Audio Dancing is a series of audio scores composed by dance artist Gaby Agis and recorded in green spaces—a cemetery, scrubland, gardens on social housing estates—across London in the summer of 2022. This project was originally conceived as a response to the pandemic to offer dance artists and practitioners further ways of engaging with practice in their own time and environments.

The scores are each 30 minutes long and provide a guided structure using rich and imaginative language for anyone to use at a time of their choosing, at home or outdoors.

Participants are then invited to continue with their own practice—dancing, writing or drawing—before moving into the rest of their day.

Gaby invited a wide range of dancers, artists and educators to accompany her as guests while making these audios. Following each score there is a 30min interview between Gaby and the guest in which they discuss their experience of the score and reflect on their own practice.

Guest artists featured include Kathy Crick, Joseph Funnell, Rachel Gildea, Heni Hale, Mary Prestidge, Helen Rowsell, Owen Smith, Mickel Smithen, Eve Stainton, Cléo Tabakian, Vicky Thompson and Florence Uniacke.

Audio Dancing is an Independent Dance commission produced by Gaby Agis in partnership with Independent Dance and supported through public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Further credits Harry Barnes: sound editor Aoife P. Knight: sound recordist Iarla P. Knight: sound recordist Mars West: sound recordist Derek Linzey: photographer