Past Projects

Making & Believing takes cross-artform artist participation residencies and specialist early years theatre shows directly into early years settings, working in partnership with staff to offer rich experiences for children.

We took extraordinary, family friendly circus to village communities across the South West in the summer of 2021.

In January 2019 Take Art was invited to become one of 38 partners in the Horizon 2020 four-year funded research project, RURITAGE, profiling Take Art’s touring scheme as a model for rural regeneration across Europe.

The RIOTE 3 project enabled us to work with outdoor theatre companies from across Europe to exchange knowledge and skills. It has now come to the end after two amazing years.

BARN was a collective theatre initiative, facilitated by Take Art, that supported Somerset’s emerging theatre-making sector to develop, test and showcase new work in a predominantly rural context.

SPARSE is a partnership between seven European countries, all working together to formalise a pan European Rural Touring Network. Currently, with the exception of the UK, a rural touring network does not exist within much of Europe - SPARSE is all about sharing the UK model and experience to help build international rural touring networks.

Taking place over two-years, Hopper brought specially created theatre shows into, pre-schools, nurseries, theatres, libraries and children’s centres, focusing on children from less advantaged areas.

This high energy, physical adventure for boys consisted of regular dance workshops, along with performance opportunities. October 2015 - July 2019

InspirED was a Somerset wide education project that offered exciting and unforgettable arts opportunities to schools and Early Years settings. Now InspirED is changing and entering a new phase in its evolution.

Outdoor theatre companies from across Europe got together to look at setting up a rural touring network, to develop a theatre skills sharing programme and to develop new theatre methods. November 2017 – August 2019

A practical action research programme of Early Years' creativity was based around the four elements. October 2016 to April 2017

This programme aimed to develop dance at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil between 2013-2015

Life Circles was an exploration of how dance can effectively engage with the individual as a whole person and improve the quality of later life.

Alive & Kicking was a two-year dance and health project for young people across Somerset. 2006-2008

An ambitious two-year dance and health project for Somerset that touched the lives and lifestyles of over 1,900 people living in rural communities, residential homes, schools, special needs centres and the work place. 2008-2010

The Urban Dance Project in Yeovil was led by Take Art in collaboration with a steering group of young people; connecting young people with both their bodies and their communities, through the music and moves they love. 2011 - 2015

Little Big Bang was a grand scale Early Years Creativity project that ran for two years between 2009-2011, bringing creative professionals into key Somerset Children's Centres to work as part of their professional teams.

Based at Dunkirk House in Bishops Lydeard, this project was part of the national project Dance To Health; a pioneering ‘falls prevention’ dance programme for older people.

Locomotor, funded by the Arts Council’s Strategic Touring fund, was a three-strand project run by Carn to Cove in Cornwall. The second strand, of which we were partners, involved all the touring schemes in the South West and supported them to present more diverse international work of different cultures within local community settings.

Little Big Dance is a major three-year national initiative created by South East Dance in partnership with Take Art, DanceEast and Yorkshire Dance, with more than £371,000 investment from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England.