Two Solos: Yuka’s Find That Spring & Ivy’s My Life as a Dancer?

Overview

This shared evening brings together two solo studio works that emerge from embodied research.

Both works trace personal and collective landscapes, drifting between moving, writing, and speaking, and unfolding the quiet power of being present.

From Yuka’s improvisational performance inspired by their self-published zine Find That Spring, to Ivy’s evolving solo My Life as a Dancer?, each piece offers a tender invitation into an imaginative and poetic space, where movement is a vessel for memory.

Book-launching performance for Find That Spring

A solo work by Yuka Hayashi

Yuka’s performance follows the self-publishing of a zine called Find That Spring. The zine is a collection of Yuka’s movement journal during a few weeks last winter— exploring embodied imagery, fluidity of the body, and the felt sense of boundary and boundaryless-ness.

Through improvising, Yuka seeks a resolution for the dilemmas between desires to connect with others and to feel at home by myself— how to be alone together. A book opens a space for coexisting between a reader and writer, winding time and space. Yuka explores their moving body as a melting pot of archived time and time being archived, aiming to let the body emerge as a multi-dimensional poetry.

The audience may be invited to be on the floor or move around the studio during the performance. The audience will be offered the zine at a launch price.

My Life as a Dancer?

A solo work by Ivy Tsui

Drifting between memory and motion, My Life as a Dancer? is an intimate return to the stage by Hong Kong-born, London-based dance artist Ivy Tsui.

Through fragments of movement, spoken word, images, and personal objects, Ivy reflects on the shifting shape of a dancing life: asking how to keep dancing, and what remains in the act of return.

First created as a short solo for the 49th Hong Kong Arts Festival, the work has grown across forms: from stage to screen, from live presence to installation. In 2023, during her MFA research at Trinity Laban, Ivy reimagined the piece as a three-hour durational work, choreographing through booklets, scores, and film — without stepping on stage.

Now, she chooses to be present again.
To move.
To be seen.

A quietly loud love letter to dance, and all it continues to carry.

Photo Credit: Terry Tsang, Ivy Tsui

Venue & Timeframe

18:00 Space Open
18:30 Start
20:30 Open floor / Q&A
21:00 Space Close

• The performance order will be confirmed at a later date. We will follow up with further details via email.
• There will be an interval between the two works.
• This is a general framework: apart from the fixed start time, we are keeping the schedule flexible to accommodate any necessary adjustments.

Event hosted at Roof Studio at Siobhan Davies Studios (SE1 6ER).

Ticket

£7/£10/£15 + booking fee

The ticket price is set to help cover the cost of the venue. If the price poses a difficulty for you, please feel free to reach out to us.

Artist bio

Yuka Hayashi (林由夏, she/they) is a movement-based interdisciplinary artist, who finished their MFA in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban in 2024. Yuka’s current practice includes performance-making and embodied writing that draws on improvising and remembering. In their master’s and ongoing research, Yuka coins the term “home body”, which implies the concept of the body as a home, and its conceptual, felt, and physical fluidity. Yuka’s movement practice has been impacted by various somatic movement practices, such as Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique. Recent works includes “Find That Spring” (a book, self-published in March 2025); “a duet with the invisible to be hopeful” (a performance, presented at Queer Club, part of Company Jinks’ Mindful Movement Festival, hosted and supported by East London Dance); “You don’t want to lose me” (a film, screened at Boreal Screendance Festival in Akureyri, Iceland). Yuka was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has been based in London, the United Kingdom, since 2022.

IG: @yuka.h_23
https://linktr.ee/yukahayashi

Ivy TSUI (徐奕婕 Yik Chit TSUI, she/her) is a London-based dance artist from Hong Kong. Her interdisciplinary practice spans dance-making, moving image, and writing, rooted in somatic awareness and improvisation. With over twenty years of experience, her work explores memory, identity, language, and the evolving presence of the dancing body.

Ivy holds an MFA in Creative Practice: Dance Professional from Trinity Laban and a BFA from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Her project My Life as a Dancer? has taken shape across solo performance, installation, and film. Its second chapter was screened at Jumping Frames, Light Moves, and Multiplé Dance Festival.

She contributed to the Choreo-Word-Graphy column in dance journal/hk (2020–2023) and presented her archive-based research at the 34th SIBMAS Conference – Hong Kong. Recent collaborations include The Pipa Walkers with pipa player Eveline Wong, exploring music, embodiment, and cultural memory.

IG/FB: @danceivydance
W: www.ivytsui.com