Stopgap Dance Company is driven by a diverse creative team who uses dance as a movement for change. The first company in the UK to integrate dancers with a learning disability, a physical disability and non-disabled dancers, Stopgap creates dance productions for national and international touring, runs a community outreach programme and shares skills and knowledge through professional training and publications.
The company’s latest production is Lived Fiction, an atmospheric, multisensory work for seven performers that blends sensual choreography with innovative sound and visual design. The piece places Creative Describing centre stage from the get go, inviting audiences to experience dance from multiple perspectives using evocative audio description, exquisite projection art and captioning. The Creative Describing conveys an understanding of the work specifically for visually impaired and deaf audiences, acts as a focal point for neurodivergent audiences, and gives an extra layer of appreciation for everybody. The result is infectious, joyful, compassionate and innovative, re-setting the agenda of dance in an inclusive theatre space.
Lived Fiction won the One Dance UK Award for Artistic Innovation 2024 and was named in Guardian’s Top 10 Dance Shows of 2024.
For outdoor settings, Stopgap is offering RO-TES-រទេះ, a Without Walls commission for five dancers and a specially designed wheelchair which has been choreographed by Stopgap Senior Dance Artist Nadenh Poan.
Upcoming tour dates
23 April mac Birmingham Lived Fiction
25 April Lakeside Arts Nottingham Lived Fiction
