Esme Benjamin

@esme.benjamin

Movement Artist | Researcher | Choreographer
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Roots In Motion - May 2026 An evening of dance, music and storytelling exploring migration, roots and identity. Curated by @viviana.creates & @esme.benjamin Photography by @leondoggydogg
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We’re delighted to introduce our Associate Artists ✨ Five brilliant creatives we’ll be supporting as they develop new work, experiment, and grow their practice. Working across disciplines, they’ll help shape our programme, collaborate with others, and create bold new work for our audiences. You can also take a look at our new ‘Associate Artists’ page on our website for artist bios (see link in bio). 📸 @lowcooper_
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MEET THE ARTISTS 🔥⁠ ⁠ Jordan James Douglas⁠ @jordanjdouglas ⁠ ⁠ ⁠S.A.L.A.D⁠ Everyone is dealt a different hand. As we try to improve our odds of success is it luck or skill that determines this. In this game of life any day could be your last, so what do you have left to loose. ⁠ ⁠ Join us for an evening curated by Viviana Rocha & Esme Benjamin of:⁠ ✨️Scratch works ⁠ ✨️Live performances ⁠ ✨️Plus an explosive Flamenco x K.R.U.M.P afterparty⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Supported by @hoxtonhall ⁠ ⁠ Jordan is a versatile dance artist and educator who earned a BA (Hons) in Dance from Kingston University in 2015. During his studies, he began performing with hip-hop theatre company Far From The Norm in 2014 launching a dynamic performance career becoming a creative associate in 2025. ⁠ ⁠ During his tenure with the company, he has trained in a plethora of Street styles, but his main practice lies in Krump. Joining Buckness Personified in 2015, he has trained with Duwane Taylor and is currently mentored by Tony ‘No Script’ Ndoumba and Mark ‘Brui5er’ Sheets.⁠
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ROOTS IN MOTION 🪩⁠ Step into a night where movement crosses borders and stories come alive ⁠ ⁠ 📅 3 May 2026, 5.00pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, London, N1 6SH⁠ 💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Curated by Viviana Rocha & Esme Benjamin, An unforgettable evening of dance, music and storytelling exploring migration, roots and identity.⁠ ⁠ ✨️ Scratch works ⁠ ✨️Live performances ⁠ ✨️An explosive Flamenco x K.R.U.M.P afterparty⁠ ⁠ Featuring (from left to right):⁠ Fin de Fiesta @fin.de.fiesta ⁠ Francis Angol @movement.angol.dance ⁠ Shereen Saif @shereensaifme ⁠ Esme Benjamin @esme.benjamin ⁠ Viviana Rocha @viviana.creates ⁠ Toetric (Teo Ruffini Maiques) @toetric ⁠ Jordan James Douglas @jordanjdouglas ⁠ Alex Kamienski @alexkamienski ⁠ ⁠ Fin de Fiesta Photo Credit⁠ Photographer: Jon Archdeacon @jonarchdeacon@cabrole.arts @patricialanga ⁠ ⁠ Supported by @hoxtonhall ⁠ ⁠ #DanceTheatre #ContemporaryDance #KRUMP #Flamenco #LondonArts #HoxtonHall #ScratchNight #MovementCulture #LivePerformance ⁠
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MEET THE ARTISTS 🔥⁠ ⁠ " " by Francis Angol⁠ @movement.angol.dance ⁠ ⁠Do you see what I see, or do you see what you want to see that I see for to see is not to see! I see.⁠ ⁠ Join us for an evening curated by Viviana Rocha & Esme Benjamin of:⁠ ✨️Scratch works ⁠ ✨️Live performances ⁠ ✨️Plus an explosive Flamenco x K.R.U.M.P afterparty⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Supported by @hoxtonhall ⁠ ⁠ Francis Angol is a seasoned dance artist with over four decades of experience, whose work has significantly enriched British dance culture through an expansive body of courses, classes, and performances. Throughout his career, he has cultivated a distinctive artistic voice grounded in both practice and exploration working within the landscape of dance of the African Diaspora and Western Contemporary dance, underpinned by Somatic practice.⁠ ⁠ Now in his senior years, Francis continues to engage in creative play, deepening his investigation into the body as a spiritual phenomenon, an expressive presence that bridges being and existence. His work invites the self to unfold within a dynamic landscape where movement, dance, and rhythm become powerful tools for discovery, connection, and expression.
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Meet Our K.R.U.M.P. meets Flamenco Artist🔥⁠ ⁠Amanda Pefkou | Siren ⁠The Oracle⁠ @amanda.pefkou ⁠ ⁠ A Fin De Fiesta and Riptide Collaboration⁠ ⁠@fin.de.fiesta @krumpspace ⁠ ⁠ Expect live music mixed with Flamenco and K.R.U.M.P. improvisation from exceptional dancers, followed by a party where you can join in too!⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Supported by @hoxtonhall ⁠ ⁠ #dance #performance #krump #flamenco
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K.R.U.M.P. meets Flamenco 🔥⁠ ⁠ A Fin De Fiesta and Riptide Collaboration⁠ ⁠@fin.de.fiesta @krumpspace ⁠ ⁠ Expect live music mixed with Flamenco and K.R.U.M.P. improvisation from exceptional dancers.⁠ ⁠ Followed by a party where you can join in too!⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Supported by @hoxtonhall ⁠ ⁠ RIPTIDE Photographer: Leon Doggy Dog⁠ ⁠@leondoggydogg ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Fin de Fiesta Photo Credit⁠ Photographer: Jon Archdeacon @jonarchdeacon@cabrole.arts @patricialanga ⁠ ⁠ #dance #performance #krump #flamenco
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Meet Our K.R.U.M.P. meets Flamenco Artist🔥⁠ Duwane Taylor | Big Discipline @duwanetaylor ⁠ ⁠ A Fin De Fiesta and Riptide Collaboration⁠ ⁠@fin.de.fiesta @krumpspace ⁠ ⁠ Expect live music mixed with Flamenco and K.R.U.M.P. improvisation from exceptional dancers, followed by a party where you can join in too!⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Supported by @hoxtonhall ⁠ ⁠ Duwane Taylor is a highly respected, versatile and pioneering performer and choreographer from Tottenham, North London. His love for music drew him to begin studying ballet and contemporary for two years, at the barnet college. During this time he developed a love and passion for the street dance styles and over the next few years began to train and gain as much knowledge as possible with the motto versatility is key.⁠ ⁠ Though well-versed in many street styles he grew particularly close to the style of Krump and began to research, learn and develop further in the Krump style. In 2012, Duwane created pioneering Krump crew Buckness Personified, which developed and evolved throughout the years challenging the way Krump was viewed and perceived, making waves in the Krump community both nationally and internationally. For many years Duwane has pioneered the Krump theatre movement, constantly breaking barriers and boundaries for this often misunderstood style, utilising his knowledge in various performance disciplines to elevate his work. ⁠ ⁠ His Choreography Credits include⁠ Breakin Convention, East Wall Warm up 2016 (Hofesh Schecter & East London dance), Hip Hop Summit, Into the hoods (zoonation), The Madhatters Tea Party (Zoonation), Over the Edge (Boy Blue), Physical Justice (ELD) Resolution 2018, East Wall 2018 (Hofesh Schecter & East London dance), San Francisco International Hip Hop Festival, Conform 2 Rebel 2018 ⁠ ⁠ Photo credit Simon Adrians⁠ ⁠ #dance #performance #krump #flamenco
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MEET THE ARTISTS 🔥⁠ ⁠ Friday Night Service by Viviana Rocha⁠ @viviana.creates ⁠ ⁠ Friday Night Service is a spiritual crisis disguised as a dance piece, or possibly the other way around. A believer goes looking for a sign from God and finds only chatty silence, a frazzled narrator, and a roundabout of choices that offers infinity and delivers nothing.⁠ ⁠ Inspired by (mostly) true events and childhood bewilderment, it opens a larger exploration of faith, doubt, and metaphors that refuse to end.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Join us for an evening curated by Viviana Rocha & Esme Benjamin of:⁠ ✨️Scratch works ⁠ ✨️Live performances ⁠ ✨️Plus an explosive Flamenco x K.R.U.M.P afterparty⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠
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MEET THE ARTISTS 🔥⁠ ⁠ Crucifixion of a Pleaser⁠ by Toetric (Teo Ruffini Maiques)⁠ @toetric ⁠ ⁠ A pleaser, a martyr, a saint, a deer, a g0d. Crucifixion of a Pleaser presents a body conditioned and performed, suspended between devotion and the ache to be seen. Under the pressure of the gaze, faith destabilises into shame, and visibility becomes a form of penetration. What begins as an offering fractures, collapsing into something corrupted and uncanny.⁠ ⁠ Join us for an evening curated by Viviana Rocha & Esme Benjamin of:⁠ ✨️Scratch works ⁠ ✨️Live performances ⁠ ✨️Plus an explosive Flamenco x K.R.U.M.P afterparty⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Teo Ruffini is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and pole dancer based between Barcelona and London. Working under the name TOE/Toetric, their practice moves across performance, dance, digital art, and sound, exploring the relationship between body, technology, and sensory experience.⁠ ⁠ Their work sits at the intersection of choreographic practice, immersive installation, and live performance, often investigating cycles of exhaustion and exuberance that shape contemporary life, as well as the sexualisation and control of bodies through movement. Drawing from both physical and digital environments, Teo creates pieces that blur the boundaries between presence and mediation, intimacy and spectacle.⁠ ⁠ They have developed projects such as Spectral Resonator (MACBA, Colección SOLO) and ENAKD, and have presented work internationally in contexts including Sónar, Davos, and San Francisco. They are also part of the collective project Multiplicity, shown in festivals such as MIRA and GRID Fest.⁠ ⁠
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K.R.U.M.P. meets Flamenco 🔥⁠ ⁠ A Fin De Fiesta and Riptide Collaboration⁠ ⁠@fin.de.fiesta @krumpspace ⁠ ⁠ Expect live music mixed with Flamenco and K.R.U.M.P. improvisation from exceptional dancers, followed by a party where you can join in too!⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Photographer: Leon Doggy Dog⁠ ⁠@leondoggydogg ⁠ ⁠ #dance #performance #krump #flamenco
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K.R.U.M.P. meets Flamenco 🔥⁠ ⁠ A Fin De Fiesta and Riptide Collaboration⁠ ⁠@fin.de.fiesta @krumpspace ⁠ ⁠ Expect live music mixed with Flamenco and K.R.U.M.P. improvisation from exceptional dancers, followed by a party where you can join in too!⁠ ⁠ 📆 Sun 3 May 2026, 5pm⁠ 📍 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London, N1 6SH⁠ ⁠💷 Tickets from £5 (plus £2.50 booking fee)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Fin de Fiesta Photo Credit⁠ Photographer: Jon Archdeacon @jonarchdeacon@cabrole.arts @patricialanga ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #dance #performance #krump #flamenco
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