Laïla Diallo

Laïla Diallo is a dance maker based in Bristol. Alongside independently and collaboratively devising work for live performance, she often works as movement director in theatre and opera. Choreographic commissions include amongst others: SOMETHING ABOUT WILDERNESS and several attempts at taming beauty for Skanes Dansteater (Sweden, 2017), Husk for Candoco Dance Company (UK, 2018), All my Song for Joyce Theatre (USA, 2019).

The recipient of a Rayne Fellowship for Choreographers in 2006, Laïla also was Associate Artist at ROH2, Royal Opera House, between 2009 and 2012, and recipient of a 2018 Leverhulme Art Scholarship through Bristol Old Vic Ferment.

Laïla Diallo

As part of Light Moves Festival 2021 Laïla Diallo and Marisa Zanotti and hosted a discussion about cosmic work in domestic spaces that explores movements between home, screen and theatre spaces called Dancing, Filmmaking & The Cosmic-domestic.

In 2021 dance maker Laïla Diallo created a short dance film made to the scale of her kitchen. Entitled 1:1 the film tips from the everyday into something else, carrying traces of dances danced before, between stove and table, and inviting new ones. Produced by MAYK, 1:1 was commissioned by The British Council #WomenPowerinCulture for WOW Istanbul. In March 2020 filmmaker Marisa Zanotti was working with 25 older dancers and they created Dancing with the Birds (digital tapestries #1). As part of a re-orientation exercise, she invited the dancers to join her on a trip and imagine moving between the spaces of the body, the experience of their homes and the immensity of outer space.

Read: Cosmic Domestic.pdf