that more than covers your basic financial needs, you don't have to worry about the costs of nights out. Code: WORKSHOP360
- £270 - If your income covers your needs with some left over, but you budget consciously and wouldn’t describe yourself as financially secure. Code: WORKSHOP270
- £180 - If you work for minimum wage or have a similarly low & precarious income. The number of the lowest tier places is limited to three in each workshop. Code: WORKSHOP180
There is the option to pay a £100 deposit, with the balance payable one month before the workshop, or to pay the full amount now.
> Book Sliding Scale Tickets
11.00 - 20.00 (with lunch and dinner breaks)
Saturdays: 20 February, 20 March, 17 April, 15 May, 12 June 2027
STUDIO: Future Ritual, Bussey Building (Yellow Stairs), Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
If you have any questions, please contact Future Ritual:
producing@futureritual.co.uk
emilyn claid and Heidi Rustgaard, SKINNED, Venice International Performance Art Week 2024. Photography by Lorenza Cini.