Month: February 2024

The Explorers in Training! is an inclusive interactive live performance in which our performers, the explorers, embark on a wondrous adventure with the audience. Combining dance, storytelling and music, the show brings to life two books and invites audiences to move, explore, imagine and actively engage with the performers along the way. Described as ‘a beautiful, sensitive experience’ and ‘wonderfully in tune with all the children’, audiences can expect to be involved, engaged, included and have lots of fun!

The Explores! performance was initially co-created with disabled children and hospital patients. The current show, The Explorers in Training! was re-created with our emerging dancers on our bespoke Advance Training Programme, so it is rooted in accessibility and inclusivity. It includes:

• British Sign Language /  Makaton weaved interpretation
• Audio Description Script and Headsets
• A relaxed performance
• Touch tours and a meet-and-greet (available in advance where useful)
• An easy read visual story

The Explorers in Training!  is designed to:

• Support children, families and school groups to engage in a fun, inclusive performance experience  
• Create a fully relaxed and welcoming live performance environment for audiences - inclusive for those where a traditional show wouldn’t meet their needs or be accessible to them
• Offer opportunities for audiences to make sounds, move and dance during both the participatory section and in a way that is right for them throughout
• Provide the freedom for the audience members to be their authentic selves
• Adapt and change to the audiences receiving it

The disabled and neurodivergent cast is made up of a professional dancer and two trainee dancers, one of which is a wheelchair user. Access performers and creative enablers support the audience to ensure everyone can join in with ease and have a fantastic time with us!

It is especially well suited to libraries, galleries, museums, outdoor spaces, and community settings. We adapt and change! With adequate notice, the performance can also be adapted to complement a theme, festival, book suggestions of your choice, and we can make it more age appropriate for an older group, for example.

Your venue needs to be accessible for wheelchair users for us to visit.

‘The Explorers in Training’ is AVAILABLE TO TOUR Now!

TOUR PACK / EASY READ VISUAL STORY

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