Everyone Left
One of our unique creative collaborations, showing every night at Hidden Door 2026
Everyone Left is a live site-responsive dance performance and moving image work unfolding through recurring activations across The Paper Factory.
Emerging unexpectedly within the building throughout the evening, performers appear and disappear through a sequence of choreographed encounters shaped by surveillance footage, projection, sound and industrial architecture. CCTV cameras relay live feeds between spaces, creating fleeting overlaps between live performance and mediated image across the site.
Expanding from the original film installation by Abby Warrilow and Lewis Gourlay presented at Hidden Door 2025, the work explores the after-hours life of buildings once their original purpose has faded. Drawing on rave culture, temporary occupation and the unofficial social histories of industrial spaces, Everyone Left traces the lingering presence of bodies, movement and collective experience embedded within the architecture long after the working day has ended.
Choreographer and Director: Abby Warrilow
Creative Director: Lewis Gourlay
Dancers: Maya Bodiley, Alex Henderson & Bethany Edwards
Music: Moby
Audio Production: Mert Pearson
Hidden Door Curator: Jill Martin Boualaxai
About the Creative Collaborations
Threaded throughout the 2026 programme are a series of newly commissioned interdisciplinary collaborations and site-responsive works, waiting to be encountered by visitors as they explore The Paper Factory.
Artists, musicians, poets and performers have joined forces to create something unique for this year’s former factory space. Throughout the festival, recurring works and programme-wide collaborations inhabit the building’s “Last Shift”. Together, they build a shifting portrait of The Paper Factory, both real and imagined, through fragments of its past, present and possible futures.
This year’s festival explores how spaces and objects hold memory, and how traces of everyday activity become preserved, misremembered or reimagined over time.
Audiences will navigate the site as the programme unfolds around them. Unique experiences will be shaped through individual routes, encounters and personal perspectives. No single path will reveal the whole picture as works overlap and unfold throughout the building.
These recurring works and programme-wide collaborations will feature every night of the festival from Wednesday 3rd – Sunday 7th June.
