TOUGH BOYS DANCE COLLECTIVE
Tough Boys is a queer-led dance theatre collective founded by Sula Castle and Roseann Dendy. Their work takes form within contemporary movement, choreography, text, film, and sculpture.
Both originally from Scotland’s central belt, they come together to create work that lives in a synaptic landscape of tenderness and despondency. Presenting work across black box theatres including Sadler’s Wells, The Place Theatre and Jackson’s Lane Theatre, as well as spaces including Dalston Superstore, Clapham Grand, Ugly Duck and The Horse Hospital. Tough Boys have spoken on a range of panels including Outside The Box at The Royal Opera House and Trinity Laban’s 2024 Alumni Panel, and have featured in magazines including HERO Mag and Dance Art Journal.
Currently represented by Sadler’s Wells as Young Associates 2023-25, Tough Boys are working to establish a high octane movement vocabulary, and care about finding a language that allows for viscerality, intensity and honesty within the body. By responding to the world as they see it, they are continually questioning the fundamental human condition and its intersections with queerness, patriotism, religion and class.
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DUG MEAT
DUG MEAT is a work about the inevitable, it is a nihilistic take on our future.
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At THE FOOT OF THE BRAE
Sitting together on the grass. The sky is flat and white. We’ll stay here despite the cold, in the hopes that one day we'll disappear entirely.
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THE CHILDREN OF FABLES
They rest in the field at dawn and at dusk. They are the story of the forever young. Midges and mud freckled skin. Together they dance, in wonder, in anarchy and in solace.
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DJ AS WITNESS
DJ as Witness is a comment on gender as we know it, it’s a case study, a journal entry and an offering.
“Tough Boys movement language has been described as ‘human, raw and authentic’¹, and have been described to ‘already have a relevant, recognisable voice’.²”
Read Tough Boys interview for Dance Art Journal