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Never Stop Learning | The impact of Home Practice
As our Home Practice journey comes to an end, Communications Manager, Hollie Park, catches up with Rehearsal Director and Home Practice Teacher, Amy Butler and Content and Access Artist, Lily Norton to reflect on the project, and discover what we have learned on both an individual and organisational level.
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Celebrating the longevity of Stopgap Dance Company | Top tips for inclusive success
January 2023 marked 20 years since Lucy, Laura and Chris began their careers with Stopgap Dance Company. Lucy and Laura are now Co-Artistic Directors, and Chris is a resident choreographer. To mark the achievements of the last 20-years, Executive Producer Sho Shibata spoke to the Co-Artistic Directors Lucy and Laura to come up with some top tips on how to grow a successful inclusive company.
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Finding the Balance
Artistic Director Lucy considers the balance inclusion needs to find; between dancers who need translation and dancers who need body specific clarity.
Seedbed - A Pathway to Teaching Inclusively
Find out more about what to expect from our teacher training course and how it supports your journey to becoming a teacher of our inclusive syllabus, IRIS.
Journey to Inclusion
Our Executive Producer Sho Shibata, sheds some light on Dancer Chris Pavia's dance journey and what he brings to the company as an artist, and more importantly, as an individual.
Why IRIS?
Artistic Director Lucy Bennett tells us more about IRIS, Stopgap’s inclusive dance syllabus; how it started and what we hope it can achieve.
Internationally acclaimed disabled dancer David Toole from Leeds awarded OBE
Artificial Things wins the prestigious dancescreen award
Your Reaction | Frock tour 2019
Here's the wrap of all the lovely comments we received for our latest outdoor piece Frock
Dancing After Having a Baby
KJ gives her advice and experience of going back to work as a dancer after having a baby.
What The Frock Are These Costumes?!
Alice talks about her experience making a show where the costumes don't fit the norm, and what it's like to perform in an outdoor dance show.
Sg2 Top Tips - Sander
Sander gives 3 top tips for starting your dance training
Five ways to stay fit and healthy over summer
Fin shares five ways to help any dancer stay strong and healthy during over the summer.
Looking back at Frippery
Hear from Yasmin about her favourite memories from our community show Frippery, from creative process to the exciting performance.
Your Reaction | Frock and Frippery (2019)
Our new outdoor work Frock and its community collaboration performance Frippery premiered successfully at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and here is some of the feedback we received on social media!
Chris's New Duet
Chris has been working on creating a new duet, The Journey Between, with Christian & Nadenh. Here he shares details on the duet, his choreographic process and his aspirations for the piece...
Artificial Things comes to BBC iPlayer
We are very excited to announce that our Artificial Things film will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer from Sunday 31st March! Read the full announcement here...
The Arts and Social Impact | A view from Stopgap Dance Co
Our Executive Producer Sho Shibata elaborates on how Stopgap's artistic and developmental work strategically align to make a difference in the wider world and the industry.
Christian on Chris & his creative process
Christian gives us an insight into working with Chris and his creative process...
Chris's Solo Inspiration
Ahead of his performance of Captain's Duty, Chris shares his inspiration behind the piece...
Hannah's Top Tips
As the new Sg2 have their induction day Hannah offers some of her top tips...
Your Reaction | The Seafarers 2018
Over 50 dancers collaborated across 100 miles, it was a monumental project. The response and the 4-star reivew by The Guardian made it all worthwhile!
Christian talks about The Seafarers
Christian writes up how the Seafarers project went and what it meant to him...
The Seafarers | ★★★★ The Guardian
'A lyrical ode to the ocean' a review from Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Artificial Things the film selected for prestigious IDFA in November
Artificial Things - the film will be shown at IDFA the acclaimed interntational film festival in Amsterdam throughout this month.