Sula Castle is a Scottish artist working across live performance, dance film and archival practice.

Working primarily within contemporary dance and writing, Sula’s choreography explores ideas of brutality, resistance and care.

Drawn to spaces of contradiction, they are interested in how movement catharsis allows us to fluctuate between states of honesty and performativity, militancy and submission, and visibility and disguise.

In an ode to the communities we are born into, the ones we find ourselves within, and those we choose to inhabit, Sula questions how collectivity can be held, sustained and reimagined within the current socio-political climate. 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 develop a high-octane movement vocabulary that explores themes of queerness, patriotism, religion and class. Since forming in 2021, their “visceral and pulsating” work has been recognised for having an “already relevant and recognisable voice”.

Tough Boys have presented work across the UK in theatres, clubs and galleries including The Place Theatre, Jacksons Lane, Sadler’s Wells, EXIT, OPSIS, Dalston Superstore, Clapham Grand, Ugly Duck and The Horse Hospital.

They are Sadler’s Wells Young Associate Artists (2023–25), creating work for the main house, Lilian Baylis Studio and Digital Stage. Tough Boys have also been Artists in Residence at Ugly Duck and recipients of the Trinity Laban Innovation Award (2021).