A clubnight held at Lost Horizon on Wednesday 25th March. The event starts at 19:30.
Ok ok ok deep breaths, for this one we are joined by EMMA HOUSTON legendary London-based Non Binary breakdancer, NO BIGGIE! This will be the last Soft Butch until Pride in July so don’t miss out baybeez.
✸ Soft Butch is a somatics-infused night celebrating all butchness, for Women, Non Binary and Trans people to dance freely together. No drinks and no phones on stage + invitation to extend this to the dance floor (more about this in our FAQs: https://tinyurl.com/3vv6trxf) ✸
TIMINGS
7:30PM: Doors open.
7:30-8:30PM: Catch up with your mates and/or make new ones before lights go dim.
8:30-8:45PM: Dance floor meditation (optional).
8:45PM-9:00PM: Breakdance by Emma Houston aka Shortbread.
9:00-11:30PM: LEXX on the decks.
ABOUT EMMA HOUSTON (they/them)
Emma Houston, aka ‘Shortbread’, is a movement artist working across theatre, commercial and underground dance scenes. Specialising in Breaking and Floorwork, Shortbread was an Elite Squad member of Breaking GB & represented the UK on the Olympic Route as well as representing on the Redbull BCone stages over the years. Starting their dance journey with Hip Hop styles, Emma went on to train in Contemporary Dance Theatre at Laban. Emma has performed & dance captained with ZooNation (Message In A Bottle) and Olivier-award winning UK Hip Hop Theatre companies Boy Blue (REDD) and Far From the Norm (Union Black) among others. Internationally Emma has worked with Ish Dance Collective (Thor) in The Netherlands and with Passing The Crown & Rapsody in the USA in 2025. Emma has collaborated as both dancer & choreographer with brands such as Adidas, Levi’s and Nike, and appeared in print for ASOS, I Am Hip-Hop Magazine, DIVA and the Hip Hop Dance Almanac.
https://www.instagram.com/shortbreadthebreaker
ABOUT LEXX (they/them)
LEXX whips the finest cross-genre music into sets that sweat and reset. Their dance floor is a sxy somatics-infused space where gender gets bent and all beings are held in love. A space where you can dance freely to meet your struggle and release it all. LEXX is the creator and DJ daddy of Soft Butch, a somatics-infused night celebrating butchness, for all women, NB and Trans people to dance freely together. The event is a repeat sell-out, gathering crowds of over 500 people on the regs. You can find LEXX on the decks in the UK and beyond, in clubs, cafés and bars, at festivals, and in sober dance spaces. Expect the finest house of all flavours, afrobeat and amapiano, reggaeton and latinx tracks, drum n bass, and much more.
https://www.instagram.com/a_lexx_a_ ・ https://soundcloud.com/alexaledecky
ACCESS & CARE
The venue is wheelchair accessible. You can find the venue's full access info here: https://www.losthorizonlive.com/faqs.
If you'd like a chair, please contact us on [email protected]. We'll have it labelled with your name and ready by the stage for you to collect when you arrive. If you need help setting it up, speak to a member of the Soft Butch team.
If money is a barrier to you joining and there are no Times Are Hard tickets left, please DM @soft_butch_ on Insta or email [email protected].
Unwanted touch, homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist or ageist behaviour is not allowed.
The bathrooms in the venue are all gender neutral.
Please be aware that strobe lighting may be in use.
If something doesn't feel right, please talk to one of our Soft Butch team members. We will believe you and we will help. The team members are introduced at the start of the night and all wear a blue LED armband.
QUESTIONS?
Check out our FAQs here: https://tinyurl.com/3f36hxjs. If you still have enquiries, email [email protected] <3
__________________________________________________________________
Cover photo by . LEXX headshot by. Emma headshot by.
Entry requirements: 18+
✸ Soft Butch is a somatics-infused night celebrating all butchness, for Women, Non Binary and Trans people to dance freely together. No drinks and no phones on stage + invitation to extend this to the dance floor (more about this in our FAQs: https://tinyurl.com/3vv6trxf) ✸
TIMINGS
7:30PM: Doors open.
7:30-8:30PM: Catch up with your mates and/or make new ones before lights go dim.
8:30-8:45PM: Dance floor meditation (optional).
8:45PM-9:00PM: Breakdance by Emma Houston aka Shortbread.
9:00-11:30PM: LEXX on the decks.
ABOUT EMMA HOUSTON (they/them)
Emma Houston, aka ‘Shortbread’, is a movement artist working across theatre, commercial and underground dance scenes. Specialising in Breaking and Floorwork, Shortbread was an Elite Squad member of Breaking GB & represented the UK on the Olympic Route as well as representing on the Redbull BCone stages over the years. Starting their dance journey with Hip Hop styles, Emma went on to train in Contemporary Dance Theatre at Laban. Emma has performed & dance captained with ZooNation (Message In A Bottle) and Olivier-award winning UK Hip Hop Theatre companies Boy Blue (REDD) and Far From the Norm (Union Black) among others. Internationally Emma has worked with Ish Dance Collective (Thor) in The Netherlands and with Passing The Crown & Rapsody in the USA in 2025. Emma has collaborated as both dancer & choreographer with brands such as Adidas, Levi’s and Nike, and appeared in print for ASOS, I Am Hip-Hop Magazine, DIVA and the Hip Hop Dance Almanac.
https://www.instagram.com/shortbreadthebreaker
ABOUT LEXX (they/them)
LEXX whips the finest cross-genre music into sets that sweat and reset. Their dance floor is a sxy somatics-infused space where gender gets bent and all beings are held in love. A space where you can dance freely to meet your struggle and release it all. LEXX is the creator and DJ daddy of Soft Butch, a somatics-infused night celebrating butchness, for all women, NB and Trans people to dance freely together. The event is a repeat sell-out, gathering crowds of over 500 people on the regs. You can find LEXX on the decks in the UK and beyond, in clubs, cafés and bars, at festivals, and in sober dance spaces. Expect the finest house of all flavours, afrobeat and amapiano, reggaeton and latinx tracks, drum n bass, and much more.
https://www.instagram.com/a_lexx_a_ ・ https://soundcloud.com/alexaledecky
ACCESS & CARE
The venue is wheelchair accessible. You can find the venue's full access info here: https://www.losthorizonlive.com/faqs.
If you'd like a chair, please contact us on [email protected]. We'll have it labelled with your name and ready by the stage for you to collect when you arrive. If you need help setting it up, speak to a member of the Soft Butch team.
If money is a barrier to you joining and there are no Times Are Hard tickets left, please DM @soft_butch_ on Insta or email [email protected].
Unwanted touch, homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist or ageist behaviour is not allowed.
The bathrooms in the venue are all gender neutral.
Please be aware that strobe lighting may be in use.
If something doesn't feel right, please talk to one of our Soft Butch team members. We will believe you and we will help. The team members are introduced at the start of the night and all wear a blue LED armband.
QUESTIONS?
Check out our FAQs here: https://tinyurl.com/3f36hxjs. If you still have enquiries, email [email protected] <3
__________________________________________________________________
Cover photo by . LEXX headshot by. Emma headshot by.
Entry requirements: 18+
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