Biography
Charlie approaches choreographic practice as a space for perceptual enquiry — a way of testing what can be seen, sensed, and understood through the body. His work treats imagination as material, using performance to make visible forms of attention, relation, and experience that are not always immediately apparent. He established Wainsgate Dances as an artist-led site for choreographic enquiry.
Markéta has an artistic background in contemporary and traditional dance, puppet theatre and clowning. Her dance projects are characterised by intergenerational and multicultural collaboration. As a dance artist, she seeks ways to express and communicate her personal experience as a dancer with a different physicality.
Both Charlie and Markéta are engaged in movement as a site of enquiry, working with physical, perceptual, and imaginative processes. Charlie’s work focuses on attention and how shifts in focus shape perception. Markéta works closely with the specificities of her body as a dancer with one leg, using movement as a way of articulating lived experience. They both create work across diverse contexts, often outside traditional theatre spaces.
