Tuckshop Dance Theatre
About
Tuckshop Dance Theatre
Learning, Collaboration, Innovation, Impact
Tuckshop Dance Theatre work with people & the transformative power of dance and digital technologies to amplify youth voice, humanity & issues of global concern. We want to give a wider range of young people aged 8-25 years old, to provide access to cultural learning opportunities and meaningful experiences. We want to work collaboratively to harness the power of young people and dance to lead to change, ideas and actions that connect people and give back to their communities.
Established by Lauren Tucker, TDT are in the early stages of development, with a strong vision to support the creative development of young people, to work with them in a safe, supportive, inclusive, and highly collaborative way. Tuckshop Dance Theatre listen to young people's voices, ideas, creative desires and help to put them in to action. Lauren has worked with young people for 15 years in the UK and internationally, and values the importance of sharing their perspectives with the world.
Lauren's creative practice is continuously evolving. However there are some common themes emerging including athletic physicality, powerful storytelling, digital play, interactivity, & emotive sound scores. Lauren believes that collaboration with young people will help to develop new and improved approaches to sharing their lived experiences to support and bring about change. Lauren is curious as to how digital media can reach young people that are currently not engaging with cultural spaces, to introduce them to these amazing public resources, to enable access, and to encourage young people to shape the vision for arts and culture on a local and national level.
Tuckshop Dance Theatre want to work with diverse young people to solve problems creatively, across the boundaries of industries, sectors, and cultures both nationally and internationally. We place huge value on partnership to enable our vision and to help us to create meaningful work that celebrates youth voice.
Dance is a universal language. What we do is special, you can't really put it in to words. In our practice, we aim to move beyond the jargon, to discard the fluff, to extract what needs to be said, right now, and further down the line, to find the questions that need to be asked to shape our future world. Sometimes is about dancing for happiness, and not taking ourselves too seriously, switching off and letting go, getting lost in a moment, mindfully moving to express who we are. Sometimes all of that magic needs to be put to use for greater good. We want to marry spectacle, emotion and movement to produce easily digestible dance and digital work that wows young audiences and inspires them to engage!
At Tuckshop Dance Theatre, we believe in the power of positive thinking. We recognise the role children and young people can play as agents for change, and we know that we play a part in empowering young people to see themselves as creative change makers. We unlock their creative potential through transformative cultural learning and engagement.
Together we will work to better understand the world, to imagine alternative tomorrows, and realise our aspirations for the places that shape our day to day life in some way or another.
"We believe in the inherent value of creativity and culture: in their power to delight and move us, and in their capacity to help us make sense of the world. But we also know that investment in creativity and culture can deliver broad social benefits, through the skills they offer to young people and workers, the economic growth they generate, and the part they play in building healthy, closeknit communities." (Arts Council England)
Learning, Collaboration, Innovation, Impact
Tuckshop Dance Theatre work with people & the transformative power of dance and digital technologies to amplify youth voice, humanity & issues of global concern. We want to give a wider range of young people aged 8-25 years old, to provide access to cultural learning opportunities and meaningful experiences. We want to work collaboratively to harness the power of young people and dance to lead to change, ideas and actions that connect people and give back to their communities.
Established by Lauren Tucker, TDT are in the early stages of development, with a strong vision to support the creative development of young people, to work with them in a safe, supportive, inclusive, and highly collaborative way. Tuckshop Dance Theatre listen to young people's voices, ideas, creative desires and help to put them in to action. Lauren has worked with young people for 15 years in the UK and internationally, and values the importance of sharing their perspectives with the world.
Lauren's creative practice is continuously evolving. However there are some common themes emerging including athletic physicality, powerful storytelling, digital play, interactivity, & emotive sound scores. Lauren believes that collaboration with young people will help to develop new and improved approaches to sharing their lived experiences to support and bring about change. Lauren is curious as to how digital media can reach young people that are currently not engaging with cultural spaces, to introduce them to these amazing public resources, to enable access, and to encourage young people to shape the vision for arts and culture on a local and national level.
Tuckshop Dance Theatre want to work with diverse young people to solve problems creatively, across the boundaries of industries, sectors, and cultures both nationally and internationally. We place huge value on partnership to enable our vision and to help us to create meaningful work that celebrates youth voice.
Dance is a universal language. What we do is special, you can't really put it in to words. In our practice, we aim to move beyond the jargon, to discard the fluff, to extract what needs to be said, right now, and further down the line, to find the questions that need to be asked to shape our future world. Sometimes is about dancing for happiness, and not taking ourselves too seriously, switching off and letting go, getting lost in a moment, mindfully moving to express who we are. Sometimes all of that magic needs to be put to use for greater good. We want to marry spectacle, emotion and movement to produce easily digestible dance and digital work that wows young audiences and inspires them to engage!
At Tuckshop Dance Theatre, we believe in the power of positive thinking. We recognise the role children and young people can play as agents for change, and we know that we play a part in empowering young people to see themselves as creative change makers. We unlock their creative potential through transformative cultural learning and engagement.
Together we will work to better understand the world, to imagine alternative tomorrows, and realise our aspirations for the places that shape our day to day life in some way or another.
"We believe in the inherent value of creativity and culture: in their power to delight and move us, and in their capacity to help us make sense of the world. But we also know that investment in creativity and culture can deliver broad social benefits, through the skills they offer to young people and workers, the economic growth they generate, and the part they play in building healthy, closeknit communities." (Arts Council England)
Tuckshop Dance Theatre is a UK based Dance Theatre company that make work in co-design with our audiences. Our work uses dance, digital media and a range of artistic disciplines to communicate to young people and family audiences. We are driven by imagined futures for culture, and the confluence of dance and digital media.
With creativity and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, we are curious about what young people need and how they can help to shape this rapidly evolving world to create the world they want to see. We work to address these questions, to over come challenges, and generate new possibilities for dance, play, and interaction, cultural learning, and curriculum development in creative, physical and digital contexts.
Tuckshop Dance Theatre provide a creative platform for youth voice, to shape identity, pride in place, to inspire and to empower children and young people to make positive life choices. We create opportunities for young people to affirm culture, explore heritage, to learn from others and better understand the world around them.
Our learning and engagement nurtures young people's health and well- being, boosts confidence and self- esteem, creates opportunities for play, with the vision to contribute to developing thriving citizens and future young creatives. We provide a safe space for children and young people to discover who they are and what they want to say to the world. Our performance work is relevant and reflects the world around us; absurd, wonderful, and paradoxical. We take our performance work to zoos, amusement parks, youth centres, out door spaces, theatres, museums, galleries, pop up venues, libraries, schools, colleges and online.
Tuckshop Dance Theatre was formed in 2016, by Lauren Tucker. Lauren is extremely passionate about developing her own creative practice to help young people to realise their full potential. Lauren’s creative ethos intertwines deep and meaningful creative enquiry, metaphor, urban contemporary aesthetic, digital storytelling, flexible, creative, critical thinking, co-design with, by and for communities and audience centred sensitivity.
The company's most recent work, Neverland was supported by Arts Council England.
"Art should always continue to build on what has come before and what is concurrent; it has a responsibility to mediate and to pioneer. In the case of technology, innovation offers opportunities to reimagine the familiar. Ultimately, the tools an artist decides to use is up to them - there are no rules after all."
www.thespace.org/resource/art-and-technology-coexistence-and-innovation
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. " - Albert Einstein
