Magnus Westwell: CAUGHT
Caught is a new performance by artist Magnus Westwell, devised in response to Galli’s exhibition. Westwell combines choreography and musical performance to create sonically layered ethereal environments in which the body moves through emotional states to the point of catharsis. Drawing direct points of influence from Galli’s figurative works – particularly those that blend two bodies into one – Caught sees Westwell embody overlapping, phased cycles of sound and movement, exploring themes of time, fragmentation, and loss.
BIOGRAPHY
Magnus Westwell is a Sadler’s Wells Young Associate alumni, and their work has reached a diversity of venues, institutions and festivals across Europe and the UK, including Cafe OTO, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Britten Pears Arts, London Short Film Festival, FOLD, Institute of the Arts Barcelona, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Kings College Chapel and Amsterdam Dance Event. Their digital work has been published and premiered across Nowness, Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage and FACT Magazine.
Magnus Westwell created interdisciplinary stage work Sunder, which premiered to sold out audiences at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in October 2022. In the same year, Westwell performed for Virgil Abloh’s SS22 Louis Vuitton collection campaign, and composed the soundtrack for Paolo Carzana’s London Fashion Week show. In 2023, Westwell was commissioned by BUILDHOLLYWOOD for the opening of their new performance space in East London; Westwell developed a new 25 minute work Broken Light Of My Heart which premiered on the Autumn Equinox – it was described by culture and music journalist Emma Warren as “radical, momentous, thrilling and exceptionally moving”.
In 2024, Magnus Westwell performed with Scratchproof Orchestra at Turner Contemporary for the closing of Mark Leckey’s In The Offing; featured in Marianna Simnett’s WINNER, shot by Robbie Ryan and exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin; and collaborated with BULLYACHE, composing and performing string arrangements for their live performances at Elgar Concert Hall, Bold Tendencies, Barbican and Abbey Road Studios. Westwell was Artist in Residence at Britten Pears Arts and The Mandrake Hotel in April 2024, developing a new live work to tour in 2026.
Magnus Westwell released debut LP Sunder in November 2024.
Caught is a new performance by artist Magnus Westwell, devised in response to Galli’s exhibition. Westwell combines choreography and musical performance to create sonically layered ethereal environments in which the body moves through emotional states to the point of catharsis. Drawing direct points of influence from Galli’s figurative works – particularly those that blend two bodies into one – Caught sees Westwell embody overlapping, phased cycles of sound and movement, exploring themes of time, fragmentation, and loss.
BIOGRAPHY
Magnus Westwell is a Sadler’s Wells Young Associate alumni, and their work has reached a diversity of venues, institutions and festivals across Europe and the UK, including Cafe OTO, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Britten Pears Arts, London Short Film Festival, FOLD, Institute of the Arts Barcelona, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Kings College Chapel and Amsterdam Dance Event. Their digital work has been published and premiered across Nowness, Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage and FACT Magazine.
Magnus Westwell created interdisciplinary stage work Sunder, which premiered to sold out audiences at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in October 2022. In the same year, Westwell performed for Virgil Abloh’s SS22 Louis Vuitton collection campaign, and composed the soundtrack for Paolo Carzana’s London Fashion Week show. In 2023, Westwell was commissioned by BUILDHOLLYWOOD for the opening of their new performance space in East London; Westwell developed a new 25 minute work Broken Light Of My Heart which premiered on the Autumn Equinox – it was described by culture and music journalist Emma Warren as “radical, momentous, thrilling and exceptionally moving”.
In 2024, Magnus Westwell performed with Scratchproof Orchestra at Turner Contemporary for the closing of Mark Leckey’s In The Offing; featured in Marianna Simnett’s WINNER, shot by Robbie Ryan and exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin; and collaborated with BULLYACHE, composing and performing string arrangements for their live performances at Elgar Concert Hall, Bold Tendencies, Barbican and Abbey Road Studios. Westwell was Artist in Residence at Britten Pears Arts and The Mandrake Hotel in April 2024, developing a new live work to tour in 2026.
Magnus Westwell released debut LP Sunder in November 2024.
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