My name is Billy, and I am artist working between Wales, the Forest of Dean and East Asia. I am deeply interested in how we can curate spaciousness in an increasingly busy and overstimulated world where record numbers of people are facing burnout.
I do this through a practice I call ‘ambient dance’, which affects how I make theatre, choreograph, facilitate dance, create films, take photos and make music.
As well as my work and research across Wales, UK and East Asia, I completed BA studies in European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College (2021) and an MA in Expanded Dance Practice at London Contemporary Dance School (2024).
The underpinning concept is that these can all be ways to deepen a soft noticing of the world and induce space to think amidst the crises we face.
Current research project:
The Poetics of Hands Meeting
An exploration of how our hands are sites of craft, connection and history and how, with time, they can meet and tend to the world and people they encounter.
This work has been funded by Arts Council of Wales through a development period in Aberystwyth with Dr. Lara Kipp, a research residency at The Dance House in Cardiff and a performance premiere at Dance Blast in Abergavenny on 2nd August 2026.
Following this, the work will tour in tandem with ambient dance workshops across Taiwan and Japan in late-Summer 2026.
Video footage from a week R&D with National Dance Company Wales (2026)
Other projects
Contact ☕
Please feel free to arrange a call or coffee meeting by emailing billymaxwelltaylor@gmail.com. If your inquiry is related to Jaku Studios, please email jakustudios@gmail.com.