Artist and filmmaker Graham Clayton-Chance presents Less Like Ourselves, More Like Each Other, a body of work rooted in queer country and western dance culture. Bringing together his award-winning film Last Dance at the Sundance Stompede, a newly created immersive installation, and a programme of participatory workshops. Audiences are encouraged to shape their own path through the day —to watch, experience and dance.

Described as “beautiful”, “life-affirming” and “transcendent”, Last Dance at the Sundance Stompede documents the final gathering of the legendary San Francisco LGBTQ+ country-western dance weekend that, for over 27 years, created vital spaces of care and belonging. Through intimate portraits and collective movement, the film positions queer social dance as embodied resistance.

The installation remixes the film’s source material into an immersive, multi-screen environment. The dancers’ testimonies emerge and dissolve within fields of sound and colour, positioning the queer dancing body as a site of transformation — a continually shifting psychological landscape.

The workshops invite audiences to step directly into queer country and western dancing as participants, reframing dance as a somatic experience and jumping into a lyrical, empowering line dance.

Together, the works invite audiences not only to witness how movement generates queer collectively and shared joy, but to feel it. 

Post-Screening Talk

From 5pm join Graham Clayton-Chance in conversation exploring what happened after The Last Dance and the explosion of queer country-western and line dance culture across the US.

About the Artist

Graham Clayton-Chance (b. 1972, UK) is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores queer histories, biography, and the body, often in collaboration with performance and dance artists. His work has been screened at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for a Teddy Award), BFI Flare, and the Lincoln Centre, and has recently been acquired by MoMA for its permanent collection.

Accompanied for Less Like Ourselves, More Like Each Other by Saz Domville, Gary Clarke Company, Mayowa Ogunnaike, Elliott Wilson and Manchester Prairie Dogs.