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Tonny A. performs at Peopling The Palaces Festival, London, Saturday 07th June 2025
I’ll be performing at Peopling The Palaces (Resistance) on Saturday 07th June 2025 for the Festival’s Live Art Day.
I’ll be making a durational performance, 140822,from 3 to 6pm, conceived specifically for the Festival.
140822 is a poetic reflection on the concepts of identity and representation of self.
I’ll be performing alongside other artists including Julia Bardsley, Ash McNaughton, Ewan Hindes and Lynn Lu.
Curated by Martin O’Brien, this day of live art brings together an intergenerational group of artists performing over a three-hour duration across multiple spaces in the ArtsOne Building at Queen Mary University.
All works are presented from 3 to 6pm & the audience is welcome to move between them all, coming and going as they like.
Tickets for the entrance are free and can be booked online.
Saturday 07th June 2025
Peopling The Palaces - Resistance
Live Art Day
ArtsOne Building
Queen Mary University
Mile End, London, UK
Performances start at 3pm (BST)
Free Entry (Online Reservation)
For further information, click here
To book tickets, click here
* Tonny A. performing The Drumming Experience of OneSelf at SPILL Festival in 2018, photo by Christa Holka
I’ll be making a durational performance, 140822,from 3 to 6pm, conceived specifically for the Festival.
140822 is a poetic reflection on the concepts of identity and representation of self.
I’ll be performing alongside other artists including Julia Bardsley, Ash McNaughton, Ewan Hindes and Lynn Lu.
Curated by Martin O’Brien, this day of live art brings together an intergenerational group of artists performing over a three-hour duration across multiple spaces in the ArtsOne Building at Queen Mary University.
All works are presented from 3 to 6pm & the audience is welcome to move between them all, coming and going as they like.
Tickets for the entrance are free and can be booked online.
Saturday 07th June 2025
Peopling The Palaces - Resistance
Live Art Day
ArtsOne Building
Queen Mary University
Mile End, London, UK
Performances start at 3pm (BST)
Free Entry (Online Reservation)
For further information, click here
To book tickets, click here
* Tonny A. performing The Drumming Experience of OneSelf at SPILL Festival in 2018, photo by Christa Holka
Tonny A. performs Version of Me at Le Grand Hospice, Brussels, May 08th - 10th, 2025
I'm very pleased to announce I'll perform my dance piece in Brussels at La Chapelle du Grand Hospice for three nights in May 08th, 09th & 10th 2025:
"London-based French performer and live artist Tonny A. comes with his new dance performance, Version of Me, to le Grand Hospice on the 08th May 2025 for three nights.
Set in La Chapelle du Grand hospice, Version of Me is a sensual, physical and sensorial self-portrait mixing butoh, dance improvisation and performance art. Conceived and performed by Tonny, this 60’ solo piece dissects, questions and ultimately recompose a fractured picture of the nature of self.
Tonny says: “Exploring my identity and my physicality is one of the constant themes in my work. With this piece, I’m looking into it from the inside, trying to tap into hidden areas of my body, into my senses, into my personal vision of my place in society, in the current artistic landscape to come face to face with the nature of myself. It’s not a revival. It’s not a plea. It’s survival.”
Tonny A. is a performer, dancer and live artist who makes live performances at the margins of dance, physical theatre and performance art. Through his work, Tonny is interested in pushing the conventional aesthetics of masculinity and in subverting the traditional codes around the representation of the (male) body. After performing his work for many years primarily in London, Tonny has recently branched out on a more international level. Having performed at Tic Tac Art centre in Anderlecht, last Autumn, Tonny A. is thrilled to return to Belgium to perform at le Grand Hospice to share his first full-length piece in a decade and to build a further connection with Brussels’ cosmopolitan audience.
About Tonny A.’s previous works: “A show so unique and both visually stimulating and thought-provoking” (Afridiziak on Women in Me)
For further information or press enquiries, please contact Tonny A. - [email protected] or +44 75 1350 3136
Version of Me
Choreographed & performed by Tonny A.
Dates: 08th/09th/10th May 2025
Time: 8.30pm
Tickets: €10
Venue: Le Grand Hospice, Rue du Grand Hospice, 7, 1000 Bruxelles
Public Transports: Metro Sainte-Catherine (Lines 1&5), Bus stop Béguinage (Bus 46)
Tickets Information: www.tonnyarties.com
or www.facebook.com/sweetsorsour
*Poster photography: Will Wilcox
Poster Design: José Gomez (https://www.josegomezart.com/)
"London-based French performer and live artist Tonny A. comes with his new dance performance, Version of Me, to le Grand Hospice on the 08th May 2025 for three nights.
Set in La Chapelle du Grand hospice, Version of Me is a sensual, physical and sensorial self-portrait mixing butoh, dance improvisation and performance art. Conceived and performed by Tonny, this 60’ solo piece dissects, questions and ultimately recompose a fractured picture of the nature of self.
Tonny says: “Exploring my identity and my physicality is one of the constant themes in my work. With this piece, I’m looking into it from the inside, trying to tap into hidden areas of my body, into my senses, into my personal vision of my place in society, in the current artistic landscape to come face to face with the nature of myself. It’s not a revival. It’s not a plea. It’s survival.”
Tonny A. is a performer, dancer and live artist who makes live performances at the margins of dance, physical theatre and performance art. Through his work, Tonny is interested in pushing the conventional aesthetics of masculinity and in subverting the traditional codes around the representation of the (male) body. After performing his work for many years primarily in London, Tonny has recently branched out on a more international level. Having performed at Tic Tac Art centre in Anderlecht, last Autumn, Tonny A. is thrilled to return to Belgium to perform at le Grand Hospice to share his first full-length piece in a decade and to build a further connection with Brussels’ cosmopolitan audience.
About Tonny A.’s previous works: “A show so unique and both visually stimulating and thought-provoking” (Afridiziak on Women in Me)
For further information or press enquiries, please contact Tonny A. - [email protected] or +44 75 1350 3136
Version of Me
Choreographed & performed by Tonny A.
Dates: 08th/09th/10th May 2025
Time: 8.30pm
Tickets: €10
Venue: Le Grand Hospice, Rue du Grand Hospice, 7, 1000 Bruxelles
Public Transports: Metro Sainte-Catherine (Lines 1&5), Bus stop Béguinage (Bus 46)
Tickets Information: www.tonnyarties.com
or www.facebook.com/sweetsorsour
*Poster photography: Will Wilcox
Poster Design: José Gomez (https://www.josegomezart.com/)
Sweet Melancholy at Cinema Nova's Open Screen, Thursday 1st May 2025
My short dance film Sweet Melancholy will be shown at Cinema Nova (in Brussels) as part of their Open Screens platform.
Sweet Melancholy is an ode to personal freedom. It was made during the Covid-19 Pandemic as a way to confront and exorcise the feelings of uncertainty, internal anxiety and irrelevancy both as a human being and artist that I was carrying at the time by embracing and celebrating the moments of joy I could find or create.
Thursday 1st May 2025
Open Screen
Cinema Nova
Brussels, Belgium
Evening start at 8pm (GMT)
Free Entry
For more information, click here or here
*Photo by Tonny A.
Sweet Melancholy is an ode to personal freedom. It was made during the Covid-19 Pandemic as a way to confront and exorcise the feelings of uncertainty, internal anxiety and irrelevancy both as a human being and artist that I was carrying at the time by embracing and celebrating the moments of joy I could find or create.
Thursday 1st May 2025
Open Screen
Cinema Nova
Brussels, Belgium
Evening start at 8pm (GMT)
Free Entry
For more information, click here or here
*Photo by Tonny A.
Tonny A. at Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot, Peckham Levels, April 10th, 2025
I'll be performing a new expanded version of my dance solo at Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot, at Peckham Levels.
"Our regular night to showcase work from the cutting edge of London's underground performance and art scene is back for another beautiful, messy and full-throated season of entertainment." (PL)
Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot is an evening of drag, performance art, radical weird stuff, liberation from today’s costly world, and a place for performance to buffer and polish. The evening combines the all-singing, sometime-dancing, spirited chaos of Midgitte Bardot with some special guests from the worlds of Live Art, dance, drag, music, and radical hoo-ha.
Midgitte Bardot’s Personal Spot returns for its second season on Thursday 10th April with the eponymous powerhouse Midgitte Bardot, the punky loudmouth Ms Sharon Legrand and darling danseur Tonny A.
.
Thursday 10th April 2025
Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot
Peckham Levels ( The Gig Space, Level 5)
London, UK
Doors open at 7.30pm
Evening starts at 8pm
For more information, click here
* photos by various sources & Will Wilcox
"Our regular night to showcase work from the cutting edge of London's underground performance and art scene is back for another beautiful, messy and full-throated season of entertainment." (PL)
Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot is an evening of drag, performance art, radical weird stuff, liberation from today’s costly world, and a place for performance to buffer and polish. The evening combines the all-singing, sometime-dancing, spirited chaos of Midgitte Bardot with some special guests from the worlds of Live Art, dance, drag, music, and radical hoo-ha.
Midgitte Bardot’s Personal Spot returns for its second season on Thursday 10th April with the eponymous powerhouse Midgitte Bardot, the punky loudmouth Ms Sharon Legrand and darling danseur Tonny A.
.
Thursday 10th April 2025
Midgitte Bardot's Personal Spot
Peckham Levels ( The Gig Space, Level 5)
London, UK
Doors open at 7.30pm
Evening starts at 8pm
For more information, click here
* photos by various sources & Will Wilcox
Movement Improvisation Workshop, February 09th, 2025
"What does it mean to be Present? What does it mean to be Here in the Room? And how do we let this inner state guide our movements and flow? "
This 3-hour dance workshop focuses on movement improvisation and abstract composition. We’ll be using our understanding of presence and spatial awareness as stimuli to create moments of improvisation that will allow us to experiment with the physicality of our bodies in motion.
Through a variety of tasks and exercises, we’ll be encouraged to tap deeper into our imagination and our personal perception of our surroundings. As well, there'll be short moments to exchange our thoughts on what we’ll be experiencing.
This workshop is open-level for professional dancers, actors, performers of any background interested in exploring their own creativity and physicality through movement improvisation. The workshop welcomes up to a maximum of 15 participants and places are limited.
The workshop starts at 2pm. Doors will be open 15 to 20 minutes before for individual warm up.
Movement Improvisation Workshop
Sunday 09th February 2025
2-5pm
Fourth Monkey
The Attic Studio
97-101 Seven Sisters Road, London N7 7QP
Price: £15 (To pay at the door) - Free online registration
Find more information/Register: Here
*Photo by Tonny A.
Tonny A. at Crude Saturdays, Tic Tac Art Centre, November 16th 2024
I'll be performing my new dance solo at Tic Tac Art Centre's Open Performance Platform, Crude Saturdays.
Crude Saturdays is a bimonthly performance platform open to artists from the performing arts to show their work in a raw and welcoming setting.
I'll be performing a solo piece - which is still untitled - as part of a performance evening often full of surprises and raw happenings.
The evening is open to a physical audience while also being streamed live on the night.
Saturday 16th November 2024
Crude Saturdays
Tic Tac Art Centre
Brussels, Belgium
Evening starts at 6pm (GMT)
For more information, click here or here
*Photo by Will Wilcox
Crude Saturdays is a bimonthly performance platform open to artists from the performing arts to show their work in a raw and welcoming setting.
I'll be performing a solo piece - which is still untitled - as part of a performance evening often full of surprises and raw happenings.
The evening is open to a physical audience while also being streamed live on the night.
Saturday 16th November 2024
Crude Saturdays
Tic Tac Art Centre
Brussels, Belgium
Evening starts at 6pm (GMT)
For more information, click here or here
*Photo by Will Wilcox
Tonny A. at Crude Saturdays, Tic Tac Art Centre, November 18th 2023
I'll be performing my new dance solo at Tic Tac Art Centre's Open Performance Platform, Crude Saturdays.
Crude Saturdays is a bimonthly performance platform open to artists from the performing arts to show their work in a raw and welcoming setting.
I'll be performing a solo piece - which is still untitled - as part of a performance evening often full of surprises and raw happenings.
The evening is open to a physical audience while also being streamed live on the night.
Saturday 18th November 2023
Crude Saturdays
Tic Tac Art Centre
Brussels, Belgium
Evening starts at 5pm (GMT)
For more information, click here or here
*Photo by Tonny A.
Tower Hamlets Black History Month Photo-Open Exhibition 2020
I'm thrilled to take part in Tower Hamlets Black History Month Photo-Open Exhibition 2020.
Two photos from my ongoing collaboration with fine artist and photographer William Wilcox and of my durational piece The Drumming Experience of OneSelf at SPILL2018, taken by Christa Holka, will be on display among other works from a variety of photographers for the whole month of October.
The dynamic online exhibition comments on black lives past and present and the issues that confront them, creating a collection of photographs which deal with themes of identity, gender, body representation and community.
The exhibition is free and can be seen here.
Two photos from my ongoing collaboration with fine artist and photographer William Wilcox and of my durational piece The Drumming Experience of OneSelf at SPILL2018, taken by Christa Holka, will be on display among other works from a variety of photographers for the whole month of October.
The dynamic online exhibition comments on black lives past and present and the issues that confront them, creating a collection of photographs which deal with themes of identity, gender, body representation and community.
The exhibition is free and can be seen here.
Walking into Being - Improvisation Workshop (February 09th, 2019)
I'm leading a new Movement Improvisation workshop on Saturday 09th February 2019 at CDS, Walking into Being:
What does it mean to be Present? What does it mean to be here in the room? And how do we let this inner state guide our movements and flow?
Walking into Being is a 3-hour movement improvisation workshop which aims to explore and experiment with the concept of Presence.
Going back and forth between feeling active and passive while in constant motion, we will (physically) walk through various states of being - fluctuating between speeds, into swaying, extending our limbs, dissecting the surroundings with our gaze, rolling our necks like compasses and ultimately keeping our bodies on an imaginary thin line - in order to connect deeper with our sense of awareness. Awareness of our physical and spatial presence. Gradually through this set of actions, we will also be invited to dive into our inner sensations and to go beyond the known potential of our physical expression. This set of task-based walks will then culminate into a short improvisation towards the end of the session.
This is an open workshop for movement practitioners, dancers and any other performers who are interested in exploring their physicality from inside.
Walking Into Being, Open Improvisation Workshop
Saturday 09 February 2019
2 - 5pm
Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84, Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ
Price: £10 (£8 concs) - Participants: 10 maximum
Message me directly Here to book in advance or for any questions.
*Photo Taken by Deborah Jaffe Photography, at The Playground, Rambert Dance Studios (Oct. 2018)
Too Black Too Queer South By Brixton Reel Festival
(November, 15th 2018)
(November, 15th 2018)
I'll be performing at this fierce and wonderful event :
Brixton Reel, The Batty Mama and Urban World come together for a one night extravaganza celebrating Black LGBTQ+ experience and wellbeing with screenings of new films, DJs and live performance.
Doors open 7.30pm | 8.00pm short film screenings | 9.00pm live cabaret | 10.30pm Urban World DJs | FREE ADMISSION | It will be popular, so for guaranteed entry book in advance.
Brixton Reel, The Batty Mama and Urban World come together for a one night extravaganza celebrating Black LGBTQ+ experience and wellbeing with screenings of new films, DJs and live performance.
Doors open 7.30pm | 8.00pm short film screenings | 9.00pm live cabaret | 10.30pm Urban World DJs | FREE ADMISSION | It will be popular, so for guaranteed entry book in advance.
The Drumming Experience of OneSelf at SPILL 2018
I'll be performing The Drumming Experience of OneSelf at the SPILL Festival, in Ipswich ( Suffolk, UK), as part of their SPILL Open national platform for emerging performance artists and makers:
Friday 2nd November 2018
The Ispwich Art Gallery
2 - 4pm
(Event ticketed)
The Drumming Experience of OneSelf is a 2 hour durational performance which puts in situation one performer and 5 heavy objects who, throughout the duration of the piece, experience a series of physical and somehow psychological encounters with each other.
The Drumming Experience of OneSelf was first shown in July 2017, in the context of my MA as part of Trinity Laban's Graduate School Showcase.
For more details, click here
For more info about SPILL, click here
*Photo by James Keats Photography
Friday 2nd November 2018
The Ispwich Art Gallery
2 - 4pm
(Event ticketed)
The Drumming Experience of OneSelf is a 2 hour durational performance which puts in situation one performer and 5 heavy objects who, throughout the duration of the piece, experience a series of physical and somehow psychological encounters with each other.
The Drumming Experience of OneSelf was first shown in July 2017, in the context of my MA as part of Trinity Laban's Graduate School Showcase.
For more details, click here
For more info about SPILL, click here
*Photo by James Keats Photography
*Photography by Guy Ivie Viewpoint Photography (2018).
