Director: Daniel Gurton
Choreographer: Kwame Asafo-Adjei
Performers: Kwame Asafo-Adjei, Catrina Nisbett

About Spoken Movement Family Hour (2025)

In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history.

About the Artists

Kwame Asafo-Adjei is a dance artist who fuses his hip-hop training with contemporary dance and his Ghanaian background, helping create a unique style of movement that tackles the day-to-day realities he faces in his social surroundings. Often exploring the development of black culture, themes of tension and release are ever-present in his provocative work. Kwame gained an interest in creating work and directing artists through participation in development programs such as Open Art Surgery. By shadowing his mentors—hip hop pioneer Jonzi D and choreographer Jonathan Burrows—he was able to open his mental blocks and gain clarity on his identity within his work, which he sees as being blunt, ugly, beautiful and truthful. Kwame is the Founder and Artistic Director of Spoken Movement through which he creates his work. In producing his work, such as his Wild Card evening at Sadler’s Wells, Asafo-Adjei’s aim was to focus on the audience response and how viewers must abandon an analytical perspective in order to understand the culture from a black perspective. In Alistair Spalding’s words: “[H]is choreography is often raw and confronting, but full of honesty and thought-provoking.” @spoken_movement

Daniel Gurton is an Australian-born, London-based director whose films often explore themes of identity, injustice, and societal structures, with a strong emphasis on visual storytelling. His creative journey began in photography, studying at the prestigious Photography Studies College in Melbourne. He went on to work with renowned photographers Ryan McGinley in New York and Nick Knight in London, building a successful career before transitioning to filmmaking in 2021. Daniel’s recent work includes Les Olympiades, a visual and narrative exploration of a diverse Parisian housing development built in the 70s, combining intimate video portraits of local residents with architectural studies of the landscape surrounding them. Daniel is currently in pre-production on Ocean Viking, a documentary about the humanitarian rescue ship and a woman’s journey risking everything for a better life. @danielgurton