Marseille-based performer and choreographer Amit Noy makes his Sadler’s Wells debut with the UK premiere of A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope at the Lilian Baylis Studio this October. In this poignant production, Noy collaborates with three generations of his own family to delve into the interplay of memory, body, and the processing of trauma, creating an intimate and evocative exploration of shared human experience.
Alongside his parents – his mother, a nurse; his dad, an economics professor – Amit Noy performs a ‘chewed up and spat out’ version of George Balanchine’s iconic Agon, challenging the hierarchical exclusions and rigidities of classical ballet. His teenage sister Maytal Noy rewrites musical theatre tunes to depict her life with obsessive compulsive disorder. Noy’s grandmother, Belina Neuberger, challenges us to reconsider our personal and political practices of commemoration, reflecting on teaching in a high school beneath the shadow of the Holocaust.
Amit Noy said, “Through our bodies, we reconsider the idea of a family. How do we move together, when some of us gave birth to others? What emerges in the dance between a parent and their child? We use dance and choreography to locate the movement of traumatic memory across generations.”
A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope premiered at Théâtre de la Ville—Paris in September 2023, and has since toured to Festival Actoral, Marseille and Pina Bausch Zentrum, Wuppertal.
Amit Noy is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. Raised in Oahu, Hawai’i and Aotearoa, New Zealand, he now lives and works in Marseille, France. In 2022, Amit received the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography to study with Miguel Gutierrez and Deborah Hay. He was made a Springboard laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2023 and was an awarded finalist in the 2022 edition of Danse Élargie. In 2024, he was commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery to create Errant, a performance for the museum space. Errant was performed eighty-four times to over 80,000 visitors as part of the inaugural edition of the new triennial exhibition ‘Aotearoa Contemporary’. In 2025, Amit premiered a new solo work Good Luck at Festival Montpellier Danse.
Since 2019, Amit has danced with Michael Keegan-Dolan’s company Teaċ Daṁsa (MÁM, NOBODADDY, 1975, The Only Tune), performing at La Biennale di Venezia, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Teatros del Canal, and Taipei International Festival of the Arts, among others.
Amit Noy’s A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope will be in the Lilian Baylis Studio 2-3 October. Tickets are on sale now from £17 at www.sadlerswells.com
