Lauren is a professional contemporary dance artist and movement facilitator from Ireland currently based in Edinburgh. 

Lauren sees dance as art and a powerful tool to connect with others and inspire them to find their own sense of autonomy and freedom through movement. She is interested in body somatics, screendance, site specific work, acrobatics, action theatre, cross collaboration with other artforms, and finding meaning in her work.



For Lauren, dance is a way of learning about herself, her body, and her relation to others as well as a key means of her self-expression, and sense of freedom.

samwooddoowmas is an eclectic musical project by Sam Wood, boasting a variety of genres between ambient, techno and beyond. He is also an exciting visual artist. Sam chose the name because he knew he wouldn’t forget his own name backwards and forwards. He records out of a DIY studio held together with electrical tape. Despite this he has been extremely prolific, recording two full length albums and two EP’s in 2022. In 2023 he released Alphabet, a musical joke from A to G, a vague reflection on his own dyslexia. Wood played a number of live shows most infamously PAS in Berlin as part of the Scottish collective Slainte Mhath, Piano Drome, Leith Depot and Lost in Leith. He makes sounds using a variety of techniques including tape loops, digital processing and analogue instrumentation. Sam is known for performing in unusual spaces, even a urinal, and using instruments in strange ways live, such as a bass guitar played with a bicycle.

Composer/pianist/many-instrumentalist. On different days he can be found performing impossible electric guitar scores, running enormous Balkan brass bands or teaching people how to improvise fugues.