Ella Pileggi
Making Connections is a monthly free drop in event for Swindon and Southwest creatives that offers a held space for arts professionals and community artists to be together. Each session will have a practical component (2-hour workshop led by a guest artist), which will be followed by a networking/informal meet facilitated by the Making Connections team. The Making Connections team are Adrienne Hart (Artistic Director, Neon Dance) and Sarah Ferris (Swindon based dance artist and teacher).
“Adrienne and I spoke about a desire for a space to improvise, be creative with others, to bring regional based creatives together for personal and professional development, to feel embedded within a community and to be inspired.”
Where: Swindon Dance
When: Monthly 1.30pm - 4.30pm until November 2025. See our Neon Dance Events page for more details.
Guest artist: Ella Pileggi
Ella is a movement artist and director based between London and Wiltshire. Her own work bridges movement, art, and moving image, through imagination and stories. She has most recently collaborated in projects with Cecelia Fiona, Holly Blakey, and Shelley Maxwell, and toured with Bodies in Action.
In this workshop we will explore how we perceive inner and communal space, and our relationships within, through movement, stillness, and slow motion. Beginning with a warm up of yoga, and practices of listening in, we will then move through guided improvisations individually and as a group.
NB: we appreciate that it can be challenging to find a spare three hours each month and would therefore welcome anyone who can commit to the workshop but not the networking (or vice versa). It is our intention to work with and curate an offer for local creatives and we hope to grow and adapt this initiative with those who take part.
Please complete the form to register.
Be sure to let us know which Making Connections session/s you wish to attend.