Our Story

Our Approach

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Education

At the intersection of dance and digital, we empower young people with the creative, technical, and transferable skills they need to thrive. By supporting both students and teaching staff, we help close the skills gap and build confident, future-ready leaders.

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Creative Health

Delivering artistic programmes alongside more traditional health care approaches, helping people feel less like a patient/recipient of care and find new ways to improve their sense of humanity, wellbeing and connection to others.

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Community

We work with community services, arts venues and people to provide opportunities that build communities, re-purpose spaces such as libraries into creative encounters and help people to connect with others in their community on a deeper level.

Story of Change

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Our Values

Never working alone, always with public services.

Cohesion


To keep developing our skills whilst sharing these with anyone who wants to learn as well

Learning


To take creativity to places where it is not happening regularly, supporting people to experience it and realise its benefits.

Boldness

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To continue to experiment, try things out and offer something new to people

Innovation


To be purpose driven in all that we do in order to achieve real impact

Purpose


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"My vision is to facilitate space for people’s stories to be captured, for their experience and knowledge to be shared and for people to discover both their own uniqueness as well as their power to contribute positively to communities"

Katie Dale-Everett

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