
East African Project | with Christian
Following on from Lucy's blog about creating via WhatsApp, here's Christian's view on the 5 day project working with the 2 dancers from Kenya...
Stopgap announce that our Executive Producer Sho Shibata will be leaving the company after 16 years.
Find out moreStopgap welcomes Suzie Birchwood as Co-Chair of the Board to help drive forward our organisational mission of using dance as a movement for change.
Find out moreMeet one of our associate artists Dermot Farrell as he reflects on his personal dance journey in an interview with our Access Artist Lily Norton.
Find out moreFollowing on from Lucy's blog about creating via WhatsApp, here's Christian's view on the 5 day project working with the 2 dancers from Kenya...
Lucy writes about the new exciting creative process for Stopgap's collaboration with 2 East African companies
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.
'An absorbing encounter with grief and loss' a review from Sadler's Wells
Thank you so much to all who gave us such lovely feedback. Here's a compliation of responses for what has been a hectic but exciting week!
Christian talks us through his experience of Stopgap’s IRIS summer school.
Stopgap Dance Company co-produced a large scale outdoor show The Seafarers with Portsmouth Festivities, here's happened, plus a full-length video!
Stopgap Dance Company is delighted to announce that their recent work, Artificial Things is part of the new specification for GCSE Dance.
In this first blog about Stopgap's next major production The Enormous Room, Artistic Director Lucy Bennett talks about the overall concept and how ideas for the work developed and changed.
Artistic director, Lucy, writes about Hannah and Nadenh’s pathway to graduation.
Chris has been creating choreographic tasks to inspire Guildford Youth Company for their upcoming performance at our Winter Platform.
Here’s the conclusion of Lucy’s series on Artistic Identity
Lucy’s series continues: with part two focussing on Integration.
Artistic Director, Lucy Bennett, writes a series of blogs on Artistic Identity – here’s number one out of three.
'Exhilarating, emotional and provoking' a review from Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015
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.
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.
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.
Your thoughts on our new outdoor show Bill & Bobby from our outings at GDIF, Hijinx Unity Festival and Winchester Hatfair.
And here is the third and final part of this weeks featured blogs from Artistic Director, Lucy, summing up working on the Seafarers.
Here’s part 2 of Lucy Bennett’s blog; The Process behind making The Seafarers.
Artistic Director, Lucy, has written a three-part blog leading up to Stopgap’s performance of The Seafarers as part of Portsmouth Festivities. Read part one and learn where all the concept ideas stemmed from.
Laura talks about her involvement with Dance UK’s event, The Future: New Ideas, New Inspiration.
Stopgap is excited to officially announce our next big project - a site specific, community dance performance in Portsmouth