Tess Letham

Tess Letham is an independent dance artist based in Edinburgh, working as a performer, teacher, dance theatre maker and curator.

Her creations centre the human experience - constructing both obscure and deeply authentic environments, immersing the audience fully into an intriguing theatrical world. Her work combines passions for multi-disciplinary theatre, dynamic physicality and high quality integrated design.

Her inaugural show, 'How to Survive the Future', was programmed at festivals across the UK. Her latest mid-scale work, 'Remedy for Memory' premiered in April 2022 at Assembly Roxy and was presented as part of the Dance Base Fringe Programme 2022, produced by Stories Untold Productions.

She is developing her new creations under the project handle Fair Play. This includes 'Where We Used to Wander' a roaming, immersive performance for Hidden Door 2023, and 'What ever happened to Harmony Bank' a darkly comic, mockumentary style solo work.
Tess was recently commissioned by FFIN DANCE to create a new work on the company, titled 'Traces : we are just passing by', premiering in April 2023.

Performing improvisation is at the core of her practice, she is a co-organiser of Something Smashing and was a recipient of the #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursary in 2021 for her project 'Six for Six'.
In 2019 she participated in 60 Days of Improvisation for Performance with internationally renowned teacher David Zambrano, and previously, has trained extensively with him in methods of Flying Low and Passing Through, sharing this work widely across Scotland and further afield.
For the last three years she has been involved as a curator and programme lead for Hidden Door.


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