Fiona Macbride (2000, Northern Ireland) is a contemporary dancer and performer working across the UK, Ireland and the Nordic region. She trained at London Contemporary Dance School, where she completed a BA in Contemporary Dance between 2019 and 2021. She has worked on a range of contemporary dance, physical theatre and immersive performance projects. Her most recent performances include the ensemble work I WILL SURVIVE by Scilla Rajalin (2025, Härnösand, Sweden). In 2024, she performed an improvised work with a musical trio as part of Mind the Gap in London. Between 2021 and 2023, she appeared in several productions, including the dance-theatre work ALPHA MISFITS (Scilla Rajalin, London, 2023), the operatic double bill Orfeo ed Eurydice / Dido and Aeneas at The Grange Festival (choreography by Tim Claydon, Hampshire, 2023), and the large-scale immersive project WE ARE DATA (Requardt & Rosenberg, London, 2023). She also performed in EVE & THE CORPS DE BANSHEE by Becky Namgauds (The Place, 2022) and ELEVEN, created with Clod Ensemble (The Place, 2022). In 2021, she participated in the immersive performance We Are As Gods (James Cousins Dance Company, Battersea Arts Centre, London), and in 2024 she worked as a collaborator and cover performer on The Heat, commissioned by Sadler’s Wells (Becky Namgauds, Brighton, 2024). She names her artistic practice Tough Body, focusing on strength, imagination and music as fundamental elements of physical and expressive training. Her work brings together influences from martial arts, athletic training, improvisation and writing, with an emphasis on rhythm, listening and physical resilience.
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