Along with our partners The Work Room, we announce a new pilot research exchange project Warsaw-Glasgow Express, building deeper connections between Scotland and Poland through performance and choreography.
This initiative centres on two reciprocal festival visits: Take Me Somewhere and The Work Room travel to Warsaw for the Generation After Showcase, hosted at Nowy Teatr in September 2025, then Nowy Teatr will join us in Glasgow during Take Me Somewhere Festival in October 2025 accompanied by a Polish artist.
It will support two associated artists with an embedded professional development experience, networking them with international peers and offering insight into the distinct cultural contexts of Warsaw and Glasgow.
Artists
Kirstin Halliday
Kirstin Halliday (they/them) is a dance artist & performer based in Glasgow who has choreographed, facilitated & performed in diverse contexts including; visual arts, music videos, club nights & community dance workshops. Grounded by their research background in Geography, their movement practice is motivated by the co-generative relation between moving bodies, social space, & interpersonal relations & identities. Their research at University of Glasgow & University of Iceland focused on emotional geographies, the geographies of the body, gender & movement. This research ignited questions relating to bodily agency, identity & resistance through movement, questions that drive their work to date, as they consider the dancing body as a site of queer potentiality & gender fluidity. Their current practice is orientated towards the creation of an absurdist dance-drama about lesbian lizards.
In partnership with The Work Room (Glasgow) and Nowy Teatr (Warsaw), this exchange is supported by Momentum and is supported by the British Council under the UK/Poland Season 2025.
