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  • The Dance Company evolved from the long-term perspective of providing opportunities for workshop participants to work towards performance. The first production in the North West in 2000 involved three community dancers and three professionals. The current company involves three visually impaired and three sighted dancers, and all are working at a professional standard in performance. We allow a longer period for development and touring to enable the work to develop at its own pace.

    Our main aim is to ensure access to opportunity and information in the dance world. Our work may be specifically about the inclusion of visually impaired people but our provision is open to both disabled and non-disabled people. Our objectives tie in with social inclusion policies, from the regional arts and national priorities right down to the needs of individual participants, whether in the workshops or the company. Our specialism is in the use of touch as a mirror in the learning process and the excavation of touch as a language of communication, with the intention to normalise the perception of touch and to reaffirm its potency in both learning and teaching practices.