OUR HOUSE – Sensoria

7 April 2024

Saskia Horton and Sensoria take over the Talent House for the latest edition of OUR HOUSE.

From Friday 22 – Sunday 24 March 2024, Saskia Horton and the Sensoria Team took over the Talent House creating a space to express, educate and exchange through movement and music for disabled, chronically ill and neurodiverse artists and their communities. Saskia and Sensoria’s work centres around co-creation and collaboration with the disabled community, creating safe spaces in the arts. 

Over 3 days they transformed the Talent House into a cosy den for their community, hosting panel discussions, accessible dance, music and arts workshops and an immersive sensory safe cypher jam, all led by disabled practitioners.

“We were incredibly excited to partner with East London Dance on the SENSORIA: OUR HOUSE. This event focused on slowing down, a radical act in today’s society. ‘Slowness’ in practice breaks down ableist standards, and supports artists to care for themselves and have autonomy over their practice.”  Saskia Horton

About Sensoria

Saskia founded Sensoria to build radical accessibility and infrastructures of care into art spaces and to prioritise slowness, sustainability and de-growth. We were therefore delighted to invite them to curate their first major event at the Talent House. 

About OUR HOUSE

OUR HOUSE sees East London Dance hand over curatorial control of the Talent House to a series of commissioned independent artists, producers or collectives. The programme is a key part of our commitment to support the careers and enterprising opportunities for creative freelancers and ensuring our home is a resource for creative communities.

Update

Since this, their first major event, Sensoria have gone from strength to strength continuing to develop their practice of holding space to create similar spaces at Chisenhale, Streatham Project Space, Sadler’s Wells and more.