Stillness in the Busyness.
I am Billy Maxwell Taylor, an interdisciplinary theatremaker and ambient dance artist, creating worlds in which we can reflect, contemplate and find harmony with our environments.
I am founder of Eira Dance Theatre, making work that lands with the gentleness of a snowflake. This involves vitalised dance, meditative soundscapes and a drive towards sustainable artmaking practice.
What if, as you browse this website, time slowed down and space opened up?
What is a work? To me, a fluid entity. No beginning or end, instead a stream of figuring things out.
The Blossom Series
The Blossom Series combines soundscapes with site-inspired dance to contemplate on life’s seasonality. This began with an Arts Council Wales funded R&D in 2023 titled In the Silence of Blossom. Most recently, this project found life in Golden Leaves, a duet shared at The Place’s Resolution Festival on the 17th January 2025. In 2025, we are continuing the creation of this series through the butoh solo Llwynog Gwyn.
How do we face the seasonality of our selves?
Gentle Streams
During my MA Expanded Dance Practice studies at London Contemporary Dance School, I collaborated with Xinyi Du, Yung Chih Teng, Mei Ting Fang and Marta Guerra Doblas on Streams of Gentle Yesterday, exploring memory, translation and the moments we share. Now they have moved back to their homes, we are thousands of miles away and yet I still hold traces of our moments shared.
In 2025, I am developing a participatory solo called Gentle Streams which explores the fleeting nature of each moment – how we hold it, how it slips past us and how it can help us be with those in front of us and those far from us.
How can we share time in this fragile yet glimmering world?
Rain Pours Like Coffee Drops
Rain Pours Like Coffee Drops was my first solo and self-produced work involving collaboration from George McGukin, Sebastian Barrett and Lili Chin. It was the beginning of my phrase “stillness in the busyness” which still guides my practice to this day. The piece explores burnout and workplace wellbeing, all through the lens of coffee and rain. This project was funded by Arts Council Wales, Volcano and Richard Chappell Dance and toured to VAULT Festival, NDC Wales’ Dance House, Torch Theatre, Dance Blast and Volcano. Perhaps it will return some day!
How do we work? What for?
Rain Pours Like Coffee Drops (Performance at Volcano Theatre funded by Arts Council Wales)
PAST/PRESENT Works
I am taking on new projects. If you want to move, create or want to say hi, please get in touch.
→ Harmony
How do we spend time together and work in a sustainable way? How does composition find its resonating point? How do we encounter the environments we inhabit?
→ Tranquility
How do we find stillness in a time rife with burnout and stress? What is the gentle dance?
→Curiosity
How can we create space to ponder and contemplate? What if we held hope? What if, what if, what if?
Get in touch below – let’s have a coffee 🙂
Thank you – I will get back to you ASAP.
Billy Maxwell Taylor / Eira Dance Theatre 