BELLYFLOP Magazine is here to take a look into the belly of the contemporary dance beast.

Started up as a lone enterprise by Louise Mochia, BELLYFLOP has now developed into a collaborative artist-led undertaking based at Chisenhale Dance Space. As a peer group, a generation perhaps, we are opinionated and this is what motivated an online platform for provoking debate and embracing contributors’ subjective engagement at grass-root level. We operate with a DIY ethic through voluntary contributions from various artists, creating an artistic forum for debate where viewpoints (from the scandalous to the mundane) can be shared with other artists/practitioners/interested parties. It is BELLYFLOP’s aim to bring visibility to an artistic community working outside of the mainstream and to expose the ideas and efforts of discerning individuals, as an active attempt to stimulate new perspectives and critical thought outside of academic contexts.
 
Essentially BELLYFLOP revolves around the contemporary dance world, however, we try not to get too pedantic about these things and focus on other areas of performance as and when we feel like it - you get everything from musings on the everyday life of the artist to thoughts on popular culture. On the BELLYBLOG you can locate random ramblings from the BELLYFLOP team and get the latest word on events, happenings and opportunities in and around London.