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40/40 in 2026
40/40 in 2026
40/40 at Edinburgh Fringe festival/ made in scotland 2026
40/40 at Edinburgh Fringe festival/ made in scotland 2026
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Dancing Joy in Defiance of Convention
★★★★ The Guardian "an exercise in generosity of spirit" Lyndsey Winship
★★★★ The Scotsman "all about forward motion, about moving on and up, about embracing life" Kelly Apter
★★★★ Corr Blimey " entirely in the moment"
★★★★ The Quintessential Review "a welcome invitation to celebrate the entire messy experience of being a human"
★★★★ All Edinburgh Theatre "joyful inspiration" Alan Wilson
“Two Destination Language can dance and draw and ask complex questions because they insist on art’s necessity: in their stage work but also through active community participation, talking and making with people across the UK, on such fraught topics as migration and hope. Art matters not (just) because it entertains, not (just) because it soothes, but because it looks in the eye of complicity, sits deep and brave in discomfort, and brings a sense of meaning in a time that seems to have none.”
—Maddy Costa, Something Other
in 2025
in 2025
We toured 40/40 to Germany and Switzerland, plus our Hope & Ponies banners were in Bern, Wakefield and Sheffield, all while we made and premiered our newest show: Bottoms at Dance International Glasgow in May and presented it at Nottdance in October 2025.
across three exhibitions, six performances, and eight participation sessions, our work reached an amazing audience of over
181,800 people
181,800 people
BOTTOMS
BOTTOMS
Bottoms is about art, value and labour. Conjuring a joyous freedom, Bottoms’ five dancers seek refuge from the present-day world in fragments of a wild dance forged in the Industrial Revolution. The can-can. With crisps. And cava.
A new work commissioned for DIG, created by our award-winning lead artists Alister Lownie and Katherina Radeva working with a team of collaborators from across the UK.
Bottoms premiered 14-15 May 2025 at Tramway, Glasgow as part of Dance International Glasgow, and FABRIC's NottDance on 16th October 2025.
See more here
★★★★ A Young(ish) Perspective
“Full of life, energy, and intricate moments”
★★★★ Effervescent Magazine
“intimate, playful and fun”
Hope & Ponies
Hope & Ponies
Our growing collection of banners with messages of hope contributed by visitors in Tramway (Glasgow), libraries across Wakefield district, the Southbank Centre (London) and Wakefield's new new cultural centre, the WX building. A selection of the banners toured to Bern for auawirleben festival.
After visiting Sheffield in 2025, we're off to Denmark with the banners in 2026.
Borders Together
Borders Together
Working with communities across The Scottish Borders, we co-created a new tartan design - Borders Together Tartan- displayed in community spaces across the area, and used in 10 creative projects with local communities.
For more information and to see the short films -- click here
About us
About us
Two Destination Language is the collaborative practice of artists Katherina Radeva (Bulgaria) and Alister Lownie (Scotland). For fifteen years, we have made intercultural dialogues: work about identities — belonging and otherness — which has reached all four UK nations and toured to 13 countries internationally. Our work is interdisciplinary, taking shape as performances, installations, walks, publications, socially engaged community projects and peer knowledge exchange programmes.
We are bold, innovative, experimental and honest. We value care, difference, joy and the transformative power of art and culture. We believe that creative spaces are a place for individual and community identities to be explored, affirmed and forged anew.
Our practice is fragmentary and nomadic, partnering over the years with an extraordinary range of creative collaborators, residency centres, venues and festivals in order to make our work and share it with audiences. Projects take shape through exploratory work informed by the variety of places (familiar and unfamiliar) in which we make it.
email us -- producing@twodestinationlangauge.com
we are a charity
we are a charity
helping great art get made and connecting it to audiences is what we do, close to home and in places we visit
we believe nobody does their best work when struggling
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