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Arts for Development Homepage
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Arts for Development Projects
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| Read about our international projects in the performing arts that cover an arts for development agenda.
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Index of all ACD Directory Entries
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Listed below are the entries for the 2003 Arts and Culture for Development (ACD) Directory. Click on any entry name to view more detailed information about that organisation.
Cross Arts | Dance | Drama | Music
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Cross Arts
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Action Space Mobile
Combined arts work with people with disabilities and the staff that work with them.
B arts (Beaver Arts Ltd)
Theatre, music, carnival, street processions, celebrations, site-specific performance, guided walks, installations, video , new media, books and kilns, created by artists within local communities.
Entelechy Arts
Participatory theatre, music, dance and cross artform practice.
Epic Arts
Integrated dance and drama workshops, leading to performance. Issue based drama (including forum theatre), storytelling, music and creative arts which may be used to support performance (e.g. Making masks, costumes, set).
Estrela
Community performing arts (popular, street and forum theatre, Capoeira, percussion, circus, puppetry, carnival and participatory workshops).
Fablevision Ltd
Regenerating communities through the arts, including theatre in education (providing healthy choices for young children, i.e. drugs awareness and alcohol issues).
Foot in Hand
Music (Western folk/pop) and dance (contemporary), performance, participatory workshops, mentoring programmes.
Heads Together Productions Ltd
Community arts company using photography, film, video, creative writing, community radio, design, music, website design and digital media projects to explore issues of personal and community growth and development.
Insight Arts Trust
Offenders, ex-offenders and young people at risk. In prisons, Young Offenders Institutes, Youth Offending Teams, Youth Inclusion Programmes. Within the community, public and urban spaces and large-scale cultural establishments.
motiroti Ltd
Interdisciplinary arts.
Pan-Centre for Intercultural Arts
Theatre for development (including forum theatre) and arts for social change (via cross-artform awareness).
PLATFORM
Interdisciplinary and collaborative performance, live art and visual art.
Rise Phoenix
Drama and music workshops, performance, puppetry, carnival processions, video.
Shape
Arts workshops, projects and events for disabled and older people.
Signs of Life
Public art, theatre backdrops, festival banners, street puppets, murals, sculpture, art and health promotion.
Welfare State International
Cross-artform performance, installation, carnival, festival and ceremony.
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Dance
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Amici Dance Theatre Company
Professional dance theatre company integrating able-bodied, disabled artists and performers.
Adam Benjamin
Integrated dance, performance, education, improvisation, choreography.
CandoCo Dance Company
Integrated contemporary dance performance and education and training programmes.
The Dance House
Dance, mixed with arts and participatory dance workshops.
Dance United
Contemporary dance work with people of all ages and abilities marginalised through economic and social deprivation and conflict.
Freedom in Dance
Dance in community and health settings.
Green Candle Dance Company
Dance performance, education and participatory dance in community and educational contexts.
iDC (Integrated Dance Company)
Contemporary dance company that undertakes workshops and performances primarily with children and young adults with physical and learning difficulties.
Ludus Dance
Issue based contemporary dance theatre (performances and theme related workshops). Ideally, the performance and educational programmes should be linked but can be undertaken separately.
Cecilia Macfarlane
Intergenerational dance projects.
Motionhouse
Dance theatre performance and participatory projects.
Rubicon Dance
Community dance development organisation.
Claire Russ
Participatory dance theatre, inter-cultural dance development, dance for learning disabled, physically disabled and integrated companies/groups.
Salamanda Tandem
Performance based multimedia sensory artwork.
TAN Dance Ltd
Community dance.
Touchdown Dance
Dance workshops and performance.
Union Dance
Performance and participatory work across a range of contemporary and multicultural styles.
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Drama
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Acting Out Company
Theatre and drama for development.
Mojisola Adebayo
Accessible interactive theatre for personal and social change, empowerment and 'edu-tainment'.
Ali Campbell
Participatory, applied, community and educational theatre.
Cardboard Citizens
The company uses theatre, especially forum theatre/theatre of the oppressed and legislative theatre, as a medium for debate, development, and change, on a personal institutional and/or social level.
Contact
Theatre and cross-artform performance
David Glass Ensemble
Participatory theatre, film-making, publishing, radio, IT.
Geese Theatre Company
Theatre, drama and active groupwork methods.
Graeae Theatre Company
Performance by and training for disabled actors, forum theatre and education work.
Honeybee Theatre
Participatory visual theatre workshops and performance using gesture, mime, movement, facial expression, body language, dance and minimal use of sign language or spoken language.
Immediate Theatre
Participatory theatre workshops and professional performance packages for training and awareness raising.
The Lawnmowers
Theatre and drama for social change
London Shakespeare Workout
Theatre in education, theatre for development, interactive theatrical workshops enhancing literacy; digital video training (shooting and editing) for development; theatrical production.
MAYHEM
Educational drama and theatre.
Julie McCarthy
Practice, research and consultancy in theatre and social development and the use of the arts in participatory monitoring and evaluation. Theatre and development, participatory theatre, adaptations of participatory rural appraisal, forum theatre.
mind the...gap
Highly visual performance work incorporating verbal and non-verbal theatre making techniques, including forum and image theatre.
Gerri Moriarty
Community artist, specialising in drama (games, improvisation, storytelling, forum theatre, performances).
People's Palace Projects
Performance and development, with special emphasis on participatory workshops.
Jane Plastow
Performance for rights, development, conflict resolution, young people and women.
Pop-Up Theatre
Drama programmes to build self-esteem and encourage peer support for both pupils and teachers within a school environment.
Project Phakama
Site-specific theatre, theatre for development, participatory devised theatre/cross-arts/installation.
Rideout
Cognitive, behavioural and creative participatory drama based on programmes with those in custody.
Small World Theatre
Participatory drama, puppetry, mask, mime, street theatre/carnival, visual and digital arts.
Streets Alive Theatre Company
Theatre for development.
Theatr Fforwm Cymru
Forum theatre for personal and community development, intercultural development, creative democracy and active citizenship.
Theatre Workshop
Devised drama and forum theatre employing disabled and non-disabled professional actors.
James Thompson
Participatory theatre projects in war and conflict settings. Theatre programmes with socially excluded young people and in various institutional and education settings, including schools, museums, heritage sites and prisons.
Chrissie Tiller
Theatre - particularly participatory and process based work; theatre in education, drama in education, forum theatre.
TiPP (Theatre in prisons and Probation Centres)
Theatre for personal change.
Wolf + Water Arts Company
Positive reflection and change on both the personal and social levels through drama and the arts.
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