HOME Mass participation promenade dance

about

HOME was a large-scale, co-created, promenade performance and project. Taking place in Albert Park, this site-specific work used interdisciplinary art forms to explore ideas, stories and notions of home. The production featured a professional ensemble of dancers alongside a community cast of residents from Middlesbrough and voice recordings from Middlesbrough residents. The work told their stories of home, exploring memories and traditions from their homeland and expressing what makes Middlesbrough a place of pride and hope.

impact

Across the project, people from all 20 wards of Middlesbrough were engaged through consultations and workshops in dance, craft, and creative writing.

In total, the project engaged with 3,432 people of which 1,714 were adults and 1,720 were children and young people. The performance featured over 100 individual community performers.

The live audience for the project reached 14,250 with a further 28,263 people interacting with the project online.

Artistic Team:

Associate Artistic Director: Jennifer Essex

Composers: Bridie Jackson & Nick Pierce

Costume Designer: Raquel Fernandez

Dancers & Co-Choreographers:

Jenny Chrisp

Anthony Lo Giudice

Rosie Macari

Lila Naruse

Mithun Gill

Igor Tavares

Tom Sutton

Hannah Wintie-Hawkins

Community Dance Artists:

Patricia Verity Suarez

Teissy Easton

Jenny Chrisp

Anthony Lo Giudice

Drew Wintie-Hawkins

Hannah Wintie-Hawkins

Mithun Gill

Beth Rogers

Emily Wratten

Sarah Melluish

Beth Veitch

Zubaidah Moore

Community Artists:

Adele Catchpole

Adam Bligh

Sofia Barton

Mike Sreenan

Jane Cuthbert

Hollie Notman

Paul Hyde

Jan Shaw

Ruth Hawkes

Tees Dance Director: Amy Swalwell

Senior Producer: Aaron Bowman

Marketing Manager: Carmel Ramsay

Project photographer: Francis Fitzgerald

Project videographer: Laura Degnan

CREATED BY
Jennifer Essex