TRIBE’S // work aims to be flexible for promoters and theatres. The work can exist in a traditional theatrical format but alternative packages mean the work can be adapted for different contexts, spaces, audiences and budgets – a five piece, a trio or duet etc.

Tech requirements aim to be basic and supplemented by our own portable lights.

Still I rise //

Raw and highly physical emotive dance is combined with instinctual physicality; Inspiration is drawn from the poem by Maya Angelou of the same title. It’s powerful and defiant words have an ability to resonate with many people, in our current unsettle world.

Five fearless female dancers begin a journey of simmering unison, restless physical duets and tender solos all performed with a gut-wrenching power. Pounding rhythms drive the movement and create an intense stark world where hope dies last. Falling down, gathering up…we rise


CHOREOGRAPHY // Victoria Fox Markiewicz
DANCED AND DEVISED BY // Luk Wai Shan, Esther Verlaque, Finetta Mikolajski, KJ Lawson and Sophie Arstall, Daisy Caulty
ORIGINAL MUSIC // Jacek Laton and Wojtek Markiewicz
FILM // Roarke Pearce
PHOTOS // Harry Caulty

R&D supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts
Generous support in Kind Brighton Dome.


  • " visceral and fearless, this is uncommonly intelligent work "
    Kate Larsen
  • " this expressive choreographer certainly has the movement vocabulary to steer Fight or Flight away from any clichés "
    Libby Costello
  • A contemporary dance company that packs some punch
    Culturised Magazine

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