The Sticky Dance
For Sensory Groovers (3-7) & Early Years (3-5) |
Second Hand Dance (Great Britain) |
The Sticky Dance for Sensory Groovers: 10 October, 10-11 am, 12-1 pm & 3-4 pm – Junges Tanzhaus (Berlin Neukölln) | This performance format was developed exclusively for neurodivergent*, movement-loving children between the ages of 3 and 7, and takes place with a significantly reduced audience size. Please only book these tickets if your child belongs to this target group, and bring a maximum of two accompanying adults.
The Sticky Dance for Early Years: 11 October, 10-12 pm, Junges Tanzhaus (Berlin Neukölln) | This performance was developed for families with children between the ages of 3 and 5. It runs for two hours, and you book an entry slot. Once you're in the performance, you can stay as long as you like. We recommend around 45–60 minutes. If you arrive earlier, you'll have a gentler start.
Note for professional audience members!
Capacity for this piece is very limited. That's why the tickets available via Eventim are intended only for the children and their accompanying adults.
To a limited extent, professionals can attend the production The Sticky Dance in designated time slots. These special tickets are allocated through accreditation directly with Kata Kovács: accreditation@fratz-festival.de
Thank you for your understanding!
About the production
“The Sticky Dance” is an interactive, engaging and colourful performance installation for children and their families.
Three dancers shimmy through the audience weaving a tapestry of sticky tape in this tactile dance performance for young children. They invite you to tape, stick and groove, to see and feel sound or to be still, watch and listen. Audiences are encouraged to explore freely, turn the rules upside down and create their own experience.
“The Sticky Dance – for early years” was co-created by Rosie Heafford and Takeshi Matsumoto for family audiences and children aged 3-5 years old. This production has also been adapted for Sensory Groovers aged 3-7 years.
About the artist(s) / group
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. We work (inter)nationally with local and regional impact creating joyful, inspirational performances and digital dance films for children and adults. We collaborate with dancers, film makers, animators, musicians and our audiences in a co-creation process that is accessible, welcoming to all bodies, and places the audience experience at its centre. Our work has been presented in venues/festivals across three continents: The Lincoln Centre (NY), Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Sadler’s Wells, Dublin Theatre Festival, Esplanade Theatre (Singapore), Cheers! Festival (Hong Kong) and Ricca Ricca Festival (Japan). In 2016 Rosie was winner of the Arts Foundation Children’s Theatre Shortlist award.
Concept & Artistic Direction: Rosie Heafford & Takeshi Matsumoto
Created & performed by: Andrei Nistor, Chloe Mead, Paolo Pisarra
Performers in Berlin: Lesley Howard, Chloe Mead, Paolo Pisarra
Set & Costume Design: Alison Brown
Sound Design: Dinah Mullen
Lighting Design & Production Management: James Ball
Company Manager: Keir Patrick
Licht und Sound in Berlin: Brent Tan
World premiere: February 7th, 2024
Duration: 60 minutes (Sensory Groovers) / 120 minutes (Early Years/Family version: Entrance slots are every 15 minutes, recommended time in the space is 45-60 minutes)
Language: No spoken language
Access: Recommended for neurodivergent, movement-loving audiences, especially the version for Sensory Groovers / less suitable for children with mobility restrictions, as the focus is on joining in and dancing together in the space.
The performance space can be left and re-entered during the show. A quiet/retreat space is available.
*Neurodivergence – what is that? Simply put, every person's brain works differently. The word neurotypical means that a person's brain functions in the way most other people's brains do. Neurotypical people develop skills such as social or organisational abilities at roughly the same pace as others their age. In contrast, the term "neurodivergent" describes someone who processes information in the brain differently. Autistic people and people with ADHD, for example, are described as "neurodivergent." Neurodivergent people often have heightened sensory perception, a great deal of creativity, and strong visual processing abilities, and therefore also need different things, such as low-stimulus environments, more rest, or particularly a lot of movement. (Source: @specialedition_studio via Instagram)"
“The Sticky Dance” is a production by Second Hand Dance.
Co-commissioned by The Southbank Centre, The Place, South East Dance.
Photo ©Foteini Christofilopoulou
