What We Do

Current Projects

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We're currently working on a wide range of educational, health and well-being, community, national and international creative projects.

  • ProjectLittle People, Big Ideas

    A programme that places children aged 2 – 4 year olds at its centre. Funded by Youth Music from September 2024 – August 2027.

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  • ProjectCircus Around and About 2

    Extraordinary circus shows visiting rural and urban communities across the south-west.

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    ProjectOur Turn - Dance For Dementia & Memory Loss in Somerset

    Our Turn is an arts intervention project using dance and movement to help the health and happiness of vulnerable adults living with dementia or memory loss, and their carers.

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  • ProjectRural Touring Dance Initiative

    The Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI) brings exciting and innovative dance theatre and dance performance to rural locations, using the established rural touring schemes to help make this happen successfully. 2015 - present.

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    ProjectSpring Forward Dance Festival

    Spring Forward is an annual dance festival offering unrivalled opportunities for Somerset and South West dancers to perform on a professional stage, participate in workshops and watch world-class dance performances. February 2005 – Present

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  • ProjectThe SoundWaves Network

    The SoundWaves Network is an innovative and exciting Early Years Music Network for Early Years practitioners, child-minders, Early Years settings and InspirED schools.

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  • ProjectLittle Big Dance

    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.

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  • ProjectMy Tunes

    My Tunes is a long running project from Take Art and Actiontrack that utilises the levelling power of music, working with some of the most isolated and disadvantaged young people in the county. Sep 2012 - present day

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  • ProjectOutthere

    Outthere is a companion participatory music project to My Tunes. In it we focus on working with 16-25 year olds who are ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET.

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  • ProjectCultivate

    Cultivate brings local food, the arts and communities together. We big up local food producers, share their stories and highlight themes from farm to fork to festival through the power of performance and creative arts.

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  • ProjectWord/Play

    Speak your TRUTH, play with words, tease your IMAGINATION. Say whatever YOU want to SAY good or bad... Fully embrace the WONDERful person YOU ARE and the INCREDIBLE world you live in.

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  • ProjectCrossing Borders: A European Rural Touring Project

    Crossing Borders: A European Rural Touring Project has been selected to participate in the EU-funded project, Perform Europe in 2022.

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