Happenings

Here you can find out about ENSEMBLE DANS-TANK happenings ~ Performances, Workshops, Labs and Festivals

Below are regular, upcoming, on-going and past events

REGULAR

On the Celtic turns of the year Hayley performs in the ‘wild space’ of the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement. In North London, in a gift economy. To receive regular or one-off invitations for these gatherings write here. Dates included below in upcoming happenings.

Connect to the Sanctuary on the Fault Line movement

UPCOMING

30.10.25 Burial of the (Witches’) Women: A Dancing Intervention, part of Dancing Lost Gestures, London wilds, UK. Write here to be on the invite list. These dances in the London Wilds take place in a gift economy

02.11.25 Burial of the (Witches’) Women and Samhain Supper, Ashley Court, Devon, UK

21.12.25 Leaping from Poverty of Spirit, Sanctuary on the Fault Line Performance, London wilds, UK. Write here to be on the invite list. These dances in the London Wilds take place in a gift economy

Wind, Retreats, part of Dancing Lost Gestures, ONLINE - date tbc

26.04.26 Re-membering Earth, Worksio part of Dancing Lost Gestures, Oxfordshire, UK

02.05.26 Wind, part of Dancing Lost Gestures, London, UK

ON-GOING

Sanctuary on the Fault Line Talks - coming back soon!

PAST

13-14.09.25 Deep Light, part of Dancing Lost Gestures, London, UK

27.09.25 Landing x The Wild Circle, Gloucestershire, UK

17.09.25 Sanctuary on the Fault Line Performance, London wilds, UK. Contact for invitation, this dance takes place in the wild in a gift economy

17.03.24 Spells for the End of This World, Sanctuary on the Fault Line 4th Annual Gathering, London

15.02.2019 Talk on the Relationship between Dancing and Rolfing in our Flying Solo project. Dance City, Newcastle, UK.

27.04.2019 Home Solo, St Barnabas Church, London

27.04.2019 Daakye, part of Flying Solo, The Noyam Institute of Dance, Dodowa, Ghana.

28.04. 2019: FRACTALS, part of Flying Solo, The People’s Forest Project, Waltham Forest Borough of Culture, London, UK

05.05.2019 Flying Solo work in progress sharing, The Peripheral Spaces Project, Hastings, UK

13.05.2019 Flying Solo Triple Bill, Brighton Spiegeltent, Brighton, UK

18.03.2019: Flying Solo Triple Bill, The People’s Forest, Waltham Forest Borough of Culture, London, UK

06.09.2019 - 08/09/2019 3 day Flying Solo Intensive, for any solo performance artist, led by theatre practitioner Martin Gent and Dancer/Rolfer Hayley Matthews, Winn’s Gallery, London

19.10.2019: Flying Solo Triple Bill, Noyam Institute of Dance, Dodowa, Ghana

5-7.12.2019 Flown, Flying Solo Exhibition, a photographic and sound exhibition by Alistair H M Simmons, Winn’s Gallery, London, UK

18.04.2018 Home Solo, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich UK

23-24.05.2018 Home Solo, Brighton Spiegel Tent, Brighton Fringe Festival, Brighton UK

28.06.2018 Home Solo, The House of St Barnabas, London, UK

15.11.2018 Home Solo, United Solo Festival, New York, USA

2016 Still in the City, Norwich Puppet Theatre, Norwich, UK

2016 Still in the City, Sheringham Little Theatre, UK

2016 Still in the City, Wells Maltings, UK

2016 Still in the City, Norfolk Libraries Tour

2015: Still in the City, OPENEaling, London, UK

2015 Still in the City, Tanz Fabrik, Berlin, Germany