A visually stunning and playful night of new contemporary dance, part of Resolution Festival 2025 at The Place in London. Showcasing new works by Lily Kind, Orla Hardie, and Blue Ka Wing.

In I’ve got a tape I wanna play, Lily Kind has created a surreal celebration of music and its slippery role in daily life. Together with dancers Chelsea Murphy, Chloe Marie, Elizabeth Weinstein, and Dylan Smythe, Kind performs a climactic concert, bringing together house, waacking, vernacular jazz, and post-modern dance in a series of vignettes devoted to the unexpected bookmarks songs place in the pages of our lives. 

Lily Kind is known as “a real find” and for her “idiosyncratic vision that usually flies under the radar” (Broad Street Review). Recently having made London her second home, Kind returns to Philly to continue presenting her improvised, ensemble performance work, such as Wolfthicket (2021) which thinkingDance called “a sheer blast”. Kind, called a ‘kinetic polyglot’ by the Baltimore Sun, is the former associate director for Vince Johnson at Urban Movement Arts, co-founder of Ragtag Empire, and in 2024 joined the House of Suraj, London. She braids together many strands of Black Vernacular movement styles including Lindy Hop and Waacking. Most recently, she co-created Honey or Hunting with Dylan Smythe, a Wolfthicket off-shot adapted to Egyptian dancers for Cairo’s Breaking Walls Festival, 2024.