MOV DANCE THEATRE
where dance,
songs & stories
meet
Experiences that feel like meeting an old friend and finding yourself in a new place at the same time.
THE COMPANY
Interdisciplinary dance theatre rooted in traditional and contemporary dance, polyphonic songs, storytelling & mythology.
Made in Bradford, centred on migrant and intergenerational voices. MOV makes work by gathering people, songs and stories in a room — and seeing what they make together.
Songs carried across borders. Stories passed down. Bodies remembering.
FIRST PRODUCTION
THE WORK
A practice that is unfolding.
Voices
A dance-theatre work celebrating the songs and stories of people from Greece, Scotland, Ghana, Ireland and Iran. Movement, live polyphonic singing and storytelling, made collectively.
FORM
Dance, live song & storytelling
MADE BY
Co-created with the ensemble
CULTURES
Greece, Scotland, Ghana, Ireland, Iran
Each performer brought a song & a dance from their own background, & taught it to the rest of us.
All of MOV's work is underlined by a passion for sharing stories through dance, songs and words — and through bringing people together.
COMMUNITY CO-CREATION
Roma Voices
The culmination of a year and a half working with Roma community participants and European Drom. An intergenerational cast, traditional Roma dance, original storytelling and puppetry.
WITH
European Drom
PROCESS
18 months, co-created
CAST
Intergenerational
Participants shared customs, words, dances, recipes, poems, myths, songs and anecdotes — and, through devising, these became the performance.
NEW WORK
Yaya, Mama & Me
A new work about intergenerational relationships, cultural inheritance and embodied memory. Using weaving and textile practices as both metaphor and choreographic framework.
It draws on Bradford's textile heritage alongside Zoe's Greek roots and textile mythology, looking at how women carry cultural memory through everyday practices: sewing, weaving, polyphonic singing, dancing, storytelling.
ROOTED IN
Bradford textile heritage & Greek textile myth
THEMES
Inheritance, women's labour, memory
STAGE
R&D, July 2026
How are traditions passed between generations — through gesture, repetition, song and shared labour?
There's more behind each piece than a poster can hold.
Step inside the work — see how it's made.
GATHERINGS
Spaces to dance,
sing, eat &
take part.
MOV shares its love of bringing people together through its gatherings — whatever your experience and background.
You'll meet people from around the world who have a passion for sharing. You might try a new dance, a new song, or learn a word in another language.
You'll definitely share delicious food and have a great time.
ABOUT MOV
"I make work as a way of sharing my perspective of the world — usually a romantic, nostalgic and community-led one.
Above all, I love bringing people together in spaces that feel shared and creatively alive: welcoming, diverse and playful."
— Zoe Katsilerou, founder & director
MOV Dance Theatre is a Bradford-based interdisciplinary dance theatre company led by choreographer and director Zoe Katsilerou.
Based at Bradford Arts Centre and founded in 2025, MOV co-creates work rooted in traditional and contemporary dance, polyphonic songs, storytelling and mythology — centring migrant voices, intergenerational narratives and culturally diverse experiences.
WHAT MOV CARES ABOUT
Rooted in people,
place and memory.
Voices that are rarely centred in mainstream performance.
Stories and songs passed between generations.
Making work together, in the room, with the people whose stories they are.
WITH SUPPORT OF
GET IN TOUCH
Whatever brought you here, let’s
start the conversation.
For bookings, collaborations, workshops, or just to say hello.
MOV is available to tour and to commission.