Liverpool Dance Prize | 2026
Thursday 30th April
7:30pm
Five emerging dance artists have been awarded £750 to create new work, and will compete for a further development grant of £1000: Joseph Thomas Adamson’s Parallel Pulse is a contemporary dance duet that investigates the complex and contradictory ways the body and mind respond to significant life events or trauma. Zara Phillips & Natassa Argyropoulou’s work explores dance as a universal act of celebration; as lived, communal experience, fusing Greek traditional dance forms with contemporary movement language.
Inspired by the techniques of Taekwondo, Tai Chi and Judo, Aimee Gerrard’s will present an ensemble piece centring energetic yet precise movements. Inspired by the five elements, Hui-Hsin Lu’s choreography combines the fluidity of contemporary dance with the extension, line, and body articulation characteristic of traditional Chinese dance elements. Confrontational but compassionate, Laura Macy’s new work aims to challenge the beliefs and behaviours that young men are often socialised into, and contribute to long-term cultural change through dance. Artists from Liverpool Dance Prize 2024 went on to present work at Edinburgh Fringe, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival and at Turn North West.