about
Iona Hannagan Lewis (they/she) is a body-based artist, facilitator and social researcher, based in Wales, UK. Their movement practice weaves together trauma-informed body work, performance, and community-building to explore the radical potential of live encounter to nurture embodied solidarity.
Fluent in Welsh and French as well as English, Iona is a published social researcher and teacher, and holds a KESS2 Scholarship Masters in Research on experiences of migration, dis/placement and ‘integration’ for people forcibly resettled into the ‘margins’ – Wales’ rural and post-industrial communities. They are currently studying a Masters in Dance: Participation, Communities, and Activism at London Contemporary Dance School (UAL).
Iona is an artist with sgor/ Tactile Bosch a multidisciplinary performance collective which centers creative spontaneity and play as a core methodology.
Iona’s practice is rooted in and inspired by queer eco-feminist and decolonial theory and practice. She is currently engaged in developing methodologies for collaborative performance-making which explore proximity, place-making body-based labour and collective care, particularly working with those who experience housing and environmental precarity. .@iona.moves
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