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Free Tate Modern Performance

Yinka Esi Graves: Transposition

17 October 2025 at 18.30–19.15
18 October 2025 at 18.30–19.15
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Dancer Yinka Esi Graves performing against a wall wearing red trousers and red shirt.

Yinka Esi Graves in dialogue with the video installation of Wu Tsang at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 25 July 2024. Photo: MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Photo: Dani Cantó

Move through the galleries with a flamenco performance devised for Tate Modern’s Tanks

This improvised composition combines dance, song and drumming, inviting us to travel slowly with the performers through the entrance ways to Tate Modern's subterranean Tanks. Solo flamenco dancer Yinka Esi Graves is joined by Toñi Fernandez and drummer Remi Graves for Transposition, a work exploring knowledges of the body and how they relate to history and memory.

Yinka Esi Graves’ work explores the links between flamenco and other forms of bodily expression, particularly from a contemporary and African diaspora perspective. Like her broader work, which brings to light the contribution of African people to the creation of flamenco culture, with Transposition, Esi Graves uses her body and choreography to reaffirm dance as a space of freedom and self-determination. Speaking of Transposition, she says this derives from a desire to 'hack, haunt, commune, transpose the invisibility', to 'make it a dance, on repeat'.

These performances are presented as part of Theatre Picasso, an exhibition staged by Wu Tsang and Enrique Fuenteblanca.

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The Tanks

Please use the Turbine Hall entrance

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London SE1 9TG
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Dates

17 October 2025 at 18.30–19.15

18 October 2025 at 18.30–19.15

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Free with ticket

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This event is part of a double bill, alongside Composition V (rebellious birds) by Moved by the Motion. Book tickets here.

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The Theatre Picasso Exhibition Supporters Circle

François-Xavier and Natasha de Mallmann

Lydia and Manfred Gorvy

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