16 - 27 February
Kally Lloyd-Jones and Steinvör Palsson continue with the creation of Company Chordelia’s new work Revel, a 60+ coming of age story. The show is moving towards full production and will be touring in Autumn 2026.
Taking place in the theatre dressing room of every show they have ever been in, past, present and future, this dance theatre show combines physical theatre and dance, dialogue and music, moving between real and surreal. Two performers perpetually navigate the memories and shifting realities of their bodies and minds with wry humour as they get ready to step out on stage once more. In a world where we do battle with ideas of who we are told to be, wish we were and actually are, accepting and embracing ourselves as we are now is the backbone and challenge of this show. This piece is fundamentally about adaptability, resilience, loss, irreverence, joie de vivre and dancing.
About Kally Lloyd-Jones
Kally Lloyd-Jones was born and raised in Scotland. She initially trained at the Theatre Arts Ballet School and Central School of Ballet in London and has an MA in English Literature and Film Studies from Glasgow University.
She has worked extensively as a choreographer, director, movement director, dancer, teacher and choreologist in the UK as well as internationally and has also developed senior management experience and leadership roles in both Canada and the UK. Kally was Joint Director of the Byre Theatre in St Andrews from 2019—autumn 2023 and was a founder member and then Chair of The Work Room from 2016-2021.
She has worked with companies including the Royal Swedish Ballet, The Royal Ballet School, David Hughes Dance Company, Desrosiers Dance Theatre, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish Opera, The Citizens Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic, The Tron Theatre, The Traverse, The Lyceum, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Danish National Opera, Liceu Barcelona, National Theatre of Scotland and Edinburgh International Book Festival.
As founder and Artistic Director of Company Chordelia, Kally has created over 14 full length dance theatre productions for the company including The Seven Deadly Sins, Dance Derby, Nijinsky’s Last Jump, Lady Macbeth: unsex me here and The Chosen. Kally was awarded a Herald Angel for directing The Seven Deadly Sins, a co-production with Scottish Opera and Company Chordelia received the Sunday Herald Culture Award for Best Live Performance 2017 and was twice in the Guardian’s Top 10 Dance Shows of the Year.
Kally has directed opera productions for Scottish Opera, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Byre Opera, Edinburgh Grand Opera, Tête a Tête Opera and Joby Burgess, and Bloomsbury Opera.
Recent credits include choreographing The Merry Widow, Trial by Jury and A Matter of Misconduct for Scottish Opera/Opera Holland Park/D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Grease for Pitlochry Festival Theatre and directing Le Vin Herbé for Byre Opera. Kally is currently working on Revel, a new show for Company Chordelia, in collaboration with Steinvör Palsson, and is delighted to have been appointed Artistic Directorship of PRIME Elders Dance Company in September 2025.
About Steinvör Palsson
Born in Edinburgh of Icelandic parents, Steinvör Palsson is a freelance dance artist, teacher and choreographer and has been working in the dance sector for the past forty-five years. She was a founder member of the Spiral Contemporary Dance Company in Liverpool, where she worked with many esteemed choreographers including Jane Dudley, Kim Brandstrup and Jonathan Burrows. She subsequently performed in operas and in various dance and physical theatre projects in London. Since moving back to Scotland in 1992 she has had the privilege of working on performance projects with Matthew Hawkins, Ian Spink and Kally Lloyd-Jones. Her choreography credits include The Minotaur for Scottish Opera, The Ceremony of the Keys at The Palace of Holyrood House and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Festival. Steinvor has taught contemporary dance extensively throughout the UK including The University of Surrey, The Rambert School, The RCS, Dance Base and guest teacher for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Company.
From 2022 -2025 she was Artistic Director of PRIME, a dance company for the over 60’s based at Dance Base. She holds a PhD in Norwegian Fiction from The University of Edinburgh.