Raquel Meseguer Zafe

Residency: A Good Thing is Never Too Late

A Good Thing is Never too Late is a Research & Development project about belonging and a slippery sense of ‘home’. During their 2 week residency at Fabric, Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Ania Varez will explore themes of dual heritage, ancestry, decolonising practices and ghost stories to tend to the longing that comes with being from somewhere else.

The outcome of the residency may be the beginning of a show or an encounter: it may be biographical or fictionalised biography, it may be a dance work that resides in a theatre, it may use verbatim, it might be danced live, it might be recorded on film, and we may not always need to be present for it to be performed.

More about Raquel Meseguer Zafe (She/her)

Raquel’s work straddles theatre, dance, installation, performative conversations and photo-documentary. She identifies as dis-abled, and works with rest and horizontality as creative impulses. Raquel founded Unchartered Collective in 2016 to create theatrical encounters that explore the lived experience of an invisible disability like chronic pain and to create her own context for creating work on her body. Her work for Unchartered Collective includes A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (2019/2021) and Proper Time (2025), shortlisted for an Unlimited Open Award 2025.

Raquel advocates for Resting Spaces, Restful Cities and founded creative online spaces for the chronically ill community.

Raquel also co-founded Los Dog dance and co-directed all shows up the 2011 Place Prize winner ‘It Needs Horses’. She was Associate Artist on Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost (2015), Juliet + Romeo (2018) and Ruination (2022), nominated for an Olivier Award 2023. Raquel was movement director on Rachael Bagshaw’s The Shape of the Pain (2018) and Mother Courage and Her Children, Royal Exchange / Headlong (2019). Raquel was Co-Artistic Director of Candoco from 2024 – July 2025.

More about Ania Varez (They/them)

Ania Varez (they/them) is a Venezuelan dance artist, community facilitator and teacher based in Bristol. You will quite likely find them bringing movement to a variety of spaces, from theatres to DIY queer nights, from community centres to schools. Since graduating from The London Contemporary Dance School, they’ve worked with many amazing artists and organisations, including: aKa Dance theatre, Shotput Theatre, Laïla Diallo, Lisa May Thomas, Terrestrial and Fair Play Productions. Their own work has toured internationally (Taiwan and South Korea) as well as in the UK, including SPILL Festival.They are a member of Interval, an artist support network in Bristol.

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