Flux Dance Theatre (2015 - ongoing)
Ella has performed with and facilitated educational outreach workshops for Flux Dance Theatre since 2015.
FLUX dance explores innovative ways of translating scientific principles into theatrical form.
We provide a platform to educate, communicate and discuss scientific ideas, research and theories within local communities, in a way which is captivating and engaging, formative yet accessible.
Facilitation
Flux Dance provide a range of workshops for educational contexts including primary & secondary schools, science festivals and recreational/community events.
Flux Dance work with STEM/STEAM to creatively educate children. We use movement based games and tasks to allow children to use their bodies to understand science curriculum in a new and exciting way.
Contact Flux Dance for further information
Performance
Flux Dance Theatre aims to provide awareness of scientific theories and improve accessibility of the scientific ‘knowhow’ to our audiences, through dance theatre production, performance, and educational workshops. Through our own curiosity, we hope to inspire people to actively find out more, and to be a tool for scientists to raise public engagement and awareness of their work. By creating work that is inquisitive, captivating and engaging we hope to provide a platform for open discussion of scientific research, ideas and theories. Our approach is not one of direct demonstration of the science, but one that invites curiosity and intrigue through imaginative, innovative and fresh choreography.
(AF) - created and performed by Charlotte Hale-Smith, Stephanie Townsend, Charity Atkinson and Ella Tighe in collaboration with John Radcliffe Department of Medicine Oxford (2017 & 2019)
In September 2017 we premiered a performance engaging new audiences with cutting edge research and providing awareness of atrial fibrillation.
We worked in collaboration with researchers from the Radcliffe department of Medicine who are a hub for arrhythmia research, leading studies into the causes and conducting clinical trials to find new treatments.
A danced infographic on irregular heart rhythms
Your heart beats over 42 million times a year, pumping blood around the body to supply your cells with oxygen and nutrients. But what happens when that ever constant beat falters and falls out of line?
About 2 million people in the UK live with heart arrhythmia – where the heart beats irregularly, slower or faster than normal.
Performed at The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Bodlian Library Oxford and performed at Green Man Festival 2019
Method in the Motion (2016) - created by Charlotte Hale-Smith, Stephanie Townsend, Rachel Gildea, Charity Atkinson, Fraser O’Donavan, Nick Sutton & Ella Tighe
A unique evening combining a scientific talk with inspirational dance.
Hear Irina Pulyakhina from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics talk about her work as her science is interpreted by FLUX, a dance company specialising in translating scientific principles into theatrical form. A one-off event exploring curiosity and creativity in their many and varied forms.
This work was performed at Oxford Science Festival and later at Green Man Festival and Bluedot festival 2016.