felicita + Hannan Jones & Samir Kennedy
Sound, movement and form are shaped through modular, improvisatory and performative processes across two new iterative, evolving bodies of work.
Doors: 6.30pm
| Dates | Fri 27 Mar 2026 |
| Times | 7pm |
| Space | Lancaster Rooms, New Wing |
| Price | £20 (General) £15 (Concessions) |
felicita: czysta forma
Composer and artist felicita (Dominik Dvorak) will present a live score from the new ballet czysta forma (pure form), first presented at the Warsaw Pavilion of Dance in January 2026.
Inspired by the ideas of experimental Polish playwright and painter Witkacy (1885-1939), czysta forma is conceived by felicita as an expanding and iterative body of new work, drawing on wide-ranging frames of reference: folk music of the Polish Highlands and free improvisation, classical ballet and pole dance, drone warfare, Ukrainian nursery rhymes, poetry and hypertext.
Building upon elements initiated in the first presentation, this iteration will exchange classical dancers for a string ensemble, and present newly-composed music, perfume, and costume design.
felicita’s czysta forma is commissioned by Somerset House Studios.
Artists In Residence
Hannan Jones & Samir Kennedy: Relay
Relay is a new live performance by Hannan Jones and Samir Kennedy using movement, sound and improvisation. Developed during recent residencies at Triangle-Astérides, Wysing Arts Centre, and further iterated for this year’s Assembly, Relay explores edges and absence, continuation and exhaustion through sonic looping, sound collage, and a combination of improvised and choreographed gesture.
The performance meditates on the artists’ shared Algerian-British identities. Jones and Kennedy map temporal, sonic, and geographical space, connecting points between them, their respective, twinned cities Marseille and Glasgow, and shared histories.
Working with elongated reel-to-reel tape loops that are stretched throughout the space, Jones and Kennedy build a multilayered soundscape that rhythmically returns, drops out and repeats on itself, using contact microphones to sample atmosphere and sounds made by the body in motion. Together, the pair develop a cyclical exchange between sound and choreography, relaying back and forth within sonic space.
Biographies
felicita
felicita (Dominik Dvorak) is an Anglo-Polish composer and avant-pop artist based in London.
felicita explores the folkloric, the phantasmic, the autofictive, and the hyperreal.
felicita has released two albums, hej! (2018), and Spalarkle (2023), is a collaborator of artists Caroline Polachek and A.G. Cook, and has worked widely across theatre, fashion and contemporary art.
Hannan Jones
Hannan Jones is an artist of Algerian and Welsh origin raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, Western Australia, based between Glasgow and Marseille. Research-led and process driven, she practices at the intersections of moving-image, installation and sound.
Jones deep-dives into concepts of hybridity, language, and rhythms that are associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography. Sonically, Jones’ approach is rooted in improvisation, electronics, music concrète, and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material to create alternate possibilities, reclaim parallel histories, and reimagine connections between them. In 2023, she became a recipient of the Oram Awards, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology. She has released sound and music on Optimo Music, Weaponise Your Sound, and 12th Isle, working across a range of collaborations and aliases.
Jones’ work has been featured in numerous presentations and screenings at venues and festivals including FORMA (London); Triangle-Asteriades (Marseille); London Short Film Festival; Selected 13 UK tour; Nottingham Contemporary, Contemporary Centre for Arts, Glasgow, Fabrica, Brighton, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, RCA, London; MENA Film Festival (Vancouver); SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin); Artes Mundi; National Roman Legion Museum (Wales); Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridgeshire); Cafe OTO (London); Counterflows (Glasgow); Edinburgh Art Festival; New Radicalisms (Rotterdam); Tate Lates, Tate Modern; and REWIRE (The Hague).
Samir Kennedy
Samir Kennedy is a queer British/Algerian artist based in Marseille working at the intersections of choreography, performance, sound and video. He discovered performance through a choir concert at primary school, when a voice came out of his mouth that seemingly wasn’t his own. He quickly moved on to musical theatre, finding contemporary dance where he finished his studies at Laban, UK in 2013, eventually graduating from the MA EXERCE programme at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier in 2023.
Since then Kennedy has established a diverse, interdisciplinary practice, working internationally across a range of contexts and roles: as performer, choreographer, director, sound designer and dramaturg working in established theatre venues, underground, experimental spaces, clubs and galleries.
His work engages critically with themes of class, race, otherness, queerness, and abjection, centring the body as a site from which to explore and subvert the deployment of archetypal figures—such as the devil, the zombie, and the clown. He interrogates collective consciousness and cultural symbolism, using these figures as frameworks to examine intersectional identities. His approach blends aestheticised sociological markers with speculative narratives, destabilising conventional representations and proposing alternative realities in which queer existentialism and liminal identities can be explored and reimagined. His formal interests are diverse and reflect the needs of each project but can be always understood as choreographic in their treatment of aural, visual and temporal fields.