Seafarers
Stopgap Dance Company were awarded nearly £210,000 for a three-year project to embed inclusive dance classes in Norfolk and Suffolk.
The project in numbers
£206,995
Project spend
3 Years 8 Months
Project duration
January 2016 – August 2019
Project dates
Stopgap Dance Company worked with partners Norfolk & Norwich Festival and DanceEast, as well as various local schools, to train dance teachers and to engage young people in the area to participate.
Our funding also enabled them to perform a large-scale outdoor production, The Seafarers, in Great Yarmouth as part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May 2018.
In May 2019 the Norfolk and Suffolk dance groups performed a piece called Frippery outside the Forum in Norwich as part of the Without Walls Festival. The project’s legacy will be the provision of high quality, specialised dance teacher training teaching as well as increased levels of participation in dance, and especially inclusive dance.
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