Sula Castle is a Scottish choreographer working across theatres, clubs, site-specific venues and on-screen work such as music video and film. Creating multidisciplinary dance performance, Sula works with dancing, poetry and corporeal sculpture to search for honesty in the body.

In ode to the communities we are born into, those we find ourselves within, and those we choose to inhabit, Sula’s work is phenomenological in nature. Questioning how to hold onto collectivity, and reimagine it under the current socio-political climate. Honoring the body as a transitory site, they are interested in using contemporary and commercial movement to fluctuate between states of visibility and disguise, and militancy and submission. Their work has been described as “staggering, trance-like” and “brilliantly chaotic”.

Sula is a co-founder of Tough Boys, a dance theatre collective from Scotland. Alongside collaborator Roseann Dendy, Tough Boys high-octane movement vocabulary has been presented across the UK and centres themes of queerness, patriotism, religion and class. Since forming in 2021, Tough Boys’ “visceral and pulsating”  movement language has been described to have an “already relevant and recognisable voice”. 

Tough Boys have presented contemporary work across an array of venues including The Place Theatre, Jackson’s Lane and Sadler’s Wells, as well as clubs and galleries Dalston Superstore, Clapham Grand, Ugly Duck, The Horse Hospital.