Grounding Practice: Disruption and Innovation with Metal & Water
A Grounding Practice salon offering insights, practical tools, and methodologies for artists working across performance.
| Dates | Thurs 16 Jul 2026 |
| Times | 5.30–7.30 pm |
| Space | Snooker Rooms, New Wing |
| Price | £5 |
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In this session, Founder and Director of Metal & Water, Nancy May Roberts, shares what it means to sustain and grow a performance practice within a landscape of permanent flux. Through case studies of past projects, Nancy unpacks the process of developing dance and performance work from independent art spaces to new commercial platforms.
Artists will gain insights into commissioning processes, funding structures and how to negotiate institutional systems in the current cultural landscape. With real-world examples serving as a jumping-off point to spark discussion, artists are invited to contribute and reflect in an informal and open setting, leaving with tangible takeaways.
About Metal & Water
Nancy May Roberts is the Founder and Director of Metal & Water, a London-grown, end-to-end production house dedicated to dance. Metal & Water develops and produces dance content across live performance and screen, distributing and touring work in collaboration with leading cultural partners. The first global production house of its kind, Metal & Water develops and produces major commissions and independent new work in collaboration with world-leading artists, directors, and choreographers, including JaQuel Knight, Holly Blakey and SERAFINE 1369.
With thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation
