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Case Studies

Explore a range of dance and heritage projects from across the UK.

Two dancers wearing white long sleeved tops and a bright yellow skirt with a black pattern dance in the middle of an art gallery, surrounded by an audience of people on all sides.

The Elsewhen Series – Theo Clinkard and Leah Marojević

Modern day romantics, period dramas, projecting the present, practicing elsewhere and elsewhen, a series of daydreams and escapisms into alternatives via nature and her animals Across five duet…

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3 dancers twist, reach and check the space around them nervously, their images overlaid over an impression of a historic house in darkness

It begins in darkness – Seke Chimutengwende

It begins in darkness is a dance full of ghosts. In this stark, stripped back performance, five dancers move through a series of mysterious and experimental rites of passage,…

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Image by Alice Underwood; image description: a person wearing a blue cap and blue and red jacket holds up an iPad in front of their face, which displays more information about the Leytonstone street through which he's walking.

Leytonstone TrailblazARs – Move and Code

A creative digital adventure that brings to life the history of Leytonstone High Road, through the eyes of young local residents. Participants could get to know this corner of…

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An image of dancers performing on board LV21, a light vessel ship transformed into an arts venue

The Great Thames Disaster – Daisy Farris Dance Collective

On the evening of the 3rd September 1878, The Princess Alice paddle steamer was returning to London, loaded with tired yet jovial passengers who had enjoyed a day…

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Dancer Noora Kela from Shobana Jeyasingh Dance performing alongside small sculptures of dancers by artist Auguste Rodin

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance – études

In Autumn 2016, Shobana Jeyasingh created études, an eight-minute contemporary dance piece responding to The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement. The exhibition explored Rodin’s fascination with dance and bodies…

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Choreographer Tony Adigun rehearsing with dancer Ajani Johnson-Goffe in the National Gallery's Portico

The National Gallery and Avant Garde Dance

Virtual reality dance in the National Gallery How can dance interpret and respond to our paintings and architecture? How can movement animate our space and art and help us…

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A group of young dancers perform amidst the neatly trimmed box hedges of Horniman Museum and Gardens. They wear black, with brightly coloured scarves tied around their waists.

Curious Tea Party – Horniman Museum and Trinity Laban

The Horniman Museum and Gardens and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance have been working together on exciting projects since 2009 Trinity Laban has been part of 'Object in Focus', an…

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