Three dancers shimmy through the audience weaving a tapestry of sticky tape in this tactile dance performance for young autistic children. They invite you to tape, stick and groove, to see and feel sound or to be still, watch and listen. School children are encouraged to explore freely, turn the rules upside down and create their own experience.
An interactive, engaging and colourful performance installation, The Sticky Dance for Sensory Groovers is designed for small audiences of school children with additional needs and their carers. Enjoy a welcoming, inclusive space for children to interact with dance in their own unique way.
The performance runs for 60 minutes. You're free to enter and leave the space whenever you choose.
Co-created by Rosie Heafford and Takeshi Matsumoto.
Co-commissioned by The Southbank Centre and The Place, and South East Dance.
Second Hand Dance creates bold, visceral, innovative dance performances and digital dance films. They subtly challenge the status quo by creating equitable playful, shared experiences for children and adults. Female led, and run by disabled and non disabled co-directors, they align with the social model of disability, co-creating professional performance work with, and for, children. Their creative process is child led and uses non-verbal communication techniques, improvisation, observation and listening. They advocate for the value, and development, of the Performance for Young Audiences sector and removing barriers for disabled audiences and artists to engage in high quality dance performances. Their vision is a world where dance, empathy, play and exploratory movement are central to the lives of children and adults, as vital and fluent as language.
In the last 10 years Second Hand Dance has performed 713 times at 309 venues across 18 countries and regularly participate in sector leadership development groups and consultations. They work locally, regional, national and internationally from performing at The Lincoln Centre in New York, to SEND schools in South Korea. They are part of the Arts Council England National Portfolio and sit on the Assitej UK Board.
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