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.
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
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.
Monday Musings with AD | Creating via WhatsApp
Lucy writes about the new exciting creative process for Stopgap's collaboration with 2 East African companies
ISTD Springboard | Hannah's reflections
We hear from Hannah as she talks about her experience of teaching rep from The Awakening as part of an ISTD Springboard workshop at Urdang Academy in April.
IRIS Teacher Training
Christian talks us through his experience of Stopgap’s IRIS summer school.
Artificial Things included in new GCSE Dance syllabus
Stopgap Dance Company is delighted to announce that their recent work, Artificial Things is part of the new specification for GCSE Dance.
Sg2 Graduates!
Artistic director, Lucy, writes about Hannah and Nadenh’s pathway to graduation.
Chris' Choreography Inspiration
Chris has been creating choreographic tasks to inspire Guildford Youth Company for their upcoming performance at our Winter Platform.
Artistic Identity (part 3) | by Lucy Bennett
Here’s the conclusion of Lucy’s series on Artistic Identity
Artistic Identity (part 2) | by Lucy Bennett
Lucy’s series continues: with part two focussing on Integration.
Artistic Identity (part 1) | by Lucy Bennett
Artistic Director, Lucy Bennett, writes a series of blogs on Artistic Identity – here’s number one out of three.
Lucy's response to The Telegraph article
Artistic Director Lucy Bennett responds to the article 'How I shamed the ballet world' by Chief Political Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. This response is also published by South East Dance's Everybody Issue in August 2015.
Sho's response to The Telegraph article
Company Producer Sho Shibata responds to the article 'How I shamed the ballet world' by Chief Political Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. This response is also published by The RAD Gazette in October 2015.
The benefits of dance
Imogen Aujla PhD, Senior Lecturer in Dance and Course Coordinator MSc Dance Science at the University of Bedfordshire, writes about the well-being outcomes of dance and the positive impact our inclusive syllabus IRIS could have in promoting physical and mental health for disabled people.
Dance UK Conference
Laura talks about her involvement with Dance UK’s event, The Future: New Ideas, New Inspiration.
Stopgap at Move It!
Julia, the company’s Research Assistant, writes a blog about Stopgap’s guest appearance on the main stage at Move it, the UK’s biggest dance exhibition which takes place annually at Olympia, London.
IRIS Discussion & Development
Julia, IRIS Research Associate, reflects on the first meetings for Stopgap’s pilot dance training programme for young disabled and non-disabled dancers.
Why we made The Awakening | Part 2
Our Company Producer Sho Shibata gives his insight into producing The Awakening, which was the first touring dance production ever to be made by learning disabled choreographer.
Ana's Blog
Ana, who has traveled from America to be here with us at Stopgap for a six-week placement, writes a short blog explaining her experiences of dance and disability.
Why we made The Awakening | Part 1
Prior to the London premiere of Chris’ new outdoor work at Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, Company Producer Sho Shibata talks about what makes Chris’ work so appealing (Part 1 of a 2 Part blog).