Holly Blakey

Holly Blakey

From Talk Art by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

February 20, 2026 · 51 min · Season 27 · Episode 1

About this episode

Robert Diament interviews choreographer Holly Blakey about her work and upcoming projects.

Season 27 begins! This new season is hosted by Robert Diament. Robert meets Holly Blakey, one of the foremost choreographers of her generation and one of the few female choreographers in the UK creating large-scale work. Her practice attends to the honest entanglements of embodied vulnerability, grief, and joy, always rooted in an intersectional feminist frame. Her live performance work has been presented at major cultural institutions Southbank Centre, Hales Gallery and Théâtre National de Chaillot. As a director and choreographer, she has collaborated with music stars including Robyn (for her new Sexistential album), Rosalía, Harry Styles, Celeste, and Florence + The Machine, alongside visual artists Linder Sterling, Jeremy Deller and Tai Shani,and with fashion houses such as Vivienne Westwood, Burberry and Dior, and in films including Urchin (2025) directed by Harris Dickinson and Harvest directed by Athina Tsangari, interweaving live and commercial contexts, much of her practice often plays on the relationship between these distinct but not wholly separable worlds. We explore her 2026 collaboration with the Rambert dance company, as well as a new collaboration with artist Tai…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Diament

Guest: Holly Blakey

Topics covered

  • choreography
  • feminism
  • performance art
  • collaboration
  • dance

Keywords

  • Holly Blakey
  • choreography
  • dance
  • performance
  • feminism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southbank Centre, Hales Gallery, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Vivienne Westwood, Burberry, Dior

Books & works: Urchin, Harvest, Phantom, A Wound with Teeth, Lo

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