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“I’m so glad I was able to watch this amazing performance, I went home thoroughly uplifted with joy in my heart!” Audience member “With Soundness of Heart” June 2022

As makers we explore how we can create exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking contemporary dance with d/DEAF, visually impaired, disabled, neurodivergent audiences and hospital patients. We co-create across ages, backgrounds, and experiences, naturally integrating people together, reducing isolation, and improving physical, mental, and social health and well-being.

Audiences continue to tell us that our performances are emotive and amazing, so we continue to make more!

We accept bookings and commissions to make new work throughout the year. 

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Current PERFORMANCES available to book

We offer different performances for a range of spaces and age groups.

The Explorers in Training!

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!

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HAPPENCHANCE

HAPPENCHANCE is a promenade integrated dance, performance project for hospitals and hospices (but not exclusively - we have created our work so it can be engaging and enjoyable in a wide range of settings).

Initially devised for the University Hospitals of North Midlands, Artistic Director Rachael Lines created five new contemporary dance works, especially for the hospital environment and all who attend; in and outpatients, visitors and staff.

Performers travel between public spaces and corridors to wards, and specialist units - we can even venture outside on the hospital grounds. We have work suitable for Children’s wards, Renal Units (Kidney Dialysis), Chemotherapy, Stroke, General Wards and Outpatient waiting areas – in fact our work can be performed anywhere!

We have different work available for both indoor and outdoor settings. We tailor what we perform for the right environment, situation, hospital and patient need. It can include storytelling and live music.

We can also facilitate one-to-one and group activities for staff, visitors and patients.

Stan and the Spitfire

(For Children and Young People)

Inspired by its local heritage, FRONTLINEdance created a fictional story based on Sir Stanley Matthews (local football hero) and Reginald Mitchell (designer of the Spitfire) with story teller Gloria Lowe.

It was made into an integrated dance piece and is performed with live music, composed by Greg Hall.

The work includes some audience interaction and the chance to make some paper aeroplanes!

Muse

Accompanied by pre-recorded music and a live Cello (composition by Greg Hall), dancers move around the environment alone and together.

This relaxing, breath-taking, beautiful and thought provoking work has been created for passers-by to enjoy as they travel to their next destination, and for those who want to sit and take time to watch and listen.

MUSE includes hints, twists and refelectioms of all our performance works. It is adapted to suit both the space we are performing and our audience.

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