Buster Grey-Jung: Falling Gestures, 2025

In the 1980s, the UK rave scene was the birthplace of a dance style known as ‘cutting shapes’. Today this is now considered a sub-style of shuffling, a dance style that quickly became a staple in club scenes across the country and now all around the world.

UK Shuffle Team is a dance community that spawned through the 2020 Covid lockdowns, spanning the whole of the UK, through a friendship of dancers between London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Gathering in the South Bank and Waterloo area to practise and perform dance together, they always encourage the public to freely participate and enjoy their celebration of music and dance. 

They have become a community beacon for all to join in an activity of joy and fitness on the doorsteps of the National Theatre and Royal Festival Hall.

Buster Grey-Jung is a London-based visual artist, filmmaker, and photographer. He is known for his immersive work that captures the essence of community life and explores the way that the human spirit is channelled through music, movement, craft, ritual and the natural world. 

Falling Gestures portrays Daryll Brown ‘shuffling’ in dialogue with Jeppe Hein’s Appearing Rooms, an interplay between two bodies of movement. The title refers to these cascading moments of expressive dance and mirrors that of Hein’s fountain installation.