In December 2022 BTM was awarded an ACE project grant to develop and deliver our BTM Pilot Project. Body Talks Movement (BTM) is a participatory dance programme built on international Research and Development. It seeks to explore and articulates the creative potential of movement, whilst giving a voice to the underserved & marginalised through movement expression and film. Over the course of a series of movement research sessions; live-scored sound experiments; workshops; teacher-training sessions; site-based film shoots; and live installation events, we explore the social connections and affective experiences of dance communicated through/ in collaboration with multimedia technologies.
We partnered with Salisbury Primary School in Newham, and the Redbrick Building and ZigZag buildings in Glastonbury who support community-based arts projects and provided space for workshops and film shoots.