It is that time of year again! We look back on all of our achievements in 2024. Find out more by reading our social impact report below.
Katie Dale-Everett Dance Social Impact Report 2024
📸 by Ruby Gadsby
It is that time of year again! We look back on all of our achievements in 2024. Find out more by reading our social impact report below.
Katie Dale-Everett Dance Social Impact Report 2024
📸 by Ruby Gadsby
We were delighted to have been asked by NCACE (National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange) to contribute to their blog, sharing the impact of an early-stage research project called ‘Digital Footprints’. The work was a collaboration with digital artist Thomas Buckley and academic Daisy Du Toit to explore how we could unravel the mysteries of our digital identities and their impact on the environment. Read more here.
We are thrilled to share our first-ever annual report. Find out more about what we got up to in 2023.
This will be the first report of a new annual commitment to report publicly on our activities so people can learn more about what we do.
Enjoy! Read the report here: Katie Dale-Everett Dance Social Impact Report 2023
📸 by Target3D
With the support of the Goldsmith’s Mocap Streamer Residency, Newhaven Grassroots Arts Award and Arts Council England National Lottery Project Funding we set out to answer the following question:
How can we build inclusive digital and movement-based artistic settings where people can contribute toward a shared vision and discover their sense of play and creativity?
This was important to us as we were observing many missed opportunities for meaningful connections on a daily basis within our community and in the communities of those we were working within. We therefore wanted to create something that would help young people who identified as from/who:
to find more confidence in their ability to contribute creativity and playfully to their own environment as well as that of their communities.
This nine month R&D project benefited 1812 people living in areas surrounding Newhaven, Brighton, Staines, Woking, London and internationally.
The project included bringing  performances, workshops and opportunities to contribute to the creative process directly to schools, local youth club and people’s homes enabling us to reach people who face barriers to seeing performances. 10 out of 16 young people we engaged at a performance in Newhaven for example had never been to the theatre before.
We engaged young people aged 4-26 experiencing some or multiple forms of social exclusion. Circumstances included young mothers with children in foster care, those living with mental health challenges, receiving free school meals, in temporary accommodation, within the care system, who have different learning/communicative needs or/and who have identities that have been marginalised incl. people from the LGBTQIA+ community. We also engaged adults and dancers in training wanting to up-skill in digital arts practice who were finding the cost of this training inaccessible .
We are very proud of this project and look forward to delivering phase 2.
By utilising technology to exchange presence, senses and embodiment can we reach a similar, less or more empathetic relationship to that of face to face communication?Â