Yinka Esi Graves & Miguel Ángel Rosales The Coast, The Forest & The Door Seville (Spain), London (UK)

Choreographer Yinka Esi Graves and filmmaker Miguel Ángel Rosales bring together three films from their The Disappearing Act series: The Coast I, The Forest and The Door.

Created through a series of site-responsive interventions, the films emerge from Graves’ exploration of places shaped by colonial discourse. Filmed in locations across Spain, Portugal and Ghana, they respond to landscapes that hold traces of brutal displacement and erasure, yet often bear few visible signs of the histories they contain.

Through movement, Graves investigates questions of presence, absence and visibility, developing a distinctive choreographic language in dialogue with each site. Rosales’ camera captures these encounters, creating intimate and evocative works that bring body, memory and place into conversation.

Presented together, each film reflects a unique meeting between performer and landscape, revealing how histories can linger within spaces, and how dance can become a way of witnessing, remembering and reimagining what has been obscured.