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About
Tuckshop Dance Theatre
Learning, Collaboration, Innovation, Impact
Tuckshop Dance Theatre develop innovative practice to amplify youth voice, stories of humanity and issues of global concern, with a commitment to excellence and diversity.
We work with people to shape cultural learning opportunities and meaningful experiences to transform people’s lives. We empower young people to celebrate their individuality, organise and express their creativity through shared lived experiences.
We celebrate the power of young people and creative practice to lead change, ideas and actions that connect people, give back to their communities and ignite the spark for life long cultural learning.
We would also like to take this time to thank Chloe Cocoran (amazing and creative young person from Winsford, Cheshire) for designing our company logo to underpin our values.
We recognise that all of our values are iterative, active and creative processes.
Learning, Collaboration, Innovation, Impact
Tuckshop Dance Theatre develop innovative practice to amplify youth voice, stories of humanity and issues of global concern, with a commitment to excellence and diversity.
We work with people to shape cultural learning opportunities and meaningful experiences to transform people’s lives. We empower young people to celebrate their individuality, organise and express their creativity through shared lived experiences.
We celebrate the power of young people and creative practice to lead change, ideas and actions that connect people, give back to their communities and ignite the spark for life long cultural learning.
We would also like to take this time to thank Chloe Cocoran (amazing and creative young person from Winsford, Cheshire) for designing our company logo to underpin our values.
We recognise that all of our values are iterative, active and creative processes.
- Diversity as a fundamental demand of the mission of Tuckshop Dance Theatre. We work to ensure our work is inclusive for everybody. We recognise diversity as the engine for creativity and humanity. We thrive off the idea that bringing together multiple perspectives, different modes of thinking, practice, looking through many different lenses, and processing what comes through our senses, will enable our work to truly reflect the diverse world in which we live.
- Authenticity as an active and creative process, to stay true to who you are, to develop belonging and ownership.
- Curiosity as a key driver for all of our developments, evolution and innovation that serves to inspire and engage.
- Empathy as the connecting principle to marry different points of view, perspectives and thinking, to enable personal progression.
- Dynamism as a vital component to progressively move effectively, and show the ability to take many forms, in a rapidly changing landscape. Our work is dynamic, responding to changing circumstances, environments and needs.
- Collaboration to deepen the learning process and create collective impact. Working in partnership with children, young people, parents, carers and other agencies is essential in promoting young people’s welfare, and providing equality of opportunity to access, progress, develop talent and leadership skills and provide clear pathways in to the creative industries and other professional sectors.
- Kindness as an active process of openness and humility, with the interests of the people we work with, by and for.
Manifesto (An evolving journey, not a destination)
We will ask young people to support the development of our ideas from an early stage and we are prepared to move away of the original plan to create work that is more inclusive and relevant. We will continue to refrain from relying on codified language so that we can evolve and grow in response to the times we find ourselves in. People, movers and practice will continue to evolve. We will credit young people for their work, and authorship, in the way that we credit all of our dancers, and collaborators.
We will refine our listening to amplify young voices through our work. We are interested in their views, knowledge, perspectives and aspirations. We will explore young people’s needs and respond with art work, best practice resources, and future iterations of youth voice projects that communicate and reflect their voices, stories and calls for change. We will continue to try to do this better.
We will frame our ideas and invite young people to feed in to the co- creation of our work, and have a voice in longer term decision making when it comes to shaping and designing our future programmes. We will reach children and young people that may have experienced structural inequalities to cultural and creative participation. We will continue to try to do this better.
We will test our participatory offer in different spaces with children and young people. We will continue to develop tangible opportunities for children and young people to engage with my work. We will continue to try to do this better.
We will work in a transparent and open way, with learning at the heart. We recognise that this work will be more meaningful and will create deeper and lasting impact if we work in collaboration to explore our practice and develop our creative methodology. We will strive to work in partnership, and to learn along the way with a growth mindset. We are not done learning and we haven't finished our thinking. We have a long way to go.
We will consider the environmental impact of our decisions and make informed choices.
We recognise that we are a small team, however our work is ambitious, considered and approached with care, and a desire to learn.
Established by Lauren Tucker, Tuckshop Dance Theatre are in the early stages of development, with a strong commitment to dance and digital multi- disciplinary practice for diverse audiences, with a vision to support the creative development of young people, to work with them in a safe, supportive, inclusive, and highly collaborative way.
Tuckshop was Lauren's nickname at school, and for some time Lauren imagined creating a dance company that offered a framework for young people to make choices, explore their options, rights and freedoms and offer their own creative treats filled with hope and promise. At my school young people ran the Tuckshop, and I think that's a super cool way of looking what Tuckshop Dance Theatre could be. At present we think of ourselves as allies to young people, advocating, campaigning and finding creative ways to share their voices.
Through partnerships, we will to provide young people positive creative experiences in cultural venues, schools, youth friendly spaces and beyond, both online and offline. We work with young people, and partners to 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. We feel that creative and cultural experiences made with, by and for people and their communities are needed now more than ever. We are in the early stages of development but we take pride in our practice.
"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." Lauren Tucker
Tuckshop was Lauren's nickname at school, and for some time Lauren imagined creating a dance company that offered a framework for young people to make choices, explore their options, rights and freedoms and offer their own creative treats filled with hope and promise. At my school young people ran the Tuckshop, and I think that's a super cool way of looking what Tuckshop Dance Theatre could be. At present we think of ourselves as allies to young people, advocating, campaigning and finding creative ways to share their voices.
Through partnerships, we will to provide young people positive creative experiences in cultural venues, schools, youth friendly spaces and beyond, both online and offline. We work with young people, and partners to 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. We feel that creative and cultural experiences made with, by and for people and their communities are needed now more than ever. We are in the early stages of development but we take pride in our practice.
"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." Lauren Tucker
Image below by @thedancerproject The Dancer Project on Instagram
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 people and creative partnerships will help to develop new and improved approaches to sharing people's lived experiences to support and bring about change.
Partnership Working
Tuckshop Dance Theatre want to work collaboratively 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.
We meet people where they are at, and work with young people to create experiences, programmes of cultural and community activity that can be of great benefit to wider society now and moving towards our future. The Tuckshop Dance Theatre way is to empower people to develop their own creative voice to move dialogue, creativity, and innovation along.
As a creative learning organisation, we aim to learn from young people, to celebrate youth voice, using cultural art forms and digital media and platforms to develop young people and diversify and deepen our offer to move forward with, by and for young people.
We do this by working collaboratively with partners and we love to have conversations about how our youth work, creative practice, and dance development can create new ways of engaging with young people for social action. Dance is part of what we do but our creative work relies on collaborators from a diverse range of mediums. Please drop us an email to start a conversation: tuckshopdancetheatre@gmail.com
Tuckshop Dance Theatre want to work collaboratively 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.
We meet people where they are at, and work with young people to create experiences, programmes of cultural and community activity that can be of great benefit to wider society now and moving towards our future. The Tuckshop Dance Theatre way is to empower people to develop their own creative voice to move dialogue, creativity, and innovation along.
As a creative learning organisation, we aim to learn from young people, to celebrate youth voice, using cultural art forms and digital media and platforms to develop young people and diversify and deepen our offer to move forward with, by and for young people.
We do this by working collaboratively with partners and we love to have conversations about how our youth work, creative practice, and dance development can create new ways of engaging with young people for social action. Dance is part of what we do but our creative work relies on collaborators from a diverse range of mediums. Please drop us an email to start a conversation: tuckshopdancetheatre@gmail.com
Why Culture and Creativity is at the heart of everything that we do...
"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)
"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
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Photo by @thedancerproject
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For Tour Bookings/ Partnership Development
Email: tuckshopdancetheatre@gmail.com
For Learning, Participation and Engagement Enquiries
Email: creative.learning.tuckshop@gmail.com
Email: tuckshopdancetheatre@gmail.com
For Learning, Participation and Engagement Enquiries
Email: creative.learning.tuckshop@gmail.com
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