CATCH Workshop series returns for its 8th edition

We are thrilled to announce that the Catch Workshop Series returns for its eight edition from Wednesday 14 to Sunday 17 June 2026. First initiated in 2017, CATCH (formerly Catch8) is an intensive programme of workshops focused on training and creation for professional dancers curated by Luke Murphy – Attic Projects.

Led by accomplished national and international dance professionals, the series is an initiative by Murphy that aims to give an intimate group of professional dancers the opportunity to work with a rotating faculty of choreographers and dancers who are at the very height of the field. This year’s facilitators are Seppe Baeyens (BE), Seke Chimutengwende (UK), Maxine Doyle (UK), and Laja Field (USA).

Browse the schedule and book your place here.

Find out more about this year’s facilitators below.

Laja Field is an international dance-theater creator, educator and performer known for her hyperphysical, non-linear storytelling through movement. Her work spans across the U.S, Canada, Central America and Europe. Originally from Salt Lake City, she earned her BFA from the University of Utah. In her final year, Laja began working withjohannes wieland and went on to spend three full seasons at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany.

Laja’s teaching career jump-started at New York City’s Gibney 280 and Peridance Center. While in the city, Laja co-founded LAJAMARTIN physical dance theater with Martin Durov and was also a founding member and rehearsal director of Vim Vigor Dance Company. Independently, Laja has toured to 18 countries worldwide, some highlights include being selected as resident choreographer at Springboard Danse, performing at PRISMA festival in Panama, serving as adjunct professor at NYU | Tisch, creating work for Danse à la Carte’s, TransFormation in Montreal, and teaching yearly at the b12 festival in Berlin.

Laja is the North American Admissions Ambassador for the MA Dance: Performance at The Place | London Contemporary Dance School; a guest with greywax dance company directed by Victor Rottier and continues her independent projects creating and teaching across the globe.

Dancer and choreographer Seppe Baeyens regards intergenerationality and inclusion as essential conditions for showing dance in its most human and essential form. In his productions he mixes professional and non-professional dancers and actors. Baeyens searches for new artistic working methods, spread over a long period of time, based on co-authorship with the participants. His productions are not so much about individual expression, the symmetrically performed movement or the harmonic choreography, but the honest and authentic connection between the dancers during the performance. Accordingly, the live music and visual design play an important guiding and supporting role. The dance community around choreographer Seppe Baeyens is called Leon. Find out more here.

Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer and performer based in London and working internationally for over 20 years.

Seke uses choreography to experiment with collectivity and alternative approaches to authorship and governance; playing with form to shift and question hierarchies. His recent work It begins in darkness (2022), looks at ghosts and haunted houses as metaphors for how histories of slavery and colonialism haunt the present. Seke has also recently choreographed a work for Candoco Dance Company, In Worlds Unknown (2022). Seke’s new work, The Last Quartet, which imagines a “last work” or “last attempt” at choreography, inspired by TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, will premiere in autumn 2026. Seke is concurrently researching a new choreography for six dancers set to Miles Davis’ groundbreaking 1972 album On The Corner. It will premiere in autumn 2027. 

Alongside his choreographic work, Seke is currently touring Long Solos: long, completely improvised solo performances of 50 to 60 minutes. He also works as performer with Forced Entertainment having previously performed with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Lost Dog. 

Seke has taught in a variety of contexts, including London Contemporary Dance School, Trinity Laban, The Rambert School, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, P.A.R.T.S. and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

Maxine Doyle has created dance theatre work for Netherlands Dance Theatre 2, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, The BalletBoyz (UK) in collaboration with composer Cassie Kinoshi, The Martha Graham Company (USA) in collaboration with Bobbi Jene Smith, Dart Dance Company (Berlin), Verve (UK) and Johannes Wieland Company (Germany) and is a regular principal artist at Springboard Dance Montreal / Pittsburgh, B12 Festival in Berlin.

In 2019 Maxine created the award-winning, site specific work Sunset (Australian Dance Award) for the Perth Festival and in 2022 she premiered the large scale stage and installation work Here Not Here in collaboration with visionary artist Es Devlin and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Sweden).

In 2023 Maxine continued her collaboration with Es Devlin  and composer Rachael Dease with the critically acclaimed dance installation work – Salamander – for the Brisbane International Festival and Australasian Dance Collective.   Future projects include Mayday for  Bodhi Dance Company (Austria) and collaborations with Zfin Malta, Steps Festival (Switzerland) and Form Dance Projects Sydney.

Since 2002 she has been an Associate Artist with Punchdrunk, for whom she has co-directed and choreographed multiple works including the multi-award winning Sleep No More (London, Boston, New York, Shanghai and Seoul 2002 The Burnt City (2022) and The Drowned Man (2013).

www.maxinedoyle.com

Terms and Conditions
– No refunds except in the case of a medical condition or bereavement of a loved one.
– In the unlikely event of a change in a faculty member due to force majeure, a suitable replacement will be found. No refunds will be offered in this instance.