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.
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Handing Over the Baton | Sho Shibata to Leave Stopgap Dance Company
Stopgap announce that our Executive Producer Sho Shibata will be leaving the company after 16 years.
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Introducing our new Co-Chair
Stopgap welcomes Suzie Birchwood as Co-Chair of the Board to help drive forward our organisational mission of using dance as a movement for change.
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Reflections on a Dance Journey | An interview with Dermot Farrell
Meet one of our associate artists Dermot Farrell as he reflects on his personal dance journey in an interview with our Access Artist Lily Norton.
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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.
Monday Musings with AD | All Change Please
Another Monday musing with Lucy Bennett, showing that sometimes everyone has to think on their feet and go with the unknown...
The GCSE journey of Artificial Things
ArtsPool's Director Heather Worall talks about the journey to shape "Artificial Things" into an educational resource.
Monday Musings with AD | A Helping Hand
This week's musings with Lucy focuses on the female dancer...
Monday Musings with AD | Making a new piece of work
This week's musings with Lucy answer a question we often get asked when making a new production.
Hannah on The Awakening
Hannah reflects on the journey of The Awakening and performing at The Funky Llama festival in June...
Monday Musings with AD | YouTube
This week's musings with Lucy Bennett show how platforms such as YouTube allow the opportunity to be constantly learning
Where we begin | by Hannah
Hannah writes a poem, telling us the story behind the duet Where we begin which she performed with Chris Pavia...
Monday Musings with AD | 'Zeitgeist'
Another Monday with Artistic Director, Lucy Bennett - today's musings focus on the similarities between choreographers' ideas.
Monday Musings with AD | The Awakening
In our series of Artistic Director blogs, this Monday brings you The Awakening and behind the scenes of being a choregorapher.