Metal & Water is a new production company for dance.

We work closely with artists to co-create the optimal conditions for the creation and sharing of dance and choreography; resourced, generative, emergent and multiple.

We are a team of dance-specific producers and curators. Metal & Water was founded by Nancy May Roberts and brought into being through close co-holding and collaboration with Lauren Wright, Elsabet Yonas and Lucia Fortune-Ely.

  • We are a production body for dance; we produce live performances, dance-on-screen and participatory programmes.
  • Metal & Water productions primarily sit in the post-disciplinary trajectory - stemming from dance and choreography and extending across contexts from film, music and theatre to fashion, design, visual arts and architecture.
  • We contribute to the ecology of the art form through producing new works of the highest calibre across a breadth of contexts and for wide-reaching audiences.
  • We support choreographers who deeply enquire into dance’s capacity for reimagining relation and being together. We currently work in collaboration with 10 brilliant choreographers and dance companies. We act as their lead producers.
  • We initiate, curate and deliver project collaborations across commercial, independent, media, community and social-health care contexts.
  • We establish projects with partners to expand access to dance and choreography practice - with artists who are part of our portfolio and with a wider network of national and international dance artists, choreographers and specialist practitioners.

Contact

Nancy May Roberts

nancy@metalwater.co

Lucia Fortune-Ely

lucia@metalwater.co

Lauren A Wright

lauren@metalwater.co