A parson spinning around with hundreds of pieces of colourful sticky tape hanging from their head

27 Apr 2025

The Beacon – Wibsey Park

The Sticky Dance

Second Hand Dance

An interactive, engaging and colourful performance installation for children aged 3–5 and their families.

Children aged 3–5 loved exploring this tactile dance performance made especially for them.

Three dancers shimmied through the audience, weaving a tapestry of sticky tape. Audiences were invited to tape, stick and groove, to see and feel sound – or just to be still, watch and listen and explore the space however they liked!

About the artists

Second Hand Dance produce joyful, inspirational performances and digital dance films for children and adults, collaborating with dancers, filmmakers, animators, musicians and audiences in a co-creation process. Established in 2013, Second Hand Dance has an adaptive leadership model, and is run by disabled and non-disabled Co-Directors Rosie Heafford and Claire Summerfield.

Credits
Commissioned by Southbank Centre, The Place and South East Dance.

Image © Foteini Christofilopoulou

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