“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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"I thought it was brilliant – HAPPENCHANCE is a vibrant journey, full of new ideas, a relevant theme, and beautifully presented. Everyone should see this!"
Arts and Health Manager
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!
"It was a privilege to witness FRONTLINEdance's inclusive The Explorers story performance at Rugeley Library. We were all taken on a wonderous adventure of dance, movement, colour & sound! The dancers were amazing and encouraged children & families to take part bringing stories to life in a burst of creativity and imagination. Thank you FRONTLINEdance for such a memorable and uplifting experience enjoyed by all."
"The Explorers was SPOT ON!"
"Everything was fantastic. Well Done Explorers! Please do more events like this”
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.
"The sheer entertainment value is always a welcome diversion especially in units such as chemotherapy and medical day case; demonstrating what can be achieved regardless of age and disability".
Queens Hospital, Public & Patient Engagement / Trustee
"It made patients smile and feel happy, improving the patient experience whilst in hospital. Everyone talked about it for a long time afterwards"
Queens Hospital, Public & Patient Engagement / Trustee
"This was the highest quality piece of work I’d seen of this kind in hospitals and care homes. Everyone of all ages seemed to be enthralled and transfixed by the performance from tiny babies to the elderly"
Arts Development, Staffordshire County Council
"It was inspirational on lots of levels, very moving and went down brilliantly on the wards. I’ve never seen anything like that with everyone coming together in the lounge (staff and patients) to enjoy the moment"
Arts For Health Co-ordinator (mental health)
Holding On
Holding On is a live and digital performance programme co-created and performed by people with lived experience of cancer, grief, loss and bereavement. Described by audiences as “opening up difficult conversations in a softer way”, the choreography emerges directly from their stories, blending crafted movement, improvisation scores, spoken text and relational tasks to create a work that is both artistically rigorous and emotionally resonant
Booking Options
Holding On offers a flexible programme made up of several strands which can be booked individually, though we recommend combining them to create a bespoke engagement package. The programme includes two co‑devised short films, a recording of the live performance and the live work itself - which can be presented as the full piece or adapted into shorter experiences such as solos, duets or trios.
Booking options consists of:
Live performance
Screening of the live performance film
Pop-up solos, duos and trios
Screenings of two short films
Q&A with the creators, devisors and performers
Facilitated discussions
Creative workshops
Rachael Lines, FRONTLINEdance Artistic Director and CEO, can present the work or appear as a guest speaker, tailoring it to you. For example, presenting why/how it was made and/or our approaches to working around sensitive subjects.
A residency recreating the show with your own cast (community, intergenerational and professional artists)
The piece supports participants and audiences to encounter creation and performance shaped by lived experience within a safe, held and supportive space.
We’ve designed Holding On so it can tour easily and be adapted to each venue. This means we can perform in a wide range of indoor settings, though the work is not suitable for outdoor environments.
Live Shows: Available bookings from September 2026 - December 2028
Residency: Limited bookings available from October 2026 - December 2028
Short films Holding on (1): Available from August 2026 - December 2028
Holding On (2) Screendance: Available bookings from August 2026 - December 2028
Workshops: Available bookings from September 2026 - December 2028
Pop Up Solos and Duets: Available bookings from September 2026 - December 2028
Accessibility
FRONTLINEdance is committed to accessible practice for d/DEAF, disabled and neurodivergent people. Our offer includes BSL interpretation, relaxed performances, touch tours, opportunities to meet the performers in advance, and an easy-read visual story. We work with each venue to ensure accessible practice is embedded at every stage - pre‑visit, delivery, communication, marketing and evaluation. We can provide access training to support your team and build confidence in inclusive practice. In most cases, this training can be offered free of charge when booking Holding On.
Book a Conversation with Us
We'd be very happy to discuss programming options or explore how Holding On could sit within your programme. To set up an informal conversation or to book, please email Melanie at: touring@frontlinedance.co.ukFor further information:Tour Pack
What? Me, Worry?
Following the success of our online sharing as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, we are excited to announce that 'What? Me, Worry?' is touring and now available to book!
‘What? Me, Worry?’ is a full-day dance engagement led by neurodivergent dance artist Kayleigh Price - developed from her screendance film of the same name. Through a combination of dance, film and conversation, the engagement explores lived experiences of anxiety and neurodivergence within a creative and supportive setting.
The engagement offer is tailored to each setting and may include a combination of:
‘What? Me, Worry? Screendance film screening
Artist talk and Q&A
Contemporary dance technique class
Creative choreographic workshop
Dance for camera workshop
Facilitated discussion
The ‘What? Me, Worry?’ short film, created by dancer Kayleigh Price, draws on her lived experience of anxiety and neurodivergence. The work creates a compelling narrative using three art forms - film, dance and music - to take you on a journey through the lens of living with generalised anxiety disorder.
Collaborating with filmmaker Jay Gearing and composer Luke Marley, who are both neurodivergent, it explores feeling alone and paralysed by thoughts but also wanting to make others happy, bringing the audience into Kayleigh's experience. She hopes the work will help start important conversations about mental health and her reality of living with anxiety.
A trailer of What? Me, Worry? can be accessed here.
The film is available with Audio Description and BSL interpretation.
‘What? Me, Worry?’ will be touring to secondary schools, sixth forms, colleges, vocational dance training settings, conservatoires, universities, film festivals, charities and community groups.
