About

Esme Benjamin is a dance artist, somatic practitioner, and researcher whose work delves into embodied culture, queerness, and mixity. They have spent over a decade performing and collaborating with artists and companies including Uchenna Dance, Kloé Dean, Babel Theatre, Farrell Cox and Francis Angol. Esme previously created work as part of KWAM Collective—most notably co‑creating the internationally award‑winning experimental short dance film, SOMA—and is currently an Associate Artist at Hoxton Hall.

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Across their performance-making, teaching, and research, Esme investigates the body, its place in the world, and the intersections of the personal, social, creative, and theoretical. She is currently pursuing a Practice Research PhD at the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), fully funded by Midlands4Cities (Arts and Humanities Research Council). Esme’s research explores how the mixed‑heritage queer body navigates disorder through creative practice, examining how displacement, identity, and embodied resistance are experienced and expressed through and with the body.