We are Dash Arts

For 20 years, Dash Arts has created bold, award-winning theatre, events, and digital work that respond to the urgent issues of our time—migration, memory, identity, and resistance.

We work across art forms and borders, bringing together artists, academics, communities, and audiences to uncover hidden stories and spark dialogue across languages, cultures, and nations.

Our work is grounded in deep, sustained collaboration. Each production begins with a question and unfolds over time—through travel, conversation, events and creative exchange. Many of our projects are enriched by partnerships with academic researchers and thinkers, whose insights challenge and deepen our explorations. From interrogating Englishness with Professor Ruth Livesey, to collaborating with experts on post-Soviet identity, these connections help root our work in wider intellectual and cultural contexts—without losing its urgency or humanity.

We’ve developed work with migrant artists across Europe, actors, journalists and lawyers in Ukraine, communities in the Arabic world and the former Soviet Union, and through workshops with hundreds of participants across the UK. These relationships and lived experiences shape the heart of our practice.

You can explore our creative journeys through reflections and documentation on our blog and travel back over the last 20 years with us here.

From our first international touring productions to our immersive, site-specific UK work, we’ve never stopped experimenting. Productions like our Indian A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Babel, The Great Middlemarch Mystery, and Dido’s Bar have played to audiences across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, earning acclaim for their ambition and originality.

Our most recent production, The Reckoning, premiered at London’s Arcola Theatre in 2025.

Co-written by Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton, and directed by Burton, it was created in collaboration with Ukrainian actors, creatives, and members of The Reckoning Project—a team of journalists and lawyers documenting war crimes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Blending testimony, movement, and shared food, the production confronted the trauma and resilience of those affected by the war.

By sharing a traditional Ukrainian summer salad with the audience, the production sought to foster a moment of shared experience—inviting quiet connection and a sense of witness.

Our current season, ALBION, continues to explore questions of identity, belonging, and power in 21st-century England. Through residencies, community workshops, podcasts and events, we investigate who gets to speak and how we come together. The programme will culminate in Our Public House (2026), a new production inspired by over 600 speech-making workshops across the country.

Meanwhile, Songs of Solidarity, now in development, brings together migrant performers and creatives to create an epic new piece reflecting the contemporary migrant experience.

Over two decades, Dash Arts has remained relentlessly curious and collectively driven—centring unheard voices, building lasting collaborations, and creating art that invites audiences to challenge the way we see the world. This is who we are. And this is what we do.